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History and the Sands of the Desert
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or more than a century. Great Britain was the world's
prime super power. She praised herself that the "sun
never sets on British soil.”
Historically, Britain’s rise took prominence with her
defeat of the Spanish Armada in the late 16th century.
Stalling her rise was the loss of her American colonies and the
establishment of the United States of America.
Within an half century, Britain cast her eyes on the Arabian
peninsula in particular, and the Middle East in general, and, when
oil was discovered and exploited in the Middle East, Britain’s
dominance was assured for the near term.
However, the fledgling American colonies, after they became
the United States of America, beat Britain at its own game.
Britain, determined to regain her position marched on Washing-
ton and burned the White House. Using her might she even took
American sailors from U S. naval vessels and impressed them into
service.
Following the Civil War and Reconstruction, the United States
became industrialized. And following Edison's perfection of
_ see JESS JAWIN p. 23
Olympic Committee Snubs
Kin of Slain Israeli Athletes
help us,” Ankie Rekhess-Spilzer
said in a phone interview from her
home inTel Avivcarlierthis week.
Rekhcss-Spitzcr was 26 when
her husband, fencing coach An-
drei Spitzer, was killed during an
By Faye Bittker
Jewish Exponent
PHILADELPHIA — The fami-
lies of the 11 Israeli athletes slain
at the 1972 Munich Olympics have
written to President Clinton, ask-
ing him to intervene on their behalf attack by the Black September
with the International Olympic
Committee.
As the world prepares to cele-
brate the 100th anniversary of the
modern Olympic Games, "the IOC
refuses to recognize the 11 vic-
tims. claiming that this would be a
political act,’’ the families of the
Munich victims wrote to President
Clinton on May 25.
"We thought that since the
Games were taking place in Atlan-
ta. (Clinton! might be willing to
Palestinian terrorist group during
the 1972 Olympics in Germany.
She and liana Romano, whose
husband, weightlifter Yosef Ro-
mano. was among the dead, have
been leading the battle with the
IOC' to gain recognition for the
fallen athletes
For the past two decades, seven
widows have tried to reconcile their
losses with what they consider to
be the callous response of the
see ATHLETES p. 23
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Features.........................................................
Washington Watch: Netanyahu’s Visist.............4
Dallas Doings.....................................................5
A Century of Jewish Olympci Medalits...........6,7
Call To Commemorate Tisha B’Av Fast............. 8
Singles........................................................12,13
You and Your Health....................................16,17
Shlomo Riskin’s Torah Portion..........................19
Around the Town..............................................20
Synagogue Services...................................18,23
Recipes............................................................22
Netanyahu Stresses Peace
and Democracy in D.C. Talks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, brother of the hero of
Entebbe, came to the United Stales
this week for an official stale visit
with President Bill Clinton.
On Tuesday he visited with the
President. Reports indicate that
important differences still exist
between the Clinton Administra-
tion and Netanyahu over how to
safeguard the peace process, al-
low Israelis to be secure citizens
in their own land, keep Jerusalem
inviolate and the capital of Israel
and to eradicate the scourge of
terrorism which, emanating from
Arab stales, is becoming the hor-
ror of the world.
This was not a visit to expand on
differences between administration
approach and Israeli policy.
It was a visit based on shalom,
political and realistic. Israel has
dealt with the intrigues of Arab
malcontents for more than a centu-
ry in recent modern tunes Hie Clin
ton administration is eager to score
foreign relations points almost im-
mediately to persuade the Ameri-
can electorate that the president is
adept and successful to reduce wars
and transform animosities into
peace. This would be highly ad-
vantageous as an election appeal.
When Bibi Netanyahu spoke to
an historic joint session of Con-
gress Wednesday he was deluged
with applause. He mainly spoke of
the three pillars of peace which
were: security, reciprocity and the
strengthening of democracy for all
peoples.
He called the shots earnestly and
clearly. He said Israel was prom-
ised by the Palestinians that they
could contain terrorist attacks
against the Jewish state. But at-
tacks, he said, have continued in
violation of the peace negotiations.
He said that the world should take
careful note of the possibility of
nuclear weapons lulling into the
hands of stales like Iraq and Iran.
see D. C. TALKS p.19
50 years Later, Poland Atones
for Massacre of Jews in Kielce
By Ruth E. Gruber
KIELCE. Poland — "The
heavens are weeping on our cer-
emony," New York Rabbi Dav-
id Blumcnfcld told a crowd of
about 2.IKK) people who gath-
ered this week outside a white
building in the center of this
southern Polish city.
As rain fell, Bluinenlcld lit a
memorial candle and held it be-
fore the crowd.
Fifty years ago. on July 4.
I946, a Polish mob, inflamed
by anti-Semitism and rumors
that Jews had kidnapped a Chris-
tian child, besieged the build-
ing and during a day of bloody
violence, slaughtered 42 Jewish
Holocaust survivors.
Sunday’s emotional ceremonies
were held at the site where the
pogrom took place, as well as at
the Kielce Jewish cemetery and
at the former Kielce synagogue,
now used to house city archives.
The commemorations marked
Poland’s official atonement for
the pogrom and Us request for
forgiveness for the slaughter.
Attended by Polish, Catholic
and Jewish leaders, local digni-
taries and townspeople, and Ho-
locaust survivors from Kielce and
their children, the commemora-
tion was marked by solemn
speeches as the ceremonies —
and crowd — moved from site
to site.
Among those in the crowd was
a Polish survivor of Auschwitz,
who wore a concentration camp
uniform and bore a sign calling
Kielce the shame of Polish Ro-
man Catholics.
Alongside a Chasidic man in
a frock coal was a group of local
teen-agers wearing lank lops.
A survivors group from the
United States distributed
see MASSACRE p V
Arab-Jewish Ties in U.S. May Revert to Divisiveness
By Shaw n ( 'ohm
Washington Jewish Week
WASHINGTON — The stem re-
buke of the new Israeli government by
several Arab American gn >ups has up-
set many in the < organized Jewish com-
munity who fear that new tics hetween
the two communities may suffer as a
result.
"*l have seen some of the statements
and wntings | of Arab American lead-
ers! and frankly, I find them disturb-
ing.” said Jess Hordes, Washington
representative of the Anti-Defamation
League.
They are reverting to the old style
of pn tpagandisiK rtict< vie. It has a dan
ger <4 undoing all of the positives that
have been achieved over the last lew
years.”
Many Arab Americans have accused
die < irganized Jewish community of n< it
speaking out against Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu's stated policies
dial they sav direalen to derail die Arab-
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Israeli peace process.
Such complacency, say these Arab
American leaders.ck ics not hi xJc well ft r
Arab-Jewish relations in the United
Stales.
"It would he sad if the change of
government in Israel produces a re-
trenchment on the part of the main-
stream Jewish community in the United
States, the signs of which are already
visible tous.’' said Khalil Jahshan,exec-
utive direc t* v of the National Associa-
tmn of Arab Amcncans.
‘That could derail whatever little
pn igrevs we have achieved between the
two communities,' added Jahshan,
winisc < rganizalii >n has established c*v
operative efforts with several Jewish
groups in recent years, including the
American Jewish Committee .»nd Na-
tional JcwishCommunily Relations Ad-
visory Council
Many in die Arab American com-
munity see Netanyahu's election a
sen< ms bfo iw to the peace pn iccss Arab
Amencan leaders have attacked Netan
yahu’s pkxJged policies and warned
him to follow dirough on Israeli com-
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