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…EDITORIAL PLO Overkill Syndicated columnist George Will sees the media as myopic, uneducated and wishful thinkers when it comes to Israel and Mid- dle East peace. But there may yet be hope for the world's journalists and public opinion makers. It comes in the form of Yassir Arafat. The more the Palestine Liberation Organization leader takes the world stage, the more the American audience he is trying to cultivate has the opportunity to see t...…

…25 CLOSE-UP PLO Ambiguity HELEN DAVIS Yassir Arafat is mastering the divide-and-conquer game. 42 OBSERVATIONS World War One DAVID MARGOLIS A Jewish writers' conference explodes over the Middle East. 58 TRAVEL Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell: Staunch friends of Israel or just great game players? Evangelical Support For Israel An Agenda Counter Staunch, Reliable To Israel's Interests Friends Of State MARK PELAVIN and RON LEBOVITS J...…

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…I COMMENT 1 Even your jeweler won't know! L React Continued from Page 6 PHONE IN YOUR SPECIAL CUSTOM HOLIDAY ORDER THREE WEEK DELIVERY "Who Is A Jew" amendment. But the claim advanced by some American Jewish leaders that the "religious issue" be removed from the political arena, betrays an ig- norance of the make-up of Israeli society. Dr. Daniel J. Elazar, an emi- nent American-born Israeli scholar, observed: "It is not just a religious...…

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…A cessful, the IDF is disturbed by the violation of an ironclad rule governing commando operations: that no soldier, sound or wounded, be left behind in enemy territory. IDF chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Dan Shomron, promptly as- sumed responsiblity for the decision to leave the four men behind. Lt. Col. Amir Meital, 29, of Hadera, was killed in the in- itial assault on the terrorist base. He was buried in Hadera Sunday. Meital was a battalion com...…

…I OPINION 1 Counter Agenda Continued from Page 7 well-being did not ask their members to write or make calls in support of the foreign aid package. In fact, a review of their mailings and political directives found not one focus- ing on Israel. Their main foreign policy concern? Con- tra aid. During that same period, these two groups continued to actively endorse or criticize a number of important domestic and foreign policy issues, taking...…

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…in accordance to Orthodox belief and practice? If not, he is disqualified. In short, operationally unity means conformity to a monolithic in- terpretation • of Jewish law, practice and belief. But I am writing out of my own Jewish philosophic outlook. I am viewing the en- tire matter as a Conservative Jew. What if I were an Or- thodox Jew? How else could I think about the Law of Return? Would I, could I act or think otherwise were I an Orthodo...…

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…I CLOSE-UP Ambiguity Yassir Arafat may have failed to meet U.S. and Israeli conditions for negotiation, but his Geneva speech is almost certain to be divisive. conference for peace in the Middle East on the basis of Resolutions 242 and 338 . . ." Arafat also said that the Palestine National Council had "reaffirmed its rejection of terrorism in all its forms, including state terrorism," but stop- ped short of recognizing Israel's right to ex...…

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…Much was made of the PNC's recognition of U.N. Resolution 242, but the PLO's interpretation is different than that of the United States and Israel. The PNC called for Israeli withdrawal from all the occupied territories. Moreover, the PNC accepted 242 only in the context of other resolutions, which in- clude the 1975 "Zionism is racism" resolution. The PLO's renunciation of terrorism also received a lot The Palestinians, Arafat said, are 'fig...…

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…Shaykh Khalil Quqa, one of the Gazan leaders of llamas deported by Israel, says the Koran holds it illegal to make peace with Israel. He believes Jews "are the epitome of wickedness in the world, the epitome of plotting in the East and West, and the epitome of the longstanding historic conflict among na- tions. . ." He makes no ar- tificial distinctions between Jews and Zionists: "We are against the Jews only. We have no enemies other than the...…

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…COLONY INTERIORS older. In 17 years, in 2005, there will be 100,000. "But we should not exag- gerate the concerns of the democracies we love the most." Will credits President Reagan "for showing that we can count on Israel no matter what government it has tomorrow" and he admonish- ed the audience "to let Israel know you support them. You have to have lots of powder, and you have to keep it dry." Will answered several ques- tions from the aud...…

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…said he often feels jealous of American Jews' feeling of freedom. But in this free America, Chabad's efforts to instill that Jewish pride have met with legal obstacles unheard of elsewhere in the world. This issue is the separation of church and state, and Chabad's adversaries have been and continue to be Jewish groups and largely Jewish lawyers. The 18-foot menorah lit in Chicago's Daley Plaza last week shines by the grace of a preliminary co...…

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…OBSERVATIONS Word War One The first conference bringing Jewish writers together from Israel and North America for a dialogue resulted in several explosive exchanges over Mideast politics. DAVID MARGOLIS Special to The Jewish News Art By Barbara Kiwak ideast politics overshadowed literature — dramatically, if not surprisingly — at a recent three-day conference bringing together more than 30 promi- nent North American Jewish and Israeli wr...…

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