Purely Commentary:
A Very Sad Alliance at the UN
We are saddened by the company our Government keeps
at the United Nations.
In the pursuit of an anti-Israel policy, our Chief UN Dele-
gate, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., has made a partnership with the
Arab and Soviet blocs.
We are fighting Communism, but the Soviets are a kosher
product in the process of gathering forces against Israel.
All this has been done at a time when foreign diplomats
have had the audacity to interfere in internal American affairs.
For, example, the Syrian UN delegate, Farid Zeineddine, has
been abusing American Jews.
Last week, the Iraqi UN delegate Fadhel al Jamali, spouted
this type of hatred: "To Mrs. Golda Meir I would say: Learn to
live in. peace with the Arabs in the Middle East, or pack your
bags and go back to Milwaukee — and Mr. Eban can go back
either to South Africa or England, as he likes."
That's the kind of talk that accompanies support for Mr.
Lodge's anti-Israel resolutions — and we are supposed to retain
respect for the UN and the unholy alliances within it in the face
of such indignities!
Suppose, however, for argument's sake, we dignified the
ungentlemanly gutter language of the Iraqi and Syrians and
the Egyptians and the Russians. (The Iraqi also spoke of "their
internationale," referring to Israel. Can you imagine a better
"internationale" than theirs with the Kremlin's? And to our
disgrace, we, of the U.S., are now in it).
Well, then, let us say that Golda Meir and Abba Eban are
in the sidelines, and Israelis must fight their battle with new
leaders at the UN. We would then bring silent witnesses to
speak for the small, harrassed state. We would present the 70,000
'Yemenite Jews who are now in Israel and who were forced to
find a home in their ancient homeland to avoid being condemned
to second class citizenship. We would offer as evidence tens of
thousands of Jews who, in spite of dating their residences in
those countries for two thousand years — perhaps longer than
the present enemies of Israel — were compelled to escape, to
Israel, from Iraq, Syria, other Moslem areas in Asia and North
Africa — and now from Egypt!
And our great country is being enlisted as a subscriber to
policies of the world's worst bigots, while remaining indifferent
to Israel's need for protection and defense! That is why Israel
resorts to the only weapon at hand: self-defense!
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The Inconsistency of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
In order to protect the basic idealism of our great land, it
is in order that the inconsistency of our UN delegate, Henry
Cabot Lodge, Jr., should be exposed to the light of day.
Two more resolutions were adopted last Saturday night by
the United Nations. One of them, which drew negative votes
from Israel and France, again called upon Israel to get out of
occupied territories held by the Jewish State in self-defense.
The Arabs and the Soviet bloc voted for it.
Then came the action on the second resolution, which called
fot the stationing of UN observers in the Gulf of Aqaba, to
prevent new clashes between Israel and Egypt. The Arabs and
the Communists did not vote for this resolution. Yet Israel is
expected to go along on any move made in the UN—even when
it fails to receive the endorsement of those who" seek to strangle
her!
Is it, or isn't it, hypocrisy?
Wherein lies consistency in your actions, Mr. Lodge?
Unless there is an absolute guarantee that freedom Of the
seas will not -be denied to Israel, that there will be an end to
genocide on the part of both the Soviets and the Moslems, Israel
must remain in the territories she now-holds. Any other move
would spell suicide, and we doubt whether Mr. Lodge would
subscribe to that. Israel and her kinsmen throughout the world
certainly do not.
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Israel Doesn't Stand Alone
The lone French vote in Israel's behalf, at the UN, is not
representative of all the sympathy that goes out to Israel in the
present crisis.
Britain's delegate voted in support of the demand for Israel's
withdrawal, but the British press, and many statesmen in Eng-
land, are publicly saying to Israel: "Don't move, until you have
the guarantees that are due your people for their protection."
Similar sentiments are expressed in other lands. And in this
country, there are many men, even in Government, who tell
Israel privately to stand firm in its determination not to be
destroyed. And in our press:
You know what Brig. Gen. S. L. A. Marshall and W. K.
Kelsey have been saying in their columns in the Detroit News.
In the Christian Science Monitor we read:
"For years Egypt used the Gaza Strip as a nest for fedayeen
raiders against Israel. Zionists, not implausibly, recall the United
States' punitive expedition into Mexico against Francisco Villa
in 1911 as precedent for their October attack. Egypt also has
fired upon ships entering the Gulf of Aqaba, thereby adding to
its virtual blockade of Suez against Israeli shipping in contraven-
tion of a UN Council resolution of 1951.
"The UN rightly does not wish to appear to reward Israel
for an armed attack; but neither should it reward Egypt for
arrant invasion of the rights of a recognized neighbor nation.
If the UN allows Egypt to push it around the way Mussolini
flouted the League of Nations in Ethiopia, it will end up with
little honor and little influence.
"If the nations of the Asian-African bloc want the UN to
be a protector of the weak—as it was of Egypt in October—they
must uphold the authority Of the UN when it is defied by a
member of their own group. Those who seek the law's help
must help the law, and the law can stand only as it stands for
justice."
The Philadelphia Inquirer, pointing to the audacity of Gamal
Abdel Nasser, who consents to the sending of UN observation
forces only on his terms, always dependent on his approval,
asserted editorially:
"We believe that it is of the utmost importance that Nassar
should not be permitted to give orders to the UN police force;
that the United Nations, and not this blackmailing friend of the
Communists, shall determine where and how the UN troops are
to be employed ,and how long they shall remain.
"If the Hammarskjold trend of anything to make Nasser
happy continues, we may look for early dissolution of the UN
- force and a return to what Nasser badly wants, the status quo
prior to the invasion of Egypt; a status quo clearly favoring him
in resumption of his efforts to push Israel into the sea.
"Crucial decisions in this matter will have to be made soon.
A Sad UN Alliance • .. incon-
sistency of the U.S. Delegate
• 0 • Israel Gains Many Friends.
By Philip
Slomovitz
How the United Nations will make them, and how the voice
and influence of the United States will be exerted within the
UN may have tremendous consequences reaching far beyond the
Sinai Desert."
The strong stand taken by the New York Times is well
known. The Times stated editorially:
' "It is a great temptation, to which the Arab states and some
of their friends have succumbed, to ascribe trouble in the Middle
East to the introduction of the State of Israel. But we may sup-
pose that the State of Israel is there not so much because Theodor
Herzl and others conceived it and worked toward it as because
the drift of history made it inevitable. If it was Dr. Herzl who
conceived the idea some sixty years and more ago, it was Hitler
who stimulated it, and the destruction of the Turkish Empire,
followed by the weakening of the British and French domination,
that made it possible.
"At any rate the State of Israel, recognized as such by
President Truman within a few hours of its proclamation, ad-
mitted to the United Nations a year later and carrying a popula-
tion of nearly two million persons, is a fact. It cannot be wiped
out by any moral or physical force now in Bight. This being the
case, some way by which Israel and its Arab neighbors can get
along in peace must be worked out."
The day after the last action by the UN, the New York
Times editorial stated: "Neither Egypt nor Israel can defy
the UN. We cannot believe that Israel intends to do so. On
the record we .are not so sure of Egypt." That's the crux of
the problems: it is the refusal by Nasser and his Ambassador
• Fawzi to accept the UN force as a controlling force to prevent
further outbreaks that is causing most of the trouble.
We must return to a vital factor in our discussions. Only a
week ago, we accepted the viewpoint of the Rev. Dr. Edward
L. R. Elson, pastor of President Eisenhower's church, who said
in the inaugural invocation: "Correct what is wrong, confirm
what is right."
We offer it as a guide to Mr. Lodge and his associates at
the UN.' We hold them to be wrong, and we urge them to correct
the wrong and confirm the right. Perhaps this quotation from
the great Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes may
be of help to them:
"I think that in construing the Constitution we should re-
member that it is a frame of government for men of opposite
opinions and for the future, and therefore not hastily import
into it our own views, or unexpressed limitations derived merely
from the practice of the past."
If our Constitution can be a frame for people of opposing
opinions, so can the inadequacies of UN actions. What you have
done so far, gentlemen, has been wrong. Now is the time for all
good men to come to the aid of their country and to correct the
wrong, by confirming the right.
M. E. Oil Millions
SAUDI
ARABIA
EACH
. MEMOS
ONE MI ON DOLLARS IN
OIL ROYALTIES RECEIVE D
FOR EACH MONTH IN 1954
Behind much of the Middle
East strife and tension—vital-
ly affecting Israel — are oil
royalties and the supplies of
oil. This map shows where
more than a billion dollars
in oil royalties went in the
Middle East in 1956. More
than a third of that sum went
to King Saud of Saudi Arabia.
Valuable Study of Clinically- Oriented Child Placement
Recognizing that "the separa-
tion of child from parent is
perhaps the most tragic occur-
rence in a child's life," Miss
Glickman has utilized every
available means at clarifying
the problem. She classifies par-
ents, diagnoses intake difficul-
ties, describes types of place-
ment facilities and outlines
placement terminations.
She offers excellent advice on
work with families after place-
ment and reviews ways of mak-
ing contacts possible between
the child and his parents and
relatives after placements. There
also are valuable analyses of
activities with foster families.
Miss Glickman's book is a
NEW YORK (JTA) -- Com- splendid tertbook for social
bined Campaign for American work students, and it should be
Reform Judaism moved into the read and studied by active
second half of its 1956-57 na-
tionwide drive with the opening
of a special effort for the rais-
ing of an additional $1,000,000
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in cash to help its beneficiary
institutions meet a rising need
for religious guidance, trained
Mediterranean Sea
rabbis and skilled teachers. The
Campaign raises funds for the
activities of the Union of Am-
erican Hebrew Congregations
and the Hebrew Union College-
Port Said
Jewish Institute of Religion.
A. B. Polinsky - of Duluth,
Minn., general chairman of
Combined Campaign, announc-
ing the three-month special
cash drive, made known at the
same time that the current
Cairo
Suez
effort has raised $1,100,000
since its inception in mid-Sep-
E G Y P T
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Miss Glickman utilized actual
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Jews, Arabs Included
in UN Emergency Force
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Both
Jews and Arabs are serving in
the United Nations Emergency
Forces, it was reported here.
The Brazilian contingent, in
which most of the Jews and
Arabs serve, includes one Jew-
ish officer.
The Arab UNEF soldiers are
mostly Lebanese and Syrians
and speak Arabic fluently. A
huge percenti.ge of Moslems,
including the entire Indonesian
contingent, are of the Moslem
faith.
Vital Areas for Israel's Security
2nd Note Asks Extradition
of Anneke's Kidnaper
THE HAGUE, (JTA) — The
Netherlands government has ad-
dressed a second official note
tc the Brussels government ask-
ing the extradition of Mrs. Eliz-
abeth M. van Moorst for the kid-
napping of Anneke Beekman,
teen-age Jewish war orphan,
from Holland.
This information was given
the Dutch Parliament by Dr.
No Samkalden, Minister of
Justice. The police, he added,
are still seeking the child who
is believed to be in Belgium.
Tel. Aviv
Gaza
Gulf of
Aqaba
Strait of
Tiran
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SAUDI
ARABIA
RED SEA
These are the crucial areas in the Middle East over which
the United Nations wrangled for weeks in an effort to force
Israel out of strategic points: 1. The Gaza Strip, which Israel
is determined to keep free from terrorist activities; 2. Elath,
which the Israelis are determined to keep as a free port, with
untrammeled access by her own ships and the ships of all nations;
3. Gulf of Aqaba, which was previously bottled up by the Egyp-
tians; 4. Strait of Than, the vital point needed to protect the
freedom of the seas for Israel.