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Demonstration
Slanders Israel
There was a demonstration in my town-
ship of West Bloomfield — a model of
inclusion and friendly co-existence —
with signs calling Israel an apartheid state
("Pro-Palestinian Demonstration in West
Bloomfield:' Oct 29, page 24).
Knowing for a fact that accusation can't
be farther from the truth hurts, but what
is more hurtful is for people using terms
they do not really understand.
The people who brazenly call Israel an
apartheid state should first find out what
apartheid is all about. They should ask the
black people in South Africa what was it
like live under an apartheid regime and
then go to Israel and see how Israel treats
Arabs in an Israeli hospital.
When I gave birth to both my eldest
sons in Israel, there were Arab women
alongside me and there was no differ-
ence whatsoever in the kind of care we
received. To say nothing of the fact that
someone who stabs an Israeli Jew, some-
thing done recently on a daily basis, after
being neutralized, is being cared for after-
ward in an Israeli hospital.
Accusing Israel of being an apartheid
state is wrong and can result in people not
cognizant with the situation thinking that
it is OK to stab Israelis as if they are mem-
bers of an oppressive regime. Words can
have dangerous consequences.
Rachel Kapen
West Bloomfield
Mayoral Candidate
Unfairly Treated
I am outraged at the lack of balance and
fairness in your coverage of the mayoral
election in Huntington Woods! ("Seeking
Office," Oct 29, page 12).
Fair papers give equal space to each
candidate. Religion has nothing to do with
this election.
Elizabeth Zerwekh
Huntington Woods
Netanyahu Faulted
On Mufti's Role
The time has come for Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign.
Not because of his policies (though I
believe that history will ultimately judge
them as deeply flawed and mistaken), but
because he has irrevocably forfeited any
leadership role.
He has perverted a foundational ele-
ment of history by an astounding claim
that the mufti of Jerusalem (an agent of
evil) — and not Hitler — was the author
of the Final Solution to exterminate the
Jewish people.
Netanyahu is not an ignoramus. His
father was a historian. He frequently
invokes the sweep of Jewish history to
bolster his political claims. His transpar-
ent purpose — to ascribe constant Arab
hostility to Jewish settlement in the Land
of Israel — needs no reinforcement. The
record of that enmity is abundantly clear.
Because Bibi knows that his reformula-
tion of Holocaust history is inaccurate,
bordering on the absurd, his assertion is
particularly galling. He is manipulating
the history of this monumentally tragic
event in the living presence of survivors
and their progeny just to gain political
advantage.
This is beyond the pale. It is more than
just a mistake or a misstatement or some
other euphemism that politicians use to
distance themselves from such errors. It
is unseemly; it is grotesque; it is totally
inexcusable.
Netanyahu has often spoken of the
tactic of the Big Lie that Israel's enemies
utilize. His Big Lie is a slap to the collective
face of the Jewish people. Even some of his
stalwart supporters have rebuked him. But
that is not enough.
Where are all those organizations that
invoke the Holocaust at the tip of a hat
for fundraising and for political points?
Where are the rabbis (of all denomina-
tions) who constantly make reference to
those who perished as they argue over the
minutia of Jewish observance? Where is
our collective outrage?
To learn the lesson of "never again:' we
cannot manipulate the story of what was.
If we strive to be witness to history so that
others may learn from it, we cannot toler-
ate historical deceit. Enough.
power in the region and varied visions over
balancing and containing that power.
How Israel faces critical decisions while
trying to maintain its most important rela-
tionship with the United States was also an
important topic.
I congratulate Jodi Gross, Adat Shalom's
director of adult learning and youth
engagement, for implementing this pro-
gram in collaboration with the Jewish
Community Relations Council, Hadassah's
Israel Focus Group, StandWithUs-MI and
Zionist Organization of America-MI.
Ed Kohl
West Bloomfield
Corrections
• In "Undead & Unfed" (Oct. 29,
page 10), the correct phone number to
contact the Trapped in a Room with a
Zombie company is (248) 679-2954.
• "Celebrating Life" (Oct. 29, page
24) should have stated that filmmaker
Melissa Hacker lives in New York City.
• "Eyewitness To Hadassah Miracles"
(Oct. 29, page 8) should have listed the
donation website for Hadassah in Israel
as Hadassah.org/stopthebleeding.
• In "A Perfect Fit" (Oct. 29, page
28), the picture of the woman with
the Smythe Collection should have
been identified as Madeline Morris of
Birmingham.
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OY, NO HOLIDAYS!
Yael Aronoff — the Michael and Elaine
Serling and Friends Chair of Israel Studies
and the director of Jewish Studies at
Michigan State University — spoke at
Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington
Hills on Oct. 22.
Ms. Aronoff told us that Israel is faced
with multiple challenges and opportunities
given the dramatic changes in the Middle
East over the past four years. She discussed
how Israel is influenced by the uprisings
and conflicts in the region as a whole, the
limited progress in peace negotiations
with the Palestinian Authority and cycles
of violence with Hamas, as well as Iran's
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Ein un tzvay un dri,*** oy vay!
But nisht**** a one
In Marcheshvan,*****
So, vart a bisle,****** I would say.
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