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GEORGE
WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief
Vol. 50, No. 37
Friday, October I,
1948 (Ellul 27, 5708)
DETROIT 26, MICH.

Welcome, Glorious 5709!
proposal that the Negev be torn away from
The New Year 5709 holds much promise the Jewish area and allotted to the Arabs
for Jewry everywhere. It has been a long in exchange for western Galilee.
and dreary time since one could have en-
At first glance, the plan might seem fair
visioned so much good for Jews on the enough. The Negev is a barren, unprom-
advent of a New Year.
ising desert and Galilee is fairly fruitful.
The approach of the year 5708 held out By the consolidation of the two halves of
the thrilling prospect, that a Jewish State Galilee under the Israeli flag, there would
would be promulgated for the first time be created a more homogeneous territory
since the destruction of the Second Temple. for the Jewish State with a reduction of
That hope, that desperately prayed for corridors and their portents of trouble.
event was realized through the intrepidity
But the Negev is the larger portion of
and determination of the men and women the State as outlined in the partition plan
of the Yishuv with the moral and financial of November. Excising it from Israel
support of the Jews of Ameica and te would make the tiny land a minuscule State
few other lands where there r still existeh
not much larger than a couple of Michigan
d counties.
influential Jewish communities,
We need not go into detail on how firmly
The phychological reaction would be dis-
the new Jewish State is anchored in the astrous. The country would be so tiny, it
bloodied soil of the Holy Land. It is not a would be an international joke, and much
mighty State nor a magnificent one. But of the pride of world Jewry in the new resiontramennommililowimmiumurrontrniii iiialinownwommuhimn
ium mli .,, neri
the world had better reconcile itself to it, Jewish State would wither away.
if it has different ideas, the Jewish State
The loss of the Negev would, in addition,
of Israel is as certain a reality as was the reduce Israel's ran acrty to absorb ne
NV irn-
migrants
and
United States after the Constitution.
, as Dr. Silver pointed out Atitiketsitnimailiiiimismitiimori BY SeYm0 u r Trlchin
I
If blood and fortune will again have to in his prot es t to the P • •
AS WE
W
ent,
conden
PREDICTED
in
our
be dissipated to affirm this, it will be done the area "to continuingsterility" .becaumse
(1) How is Bernadotte's plan
f ront page article last week,
so with courage and resolve.
only the Jews are ready to undertake the Britain is supporting the Berna- better than the partition plan t,f
Not the Arabs, not Bevin, not the ad- area's development.
dotte report and is shedding the 11-nation commission which
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verse effects of the Bernadotte slaying, not
crocodile tears over his death. came out with the original pro-
even the UN will succeed in undermining i As for the proposal that Jerusalem be Listen to hypocrite Bevin speak: posal and which had a bettek
the new State. Let the pride and the nternationalized, it should again b pointed
"The successful establishment opportunity to investigate
n ad'.
to a more careful decis
dogged resolution that the New Year will out that an Israel without Jerusalem would 0 f the truce was due in large come
ion?
(2)
art to the devotion and cour.
Why is it that Britain,
enhance be a fore-warning to those who be like the United States without New a p ge
which consistently claimed that
plan otherwise.
of
Bernadotte,
whose
tragic
England, a nation with its heart cut out. d
eath will cast its shadow over it Would not approve of any plan
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It should also be remembered that if not 0 ur
discussion of Palestine at unless Jews and Arabs agree, is
The glorious New Year 5709, then, gives for the heroic defense of the Israeli army, he present session of the assem- suddenly willing to impose the
Bernadotte plan if the two peo-
to Israel a promise of peace; the chance the Holy City and its 90,000 Jews would b ly.
today be in Arab hands in titter derogation
to prove to the world that the Middle East of
"Nobody was in a better po- ples don't agree?
UN decisions.
Si tion than Bernadotte to esti-
(3) It was only on the basis
can nurture a stable State that is not a
of
justice and human rights that
ate
tile
kind
of
settlement
Haifa must remain an integral part of w
dictatorship like Syria; nor an oligarcy, like
was suggested original.
Egypt; nor disease-infested, like Iraq; nor Israel and not shared with the Arabs as p€ hich could give the best pros- partition
cts of stable, peaceful condi- y. Palestinian Arabs, it was
suggested
by
the
Bernadotte
plan.
There
despotic, like Saudi Arabia; nor backward
tio ns in Palestine."
!aimed, must not be deprived
and impoverished like all the Arab states. are too many islands of foreign influence I was Particularly impressed 0 f their right to
self-rietermina-
in
the
Jewish
State
as
it
is.
t
Rather will the teachings of the prop h ets
th the remark made by Bevin ion. Why are the nations now
► illing to give
th
w
As
for
Lydda
and
Ramie,
these
two
be the foundation of the new Israe,1 and
at it was fortunate that Bern--
the Palestinian
there will be liberty, justice and righteous- towns control the main route to Jerusalem do tte had completed his report T A rabs away 1o , kbdtilNli and
be fore his death. Was the death
ransjordan?
ness as in our own happy land. Indeed, from Tel Aviv and their return to the pia
nned, too, Mr. Bevin?
If the Palestinian Arabs' rights
would end the territorial link between
whet a mighty blessing Israel will prove Arabs
a
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the two Jewish cities.
re going to be given over to
itself to be in its corner of the globe.
so
w ORLD COMEDY
me foreign power, then cer-
Lift up your voices in opposition to the
to
To the rest of Jewry, the year 5709 will
inly the Jews have a prior
bring new dignity and pride; it brings infamous Bernadotte proposals. Send a irri P ARDON ME if I am a little ri ght to all of Palestine over
tated at world hypocrisy.
It bdullah's.
Jews everywhere roots to point to as can wire or a card to the President at once,
The
hist oric trend of Palestine
(4) Bernadotte suggested the
all other men, a living spot on the map
parti-
tion confuses me.
do ing away
with economic
whence came the teachings that taught
I am beginning to wonder if io n.
Is
mankind to seek God, rather than some
the UN and the powers inclivid- kit Is it because they couldn't
1 the Jewish State or are un-
uall
legendary place veiled by the gossamer
y are not going to succeed ab
in c onvincing the common man att le to starve it? Will they now
memoriel •of Sunday School days.
empt to let it die from thirst?
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I have many other questions to
the words spoken supposed-
5709—A Year of Opportunity
ly
ask
for the ears of the world
, but what's the use?
To the Displaced Persons of Europe,
are so much humbug.
The Shofar sounds this year with a
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there is renewed promise that thousands
Th e UN might succeed
new
one WR ONG 'IMPRESSION
will find new homes in Israel and that even dignity and solemnity. For Rosh Hasho nah thin g, if nothing else—to in con-
a handful will receive a welcome in the of the year 5709 marks the first New Y ear vine e mankind that the pious A MISTAKEN impression
U.S. ,
is
in almost 20 centuries that dawns on
giv
word
s spoken about humanity in en from Bernadotte's report
independent Jewish State in the Land an and rights
For Americans, there are the first real Israel.
that
the
newspapers
say
and
justice
are
a
far-
of cial
he
rec
signs that bigotry and discrimination have
comedy bearing no signifi- nize ommends that Israel be recog-
d.
cance
Throughout
the
world,
American
fu
begun their inevitable decline and that the
nds deeds to actual motives and B ernadotte did not
existing behind the scenes. it.
munificent opportunities that are afforded raised through the $250,")0.000 campa ign
recommend
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What he said was that a
to all Americans will some day not be of the United Jewish Appeal are help ing SOM
Jew
E QUESTIONS
ish State exists. Consequent-
to realize the promise that the corning y
withheld because of color or creed..
ear CA N YOU
the nations can do nothing
To all men, Israel wishes peace, joy and brings to the Jewish people. In every la ml these questions? answer some of abou t it except whittle it down
where
Jews
seek
to
build
a
better
futu
and
contentment as the New Year -approaches.
then choke it.
re,
For itself, it asks only the same blessings. the fruition of their hopes and dreams de-
May the Almighty grant them to His pends in great measure on the steady fl ow
of assistance from the Jewish people
children everywhere.
America.
of
It is no trifling contribution that we
The Bernadotte Plan
America can make in this New Year to tt in
One is forced to lose all faith in the destiny of our people. We can bring reali 1 C Harry Cohen, chairman of the
pledges of the Truman administration on to the dream that has sustained the Jewis ty Balfour Ball. committee, has ap- C ohen was referring to the
Palestine in view of Secretary Marshall's people through the years of persecution an h pointed Dr. Philip E. Lachman projects which the ZOA has un-
precipitous haste in indorsing Count Berna- homelessness. We can bring fulfillment t d program chairman of the ball. dertaken. Included among these
dotte's r
are the far-reaching educational
ecommendations in their entirety. the hope that has given Jewish heroes th 0 This major Zionist event is program
calling for such devel-
for Nov. 13 at the Ho-
Full acceptance without much study of courage to endure oppression and martyr e scheduled
tel Statler.
opments as a monthly digest
the report could have been expected from dom throughout the ages.
magazine of the best Israeli and
Dr. Lachman will be
Bevin, but such a move from the U.S. is
in charge Zionist writings, a Zionist theater
The coming year brings a unique oppor
amazing. Indeed, there is the suspicion tunity to us who have in large part bee of preparing the schedule of on a national scale and a ZOA-
that Bevin again reached Marshall's ear spared the suffering of our brethren. n events and entertainment to sponsored course at all major in-
make this year's ball the leading
as soon as the report was ready and sug- is our sacred mission, in this first year o I Zionist
stitutions of higher learning.
affair of the season.
In addition a $2,500,000 food
gested that he approve the plan so that Jewish independence, to assure that tru f
"The Zionist Organization of project for Israel has been estab-
he could immediately follow suit and claim inde pendence—physical and spiritual_shat
Detroit has decided to combine lished, after the Zionist Organi-
it was America's idea in the first place.
indeed be the lot of all Jews, wherever they the American Zionist Fund cam- zation of America took over
Bernadotte's proposals may be well- may live.
the
paign and the Balfour Ball this food campaign in an agreement
meant; but, from the Jewish view, they are
Through our sacrificial support of the year," Cohen said in announcing reached recently with Materials
the product of the type of mind that is $250,000,000 United Jewish Appeal we must the appointment. "Dr. Lach- for
Palestine.
in
full harmony with the devious thinking feed the hungry,
man's responsibilities will be
In
clothe the naked, and heal heavy inasmuch as the needs of and combining the Balfour Ball
of the British Colonial Office and thus, in the sick. We must
the American Zionist Fund,
seize the chance to
general, unacceptable to Israel.
bring new strengt} 1 to th
the Zionist Organization as out- the committee decided to have
There
lined in the recent administra- tickets in the following denomi-
something monstrous in the the despondent, courage e to weary, hope to tive
council meeting in
heart.
the sick at
New nations: Honorary Patrons, $100;
SEVEN ARTS FEATURE.
York for the coming period are Sustaining Patrons $50; Patrons
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