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Friday April 19, 1946

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Visit To Nagba, South Palestine Settlement

By HERBERT HOWARTH

(Editor's Note: The writer of
this descriptive article has recent-
ly resigned from the position of
Assistant Public Information Offi-
cer of the Palestine Government
as a protest against the British
Government's failure to carry out
its pledges to the Jewish people.
Since his resignation, he has made
a number of public appearances
in Palestine giving his views on
Zionism and on British policy. He
intends to leave shortly for Eng-
land where he will devote his time
to clarifying the real issues of the
Palestine problem.)

Since the New Year, when I re-
signed from the Palestine Govern.
ment in protest against the Labor
Party's failure to execute its prom-
ises here, I have been visiting
different settlements In Jewish
Palestine before returning to Bri-
tain to talk about them. Recently
I went southwards to Kibbutz
Negba on the edge of the waste
of the Negev.

tiers have learned Arabic and mix
with their Jewish "cousins" and
give them advice. As an experi-
ment some Arabs allowed Negba
to plough their lands with a trac-
tor, and saw that the results were
really fruitful. Moreover, the ab-
normal conditions of wartime
brought riches to the Arabs, who
found it easy to dispose of any-
thing they could grow. Only, hav-
ing pocketed the good prices, they
did not know how to employ
them. In the kibbutz the grain
is reinvested for the further prog•
ress of the cooperative. Among
the Arabs it more often goes into
a stocking or a hole in the floor,
and the possessor feels the im-
portance of his wealth and be-
gins to take a more prominent
part in public life, which means
the prosecution of family feuds.

There are young Arabs who are
aware of the inadequacies of
their society, who are on gen-
uinely friendly terms with Mik-
hail and his comrades, and who
would like to do something to-
wards reforming the structure of
Arab society. But it is hard to
take the initial steps. Mikhail told
one, "Gather some friends and
start a kibbutz like ours." The
Arab shook his head: "I would
like it. But what would my rela-
tives say? They educated me to
be an official, and I become a
farmer working with my hands!"

Negba is one of sixteen pin-
points of productive Jewish land
in the vast area of relatively idle
Arab land that lies between the
Hebron hills and Gaza. It was
settled in 1939 just before the
outbreak of war. Fifty-two cars
came out of the neighboring vil-
lage of Beier Tuvia at midnight.
moved into Negba by P zig-zag
route, and set up a prefabricated
Hands and Head
stockade and village. It was a
There lies the lesson of Negba
war operation in embryo.
and the kibbutzim. It is possible
Now, in six years which, with to live a life of the hands and of
their shortages, have been unfa- the head at the same time. In
vorable to construction, the fam- many countries the problem of
ilies who occupied Negba have deterioration of agriculture turns
built themselves the elements of on the fact that the ambitious
a thriving settlement. Around the man has fled from the soil, be-
original pre-fabricated huts have cause the civilization based on it
sprung up new buildings of brick is not sufficiently indulgent to
and concrete, farmsteads, and intellectual tastes. This was not
trees. The work of building goes least true of the Jews in the Dias-
on all the time. A new school- pora. A triumph of the Jewish
house is under construction at enterprise in Palestine is that it
present; and when that is finish- points the way to a form of agrl-

ed there are other plans ready to
be taken in hand.

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Page Eleven

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

All that is here is fundamen-
tally the product of work and
soil. The earth of all this large
waste region is good. But centu-
ries in which the Arabs have tak-
en cereals from it twice a year
without putting anything back to
renew it, have resulted in tempo-
rary exhaustion. When the Jew-
ish settlers came to Negba they
turned the soil with tractors and
put down fertilizer. Then they
tried a triple rota of whert, beans,
maize. They drew regular sur-
pluses of food which went onto
the market and earned the rev-
enue that has backed the build-
ing development of the Kibbutz
and the improvement of its stand-
ard of life. Under the careful
treatment its workers give it the
Jewish land begins to look differ-
ent and richer than the stubbly
green of the neighboring Arab
land around it.

cultural life which is also congen-
ial to intellectual deight. A full
life will be the provision of the
kibbutz in its future developed
state.

The man who goes to work in
the kibbutz focuses his life on a
single effort, the redemption of
the land and the creation of a
thriving social unit in a single
spot. But if I am to judge the
people I met at Negba, this act
of concentration offers Its own
rewards. The men and women
who founded the settlement are
of an average age approaching
30. They are healthy, active, hap-
py. They have two classes of
schoolchildren and a kindergarten
and a nursery. And like all kib-
butzim at present they have
teams of young trainees working
with them. One of these teams
here is of particular interest —
a group of men and girls aged
about 20, who have come recent-
ly out of Europe, survivors of the
ordeal of the Jews of Hungary.
These are learning the organiza-
tion of a kibbutz before going out
to found one of their own.

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Whether these younger people,
learning to rehabilitate them-
BETH SHMUEL
selves by initiative endeavor on
CONG.
the soil, will be able to build an-
other Negba, saving the soil of
South Palestine that is dying un-
RABBI RABINOWITZ
less Jewish work is put into it,
1736 Blaine Ave.
remains a question. The Land
Transfers Regulations forbid the
Jews to acquire further land
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fect, an act of partition on the
most crushing terms. They assign
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the Jews the minimum possible
development. And so doing they
condemn Palestine to the mini-
mum possible development.
MR. SAM GOLD

No slow-moving administration,
such as Palestine has at present,
DECORATOR
could have made Negba. It it a
labor of love, and only the force
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of love of the land can make
another like it.
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A Jewish American Is Buried On Soil
Far Away From His Own Native Land

enough of these calamities—too
many in truth. Far too many.
"Order Arms," might have
Everything was still.
been commanded by a captain
DAVID LIFSHITZ
Silence, peace, quietude, and
other than Alvin A. Lopyan of
rest prevailed in this final re-
Binghampton, New York, in the
treat from the woes of a cflaotic
Palo, Leyte, USAF Cemetery. Tile
world. Not even the digging
5607 ST. ANTOINE
interment soil might have been
noises of the laboring Filipinos
TEmple 2.1840
other than Philippine.
disturbed the quiescency of this
Taps and Call to Colors might
holy plot.
have been blown by a bugler
And the flag.
other than T-4 Andrew Sauseda,
Loosely furled around the staff
at half mast, Old Glory resem- a Mexican Catholic from Reed-
bled an old man whose drooping ley, California.
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"Although he did not die in
shoulders cringed in agony as
once again an American son was combat, but perished with six-
being lowered into foreign soil. teen others in a plane crash
This epic was not new to the bound fot duty In Australia, our
HERMAN LEVITT
sorrowful banner as it limply comrade, Pfc. Jesse J. Leberman,
surveyed the "last honors to a is also a battle casualty of this
victor in this fight for freedom." psychopathic world. Even in
peace he is a victim of its con-
5304 W. VERNOR
Everything was still.
LA. 6404
The short cropped fingers of vulsions. This ground is conse-
Arab Neighbors
deep green grass rigidly stood at crated with his earthly remains
I walked out in the morning attention as the Chaplain droned, in peaceful slumber together
with these other heroic sleepers—
with Mikhail, who is joint secre- "Dust to Dust as it was .. ."
his prototypes."
ormarimmorammargiaminimmummuill tary for the kibbutzim of the re- And then Taps.
This eulogy might have been
gion. We looked at the rolling
The last echoed note wailed
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stretches of land between the blue back from the hills, bringing made by a Chaplain other than
Hebron hills and our barbed-wire with it the breath of God . . . Capt. Samuel M. Silver of Wil-
fence which keeps desert thieves the swish of a slight breeze mington, Del., whose letter of
M. SILBERMAN
out of Negba. Here and there an wafted across the green and condolence might have been sent
Arab village Tay dormant. I asked white panorama of evenly spaced to a mother other than Mrs.
SONS
Rose Leberman, 1019 Longwood
Mikhail what the Arabs were do- crosses and Stars of David.
WHOLESALE GROCERIES
ing and whether life had enanged
The long tapering branches of Ave., Bronx, N.Y.
The group of Jewish service-
with them in recent years.
the cocoanut trees waved ever so
Western Market
men
who paid the fallen one this
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Life continues there almost as In slightly while the uniformly cut
last homage might have been
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feudal times, he told me. The grass bowed their tops in unison
Protestant or Catholic. The An-
evils regular with a society which as if in response to an order
gel of Death makes no distinc-
mineseffili is in a condition of lassitude still from the Omnipotent.
tion between race, color, or creed.
Everything was still again.
grip them. Absentee landlordism,
With one full swoop the gOm
And
then
the
Call
to
Colors.
01:st:H:H:n:H>t›<H>4H:1-00-cH:KH:o for example. One owner has not
Old Glory unfurled itself from spectre of this destroyer doused
been to visit his large domain
for fifteen years. A great inertia the staff. The old man's drooping the candle of life in this young
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and unwillingness to work. They shoulders squared in challenge to been any other national.
Heed this well, Oh Mankind!
find it too much trouble and too all who might again threaten the
HAUPERT
American son. Ho might have
uncertain an investment to lay on Four Freedoms.
irrigation. In one village the cam-
Old Glory fluttered defiantly in Let this not be repeated: The
PLUMBING SUPPLY els still fetch water in medieval this mystical aura. God's Hand dead must rest peacefully.
The flags are very wearied.
skin gourds from the single well had undraped the banner with a
God may tire of Man's evil.
which has suppled them for cen- warning to the universe that
19409 JOHN R.
"The Lord is my Shepherd, I
never
again
shall
this
standard
turies.
shall not want . . ."
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look
down
upon
man-made
tra-
Yet the enterprise of Negba is
Everything was still.
having some influence. The set- gedy. The flag had witnessed

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SEASON'S GREETINGS

By
David L. Kreiter

EAST SIDE LODGE

BNAI BRITH No. 1465

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CONG.

BETH YEHUDAH

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