Si*
SHABBAT SHAL0M
VOL.J.Vill,N0.3^ ELUl.26,5751 THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 5,1991
^ JIVB Subscribers are advised that during any ^postal fhterrtit)«^
Jewish (>>mmiinj^^
TM$^lliii^i^      Heather at 16th
i^ilidfl^gular ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ K^^
Nosh ARye 480aN<KdR6ad Richmond
Shalom Bci>iciBi^ 3712 0alcSt^
Fbpovers 3211 OalcSt.
OakHd^ Phivnriacy
Ndn-Subscribers can purchase JWB at any of
fhefe|[ur^^^
sign to receive their free copy.
I
i
■
|J[£RU$AL£M    A r^pice over
|;Sixiti^^ Moslem,
One republi^^z^ indicated last may commit itself to^i^^ ence. Anotfieir^iDislem lie, ICa^aklw^ : lai^st af^i^ Ru the . Ukraiiiey ;i^Shei^ about 27,000 nuclear war-heads deplbyed % the Soviet armed forces.
Soviet affairs experts have warned for years of a frightening scenario in which one republic threatens its neigh> bors with nuclear attack. Now there is concern that one or more of those republics icould join Iran in a holy war against the Jewish state.
At best, the possibility that the Moslem republics will
in Crown Heights, aifter the funeral of seveii-"year-^^^^ Gavin Catb^ wsi^i^stive last
week.. 'fy'-yy^
Those attehdingthe funeral were restrained, ;;j|ttt highly supportive of inc^^iary rhetoric offered from^he pulpit by Rev. Al Sharpton and other black leader^,
No further demonstrations
^^^^   of riots by blacks, by thc^ black community%ere'^'   The - week-lblig^^- rampage
planned, but the tension 'remained, even if the sense of imminent danger that had blanketed the Brooklyn neighborhood since two weeks agOi when a Chassidic Jew killed the black child in a traffic accident, was waning. The accident sparked several days
that left aR innocent Jewish bystander dead, 229 people injured and 155 arrested seemed to be petering out. Slowly reasserting itself was the quiescent coexistence that
CROWN HEIGHTS ■  Page 16
defect from the Soviet Union could; mean the de facto expansion of the Middle East conflict, both in geographical and political terms. The inter-nai crisis in the SbyietUhi therefore; coujiii create^ some yery. serious /problems^ Israel sooner th^n expected.
Israelis are still stewing, meanwhile, over the open-support many Palestiniahs showed for conservative hardliners who tried and failed to unseat Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev two weeks ago. Many believed that a hard-line takeover in the Soviet Union would reverse the thaw in Soviet-Israeli relations and, perhaps,^stop Soviet Jews from pouring into the country.
jp^^ attempted-xc^p failed, Palestinian person^ ties tried to draw a distinction between the "emotional reaction** of Arabs "in the street*' who cheered the coup, and the 'ciircumspection of the Palestinian leadership. But; in fact, there is little evidence of such a division in the Palestinian community.
Sameha Khalil, a Palestinian radical who heads the Family Rehabilitation Society in the West Bank town of El-
Bireh, said that he did not regret the attennpt to oust Gorbachev. "I hope that the Soviet Union once more will be a powerful and great nation, that America will no more be the only strong nation; and^^lhatit^^U stand by us, as it always did before Gorbachev's reign,'* Khalil declared before the coup had ended. ■•-'-^■: When the coup failed. Dr. Ghasan Khatib, a lecturer at Bir Zeit University in the West Bank, who identifies as a Communist, said "popular voices" hoped the change in the Soviet Union would lead to a cessation of Jewish immigration. But the "responsible leadership,*: including tlie ^: Palestihe: Libera^^^ zation, was caref ulnot to take sides in the Sbviet internal cri-, sis, he claimed^ v ■ •■i^' v ■ :'i:r-: The truth is that the popu^ lar reaction Was the authentic reaction p^: the Palestinian community. It was neither hysterical nor emotional. There was honeof the dancing on the roofs, as happened last winter^ when Iraqi Scud missiles hit Israel during the Persian Gulf war.
Prof. Amnon Rubinstein, of Israers dovish Centre^
Shinui movement, claimed that Palestinians would have been no closer to their national goals had the coup succeeded. He is probably right. But he neglects to view events from the Palestinian . peiipective. ;:
In the Dehaishe refugee camp, near Bethlehem, and in East Jerusalem's narrow alleys, the political fortunes of the Palestinians have sunk so low that almost anything can be seen as an improvement. The political reality is that Israel is in firm control of the Administered Territories, settlements there prosper, the intifada is stalled, and Palestinian frustrations overwhelm their hopesv Little wonder that the prospect of sudden
Unipii cre^(E^'i's|in'
Israelis taiintP^ for invariably ^ backing the wrong horse. But as long as there is no mbvemen^t o^^ political front,. Palestinians will look to outside saviors, whether their name is Saddam Hussein or Gehnady Yanayev, who, for three days last month, was acting president of the Sbviet Union.
Nor can Palestinians be SOVIETPage 24
. ■ M-v.  :......,........„......, ,   „ .■.............