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'Points Of View' Articles
Shed Light On Mideast
Thank you to Robert Sklar's essay
"Unfortunate Civilian Victims" (Feb.
26, page 42) and Zionist Organization
of America-MI Executive Director Kobi
Erez's guest column "Israel's Turbulent
Political Landscape" (Feb. 26, page 43)
for two excellent, fact-filled articles.
Sklar stated, "AP affirmed Israel's
position toward the 50-day war:
That the Jewish state tried to avoid
Palestinian civilians, but couldn't
because Hamas hid weapons, fighters
and command centers in neighbor-
hoods. Hamas' intent clearly was to
bump up the civilian death toll, which
has proven the dominant postwar issue,
to drive the international community
against Israel!'
This shows that a frequently unflat-
tering news source like AP can't always
hide the truth.
Erez's column shed light on the
Israeli political scene only an expert
could share.
Both articles gave me much-needed
insight into my education and use for
further Israel advocacy.

Ed Kohl
West Bloomfield

Wayne State To Present
Arts Achievement Awards
The College of Fine, Performing and
Communication
Arts at Wayne State
University will
present its 36th
Arts Achievement
Awards. Outstanding
alumni and former
students of Wayne
State University are
Eugene Driker
recognized for their
dedication to, and advocacy for, the arts
and communication and for achieve-
ments in their respective fields.
One of the honorees, attorney Eugene
Driker, will receive the Arts Advocacy
Award. Driker is a former member of
the WSU Board of Governors.
The Arts Achievement Awards event
takes place 4-6 p.m., Tuesday, March
24, at the Hilberry Theatre, 4743 Cass,
Detroit. The event is free and open to
the public. RSVP by March 18 to (313)
577-0300 or online at specialevents.
wayne.edu/cfpca2015aa.

Bibi Had No Option
But Address Congress
In January, President Obama hosted
a delegation of leaders of mankind's
enemy, the Muslim Brotherhood, but
he won't meet with Israel's Benjamin
Netanyahu, America's ally. Instead, he
tried to stop Netanyahu from coming
to the United States to warn us about
the threat of a nuclear Iran (March 5,
pages 22-26).
Obama's campaign team is work-
ing to defeat Netanyahu in Israel's
upcoming elections by helping
Netanyahu's opponents. Jeremy Bird,
the Obama campaign's national
field director, is assisting the orga-
nization "One Voice" to help defeat
Netanyahu's party. "One Voice" claims
to be nonpartisan, but receives U.S.
taxpayer money from John Kerry's
State Department.
John Kerry repeatedly makes con-
cessions to the Palestinians that Israel
opposes. He claimed on Israeli TV
that the alternative to more Israeli
concessions was a "third intifada."
This gives respectability to the
Palestinian violence. Then Kerry
warned that if diplomatic initiatives
failed, there would be no stopping

Lunch And Learn Looks
At The Nature Of Evil
Is evil an independent force? Are there
evil people, or are they people who
commit heinous acts? What can we do
to prevent evil occur-
rences?
Rabbi Aaron
Bergman will look at
classical and modern
Jewish texts on the
problem of evil and
think about how they
apply to our own
Rabbi Aaron
times.
Bergman
The programs
will run from 11:45
a.m.-1 p.m. on Mondays, March 16, 23
and 30, at Adat Shalom Synagogue in
Farmington Hills. A summary of the
three sessions will also be given at 7
p.m. on Monday, March 30.
There is no charge. Bring your own
dairy/parve lunches to the daytime
sessions. Drinks and dessert will be
served. Reservations are requested.
Call Sheila Lederman, (248) 851-5100,
ext. 246, or email slederman@
adatshalom.org.

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Ken Gross
about...

Your Legal
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European retaliatory actions against
Israel. This is an invitation for such
retaliation.
Obama has been denouncing
Netanyahu's speech and is doing
everything in his power to attack the
message and the messenger in an
attempt to salvage a bad deal with the
Iranian ayatollahs. He is only stirring
up more anti-Semitism.
Wake up, America. Once Iran
obtains nukes, there will be a race for
all countries in the Middle East to
proliferate nukes.

Dr. Donald Kitain
West Bloomfield

Correction
• The advertisement for NCJW's GROW
program (Girls Reaching Out Ward)
listed the wrong date. The event, geared
toward teen girls 14-18 years old who
are striving for social justice to improve
the quality of life for women, children
and families, will take place at 4 p.m.
Tuesday, March 17, at the National
Council of Jewish Women/Greater
Detroit Section offices, 26400 Lahser,
#306, Southfield. For information, call
(248)355-3300, ext. 0.

Professor To Analyze
Elections In Israel
In Israel on March 17, voters will
go to the polls. In
Southfield on March
23, find out where
the nation is headed.
University of
Michigan Professor
Zvi Gitelman, who
has taught Israeli
politics for more
Zvi Gitelman
than three decades,
will analyze the elec-
tion results, examine
the possibilities for a new prime minis-
ter and coalition government, and pro-
vide his thinking on how a new Israeli
government would pursue peace, han-
dle relations with the Obama admin-
istration and tackle Israel's multiple
domestic problems.
He'll speak 7:30 p.m. Monday,
March 23, at Congregation Shaarey
Zedek in Southfield, presented by the
Jewish Community Relations Council
in cooperation with Shaarey Zedek and
Hadassah.

IT IS TIME TO ACT!

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