A Guarantee for Israel

An Editorial irt.
The Washington Post
More meaningful than the arms
which the United States may
supply to Israel would be a
Western security pact specifically
guaranteeing the Israeli fron-
tiers. The United States is going
to have to make a choice soon
between merely abetting the
arms race spurred by Com-
munist shipments to Egypt or
attempting by broader measures
to prevent the spread of the
border clashes into a new war.
This latter objective can best
be promoted, this newspaper be-
lieves, by offering Israel a
treaty protecting her against in-
vasion and at the same time
offering to the Arab states in-
tensified economic development
help and a guarantee against
aggression by Israel.
There are numerous moral and
geopolitical reasons why the
West, and the United States in
particular, cannot permit Israel
to fall victim to a campaign to
drive her into the sea. This
country was a party to the United
Nations resolution in 1947 calling
for the partition of Palestine;
it was a midwife at the birth of
the new state. Whether or not
this was a just solution in the
conflict between Arab interests
and the demand for a Jewish
homeland, it was the only prac-
ticable solution at the time. The
partition is a fact which cannot
be undone. Israel has been recog-
nized as a member of the family
of nations. The United States,
Britain and France in 1950 com-
mitted themselves to uphold the
armistice lines established after
the 1948 war was undertaken by
the Arab states.
Beyond this there is, of course,
the consideration that Israel is a
thriving young state practicing
representative principles. She has
enabled a large number of the
world's homeless to find refuge
In freedom. Furthermore, Israel
has continually offered to make
a durable peace with her Arab
neighbors; it is they who have
resisted.
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In so tense a situation as has
'existed between Israel and the
Arab states the right and wrong
of individual situations inevitably
has become blurred. The treat-
ment of the Arab refugees who
were ousted from their homes in
Palestine has been a stain on the
Israeli—and world—conscience.
Arab states which are still in
:_varying stages of feudalism have
been both fearful and envious of
the industrial economy being
built in Israel, in part with dol-
lars raised privately in the

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United States; and they have
looked with misgivings on the
deep emotional attachment of
some Americans to Israel. In
several of the recent border
clashes Israel seems to have been
the aggressor, and there has been
some irresponsible and unrealis-
tic talk of preventive war. How
much of this is due to the belief
of the new Premier, David Ben-
Gurion, that a tough eye-for-an-
eye policy is the only way to
deal with the Arab states is any-
one's guess.
But Israel's actions and atti-
tude must be examined in the
perspective of the long run of
provocations to which she has
been subjected, of which the arms
shipments to the Arab states by
the Soviet bloc are only the most
recent. The root cause of the
trouble is the refusal of the Arab
states to accept the existence of
Israel. Officials in Egypt and the
other countries that fought Israel
have never renounced their in-
tention of extirpating the new
state by force; in fact, they have
repeatedly reaffirmed it. Egypt
has maintained a blockade against
Israeli shipping through the
Suez Canal in defiance of inter-
national law. She has bottled up
the only Israel Red Sea port on
the Gulf of Aquaba despite
promises not to interfere.
In the face of these provoca-
tions some defensive neurosis in
Israel is understandable. Israel
sees herself a nation of only
1,600,000 people, surrounded by
411/2 million Arabs whose leaders
continually proclaim their hos-
tility. Actually there is reason
to think that in terms of equip-
ment and training Israel's de-
fense forces today are at least
equal, if not superior, to those
of her neighbors. But this condi-
tion will not hold, of course, if
the Soviet Union goes through
with the reported plan to furnish
Egypt 100 Mig-15 jet fighter
planes and other equipment.
Some additional arms from the
United States and other Western
countries may well be necessary
to help Israel protect herself,
though this need not mean
matching every plane and tank.
A balance of arms, however,
is at best a defensive measure;
it is not a solution. Secretary
Dulles' constructive proposal in
August, envisaging security guar-
antees, economic help to the
Arab states and aid to Israel in
reimbursing the Arab refugees,
got a chilly reception, perhaps
because it came too late. Some-
thing along these lines, however,
still offers the best hope of an
acceptable compromise.
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Certainly there can be no
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Friday, December 30, 1955
take the territorial integrity of

Israel as a base. If Israel's status
is once accepted, however, there
is much that the United States
can do to reassure Israel's neigh-
bors. As the- counterpart for a
security guarantee to Israel, it
can offer a similar guarantee to
the Arab states; certainly the
talk of preventive war ought to
be slapped down. This country
can link itself with the northern
tier of Moslem countries by itself
joining the Baghdad security pact.

Furthermore, this country can
reassert its fundamental friend-
ship for the Arab states and its
interest in helping them to de-
velop themselves economically.
American efforts in this respect
have been wholly inadequate.
These countries are of course of
enormous strategic and commer-
cial importance because of their
oil resources, and the United
States could well afford to
broaden its assistance to them.
Such schemes as the Jordan
River development plan, on which
Eric Johnston has been working
so hard, could well receive
stronger emphasis as means of
alleviating the poverty that is
the common lot in the Middle
East. If the specter of aid from
the Soviet Union stimulates a
more vigorous policy of economic
help from this country, that will
be all to the good.

An Old Dream Comes True

Realizing a dream to "spend the rest of my days with my
family," Victor Schmidt, (center), 81-year-old Yugoslav farmer
who immigrated to the United States recently with the aid of
United Was Service, the Jewish international migration agency,
is greeted, as he arrives in Ntw York, by members of his family
whom he had not set eyes on for more than a decade. Rejoicing
in the minion are his daughter, Mrs. Juliska Alkalay, (second
left), his two grandsons, Fred (second right) and Alexander
Hirschler, and Alexander's bride of three months, Alice, whom .
Mr. Schmidt had never met. Mrs. Alkalay, who immigrated to
the United States with her two sons with United Hias aid in
1949, lives in New York, and her venerable father will make his
home with her.

It is obvious that in a larger
sense the Middle East has be-
come a new battleground of the
cold war. Russia is using the
tensions in the area to push her
interests southward. The Soviet
effort to secure a stake in the
Middle East by offering surplus
arms is plain enough, and in all
probability Russia would like
nothing better than to become a
party to a guarantee that would
confirm her interest in the area.
When Mordecai Kidron, Israel's t stands, like hot dogs in the U.S.
That would be playing with fire deputy representative to the UN,
Her _ e are Mrs. Kidron's recipes:
in a way that the Arab countries was asked by the editors of Good
FALAFEL
themselves would soon have Housekeeping Magazine recently
For this favorite snack, I use
cause to regret. On that account
about the foods
3 cubed day-old bread slices.
of Israel, he
it would be important to keep
I cover cubed bread slices with:
stated that his
any guarantee to Israel or the
Milk
favorite foods
Arab states out of the United
And let them soak. In a large
were Greek bowl, I mash very well:
Nations Security Council, where
moussaka,
Ger-
the Soviet veto operates. The
1 No. 303 can chick peas,
man sauerbrat-
best way would be for the
Then I add:
en, Polish stew-
United States, Britain and France
teasp. black pepper
ed chicken and
jointly to offer security pacts to
Dash cayenne
Indian chapati.
Israel and her neighbors; and,
1 /4 cup snipped parsley
This answer
barring that, for the United
1 tablsp. snipped dill
served to em-
States itself to undertake a guar-
1 crushed clove garlic
phasize the in-
3 /2 teasp. salt
antee.
t e r national
2 tablesp. all-purpose flour
Such a guarantee would not
flavor of Israel
1 /2 pimento, diced
resolve the larger questions which
M. Kidron
and her people,
Using my hands, I squeeze as
the Soviet penetration raises. But but didn't answer the question much milk from bread as pos-
it would approach the most im- of finding distinctive Israeli sible, then mix bread well with
mediate problem, which is the dishes.
pea mixture. Now, in skillet, I
Mrs. Kidron saved the situation heat:
fear of an Arab-Israel war. The
when
she
described
two
delight-
most constructive contribution the
2" melted fat or salad oil
United States can make, while ful and truly distinctive Israeli to 360' F. on deep fat frying ther-
stressing its wish to befriend and dishes. According to the Good mometer, or until square of day-
aid both Israel and her Arab Housekeeping article, when the old bread browns in 60 sec.; into
neighbors, is to let it be emphat- cooks of Israel were faced with fat, I drop pea mixture in round-
ically understood that no aggres- a shortage, or lack of staples, ed tablespoonfuls—only as many
sion from either side will be per- like meat and wheat, they invent. as will float easily at one time.
ed dishes out of whatever was I fry them 2 to 3 min., or until
mitted to succeed.
available.
golden and done. If desired, I
Two of these improvisions are serve them between split, toasted
Falafel and Honey-Fig Float. English muffins. Makes 12.
Falafel, Mrs. Kidron states, is
HONEY-FIG FLOAT
so popular, that it is sold at street
For this delicious drink, I com-
bine:
Israel-Bolivia Trade Pact
1 qt. well-chilled milk
Pending Formal Agreement
6 tablesp. honey
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — A
1 No. 303 can figs, crushed
trade agreement will soon be
teasp. almond extract
signed between Bolivia and Israel,
1 pt. soft vanilla ice cream.
it was reported by Tuvia Arazi,
With electric mixer, or with an
counsellor of the Israeli legation egg beater, I beat mixture until
here, who returned from a three- well blended. Then I pour it into
week stay in Bolivia where he 6 tall glasses, and garnish each
laid the groundwork for the trade with:
pact. •
1 scoop vanila ice cream.

Popular Falafel and Delicious Honey-Fig Float
Are 'Distinctive' Israeli Recipes of Today

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