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Who Are Our Friends And
Who Are Our Enemies?

What we really have to understand is
that the demonization of Israel is based
in Islamic anti-Semitism.
Not all of the Israel bashers hate Jews,
but they have a willful blindness as to
why they are being led to hate Israel
and only Israel when there are countries
actually committing the crimes Israel is
falsely accused of.
One local episode that demonstrates
the hatred is of Jews while claiming to
be excusable "anti-Zionism" is the Aug.
8, 2008, article from the Dearborn-
based Arab American News that was
widely emailed throughout the Jewish
community previous to the Israel at 60
celebration at the State Fair Grounds.
Remember? It was called, "Detroit
Jewish Federation: Celebrating racism
and making money at it."
The article referred to the "apartheid
fair!' The local Jewish community was
condemned for being wealthy, as Jews
who dare to prosper have always been
denounced. The vitriol ran thick and
deep.
That, of course, is minor compared
to the increasing frequency of violent
attacks against Jews around the world.
It is incumbent upon us to recognize

West Bloomfield Hearing On
Eagle School Land Use Plan

The West Bloomfield Planning
Commission will hold a public hear-
ing at the West Bloomfield Township
Hall, 4550 Walnut Lake Road at 7:30
p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 14. The meet-
ing will consider the "Sketch Plan
and Special Land Use Amendment
Approval" for the planned Muslim
Cultural Center of West Bloomfield.
The official township announce-
ment outlines the request as
"Site plan, special land use and
associated storm water manage-
ment plan approval to construct a
4,427.5-square-foot mosque and

who our friends are as well as who
our enemies are. To reach out to our
enemies while treating evangelicals who
support Israel with suspicion because
they're part of the dreaded "Christian
Right" is self-defeating.
Even if members of Christians United
for Israel (July 26, page 35) support
Israel because they believe in an end-of-
the-world theology, so what? We don't.
Their religious and political beliefs and
whether or not they support Israel for
the "right" reasons trouble me much
less than the psychopaths who run Iran,
a country actively working to create
that end-of-the-world scenario. It also
troubles me much less than some of
what I've read by local imams in our
local newspapers.

Harry Onickel

Ferndale

A Silent Memorial
To Munich Olympians

In a minute of silence, me and you
Remembered the victims of '72.
And though they said, "No!"
We did behave exactly so.
Because it was the right thing to do.

Rachel Kapen

West Bloomfield

lawsuit). Further, Chabad-Lubavitch of
Michigan asserts that our congregation's
families "are committing trespass!'
What? We are trespassing? In a build-
ing we bought and paid for with our
own funds at least 35 years ago? We
aren't authorized to use our own prop-
erty as our shul? Why do they want to
take away our shul and presumably fire
our rabbis?
Do they think we would want to pray
at a shul that they would take away from
us?
Do they now expect us to move to
another Chabad shul?
Chabad Lubavitch of Michigan is
spending thousands of dollars to pay
expensive lawyers and a PR firm to take
away our place to pray and learn. It is
imperative that we raise the funds to
defend our shul. How is it that Chabad-
Lubavitch of Michigan, which asks for
charitable donations to serve the spiri-
tual needs of the Detroit Jewish com-
munity, can spend its money for such
a terrible purpose? What must their
donors think of this?
We don't want to move. Chabad-
Lubavitch of Michigan: Please do the
right thing and drop this terrible law-
suit.

Stuart Weiss

Bais Chabad: We Are Not
Trespassing At Synagogue

Regarding the story "Bais Chabad Torah
Center Seeks Legal Fund Donations"
(July 19, page 5), Chabad Lubavitch
of Michigan has sued our congrega-
tion asserting that we "are occupying
and using the property in a manner
unauthorized by Chabad-Lubavitch of
Michigan" (quoting directly from the

15,239-square-foot social area/
banquet center to the existing
39,052-square-foot building, creating
a 58,718.5-square-foot place of wor-
ship."
The facility is to be located at the
northwest corner of Middlebelt and
14 Mile Road, site of the former Eagle
Elementary School whose sale by the
Farmington Public School (FPS)board
last June raised community concerns.
The current zoning of the property
is R-15, Single Family Residential,
which would permit the building of
the mosque. The Site and Sketch Plan
Application received May 14 by the
township describes the project as

West Bloomfield

Correction:

• In "On The Move" (July 26, page 28) on
Jewish Senior Life, renovation of studio
apartments will take place at Prentis
Apartments in Oak Park, not Teitel
Apartments.

"adaptive reuse of existing elementary
school for a mosque!'
A community legal briefing will
be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 8,
at Congregation B'nai Moshe, 6800
Drake Road, West Bloomfield.
Speakers will be lawyers Richard
Thompson of the Thomas More Law
Center and Robert Davis, who rep-
resent citizens of West Bloomfield,
Farmington and Farmington Hills in
legal actions objecting to the no-bid
sale of Eagle School by FPS to the
Islamic Cultural Association.
Seating is limited. RSVP with name,
phone and number attending to
care4eagle@gmail.com .

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