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TEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1987 POSTORIAL PAGE 4
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postorials, opinions, etc
Mount Sinai
And The Desert
Mount Sinai and the desert: Mount Sinai represents the
height at which the law of justice and moral authority were
uniquely experience by the entire Jewish people. The desert
speaks of moral desolation that issues from lawlessness.
These symbols of the mountaintop and the desert wasteland
figures prominently in the observance of Shavuot, the Feast of
Weeks or Pentecost, which the Jewish people observe June 3-
Originally an agricultural festival of the harvest season in
Palestine, Shavuot assumed great spiritual significance
through its celebration of the giving of the Ten Commandmen-
ts at Mount Sinai. The Rabbis speak of Shavuot as the con-
cluding festival to Passover. The physical freedom achieved at
Passover became humanly meaningful through the spiritual
freedom realized as a result of the acceptance of the moral law
by Israel.
Every human society requires law and a moral commitment
to respect the law as the foundation of civilized life. To believe
otherwise - that true religion and morality are a matter of
private consicence or good feelings along, and that law,
discipline and standards are a burden — ultimately con-
tributes to anarchy.
That anti-law mentality which has existed for so long among
some salvation cults and rvolutionaries may well explain the
growing spread of lawlessness, crime and terrorism in the
world today.
When the Jews recite the 120 words of the Ten Comman-
dments on Shavuot, they are in fact calling prophetically for a
return to a society in which respect for moral law is the surest
guarantee of all human liberties: Choose the heights of Mount
Sinai, turn away from the moral desert.
• • •
_—Rabbi Marc H. Tannenbaum
Country Cub Snubs
Jewish Commander
At Ft. Jackson, SC
BY JOSEPH POLAKOFF
TJP Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - U.S. Army
Major General Robert B.
Solomon, the commanding
general at Fort Jackson, S.Q.,
with a record of more than 32
years in the active com-
missioned officer service, has
been deliberately snubbed by
the Forest Lake Country Club
near Columbia, S.C., because
he is Jewish.
Solomon has not been exten-
: ded honorary membership in
the club as is customary for
j commanders of Fort Jackson,
i which is named for President
Andrew Jackson. The Columbia
Record newspaper reported in
publishing details about ex-
clusive all-white country clubs
in the area.
The 'Record’s reports em-
phasized their exclusion of
blacks, including Charles W.
Savage II, a South Carolina
native, who was sent back to
South Carolina by International
Business Machines Corp. as its
top corporate representative.
Savage asked IBM for a tran-
sfer and left with his family.
Major Bruce Bell, Army
spokesman at the Pentagon,
See Club Snubs Page 15
Israel Wants Peace With Arabs
BY MICHAEL SOLOMON
MONTREAL (JTA) - Jihan
Sadat, widow of Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat, said
here that she hoped Palestine
Liberation Organization chief
Yasser Arafat "will continue in
the footsteps of my late
husband and that Israel will
recognize the PLO.” She said
that "Israel is willing to have
peace with the Arabs."
Sadat spoke at a press con-
ference at the Queen Elizabeth
Hotel where she was baited by
an obviously hostile reporter for
an Arab newspaper who asked
why she agreed to raise funds
for Ben Gurion University in
Israel, and why she is not
fasting on Ramadan, the period
of fasting of the Moslem faith.
Sadat said, "I am ready to do
the same (raise funds) for any
university in the world which
proposes peace and under-
standing between Arabs and
Israelis. I just follow in the
steps of my late husband." In
reply to the second question,
she said "I fasted yesterday.
Tonight I shall eat.”
Discussing peace, she said,
"I hope the time will come
when all people concerned will
gather around the table and
find a peaceful solution. Let
anyone have the courage — I
don’t say the same courage as
my late husband - and go to
Israel and say that he wants
peace. Israel is willing to have
peace with the Arabs.”
She said her husband's suc-
cessor, President Hosni
Mubarak, has his own style but
continues the peace process
initiated by Anwar Sadat.
Asked if she felt isolated in
the Arab world, Sadat said ”1
feel isolated only from the
narrow-minded Arab people,
not from everyone.”
Speaking of Islamic fun-
damentalism and its efforts to
block the pursuit of women's
rights in Egypt, Sadat said,
"Unfortunately, fundamen-
talists are everywhere, in-
cluding Israel." She said "My
deepest wish is to see peace
between Israel and the Aralj
people.”
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Hear East Report:
By Eric Rosenman
Not Just A Ploy
May 13 five U.S. Senators proposed
legislation to shut down the PLO’s Pal-
estine Information Office (PIO) in Wash-
ington and the PLO observer mission’s of-
fice at the U.N. (NER, May 18).
The New York Times gave the story six
paragraphs on page A-13; the Washington
Post seven paragraphs on p&ge A-41. PLO
representatives denounced the proposal as
a political gesture. The Arab Institute and
the Arab League have denounced the bill
and its supporters. And the Washington of-
fice of the American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLIJ) warned that in its view the move
was unconstitutional.
But the idea—similar to legislation al-
ready ottered in tne House by Rep. Jack
Kemp (R-N.Y.)—merits coverage. It is nei-
ther political grandstanding nor an assault
on freedom of speech.
It is newsworthy because the PLO has
been at war not only with Israel but also
with the United States, as Sen. Frank Lau-
tenberg (D-N.J.) observed. (Before repeat-
ed outrages gained the PLO perverted ce-
lebrity status, it was sometimes referred to
as “the so-called Palestine Liberation Or-
ganization,” to make clear the fraud behind
the name.)
As noted by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-
lowa), PLO ambushes of Americans in-
cluded, in addition to the murder of Ambas-
sador Cleo Noel and a second American
diplomat in the Sudan in 1973:
• The 1972 Munich Olympic massacre,
in which one American died;
• The 1973 slaying of a 16-year-old;
• The 1974 mid-air explosion of a TWA
.light in which 88 people—some of them
American citizens—died;
• A 1975 Jerusalem bombing which
killed three Americans;
• A 1976 hotel fire, a result of PLO ter-
rorism, in which two Americans died, and
in a separate attack, the slaying of an aide to
the late Sen. Jacob Javits;
• The 1978 killing of an American medi-
cal student, and the murder of photogra-
pher Gail Rubin at the start of the Tel Aviv
coastal road massacre;
• The 1985 murder of Achille Lauro pas-
senger Leon Klinghoffer and the shootings
of other U.S. citizens at the Rome and
Vienna airports.
Mohammed Abu Abbas, the mastermind
of the cruise ship hijacking, remains a
member of the PLO executive committee.
Abu Nidal—long described as a renegade
opposed to Yasir Arafat—reportedly at-
tended the recent PLO “Palestine National
Council” session in Algiers, as did one or
more of his assistants.
“There has been some talk that the PLO
was becoming a moderate organization,”
Sen. Rudy Boschwitz (R-Minn.) noted, but
this “was really laid to rest in Algiers.” He
called the PLO itself “an obstacle to the
peace process” and pointed out that it has
intimidated more moderate Palestinian
Arabs.
Two years ago President Reagan de-
scribed Arafat and Co. as “one of the
world’s most vicious terrorist groups.”
However, the State Department—perhaps
hoping against experience that the PLO will
renounce violence and join the peace pro-
cess—opines only that the organization
may include some individuals or factions
who commit terrorism.
Whatever the reason, the Administration
has moved sluggishly on requests by Dole,
Kemp, Grassley, Lautenberg and others,
some going back nearly two years, to act
against both the PLO-funded Washington
PIO and the U.N. observer mission. But
Administration officials have begun to take
another look at these offices since the legis-
lation was introduced.
Asked by NER whether the bill might
infringe on the First Amendment rights of
Americans who support the PLO, Sen. Mi-
nority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.) said
constitutional lawyers had reviewed and
approved the measure. He noted it “does
not limit anyone’s ability to hold, express or
work for their political views. ... It only
says that the PLO cannot have offices or
fund activities in the United States until it
ceases terrorism.”
To which Grassley added, “Terrorism is
not protected by free speech any more than
polygamy is protected by freedom of re-
ligion.”
Summing up, Sen. Howard Metzenbaum
(D-Ohio) declared: “I think it’s quite ob-
vious that there’s a general consensus the
PLO is a terrorist organization that doesn t
have a right to have its offices here in this
country. ... I’ll urge the leadership of the
Senate to put this bill on a fast track to get it
through as promptly as possible.”
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