THE JEWISH NEWS

I Wonder What He's Cooking?

Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951

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Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1942, at Post Office, Detroit, Mich:, under Act of Congress of
March 3, 1879.

PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

SIDNEY SHMARAK

Editor and Publisher

CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ

Advertising Manager

.FRANK SIMONS

Circulation Manager

City Editor

Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the seventh clay of Elul, 5718, the following Scriptural selections will
be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Shofetim, Deuteron omy 16:18-21:9. Prophetical portion, Isaiah
51:12-52:12.

Licht Benshen, Friday, August 22, 6:36 p.m.

VOL. XXXIII. No. 25

Page Four

August 22, 1958

Talk, Talk, Talk at the UN .

About Mythical 'International Justice'

The tragedy of power politics is re-
vealed in all its ugliness in the debates
in the United Nations.
Soviet, Jordanian and other delegates
sanctimoniously speak of international
rights and obligations to protect small
nations. In almost the same breath, they
condemn Israel and seek her destruction.
Lebanon is pleading for international
guarantees of her independence, but her
leaders shamelessly exclude Israel from
all such natural benefits.
The United Nations serves an impor-
tant purpose. It is a forum for the airing
of public issues. Perhaps it is no more
than that at this time, but it is valuable
as a tribune for the airing of grievances.
Insofar as Israel is concerned, the UN
has failed to achieve the major required
purpose: to assure peace for the small
nation she has helped to create.
• Thus, if Israel is in danger for lack of
protection, then the other small nations
that have arisen in recent years with the
blessings of the UN are also in danger.
There is talk, talk, talk at the UN,
but little, too little, is being done to
assure genuine peace for mankind.
The hope that was entertained for the
UN, that it is to become the great instru-
ment for international amity, therefore
has yet to materialize.
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The menacing situation in the world,
in which the UN finds itself inadequately
equipped to act and perhaps helpless, is
traceable to the lack of understanding of
the issues in Western countries, to mean-
ness emanating from a craving for power
in the Communist countries and among
the Arabs, and to the inhumanity of man
to man in some quarters.
If there were better understanding of
the issues, we would not have had so
many poisonous barbs in Israel's direction
over the radio, on TV programs and in
the press. This is not to be interpreted
as an attack on all these media. We be-
lieve that the majority of the American
people, that most of our editorial writers
and news commentators recognize the
validity of Israel's position. But the
poison that seeps in from abroad, the
propaganda that is spread by foreign
emissaries and some of the unwarranted
attacks upon Israel by people who should
know better, all point to menacing ele-
ments in our midst.
In most of the Moslem countries and
behind the Iron Curtain, the troubles
stem from power politics. Russia seeks
control of strategic international areas,
and Arab potentates are determined to
perpetuate their rule. One of their weap-
ons is the appeal to hatred, and they have
found it very easy to instigate hate
against Israel. Little Israel is so con-
venient a scapegoat in the present crisis!
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Especially painful is the negative ele-
ment that accompanies even the most
sympathetic reference to Israel. Take, as
an instance, the Christian Science Moni-
tor, one of our best daily newspapers.
The Monitor usually deals fairly with
Israel. Its approach to the issues involv-
ing Israel has been humanely decent. But
in its most recent analysis of the situ-
ation, in which is asserted editorially
that "America Has a Mideast Policy," it
introduced a question of "the wisdom or
unwisdom of creating Israel."
The Monitor pointed out that this
country's policies are based on these four

principles: Security from indirect aggres-
sion, self-determination of peoples, eco-
nomic aid on a regional basis and bound-
ary guarantees for Israel. Under the lat-
ter heading the editorial said:
"Whatever may have been the wisdom
or unwisdom of creating the State of
Israel in the first place, it now is a living
entity. The Palestinian refugee problem
should be relieved by economic develop-
ment and a small amount of reabsorption.
The American-British-French declaration
of 1950 guaranteeing armistice boundaries
is a potential protection to Arab states
against Zionist expansionism as well as
to Israel against extinction. Those fron-
tiers should be modified along more nat-
ural lines and then guaranteed by the UN."
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Why the negatively brutal comment
about the "unwisdom" of creating a state
for homeless people for whom there was
no hope left except in an area where they
could be masters of their own destiny?
Why should Americans especially give
credence to the inhuman attitude that
homes are necessary for all others but
are to be denied to Jews.
Those who repeat the unwise and un-
fair question about "wisdom or unwis-
dom" of Israel's emergence render a
great disservice to the cause of peace.
Israel's rebirth, part of Prophecy, has
been accepted for centuries by liberty-
loving peoples as an essential part of a
plan for world amity and justice.
Nevertheless, we retain the hope that
all the negative aspects in the present
world situation will be obliterated and
that there will be new approaches to
peace for the common good of all man-
kind. It is to this end that the interna-
tional organization's status as a public
debating forum serves so valid a purpose.
By discussing the issuing, by talking of
peace, we also can hope for approaches
and trends toward peace.

A Genuine Honor Roll

While the nations of the world are
wrangling over the hatreds that motivate
the activities of the nations surrounding
her, Israel continues to explore all scien-
tific avenues for the advancement of
human needs, to benefit her population.
An item of more than passing interest
is the news from Jerusalem of initial
steps taken to introduce open-heart surg-
ery in Israel, in the Cardiovascular Re-
search Laboratory of the Hadassah Hos-
pital with their heart-lung machine.
Successful experiments on animals
already have been carried out with this
machine the oxygenation part of which
was built by a team of cardiologists, sur-
geons and research workers, aided by the
Hadassah School of Fine Mechanics.
These new scientific undertakings can
be of benefit not only to the Israelis, but
to all their neighbors, provided peace can
be assured for that area.
Meanwhile, Hadassah carries on its
traditional health-assuring activities in
Israel. This work is made possible with
the funds contributed by the Jewish
women of this country. Contrary to some
bigoted expressions in Washington, this
is a genuine philanthropic effort. Those
who assist in it are inscribing their names
on a roll of honor. The Honor Roll drive
of Hadassah, DOW in progress here, de-
serves the wholehearted support of all
the women in our community.

impressive Pictorial Account

Israel In Its Glory

Abraham Harman David Ben-Gurion
Yigael Yadin
Many books on Israel have been published on the occasion
of the State's tenth anniversary. There were a number of
pictorial accounts of Israel's progress. Topping them all in
beauty and in the impressiveness of the photographs is the new
pictorial account, "Israel In Its Glory — A Decade of Achieve-
ment," published by Doubleday.
"Israel In Its Glory" is a book of glorious photographs,
many of them multi-colored. The book has the additional merit
of having been edited by two distinguished Israel leaders, Abra-
ham Harman, former Israel General Consul in New York and
now attached to the Israel Foreign Office in Israel, and the
Israeli hero, Gen. Yigael Yadin.
The book's art editors are N. Avnon and S. Grundman. A
number of photographers are listed.
The preface to the volume, a very impressive and lengthy
essay, entitled `'The First Decade of the State of Israel," is by
Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion.
The Prime Minister's story fits into the "glory" of the
book's title and its contents. The Israeli leader, who now speaks
in terms of a decline of religious aspects in his State, neverthe-
less resorts time and again to Biblical quotations. He quotes
Prophecy — "the Lord hath comforted His people" — from
Isaiah XLIX 8-13 — as an opening text for his essay, and refers
to a liturgical excerpt — "blow the great trumpet for our free-
dom" — in the body of his article.
Ben-Gurion points out that "a hundred years ago there was
not a single Jewish child in the world whose mother tongue
was Hebrew." Then he indicates the historic advances made in
the rebirth and redemption of the people of Israel, the land,
the language; the advances in culture and agriculture, the acqui-
sition of self-defensive strength, the transformation in the educa-
tion of the youth, the benefits gained by the Arab citizens from
Israel's Statehood.
He emphasizes that "the Law of the Return laid down
the unique historic mission of the State of Israel — the in-
gathering of the exiles."
The photographs cover all phases of Israel's life and are
truly magnificent. Whether it portrays sheep-shearing, or fishing,
or defense, or citrus-growing, the story of "Israel In Its Glory"
is told so impressively that this volume will be treated as a
treasure by all who acquire it.
Modern Israeli-created accomplishments as well as scenes
of explorations have equal force in these pictures. "The walls of
Acco" and Hazor, the discovered remnants of Herod's palace,
ploughing at Lachish, life in frontier villages, festival scenes
and scores of other topics open up new vistas for those who turn
the pages of this illustrated account of a people's rebirth.
Scientific accomplishments are portrayed with as much
force as the children's activities. The youth of Israel always are
subjects of major interest and admiration in studies of Israel's
growth, and the medical and other scientific efforts always are
among the major Israeli attractions.
Studded with Biblical quotations, many of the photographs
accompanying Scriptural declarations are works of art. The men
and the fruits of their choice, when they select the enthrogim and
lulavim, referred to in Leviticus 23:40, are so impressive and so
real that they provide extra thrills for the viewers of this photo-
graphic account.
There is tremendous strength in the photograph of the Druze
pilgrimage. The theatrical accounts are most interesting; "High-
way and Pipeline" and "Sunflowers in the Sand" are most im-
pressive. The Sde :Coker, Eilat, Beersheba market and Huleh
scenes are fascinating.
The color pictures of the old man on Independence Day
and the Golden Stream of Jaffa Oranges that are picked for
export: are truly powerful.
"Israel In Its Glory" is a very, very good book. It is, as
indicated, the high mark of all the literary efforts portraying
Israel's tenth year of Statehood.

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