Friday, November 21, 1947

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Vol. 49, No. 47

Friday, November 21, 1947 (Kislev 8, 5708)

Place in the Yis ►► v
Peace between brother and brother in
the Yishuv will not be realized until there
is an end to the irreconcilability that has
characterized the fighting ranks of the
Yishuv throughout the fray.
Ilad the leaders'of the two chief armies,
Haganah and Irgun, had an opportunity
to sit around a table and reconcile their
differences, much of the disappointment
of the underground warfare would have
been averted. But refusal to grant conces-
sions resulted in the incongruous sight of
two forces fighting a common foe and also
taking pot shots at each other.
The enemy is now vanquished. World
opinion has finally convinced Britain that
she must depart from the Rely Land and
agree to the establishment of independent
Jewish and Arab states there.
Now is the time for Haganah and Irgun
to unite, to become the loyal militia ready
for battle if the Arabs should strike. The
clashes that have been going on between
the two forces have been disastrous to the
Jewish cause and destructive of morale.
Irgun must recognize that its job is
done after having playeil so heroic a role
in attaining victory. We say again that
without Irgun, the Yishuv might still be
fighting its hit and run battle against an
entrenched usurper. It was lrgun tactics
chiefly, the shot in the dark, the unex-
pected and daring attack that 'demoralized
the Tommy and made Britain amenable to
UN intervention so long as it implied no
loss of face.
Irgun opposes the principle of partition.
So do we in 'America and, we venture to
say, so does all the Yishuv. But Irgun
alone refuses to be realistic at a time when
the choice is half or nothing.
Partition is not the end. The problem
of lebensraum for Europe's wanderers will
not be fully solved. Hostile neighbors will
be on all sides of the tiny Jewish State.
Economic growth will be stunted by the
lack of room in which to stretch. But
despite all this, here is Israel's first chance
to build a viable state in 2,000 years, a
phenomenon which would lift the spirits
and the dignity of all Jews everywhere.
Factionalism and stubbornness must not
jeopardize the Jewish State.
Irgun leaders have offered to merge with
Haganah on condition that they be given
re ► sentation in the high command and
thal their groups retain their separate
idditity within the new army.
David Ben Gurion, it has been reported.
has rejected the proposal and insists that
Irgun must dissolve, granting individual
members the right to join Ilaganah inde-
pendently.
Ben Gurion, who can be as dogmatic
as anybody at times, is a bit hasty: Ir-
gun's contribution has been too important
to ignore. Its leaders did a phenomenal
job in the face of unbelievable obstacles.
They should be invited to join the high
command of Ilaganah and their subalterns
should be given officer rank in. the combined
forces.
A compromise should be reached on the
question of Irgun complements retaining
their identity. If Irgun has its way there
will be division within the ranks and dis-
sension.
Small Irgun groups could be incorporated
within the larger groups of Ilaganah with-
out their retaining their separate identity,
and Ilaganah and Irgun officers could be
jointly in command of the united forces.
In this way, Irgun would be integrated
into the army of the new state and be
given all its due without the establishment
of two separate armies.
This is no time for stubbornness. Ilaga-
nah must acknowledge Irgun's services and
potentialities and invite its leadership to
join its high command. Irgun, for its
part, must not insist on division.
Solidarity is the keynote. Intransigence
must not stand in the way.

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An Insignificant Element

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4RgEN FI–AO!

A recent article in the Detroit Free
Press points up a cofilmon error into which
many writers fall because of inadequate
study of the facts.

The article stated categorically that a
great number of American Jews are un-
friendly to the idea of partition and Zion-
ism in general and citel the opposition of.
the American Council for Judaism.

Now the council bears a pretentious
name, sends out scads of propaganda and
has the support of a handful of Jews with
some money and influence. It artfully con-
trives to leave the impression that it speaks
for a vast section of the Jewish populace.

The truth is that the American Council
for Judaism represent fewer Americans than
some national landsmanschaften groups.
Its membership is only 12,000, many of
them non-Jews, and it has lost the support
of a segment of the reform Rabbinate
which at one time was its mainstay. Its
hostility to partition has even been repu-
diated by the New York Times, one of its
most loyal supporters.

Basing its program on a purported ideal
of patriotism, the Council has resorted to
every un-American and unsportsmanlike de-
vice to further its aims. Well aware that
the overwhelming majority of American
Jews are Zionists at heart, if not in prac-
tice, the council has still refused to give up
its disruptive meddling and has developed
into one of the major foes of the Jewish
State ideal contrary to the American tra-
dition that the majority rules. It has gone
so far as to dispatch a vicious memorandum
to Secretary Marshall opposing the Jewish
State.

This then in brief is the American
Council for Judaism. One commits a grave
injustice if he 'intimates that the council
speaks for more than an insignificant seg-
ment of American Jewry.

Jewish Welfare Board Budget

Letters to the Editor

ACCLAIMS IItGUN

Dear Editor:

are only too glad to wash their
hands of the 2,000 year old prob-
lem, the ALFP and the Irgun are
continuing to maintain the con-
stant pressure that will kick the
British out, and nothing is go-
ing to stop us.

As a member of the American
League for a Free Palestine, the
organization to which you appar-
ently refer \ in your editorial of
Nov. 7 opposing the Irgun Zvai
Even while you ask us to stop,
Leumi, I am compelled to differ
with you on all counts except every minute more arms and
where you praise the "terrorists." munitions are being sold to the
Arabs by both the U. S. and
As a result of hindsight atti-
Great Britain legally. Have you
tudes such as yours which are
done anything to stop this legal
now appearing in Jewish periodi-
_traffic? Nothing at all, but we of
cals, much that the Irgun has
won for Eretz Israel is in great the ALFP are working to stop
this.
danger of being lost. The game
will not be o(er until the British
In case of armed action by the
are out of alestine to the last Arab states, intelligent observers
man.
know that the Haganah will not
A detailed study of British im- be able to stop the Arabs but that
perialism shows nowhere that the Irgun is the real backbone
they have ever kept their prom- of the Hebrew nation of Pales-
ises. Only by force and continued tine.
force have the British been com-
DR. WILLIAM WINOKUR,
pelled to do anything. While the
Milquetoasts of American Jewry
4120 Fenkell avenue.

Oak Tree Pleads for Man
as Atom Bomb Brings Ruin

Detroit this month was the scene of
deliberations which resulted in the adoption
of a budget for the National Jewish Welfare
Board (JWB) of $1,477,800. This is al-
most a million and a half dollars for ser-
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THE TREE SAID: "Give Thou
vice to Americans—in the Jewish Centers,
man another chance because
in the communities, in the armed forces and spoke back and its voice was like
the thunder when it is heard he knew what was right even if
veterans hospitals.
rolling over a mountainpeak: "Oh, he did otherwise."
Of course the Jews of Europe are in des- God, heed not the voice of this The oak tree hoped there was
perate+ need of every aid which we can ex- tree. This destruction is the ex- an amoeba left over in the wa-
tend. We follow the pattern which America act justice which Thou didst ters, and would God consider
itself has set; even as this country stands promise to the evil-doer, and who starting the human race all over
find fault?"
for the sake of man having
as a symbol of rescue in a world blighted may
The other mountain said: "Oh, known what was right, for the
by physical and intellectual hunger, so does what
peace is now upon the sake of the lovely 'children the
American Jewry remain the only anchor earth Inasmuch as man is no
tree had known under its
to which the Jews of war-shattered lands longer on it."
branches.
can fasten their hopes for aid.
But the tree said: "Forgive
God pondered upon this and
All the segments of the country have mankind who in Thy reckon- after k thousand years—which
ing
of
time
was
so
young—
embarked on programs for the buttressing
a creature born only yes- were like a day in His eye—the
of their resources in order tc be able to like
mountains could see a certain
terday—and hadn't yet learned
aid the unfortunate—the American Jewish his lessons. Ile was like the amoeba taking new form. One
community can do no less. In a large children who used to play tin- mountain said to the other: "Can
measure the National Jewish Welfare der my branches. Ile made it be that God is giving man an-
chance, like the oak tree
Board is a Major force in the building of good lessons for himself by other
said to Him?"
an American Jewish community which will which to live but he never
I don't know what the answer
have the strength to fulfill its duties to its learned them. Forgive Thou
him for having thought up his is, for millions of years must pass
brothers overseas.
good lessons which show for the full development
In JWB's service to Centers, to isolated there's some hope in him." amoeba to man. Anyway, of it
and rural communities without centers, for The oak tree recalled some of seems to me, that time's running
Jews in the armed forces and in veterans the lessons man had written in out and mankind should hurry
hospitals, the organization acts as a catalyst his books—the Old Testament to begin learning and practicing
lessons, the sum of which
to weld together the members of the Ameri- and the New: "Thou shalt not his
hate thy brother in thine heart. is all in 22 words of our own
can Jewish community.
. . . Thou shalt love thy neigh- Scriptures: "What doth the Lord
When we realize the potential for ser- bor as thyself. . . Have we not require of thee but to do justly
vice which this community represents— all one Father? Hath not one and to love mercy and to walk
when we realize that this potential is being God created us? . . . What doth humbly with thy God?"
used to save Jewish lives abroad—we know the Lord require of thee but to Otherwise the prophecy of this
justly and to love mercy and piece will be fulfilled and there
that any program in the service of the do
to walk humbly with thy God? will stand only the mountains
community is far from being an expensive . . . All things whatsoever ye and the tree and maybe the sur-
luxury. Rather, it is a very small insurance would that men do unto You, do viving tree will not speak to God
premium to guard the future of our people ye even so unto them; for this is in man's behalf. There may not
the law and prophets."
be another chance.
everywhere.

