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Opinion
POSTORIAL
Auschwitz Should Remain
Monument, Not Convent
ES The announcement last week by
European Catholic authorijties that
the Carmelite convent is being moved
from the grounds of Auschwitz to a
nearby new center is a constructive
move in the right direction
In 1984, 10 Carmelite nuns took
over a former Nazi warehouse in
Auschwitz in which Zyklon-B gas was
stored for use in gas chambers.
They converted the warehouse into
a convent to pray for "martyrs and
the unconverted."
Nowhere in their fund-raising liter-
ature did they refer to the Nazi's
massacre of more than a million jews
in that death camp.
Jews clearly are not opposed to the
Carmelite's prayers. And most Jews
understand the appropriateness of
their honoring Polish Catholic victims
of Nazism
But Auschwitz was built by the
Nazis for the primary purpose of ex-
terminating European Jews. Rather
than an act of reconciliation, the
convent became a gesture of ap-
propriation.
Significantly, five leading
European cardinals, the Vatican, and
Pope John Paul II himself have un-
derstood the central symbolic
meaning of Auschwitz to the Jewish
people.
Contrary to earlier misinformed re-
ports, they have finally persuaded the
Carmelite nuns to move their convent
to a new center of prayer and study,
but off the blood-soaked grounds of
Auschwitz.
As the Pope declared to surviving
Polish Jews last year, Auschwitz is a
monument to barbarism and anti-
Semitism and it must remain intact as
a sign and witness to all mankind.
-RABBI MARC H. TANENBAUM
Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum is international
consultant for the American jewish Committee.
The Miami Riots
BY WILLIAM A.
GRALNICK
(Copyright 1989, Jewish
Telegraphic Agcy. Inc.)
-MIAMI-
'S This was the riot
that wasn't. By every
indicator, the eruption
that took place after the
police shooting of a
speeding black motor-
cyclist was not a riot —
Miami being host to the
Super Bowl and to the
world's media just made
it seem like one. that's
not to say that what is
was good. It wasn't. But,
why did it happen?
The answers are tex-
tbook, yet they do have
some variations on the
theme. Overtown, once
a genteel, dignified
black neighborhood,
was sacrificed on the
altar of progress, its
heart split in half by an
expressway.
The concrete-cash
shadows eventually
spread out to mask the
social and economic
fabric of that commun-
ity. It died. With a list of
ills uncorrected from a
1982 riot, the smolder-
ing ashes of anger were
still hot to the touch.
Miami's blacks suffer
differently from those
elsewhere, perhaps be-
cause misery just isn't
taken as seriously when
the sun always shines.
They suffer because
of failed leaders, some
who killed themselves
off, like the superinten-
dent of schools arrested
and convicted in a sup-
ply scandal, and some
who were killed off
through uncontrollable
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NEAR EAST REPORT
THOUSANDS 0EJEWISH EN\I6RA^S
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Spicy Peace Offerings
■ sraeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir
I announced a two-stage plan for the West
Bank & Gaza Strip: “First an interim con-
dition and this will include full autonomy. In
the second stage [there will be] direct nego-
tiations without preconditions between
Israel, Palestinian Arabs and Arab coun-
tries.”
Speaking to a group of U.S. rabbis,
Shamir emphasized that the most important
step in the peace process is to begin negotia-
tions: “Once we get to this stage positive
results will come.”
Shamir, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin
and other leaders currently are developing
and floating ideas to start down the road.
Leaders of both main Israeli political blocs
have emphasized time and again that tension
with Palestinian Arabs will be eliminated
through a political settlement, not by military
means. By action and words Israeli leaders
are demonstrating that they are willing to
take risks for peace, without compromising
Israel’s security.
Foreign Minister Moshe Arens, a member
of Shamir’s Likud bloc, told the Knesset For-
eign Affairs and Defense Committee that
“Israel ought not stick to all its former posi-
tions on the Middle East dispute. . ..Every
Israeli initiative must take Israeli aspirations
and security into account as well as the aspi-
rations of the Palestinians who reside in
Judea, Samaria and Gaza.”
Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, a mem-
ber of the Labor party, offered to permit elec-
tions and an expanded period of autonomy in
the territories after a three- to six-month
period of calm. He later dropped his require-
ment for a cessation of violence. Rabin’s pro-
posal received the surprising endorsement of
the spritual leader of the Islamic resistance
movement in Gaza.
At the same time, Israeli government
officials from both major parties have reas-
serted Israel’s right to take action against vio-
lence in the territories.
Israeli officials continue to oppose nego-
tiations with the PLO and are seeking to
foster the development of credible Palesti-
nian Arab leaders within the territories.
Rabin recently told the Labor Party parlia-
mentary delegation that “Today they [local
Palestinian Arabs] are a factor with influence
and their weight is growing, and if we pursue
a wise policy instead of running after Arafat’s
PLO, they will be more of a partner. . . and
with them there is more chance of reaching a
solution.”
These individuals simultaneously must be
free of formal ties to the PLO — satisfying
Israel’s conditions for negotiations — while
possessing enough credibility among Palesti-
nian Arabs to speak with authority. It was for
this reason that Rabin decided last week to
release Faisal Husseini from administrative
detention.
Husseini, seen as the leading pro-PLO
leader in the territories, had spent 18 of the
last 21 months in detention for anti-Israel
activities. He has been accused of funding
and coordinating political violence. His Arab
Studies Center in east Jerusalem, closed by
Israel in July, published literature that
glorified Nazi sympathizers and other
enemies of Israel and circulated maps of the
Middle East which failed to feature IsraeL
After his release, Husseini endorsed
Rabin’s proposal for an election in the territo-
ries if the PLO approves the move and if it is
conducted under international supervision.
He rejected other elements of Rabin’s peace
plan as “a very limited offer which cannot
meet our conditions. ”
An advocate of an independent Palestinian
Arab state, Husseini rejected current notions
of autonomy saying: “We are talking about
the homeland — our homeland for the people
living here and abroad.” Nevertheless, he
said that “some of the Israeli people and even
some of the Israelis at high levels are going in
a new way that I believe is the right direc-
tion.”
One informed observer said that Palesti-
nian Arabs of the Husseini mold “may be a
little more spicy than Israel would have liked
a year or two ago” but circumstances have
impelled Israel in this direction. While Israel
may have come to terms with this new lead-
ership, the PLO still sees indigenous leaders
in the territories as a threat. Speaking in
Madrid, Yasir Arafat rejected Rabin's offer of
elections in the territories unless Israel uni-
laterally withdraws. “We are for elections,
but only in unoccupied territory,” Arafat
said. J.R. □
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