Page 2- The Michigan Daily - Friday, January 26, 1990 Professor voices opinions on Israel, Palestinian conflict Ji n IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports . by Heather Fee Daily Staff Writer. Before Professor Marc Ellis began speaking last night in Hutchins Hall the audience was in- formed of a bomb threat called in to U of M public safety. Audience members decided against evacuation and Ellis continued his speech as planned. Ellis, a Jewish theologian and expert on the Middle East, said he is accustomed to receiving criticism for his controversial beliefs on the Is- raeli, Palestinian struggle. As part of his "Theology of Lib- eration" Ellis believes that the Israeli State is wrongly oppressing the Palestinian people. He used the term theology to refer to his political ide- ology. Dividing his speech into three parts, Ellis discussed Holocaust the- ology, alternatives to Holocaust the- ology, and Israeli-Palestinian strug- gle. Ellis defined Holocaust theology as the practice of looking at current religious and political issues in terms of the Holocaust in Germany. "Never again will we suffer. We need to be empowered as a people," Ellis said this set of beliefs (Holocaust theology) does not serve the purpose he thinks a theology should. "The task of theology is to nurture questions a people needs to ask about the history they are creat- ing." Ellis also spoke about alterna- tives to Holocaust theology. In the Jewish culture, Ellis explained, there has been "a history of dissention" from Zionist ideas and "inclusive li- turgy of destruction," which included referring to some acts of the Israeli government with Nazi analogies, and "hidden tradition of critical thought", the kind of critical thought of Sig- mund Freud and other Jewish histor- ical figures. Ellis outlined his ideas. "What we as Jews have done to Palestine since the establishment of Israel is wrong," he said. Ellis went on to criticize Israel's displacement of Palestinians. "In this process we are becoming everything we loathe about our oppressors. Everything." Ellis reminded Zionists that Israel is "a state like any other state" with all the faults of a state, including Provinces reach cease-fire MOSCOW - Warring nationalists agreed Thursday to a cease-fire along one of the tense battlefronts of the bloody conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Tass said yesterday. The announcement came as Baltic activists, worried that the dispute might affect their own peaceful push for indepedence, offered to help me- diate the blood feud between Armenia and Azerbaijan. There were fewer reports of fighting Thursday, and Tass said life was returning to normal in Baku, the Azerbaijani capital that was the scene of much of the violence. During talks in the Armenian town of Yeraskshe, representatives of the Armenian All-National Movement and the People's Front of Nakhichevan agreed to lay down their weapons, the Soviet news agency said. "According to the agreement ... along the entire border between Arme- nia and the Nakhichevan Autonomous region all exchanges of fire be- tween opposing informal groups must stop," Tass said. Flu epidemic strikes nation ATLANTA - This winter's flu season has reached the epidemic stage, with a key indicator -- a deaths-from-the-flu index -- at its highest level in at least eight years, researchers with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said yesterday. Eighteen states are reporting "widespread" flu problems, and 17 more are reporting "regional" outbreaks, the CDC said. Last week, 7.6 percent of 15,090 deaths reported to CDC from 121 major cities were blamed on flu or pneumonia. "This qualifies in our definition as an epidemic," said Dr. Walter Gunn, a CDC viral disease specialist. He added that the 7.6 percent mark is the worst weekly mark in records dating back to the winter of 1981-82. The CDC's epidemic definition is a ratio of 6.7 percent of deaths or more. The serious flu season, Gunn said, points to the importance of flu vac- cinations. i S Prof. Mark Ellis spoke at the Law Quad's Hutchins Hall about the controversy concerning the Palestinian struggle for independence. "prisons, prostitutes, banks, unem- ployment..." Ellis suggested that Jews could benefit from "two dialogue partners: Western Christians, our former ene- mies...and the Palestinian people." He said Jews "need neither fright- ened silence nor a paternal embrace (from Christians) but a critical soli- darity." Ellis also referred to the need to join in solidarity with Palestini- ans. "Any Jewish theology, conser- vative, liberal, or progressive, which does not place Palestinians at the center is a theology that legitimizes torture and death," he noted. VETO Continued from page 1 But Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kansas), the Minority Leader, said the con- gressional showdown was the equiv- alent of "throwing out the first ball" of the 1990 election season and was being used by Democrats to force GOP senators to cast "a tough polit- ical veto" to support the president. "It's not China policy, it's Amer- ican politics," Dole said. Just before the vote, Bush had publicly renewed his promise that the 40,000 Chinese students in the U.S. would be fully protected even without the legislation. "No student, as long as I'm president, will be sent back," he said. The 390-25 House vote on Wednesday prompted immediate crit- icism from the Chinese foreign min- istry in Beijing. A spokesperson there said the House was "fully re- vealing its anti-China position" and was risking damage to relations be- tween the two countries. But Sen. William Armstrong of Colorado, a Republican who op- posed Bush, said, "The House put it- self squarely on record in support of human freedom... and made it clear it is not willing to be accomplices" to repression of dissent. CHINESE Continued from Page 1 tee member, said Chinese students didn't believe President Bush when earlier he said he would use execu- tive powers to protect students from deportation. "I don't trust Bush as far as the China situation is concerned. How can you trust him? He said he would stop high level contacts and at the same time sent someone to talk to those butchers in China," Xianghui said. University Center of Chinese Studies professor Kenneth Lieberthal called the Senate vote "a major vic- tory for Bush. We'll have to see if he can retain control of China pol- icy." On Wednesday the House over- rode the veto in a vote of 390-25. Representative Carl Pursell, after casting his vote in the majority, said, "The Beijing government must be sent a message that the Unites States will not tolerate the use of force against the segments of its so- ciety seeking greater freedom." Bong Qu-Qu, a visiting scholar at Rackham and president of the DCF, echoed Pursell, saying the House vote sent "a strong message to the Chinese Government that the American people care about human rights in China." RaetPrijim killc 7 in InPtrnit A EARN $50 ECZEMA The University of Michigan Department of Dermatology is seeking volunteers to test new therapies for eczema ... Office visits and medications are free to eli- gible participants. For further information please call .. . 936-4070 "...NOW MORE BREATHTAKING THAN EVER... 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"It is unclear at this stage what role the acinetabacter bacterium played in those deaths," said Sobel. Postal Service cuts back on overnight deliveries WASHINGTON D.C. - The Postal Service is shrinking the areas in which it promises overnight and second-day mail delivery, aiming to provide what it hopes will be more consistent service. Postmaster General Anthony Frank says what customers want most is dependability. By concentrating on smaller areas, the agency hopes to better keep its delivery promises, Frank explained. The effort to make service mere consistent comes just two months before the Postal Service is expected to apply for a rate increase, to take effect in 1991. The more concentrated service was tested in New York City this past year with only one complaint, and will be instituted nationwide this summer. Currently the postal service manages to deliver about 95 percent of its overnight mail on time, but "doesn't even come close to that" for mail it tries to deliver on the second or third day, Frank said. EXTRAS Devil mascot under fire BROWN CITY, Mich - Some folks in Brown City are seeing red over the high school mascot, a green devil. After hearing arguments for and against the mascot from about 100 residents Wednesday night, the Board of Education voted to conduct sepa- rate referenda among voters and students to decide its fate. Some opponents called the green devil, which Brown City High's sports teams have used as a mascot for nearly 50 years, an endorsement of Satanism. "They are giving credit to the devil every time they win a game," said Cindy Wait, who spoke out against the mascot. 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