Editorial:
An Appeal for Fair Piety and Peace
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nations who surround them, won the battle for sovereignty and freedom
against superhuman odds.
Since that day, in 1948, when the battle was won by little-David
against his powerful Ishmaelite. cousins, the Israelis have been fighting
for the right to liVe. Who are these Israelis? There are 1,700,000 of them
today in that little state — a territory of 10,000 square miles facing,
enemies who occupy 3,000,000 square miles of undeveloped land.
Who, indeed, are these Israelis? Of the 1,700,000, 250,000 are Chris-
tians and Moslems, 600,000 of the Jewish population *ere in Israel when
the State was reborn on May • 14, 1948, and 850,000 came from lands of
oppression. These newcomers are the survivors from the -Nazi crema-
toria, they are the remnants of those who would not die and lived to
see an erid to Hitlerism and the beginning of their hopes- for freedom:
they are the ones who took the last stand, at:the final bastion of freedom,
in Eretz Israel, in the Biblical Land of Israel.
Of the 850,000 newcomers, 350,000 came from Arab countries.
Entire communities were evacuated by Israel to rescue them from the
threats of total extermination. Yemenite Jewry was transplanted into
Israel. Iraqi Jews came to Israel in hordes. They left their native lands,
where they had lived in harmony with their Arab cousins for many
centuries, where they labored and 'studied together, where they ad-
vanced' the sciences of medicine and mathematics together, where they
were like brothers. But politicians steppd in to-- destroy that friendship.
And these 350,009 people, many of them of great wealth, came to Israel
literally with only the shirts on their backs, having been compelled
to give up their homes, their businesses, all their possessions, some of
them having lost kinsmen in murderous assaults upon them.
This people seeks the right to live. in peace among its neighbOrs.
It has leaded and continues to plead for peace and harmony. The
nations o the world owed an obligation to the cause of peace: to demand
that Arabs meet with Jews to talk peace. The Arabs refused , and the
great powers remain blind and deaf to an explosive situation that in-
evitably had to erupt at some point. The eruption was inevitable because
Israel was constantly being invaded. Infiltrators kept on harrassing
Israelis, murdering their women and children, plundering their fields,
stealing their cattle. Some of ,the fedayeen — their suicide squads —
have mutilated the bodies of their Jewish victims. They have desecrated
sacred -soil.
Israel could not be silent. She pleaded for peace. She would have
welcomed action based on the Tripartite Declaration of 195.0 by the
United States,' Great Britain and France. But the .great powers were
silent!
Israel's acts now come as a result of a growing danger of attacks
upon her — by the armies of Egypt, Syria and Iraq, whose commanders
are vying for the right to get into Jordan. The fedayeen are continuing
to harrass Israelis. There is danger, and Israel seeks to destroy the in-
filtrators' and robbers' nests:
Why were President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles silent when
Israelis were attacked and their freedom endangered?
Why were the great powers silent, since/ Sept. 1, 1951, when the
United Nations Security Council called upon Egypt to terminate the
restrictions on the passage of Israeli ships through the Suez Canal, only
to refer to this order, under .compulsion, when their own freedoms on
the seas were endangered?
Where were the_great statesmen of the world during the past
Home for Aged Elects New Board
At the 50th annual meeting
of the board of directors of the
Jewish Home for Aged last Sun-
day, Edward Fleischman, chair-
man of the nominating commit-
tee, announced the re-election
of the following board mem-
bers:
Mrs. Benjamin Arkin, Harry
Bielfield, Herman Cohen, Dr.
Daniel E. Cohn, Arthur A.
Fleischman, George Goldberg,
Jack 0. Lefton; Milton K. Mah-
ler, Herman Radner, Alex Sklar,
Dr. Benjamin. D. Welling, Isi-
dore Winkelman, Lew Wisper
and Mrs. Samuel-Zeldes,
Elected to the board as new
members were Harry Barnett,
Jay Kogari, Daniel A. Laven and
Allen Schwartz.
Officers of the Home for Aged
will be ,elected by the board
after. its reorganization at the
latter part of November.
In his annual report, Gus D.
Newman, president, called at-
tention to `the constant con-
cern with the health, welfare
and happiness of the residents"
as required by the board and
staff ot the. Home for Aged.
William Avrunin, associate di-
rector of the Jewish Welfare
Federation, greeted the meeting
in the absence of Isidore Sobe-
loff who, at that time, was at-
tending meetings in Israel.
Appointed by University
AFIEltitK
•
ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland
(JTA) — Dr. Harvey Mitchell
has been named to the faculty
of the Memorial University of
Newfoundland in the Depart-
,anent of History.
eight years of intermittent warfare, when Israel pleaded for the chance
to sit with Arabs, to talk peace with them, to effect unity in the Middle
East?
They were silent when King Abdullah of Jordan was murdered
on July 20, 1951, by assassins whose motives were to prevent a Jordan-
Israel peace. They were silent when a peaceful assembly of Jewish
scientists was shot upon and some of the world's greatest scholars were
murdered. They were silent — as they`'were in the days when the Nazis
were exterminating Jews—when Arabs spoke, as they continue to speak,
of exterminating Jews. But they are loquacious when Israel defends
herself. They are pouncing on a small people of 1,700,000, whose army
seeks to protect the small country, whose people are crying out with the
Psalmist shall not die but live, to declare the works of the Lord" (Ps.
118.17), whose citizens say: "We. have defied the concentration camps,
we have survived the crematoria; we have withstood Andignities and
sought freedom. We have found our independence in an environment
where we can worship freely, where we can choose our professions,
where we can till the soil, without hindrance, where the stigma of
, Wandering Jew can no longer be applied to us. We cherish this ,freedom
and we shall neve-r abandon it for slavery."
Those. who have escaped from Moslem countries of oppiession
have another declaration to make — also of liberty.
Surely, Americans who 'are steeped in a tradition of liberty and
justice, similar to Israel's will ktiow how to respect and admire the
position of a people battling for the right to live, pleading for fair play,
striving for justice for themselves that should lead also to justice for
those who seek to destroy them.
There still is time-to acquire peace in the Middle East. But it can
not be attained by the type of hypocrisy that marked the Suez Canal
fiasco in which Israel's rights were ignored for so many years. It can
not be won by a double standard of morality of invoking sanctions
against Israel while the oil-soaked lands of the Arabs are being appeased
by unwise statesmanship.
This is the time to act — not by penalizing little Israel and by
further endangering her position, but by saying to the Arab politicians:
we must have peace in the world and you must sit down with Israel
Israel that is a fact and is here to say — and make such a peace possible.
Will our President and our Secretary of State say this to the
Arabs, or will they continue to play the role of blind mice, of statesmen
without a policy, of world leaders who know not how to lead?
This is the showdown.
We pray for Israel's safety. *We pray that the statesmen of the
world should be granted the wisdom of knowing how to act to avert
another world bloodbath. We pray that Israel's independence should be
guaranteed, just -as this peoples Return was foretold in Prophecy.
, We appeal to Israel's kinsmen not to be panicky in an hour of
need. The sense of fair play of the American people, the faith in Prophecy
of informed Christians, the loyalty of kinsmen to kinsmen, must come
to the aid of the embattled nation. And the craving for peace for all
mankind must be transformed into action so that amity should be re-
stored in the world.
Instead of speaking of sanctions — sanctions that can only destroy
Israel — we appeal to our administration to adopt a policy of realism
and of wisdom, of firmness and of justice. Talk to the Arab s on that
basis, get the factions together, at a peace table, away from the 'battle-
fields, andlhen we shall have peace for all mankind.
_
UN Official Gets Immunity; Killed Israeli in Accident
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Israeli old boy in a traffic accident.
authorities have released Max-
M..Cailleaux was released fol-
Me Cailleaux, Belgian security lowing receipt of assurances
officer attached to the United from Maj. Gen. ELM Burns, UN
Nations - Trace Supervision Or- truce chief that he would be
ganization here, who was ar- available in the, event the
rested after he killed a 14 year Israelis decided to try, him. Gen-
Burns had claimed diplomatic
immunity for the officer, but
the Israeli police are disputing
his claim, asserting that M.
Cailleaux was off duty and
driving a private car when he
hit the child.
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