Christian Scholar Claims
U. ✓ lifust Show the Way
To Peace in the Near East

By FRANK SIMONS

that of the Jews as well.
Using the parable of a man
who had driven his car a half
million miles with nary a scratch
until finally he was distracted
for five seconds and plunged
himself and four other people'
into a fatal accident, Dr. Parkes
stressed that "that is how God
made the world: we can't undo
the past."
Applying this statement to the
refugee problem, he said that
the Arabs must be made to
realize that what is done is
done, and that Israel will not
nor should not be expected to
acquiesce to demands to take
back the refugees or to surren-
der territory to accommodate
them.
Primarily it is the Arab re-
fugee problem that is ' the
main stumbling block to
peace, Dr. Parkes said. Cer-
tainly, if there was any feel-
ing of good will on the part of
the Arabs toward the refu-
gees, they would take them
back, and distribute them to
their own under - developed
and under-populated areas
where their brethren speak
the same language and have
an identical culture and re-
ligion.
Only one Arab landowner has
taken an interest in helping the
refugees, Dr. Parkes said; 95%
of the aid comes from the UN
or from voluntary Christian re-
lief. The longer the refugee re=
mains in idleness, he concluded,
the more difficult it will be to
try to get him back to his for-
mer mode of living.
Commenting on the proposed
internationalization of Jerusa-
lem, Dr. Parkes said that the
Jordan-Israel position of indi-
vidual state supervision of the
Holy Places is right "from a
Christian point of view."
In any other country, city,
building or room, there is a
host, or hosts, but in Jerusalem
there are three hosts, the Mos-
lems, the Jews and the Chris-
tians. Jerusalem is the meeting
place of all churches, and each
should have free access to the
Holy Places. Under UN or any
other international supervision,
Dr. Parkes emphasizes, this
would be impossible.

"The only solution to peace in
the Middle East is by the exer-
tion of pressure by the United
States — either through NATO,
Point Four aid or some other
feasible and forceful policy."
These are the studied words
of Dr. James W. Parkes, eminent
scholar, author and clergyman
of the Church of England, who
addressed a group of 150 minis-
ters comprising the Detroit
Council of Churches, at a special
meeting called by Rabbi Leon
"tam, at Temple Israel.
Dr. Parkes dismissed the Unit-
ed Nations as holding the key
to the problem, stating that all
the UN has been able to accom-
plish is "keep the ball from
rolling."
Dr. Parkes also said that he
was not; as an Englishman,
excusing British non-partici-
pation in peace efforts, but
r e a d i l y admitted that the
"British name is already
blackened in the turbulent
area."
Since the withdrawal of 15r.
Ralph Bunche as truce observer
in,. the Near East, the area has
been in a constant state of "sus-
pended animation," with UN of-
ficials first chastising Israel and
then Jordan, he said.
In answer to a question about
the seeming unfairness of the
UN's willingness to blame Israel
for Kibya and other incidents,
while ignoring to a much great-
er degree Arab-inspired border
incidents, Dr. Parkes felt that
the policy is creating serious ill-
feeling in Israel, justifiably so,
but he did not think that this
situation alone is critical.
Dr. Parkes traced "the mysti-
cal feeling of Jews for a na-
tional homeland" back to the
destruction of the Temple in
Jerusalem, stressing that four
times when Jewry was on the
brink of disaster, it was brought
back to spiritual rejuvenation
by the people of Palestine.
After the temple was de-
stroyed, Babylon became the
center of Jewish scholarship,
but this was wiped out by the
Turks, only to bloom again
in the 8th, 9th and 10th cen-
turies, in the Galilee, when
Jewish scholars dedicated
themselves to developing and
preserving the Talmud and
the Scriptures.
Following the wave of • anti-
Jewish feeling in medieval Eu-
rope, climaxed by the expulsion
of the Jews from Spain in the
15th century, again in the Gali-
lee, scholars were busy recodi-
lying Jewish laws to transmit to
the Diaspora.
The final phase, "the birth of
modern anti-Semitism," as Dr.
Parkes puts it, sent large num-
bers of Jews to the United States
and British dominions from Eu-
rope, but handfuls of people left
for the Holy Land, most
through the impetus of the
Zionist movement. •
When the killing of two-fifths
of the world's Jewish population
came about through the Nazi
regime, the Jews, again encour-
aged by the rising nationalism
which redounded from Israel,
responded, this time going in
numbers to the Holy Land.
"No Jew wanted Israel to
be reborn out of war—out of
people becoming homeless,"
Dr. Parkes said. "It was just
a matter of history taking
charge, with Arab nationalism
and European persecution pro-
viding the changing tempo in
the Near East.. Neither the
Jews nor the Arabs were to
bla'ine for the eventual strug-
gle,"
The rest of the story is famil-
iar to all Jews. When the UN
recognized I s r a e 1, the Arabs
went to war, expecting to drive
the Jews to the Mediterranean
in. three weeks. They urged Arab
landowners in Palestine to tem-
porarily abandon their property
and cross the borders, later to
return to gain their lands and

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Friday, April 9, 1954

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