tit Calm Iteigns Along Syriairi Border as Iron Curtain
Touches Israel: Situation Evaluated by Statesmen
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re Nasser Blamed for Latest Cris i s;
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Keeps IssueOut of UN
ammarsk
ti H ammarskjold
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kjold Wants Syrian
munist rule and that the ap-
parent resolution of the inter- Issue, Arms Kept Out of UN
nal power struggle in favor of UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.,
the Communist group made new (JTA)—Secretary General Dag
foreign adventures unnecessary. Hammarskjold is opposed both
This correspondent visited the ' to a debate on the arms race in
border settlement of Gonen in the Middle East and to discus-
northernmost Israel, where Is- sion of Syria's pro-Communist
rael territory . projects into military coup in the forthcom-
Syria and is surrounded by ing Twelfth General Assembly,
Syria on three sides. Gonen was he indicated to a press con-
the scene of the most recent ference.
Syrian aggressions—aggressions
On the question of the arms
w h i c h coincided with the race, he said that the problem
climax of the desperate internal "is primarily for those coun-
power
struggle in
Damascus
which preceded
the
Communist tries in a position to supply
arms" to the area. He said
coup. Gonen and the surround- that it was one thing for the
ing areas were quiet. How long responsible powers to agree arid
this quite might continue prob- another to have a general pub-
ably depended, not on Damas- lit debate in which all countries
cus, but on Moscow. make statements.
In Jerusalem, top-level con-
It was understood from this
sultations on the Middle East
comment that the Secretary
situation, particularly in the
General held the view that ac-
light of the latest Syria de-
tion within the United Nations
velopments, got under way
was impossible so long as the
when Premier David Ben-
Big Powers could not reach
Gurion conferred with Abba
agreement among themselves
S. Eban, Israel's Ambassador
on the Middle East.
to the United States and chief
With further reference to the
of the Israel delegation to
Syrian situation, Hammarskjold
the United Nations. Foreign
called attention to the UN char-
Minister Golda Meir and Gen.
ter provision against interfer-
used Moshe Dayan, Chief of Staff
ence in the internal affairs of a
Nash papyrus cannot be
of the Israel Defense Forces,
state. As for the
member
las a criterion since it itself is
were expected to join the
ideological question involved,
likely
.
of an un now
he
,, reminded that the UN was
talks later '
• the Nash papyius belongs to the
The primary objective of the a neutral organization."
along the long and twisting
Israel-Syrian border for passage
by the white jeeps of the United
Nations Truce Observation Or-
By ELIAHU SALPETER
ganization.
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Chief JTA Correspondent in Israel
No unusual troop movements
(Copyright, 1957, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
ia
Editor's Note: (JTA Correspondent Salpeter followed up were reported along the border
this week and there was a gen-
CI
news of the Communist coup in Syria last week by a speedy
. = La and extensive tour of salient points on the Israel-Sylrian border eral belief that the border
would• now remain quiescent
E-4 which, as he points out in the dispatch below, has now become
for some time to come. But
an extension of the Iron Curtain.)
there was no reason to doubt
TIBERIAS,
Israel,
(JTA)—Calm
reigned
this
week
that the Israel Army, on first
i
along the newest extension of the Iron Curtain—the Israel- reports of the Syrian coup, had
e . Syrian border. Vacationers disported themselves in the made all the necessary disposi-
. C., sun here and swam in Lake Tiberias. Farmers continued ' tions to meet any. developments
it to witrk their land right up the frontier, displaying little that might arise.
concM.n over the fact that the Soviet Empire now. stretched
The reasons for the belief
that the border situation would
1
A almost to their doorsteps.
.
remain
quiet were that the new
The new extension of the ' movement continued between
g ;
on Curtain was still far from ' Syria and its Arab neighbors- contr)lling junta in Syria would
I
r
d
!.. ,,..
° a completely solid and im- Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq. require time to consolidate its
position. and entrench Com-
16, : penetrable wall. Relatively free Some points remained open
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Zeitlin Disputes Dead Sea Scrolls
Antiquity Claims in Talk Today
at IWorld Orientalists Congress
Special to The Jewish News
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MUNICH, Germany—Dr. Solomon Zeitlin, professor
of Jewish history -and-rabbinical literature at Dropsie Col-.
lege, Philadelphia, and editor of the Jewish Quarterly
Review, will address the XXIVth International Congress
of Orientalists, here, today, on the question of the Dead
Sea Scrolls.
Contrary to all the rules of the Congress, Dr. Zeitlin
has been allotted an hour in which to present his views
challenging claims of antiquity for the scrolls.
The following is an advance summary of his paper,
which has been secured by The Detroit Jewish News:
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• Summary of 'Address
fourth century' of our era, used
ultations is
current consultations
an Israel to Protest Mars
as a charm by the Babylonian evaluation
of the present situa - _ Case to Security Council
Jews of the Middle Ages. Ar-
an appraisal of probable
tion
: chaeology is not decisive as a
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The;
an at-
basis for the dating of the future developments and
the course Israel government decided to
scrolls since the seven or eight tempt to determine
ould follow in make a strong protest to th e
scrolls were not discovered by of action Israe l
area and on United Nations Securit- Coun
archaeologists, The carbon j... the Middle E tional scene in cil against continued interfer
in
the
intern
d
i t est was ap41 ied to linen an
he ence by the Egyptian authorities
not the scrolas proper. None of relation to Wa hington and t
with Israel maritime traffic
as
others
was
as
well
scroll
saw
the
scrolls
United
Nation
gever
By Prof. Solomon Zeitlin
the scholars
through the Suez. Canal. The
by the Essenes. Such a
expressed the
written
Israel circl
matres
1
In the Isaiah Scroll the
hypothesis has no validity. The wrapped in .ginen. More impor- belief that th later develop- new complaint was based on
lectionis as well as the final laws referring to the Sabbath taut, many scientists of note ments in Syria with that coun- Egyptian handling of the Nor-
letters of kaf, mem, nun, phe, , and Levitical purity are not only maintain that the carbon-14 test try coming under Communist wegian freighter Mars, under
Israel charter, which was held
and zadi were employed. We : opposition to the laws of the is not reliable.
domination, had/ proven that Is- for four days before being per-
know from the literature of the ' in
The Only criterion which can
Ess-enes, but they were enacted determine
the age of the scrolls i rael's evaluations had been cor- mitted through the waterway
Tannairn who were the- guar- after the destruction of the
is internal evidence. On the rect. Washington, it was be- and was not allowed to take on
dians of the Holy Scriptures : Second _Temple,
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basis of such evidence I con- lieved, was aware of this fact. drinking water or fresh food-
that the matres lectionis as well
as the final letters were intro- I - The scroll originally known as clude that the scrolls are not of Consequently, it was thought, stuffs. A n o t her Norwegian
duced in the Bible in the second the Lamech Scroll, but now re- the pre-Christian period but are Washington might be more in- freighter under Israel charter.
of a much later time; hence they clined in the future to listen the Hubro, had been held up in
century of our era. The locative named the Genesis Apocryphon
be- have no value for Judaism and to Jerusalem.
longs to' ieval midrash and be-
the canal for 24 hours.
heh at the end of a name of a I is a med
of
midrashim
the class
The discussions which got
the beginnings of Christianity.
place, such as Ashdodh to Ash- :
The protest was filed with
the Isaiah published_ by Jelinek. Written
I suggested that a committee under way here could result in the UN Security Council by
dod which is found in
Scroll is additional proof that in Aramaic and including many consisting a scholars and lay- the piecing together of a sharp Mordecai R. Kidron, deputy
this scroll was 'not copied before Hebrew phrases and expres- men; should be formed to make and clear picture of the pre- head of Israel's UN delegation.
the Christian period. Again the sions, it is characteristic of the
and also in a
The decision to make the pro./
an impartial investigation of the vailing situation an
scribe of the scroll drew a line , writings of the Geonim and the discovery of the Hebrew scrolls, definition of t e trend to be test was made at the insistence
and
other
through a word to indicate that Karaites. The author of this and that the matters relating to expected in S
of the Foreign Ministry over the
it was written by mistake. This midrash employed late Aramaic the Haftorah scroll which Mr. countries of t e Middle East. objections of the Ministries of
scribal technique came into words and phrases and made Weschler saw when he was at But in trying hammer out a Finance and Commerce and of
usage in the Hebrew literature use of the "Targum according the Convent and later sup- line of action for Israel, Premier Israel shipping interests. These
_ quite late. Hence the Isaiah ' to Jonathan."
preSsed, be thoroughly investi- Ben-Gurion and his advisors objections, apparently, were
The scroll which was called gated, also that the identity of were likely to be handicapped based on fears that emphasis
- Scroll could not have been
copied in the pre-Christian pe- the War Between the Sons of the person who was responsible by a lack of knowledge of the placed on difficulties met by
Light and the Sons of Darkness for the joining of the two nature of Washington's policy ships under Israel charter might
riod.
belongs to the medieval period. scrolls into one, which is now and the limits to which the cause higher chartering rates
Moreh.Zedek,
The terms,
indicated by the terms Imown -as the Manual of Disci- United States would go in an
and insurance.
Kez This is
Teacher of Righteousness,
designated and laws referred to which pline, should be revealed.
attempt to reverse the Syrian
The Foreign Ministry, how-
ha-achron, the last
time; i. e., the time of the final were
enacted
after Temple.
the destruc-
The issue Is clear and sharply developments.
ever, overruled this stand, tak-
tion of
the Second
Fur-
Eisenhower's
ing the position' that Israel
President
redemption, bet ha-mishpat, the thermore, the author made use drawn. If the scrolls belong to
statement that the Eisen-
House of Judgment, employed of parentheses and hyphens. the antiquity claimed for them,
should protest strongly, and
hower Doctrine did not seem
thoroughly air Arab violations
in the Commentary on Habak: The use of a hyphen - or con- then they are indeed highly
kuk, proves that this Comrnen- necting lines between words important for the intertestimen- to be applicable to the Syrian of international law in efforts
situation was seen here as
tary could not have been writ- which is known in rabbinic lit- tal period and will shed new
to enforce an anti - Israel boy-
ten in the pre-Christian period. erature by the term "makof" light on the history of the Sec-
emphasizing the lack of co-
cott.
ordination among the several
The term Moreh Zedek, Teacher came into vogue in Hebrew lit- ond Jewish Commonwealth and
Eban Reports to Knesset
of Righteousness, was coined by erature in the 7th or 8th ten- the beginnings of Christianity.
countries interested in a re-
on Israel-U.S. Relations
the Karaites in the early part tiny when the rabbis introduced If, on the other hand, my argu-
versal of the Syrian situation.
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Am-
ments refuting the above claims
of the Middle Ages. Internal accent signs in the Bible.
While it would appear that bassador Abba S. Eban report-
evidence shows that the author
It has been maintained that are valid, the position main- Washington felt the Syrian dis- ed to the Israel Cabinet on
of the Commentary made use a leiter was discovered bearing tained by those who cling to ease should be treated in Syria, problems of United States-
of the "Targum. according to the signature of Simon the the theory of the antiquity of responsible Israel circles felt Israel relations, on recent de-
Jonathan," Which is a coinpila- leader of the revolt against the scrolls can only lead to the the disease should be attacked velopments in American Mid-
tion of the Middle Ages.
Hadrian. The form of the letter falsification of history and to at the source of the virus— dle East policy and on problems
- ig- proves its unauthenticity. In the distortion of . the history of Cairo. For, in their view, it was relating to Israel which will
The Scroll which was de S
nated by the name Manual of ancient times letters began with the intertestimental period.
President Nasser of Egypt who arise in the forthcoming U
I have stated my position prepared the ground for the General Assembly.
Discipline definitely was writ- the name 6f the sender. This
repeatedly,
clearly
and
incisive-
letter
carries
the
signature
at
a
ten in the Middle Ages by
communist coup in Syria and
Following the Cabinet mee -
semi-literate person.. Some pass- the end and begins with the ly in the Jewish .Quarterly Re- it was on Nass r that continua- ing, a round of consultatio s
ages are untranslateable and preposition "from." This stamps view, documenting all of my ar- tion of Comm ist domination started in the Foreign Minist
make no sense. The translations it as of a later age. Tales about guments with scholarly support of Syria devel
under the chairmanship of Fo
of the scroll are misleading. The the discovery of the Hebrew from original sources. I alveal
were worried, eign Minister Golda Meir. U -
Israel
circle
to
the
scholars,
here
present
and
layman who reads the transla- Scrolls are so contradictory and
however, that Washington, in der discussion were .the issu s
tions without having a knol.v1- fantastic that they remind one elsewhere, who oppose my po- recognition o
this •situation, and questions scheduled
sition,
to
refute
my
proofs
open-
Thousand
and
edge of medieval Hebrew as- of some in the
might again commit the mistake arise in the General Assembl
ly
and
in
scholarly
fashion.
One
Nights.
in
sumes that the renderings are
involving Israel or on whic
The main basis for the belief Truth cannot be killed by si- of believing that Nasser could Israel would have to take
the text, whereas they are im-
be won over to 'the West by
aginary and without 'basis. The in the antiquity of the scrolls is lence. If ,the protagonists of the
concessions. T ey felt that in stand.
author made use of elipses to , paleography a n d archaeology. antiquity of the' scrolls prove the situation here the whole
Participating in these tal s
indicate that he had left out a Paleography cannot be a crite- their case against the weight of structure of -stern defense -in were the two members of t e
word. This technique, too, was rion for the antiquity of the my evidence, I shall readily the Middle E. st had been un- Knesset, David Ha'Cohen d
Trot resorted to in the Hebrew scrolls since we have no Hebrew surrender my position. But un- dermined, the United States Iihar Harari, who were nam = d
writings in the pre-Christian manuscripts of the pre-Chris- der no circumstances will the would have to take the lead in to serve on the Israel deleg. -
tian period from which other case be lost by default. Con-
riod
attempts to al er the situation. Lion to the Assembly.
that this manuscripts can be dated. The 'science will not be silenced.
It \ is maintained