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Israel Rebuilds Railroads;
Arabs Ask to be Defended

Editorial

Round-Up of Latest Middle East Developments Based on
Direct. JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News

Let There Be Unity for Peace

Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion must be
credited with a great act of statesmanship, coupled with
restraint, in his and his Cabinet's decision to withdraw
their country's troops from the captured Sinai Peninsula.
It was a tragic decision for the Israelis. Edward Mur-
row, broadcasting from Israel, compared the sad mood
that existed there last Thursday to that of Czechoslovakia
when the Czechs were sacrificed to the Nazis, with the
ultimate result that that country was transformed into a
Soviet satellite.
Israel faced a serious situation. The Jewish State was
in danger of destruction and her people were confronted
with the threat of extermination.' To prevent the plan of
doom, at the hands of the combined Arab states, the
Israelis fought another battle for freedom. They won
the second round and drove the Egyptians out of the
area bordering on Israel, destroying the fedayeen posts
out of which the murderous invaders had operated in the
destruction of Israeli lives and properties.
Then came the challenge from the United States
and the United Nations. Israel yielded and ceased fire.
She balked at withdrawal of troops, and finally yielded
on that score, too.
There were good reasons for Israel's yielding to inter-
national pressure.
Four daggers were pointed at Israel's . head, throat
and heart:
1. • There was the danger of an imposition of sanc-
tions upon her by the United Nations: it could also have
meant Israel's expulsion from the international organi-
zazation. Israel, the only democracy in that entire area
Turkey alone also having earned the democratic title in
the Middle East—could not afford that.
2. President Eisenhower and the U. S. representa-
fives at the United Nations took the lead in demanding
the withdrawal of Israel's troops. Our Government's
threats were ominous. The panic-arousing statements
by commentators, that this country was prepared to put
an end to fund-raising by the United Jewish Appeal and
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Feverish construction activities this week marked Israel's rebuilding of the de-
stroyed area in the southern portion of the country, in preparation for renewed nor-
mal living and in expectation of an eventual peace.
JTA reports from Tel Aviv that the first train to Gaza reached the former strip
capital Tuesday. The repair along several kilometers of the line continued daily and
nightly,, with many local Arabs participating in the work. The first train approached
Gaza Monday and on Tuesday the line from Haifa to El Arish was in operation.
At the same time, Israeli railroad workers repaired the railroad running from
Haifa, Israel, to Kantara, Egypt—on the road to the Suez Canal. The railroad was
knocked out of commission during the 1948 War of Liberation. (See photo on Page 32).
These activities took place while the whole world was in jitters over un-
confirmed reports of Russian plans to, invade the Middle East with a volun-
teer Communist military force, which was purportedly being headed off by
the UN international truce force that started landing in Port Said on
Wednesday night.

JTA reports from Tel Aviv that the El Arish population is in fear of refugee-
riots when the Israelis leave. This was stated Monday by El Arish inhabitants who

begged the Israelis not to leave a vacuum if they are forced to leave the Sinai Pen-
insula but to hand over the regime to a strong administration. Otherwise, they said

4,000 refugees in El Arish would riot and would massacre the local inhabitants.
El Arish, which has one industry—a Coca Cola factory—is returning to normal life,

with food stores brought in by Israelis for both refugees and permanent residents.
The Israelis also opened a cline, .since local physicians and other free professionals
fled with the retreating Egyptians.
In London, the Daily Telegraph reported that among personal possessions of some
Egyptian officers captured by Israeli troops at Gaza were translation into Arabic of
Hitler's "Mein Kampf." The report adds it is understood some of the equipment cap-
tured at Gaza was recognizable as U.S. Lend-Lease material originally sent to Russia.
The Paris newspaper LeMonde reported that all Jewish homes in Port Said were
burned down by Egyptians and most Jewish-owned stores were pillaged. The Egyp-
tians, the report says, were led to believe that the attack on the port city was carried
out not by British paratroopers but by the Israel army.
Beirut radio reported this week that more than 500 Jews were arrested in Cairo
and its suburbs and sent by Egyptian authorities to concentration camps. The World
Jewish Congress information department quotes this report as stating that the arrested
Jews were said to be "well known for their Zionist sympathies." There are 30,000
Jews . in Egypt. Of Israel's other Arab neighbors, 9,000 Jews are in Iraq, 6,000 in Le-
banon and 2,800 in Syria.
It is reported from Jerusalem that Syrian army units were seen Monday patrolling
the walls of the Old City in Jordan-held Jerusalem. The bulk. of Syrian troops which
have poured into Jordan in the last two weeks are garrisoned at Nablus.
(Related stories o..Pages 5, 22 and 31)

Casablanca Jews Seek 'Amity'
Attack Israel, British, French]

A Dove and a Gun:

An Israeli woman soldier holds a dove and a gun,
a rest during the drive across the Sinai

as symbols of peace and security, as she takes

Peninsula to the Suez Canal.

—Internation Soundphoto

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
CASABLANCA—Si Ahmed Bargach, Governor of the city
of Casablanca, reaffirmed on Tuesday his feelings of friendship
toward Moroccan Jews and underlined his belief that they were
part of the general Moroccan population sharing both its joys
and its sorrows.
The occasion for his statement was a visit from a delegation
of the Jewish community whose members told the Governor
that Moroccan Jewry was behind Sultan Mohammed V in his
condemnation of British-French-Israeli "aggression of which
Egypt was a victim."
The delegation asked that the circumstances of the Egyptian
action "should never be allowed to interfere with good relations
which have always prevailed between Moslem and Jew in
Morocco, nor should it affect their attachment to his Majesty."
Meanwhile the Casablanca Committee of the Joint Jewish-
Moslem Association — El Wifah — issued a statement censuring
"aggression carried out by the British, Israeli and French gov-
ernments against the Egyptian nation." This "desperate en-
deavor by Imperialist countries cannot but reinforce the deter-
mination of Moroccans as well as all men of goodwill throughout
the world to support the struggle against colonialism," the
committee said, and called on Moroccans of all faiths to remem-
ber it as their duty to remain united as brothers."
(In a statement endorsing "President Eisenhower's cour-
ageous declaration that 'One Law' must be applicable to all
nations," the anti-Israel, anti-Zionist American Council for
Judaism, referring to Ben-Gurion's assertion that the entire
Jewish people has a love and admiration for the Israeli fighters,
declared that "it calls for a disclaimer by the Council and by
all those American Jews who disassociate themselves from the
Israeli Zionist axis." The statement was released to 4he
press in behalf of the national anti-Israel movement by Dr.
Joseph L. Forbes of Detroit and Norman Buckner of Pontiac.)