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The Link ArchivesTitle: The Sorrow of Lebanon About This Issue
The word from the angel to Mary was all joy: “And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son . . ." But to Joseph, in a dream we’d call a nightmare, the word was otherwise: “Rise, take the child and his mother and flee . . . “ In recent weeks the word from Cairo, Tel-Aviv and Washington has been one of impending peace between two Middle East enemies. Yet, even amid that promise of reconciliation, there remain people in the Middle East who still wake up to nightmares. This issue of the Link focuses on two such groups: the uprooted people of Lebanon and the Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli jails. They are the sorrow amid our joy, the “linkage” part of the Camp David framework. Mr. Youssef Ibrahim of the New York Times contributed the article on relief agencies presently at work in Lebanon. For those who wish to contribute to these efforts, names and addresses of the agencies have been included. Sami Esmail, a 24-year-old Palestinian-American, spent ten months in an Israeli prison, prior to his release on October 18, 1978. On November 3, the director of AMEU conducted an exclusive telephone interview with Sami, in a New York-East Lansing, Michigan hook-up. Those wishing extra copies of the interview, as it appears in this issue, may write to the Link, in care of the New York office. This issue, in addition, carries the first major review of the National Lawyers Guild 1977 Middle East Delegation Report on Treatment of Palestinians in Israeli-Occupied West Bank and Gaza. Reviewer L. Humphrey Walz is a former editor of the Link, a member of AMEU’s Board of Directors, and has long been concerned about the treatment of Palestinians. On October 11, 1977, Rev. Walz was invited to testify before the 216th Session of the U.N. General Assembly’s “Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories.”--John F. Mahoney, Executive Director, Winter 1978 Contents
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