I World Playing from page A29 THIS WEEKEND ATTHE NEW DIA. Friday Night Live!: Jazz vocalist Libby York serenades visitors at Friday Night Live! Plus, don't miss special Halloween gallery tours that are sure to give you a fright! Saturday: Watch ceramic artist Jeff Blandford demonstrate his techniques—live in the galleries. Target Family Sundays: Raas, a folk dance traditional to North India, is known for energetic performances using decorated sticks. Students from the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Case Western Reserve University perform in a Raas competition in the DIA's auditorium. Now on View: Monet to Dali: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art Sponsored by: Bank of America ••• 4■ ' • '''- ' Programs are made possible with support from the Michigan Council for ;-.-ts and Cultural Affairs and the City of Detroit. DETROIT INSTITUTE MIDDLE SCHOOL OF ARTS 32nd Annual PTSA presents their • Over 100 security. Exhibitor Booths • Lunch Room ®Bake Sale Admission: $2.00 NO STROLLERS PLEASE Five Mile -6 O -ci ce v1 +' 1-96 A30 .s. E these seem to have been well-known in real time. The ads call Wright an anti-Semite, without substantiating the claim; Wright is not known to have targeted Jews and had friendly relations with Chicago Jewish groups. Another RJC ad accurately quotes Democrats praising McCain, the Republican presidential nominee. But Obama backers are quick to note that the Democrats in question are all sup- porting the Illinois senator's presiden- tial bid. Other RJC ads severely distort Obama's positions and relationships. Obama has never backed down from endorsing Jerusalem as Israel's undivided capital, as one ad claims. Instead, he amended the pledge, made in May to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, to note that — whatever his personal views — the city's final status is a matter for nego- tiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians. That's also McCain's view and gener- ally uncontroversial. Brooks says the difference is that McCain has never had to clarify his views on Jerusalem. Furthermore, he added, McCain has pledged to immediately move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. Obama will not make such a pledge; a succession of candidates who have, including the current president, have reneged after Election Day. Arguably the most dubious ad is the one titled "Barack Obama's advisers: pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel, even hos- tile to America?' Robert Malley, a Middle East scholar and former U.S. negotiator, is not anti- Israel, as the ad suggests; nor is David Bonior, a former Democratic congress- man from Michigan who is on the Obama team. Both men have been critical of Israeli settlement policies and of Israeli conduct during negotia- tions, but have upheld Israel's right to 14041 Stark Rd. Livonia West of Farmington • North of 1-96 October 23 @ 2008 Saturday November 1 10:00am - 4:00pm 1444280 At think-tank talks in Washington, Malley gets exercised about preserving the two-state solution, in part because he says he sees it as a guarantee to Israel's survival. Malley is not even advising Obama — the ad makes the claim based on a single erroneous media report which engendered many others. Bizarrely, when both sides — Malley and the Obama campaign — sent out releases in May denying once and for all that Malley ever advised the campaign, many of the resulting news reports suggested Malley was quitting a cam- paign he had never joined. It's true that Obama's campaign once called Malley an "informal advis- er" — that's a euphemism for experts who send in unsolicited position papers. And he is hardly a "Palestinian apologist:' as the ad asserts: Although Malley assigns blame to Israel and the Palestinians for the failure of the 2000 Camp David talks, he has not spared Palestinians criticism for their intran- sigence and corruption. Brooks stood by the characteriza- tion. "If he is not anti-Israel, he is cer- tainly pro-Arab." How Big Is Zbig? It is true that Zbigniew Brzezinski, a national security adviser to former President Carter named in the same ad, has in the past proven friendly to theories that Israel is more of a burden than a boon to U.S. interests; however, his role in the campaign was marginal. He apparently was an Obama sur- rogate on one conference call early in the primaries for Democrats Abroad, not a constituency that the party ever treats as important, and he introduced Obama at an Iowa campaign event a year ago. At that event, Obama called Brzezinski "one of our most out- standing scholars, one of our most outstanding thinkers"; he also com- mended Brzezinski's role in brokering the Israeli-Egyptian peace, saying he brought "about a lasting peace between Israel and some of its neigh- bors." The Obama campaign insists that Brzezinski and the Democratic nominee have only discussed Iraq, not Israel. In the RJC's defense it is also true that the campaign's YouTube channel includes Brzezinski's endorse- ment. Perhaps the only substantive plaint in the advisers ad is about Gen. Merrill "Tony" McPeak, who is indeed a senior adviser to the campaign. In a 2003 interview with the Oregonian, when asked to assign blame for the Middle East peace impasse, McPeak reportedly said: "New York City. Miami. We have a large vote here in favor of Israel. And no politician wants to run against it:" When the quote came to light dur- ing the primaries, Obama denounced it, but kept McPeak, who in a long military career — he is the former U.S. Air Force chief — has forged close Playing from page A32