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Israeli Army Inflicts Losses
On Northern Arab Invaders

THE JEWISH NEWS-3

Friday, November 5, 1948

Enroute to Health

WASHINGTON, (JPS)—While

Great - Gains Made by Jewish State; Leaders Defy British
Attempt to Sever Southern Portion of State; Blue
and White Flag Adopted as State's Emblem

TEL AVIV. — Extensive gains
made by Israeli troops in the
southern Negev area and in Gali-
lee have heartened the people of
the Jewish State in their deter-
mination to prevent British
manuevers to sever the southern
area from the Jewish State and
to reduce Jewish territory to a
minimum.
The charges here are that
Great Britain is trying to use the
United States Security Council to
"manuever" her schemes to cut
off territory from Israel. But
Jewish leaders have reaffirmed
that the Negev will not be aban-
doned and that Israel will not
give up territory won at terrific
expense.

depicts a Menorah, Shofar,
Lulab and Ethrog.
It is announced that the Israel
elections were postponed to
Dec. 22.
Israeli forces occupied the Arab
town of Ishdud, north of Gaza in
the Negev region, at the request
of local Arab residents who ap-
peared before Jewish positions
under a white flag and asked the
Israelis to enter.

_ Israeli leaders charged that
Kawukji flouted not only UN
orders but also those of the Arab
state of Lebanon which demanded
that he should withdraw his
forces.

(The Security Council tempo-
rarily shelved the British-.
Chinese attempt to punish
Israel, at the insistence of
President Truman who was re-
ported to have. angered Secre-
tary of State Marshall with his
action. President Truman's
radio declaration in support of
a strong, self-supporting Jewish
State 'similarly angered many
people. On the other hand, Dr.
Abba Hillel Silver warmly com-
mended Governor Dewey for
his pro-Israel stand).
Prime Minister David ben
Gurioh of Israel called on the

Government of Egypt to abandon
its war against Israel, which bene-
fits only the common enemies of
both countries, and offered the
help of Israel toward the full
emancipation and development of
Egyptian independence.
Mr. Ben Gurion's peace bid to
the Egyptians came near the end
of an address before the Israeli
council of State in which he
reviewed in detail the events
which led up to the recent figh-
ting in the Negev and the rout
of the Egyptian Army by Israeli
forces. Mr. Ben Gurion sharply
criticized the UN administration
of the truce which, he charged,
was onesided against the Jews
and encouraged the flagrant
violations by the Egyptians and
other Arab invaders.
Mr. Ben Gurion recalled, how-
ever, that in the long history of
relations between the Jews and
the Egyptians, this was the first
time soldiers of Israel encircled
soldiers of Egypt. Throughout the
wars fought in ancient times with
various peoples of the East, the
Jews had fewer quarrels with the
Egyptians than with any other

nation.

Hebron Surrenders
One thousand new immigrants
arrived in , Haifa Oct. 29 aboard

the Israeli ship Apara.
United Nations observers re-
turning from Hebron reported
that Arabs in Hebron have
hoisted white flags and prepared
to surrender to the Jews who are
located only a few kilometers
from the town.

The Israeli State Council Mon-
day approved the proposed' flag
of Israel recommended by a
.Council sub-committee. The
suggested emblem is similar to
the present Zionist flag except
that the two blue stripes are
vertical rather than horizOntal
as they are at present. (This
action was predicted by the
editor of The Jewish News in
an article in the Rosh Hashanah
issue).
The Council rejected a rec-
"emmended state emblem on the
grounds that it does not repre-
sent Israeli symbols. The sub-
rommittee was asked to submit
a new seal which Would - be

General Lucius D. Clay, U.S.
Army. Commander in Germany,
defended his "take it easy" policy
in the treatment of German war
criminals, the Army gave a re-
stricted showing of several of-
ficial motion picture films depict-
ing the mass murdeis and atroci-
ties of the Nazi _concentration
camps. In the course of one of
the -films an' Army narrator stat-.
ed that Ilse Koch, Bucheriwald's
war criminal whose•life sentence
the Army has commuted to four
years, h a d made • lampshades
from human skin. -
An Army spokesman claimed
that the film in which Mrs. Koch
had been clearly implicated in the
human skin incident had been
made and used during the Nur-
emberg trials and that the nar-
hator had been influenced by the
evidence of Nazi depravity that
he had seen about him.
Both the State Department
and the Army' have signified to
committee staff members that
they have no objection to holding
open hearings on the Koch case.

simpler in appearance than the
one already proposed, which

Not only has Israel defeated
the Egyptain army, but Jewish
troops also have inflicted
smashing defeats upon the
forces of Fawzi el-Kawukji who
had refused to comply with
UN orders to withdraw from
northern heights. The northern
triumphs practically cleaned up
Arab aggresSion.

Army Shows Film
Of Nazi Murders

Report on Arrests in Iraq

PARIS (JTA)—United Nations
intervention was expected fol-
lowing the first detailed report,
confirmed by Arab sources, of
measures taken againSt Iraqi
Jews by the Baghdad Govern-
ment.
A detailed account from a
special correspondent at Baghdad
of El Ahram, the foremost
Arabic newspaper published at
Cairo, disclosed that the Iraq
Government launched a drive
against the wealthiest section of
Iraqi Jewry, which already net-
ted the Baghdad Government a
sum greater. than did all the
measures hitherto taken by the
Egyptian authorities to penalize.
the Jews in that country.
It is expected that when fur-
ther "trials" are instituted and
completed the Iraqi treasury will
have collected about 20,000 dinar,
or the equivalent of $80,000,000,
the correspondent estimated.

Bergson Liquidates U. S.
Hebrew Liberation Group

PARIS' (JTA)—Hillel Kook,
head of the Hebrew Committee
for National Liberation, known
in the 'United States as Peter
Bergson, and who is now in thiS
country winding up the affairs of
the committee will leave for New
York next week to close down
the American branch of the or-
ganization.
Kook, who made the announce-
ment at a press conference, said
that the "Hebrew people is
united against the Anglo-Arab
coalition." He asserted that "no
intelligent person in Palestine
believes that it is possible to
maintain the imaginary frontiers
of partition." Kook also reported
that there is a movement among
Palestine Arabs to smuggle them-
selves across the Arab lines to
Israel .because they prefer to live

there.

TEL AVIV (JTA) — The pro-
posed citizenship and naturaliza-
tion laws fo:- the state of Israel
Provide for automatic citizenship
for every person residing in the
Jewish state on the day that the
legislation is passed, Minister of
Justice Dr. Felix Rosenblueth re-
vealed at a press conference.
Residents of Israel holding citi-
zenship in other countries will be
able to become naturalized citi-
zens by declaring their readiness
to accept Israeli citizenship and
by renouncing their foreign al-
legiance, Dr. Rosenblueth stated.
Non-Jews living in Israel, and
those resident in areas which
may in the future be included
in the Jewish state, the. Israeli
minister said, are also eligible
for Israeli citizenship. Palestin-
ians living abroad who wish to
adopt Israeli citizenshp will be
able to do so - within 12 months
of the law's passage, he stated.

Everybody benefits when ev-
erybody gives to the Community
Chest.

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BY MODERN AGE STUDIOS

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A disabled Israeli veteran takes
his first steps on crutches at the
Hadassah Rehabilitation Center .
in Jerusalem. Later he will be
fitted with an artificial leg and
French Suggest No-Man's Land trained to use it.

Alexandre Parodi, French del-
egate to the Security Council,
expressed the French attitude,
the sense of which would be to
extract all the teeth from the
Anglo-Chinese resolution provi-
sion for sanctions. The French
want the Israelis to withdraw
from their new positions, but
they do not want the Egyptians
to return to their positions, now
lost to them. They envisage a
sort of no-man's land to be cre-
ated in the disputed area in the
Negev. Parodi also felt it would
be better to request the two par-
ties to withdraw troops rather
than issue an injunction.
Aubrey S. Eban, chief of the
Israeli mission, delivered a sharp
indictment of the British and
Chinese for making an exception
of Israel and for threatening the
use of sanctions when for a
period of four months the UN
had failed to deal with repeated
appeals by the late mediator
Count Folke Bernadotte that Is-
raeli convoys should be permit-
ted to pass freely to settlements
in the Negev.
The proposed Anglo-Chinese
resolution, he charged, was not
objective and did not provide for
penalties against Egypt for the
original truce violations, but was
directed only at the effect of
those violations. He also protest-
ed that it was unfair to isolate
the Negev situation from other
sectors of Palestine where t•e
truce was also being violated.'
He added that a neutral zone
in the Negev as proposed by
France, was not practical.

Proposed Israel Laws
Would Give Residents
Automatic Citizenship

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Ann Arbor Bnai Brith
Conducts SOS Drive

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The Ann Arbor Bnai Brith
lodge has contributed $300 in
cash for the SOS campaign, and
is distributing SOS bags for col-
lection of canned goods, Osias
Zerdling, Ann Arbor community
leader, reports.
The University of Michigan
Hillel Foundation at Ann Arbor
conducted an impressive program
Oct. 24 in honor of the silver
jubilee of the Hillel movement.
Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld, na-
tional Hillel director, delivered
the jubilee address.

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