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VOLUME XXXI I I—No. 26
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Dangers Increase for Israel:
Arabs Unite to Strangle Her
By Jewish News Political Analysts
Egypt Gets More Modern
Soviet Submarines: Can
Control. Mediterranean
LONDON (JTA) — The four ocean-going Russian
submarines which passed through the Straits of Dover
last week are en route to join the United Arab Republic
fleet, informed British sources reported. They said the
submersibles are among the most modern in the world.
The four W-class underwater craft were reported
accompanied by a submarine depot ship. They have a
surface displacement of 2,000 tons, a submerged speed of
16 knots and an operational range of 20,000 . miles.
British sources stressed that Egypt has already
received four similar submarines, as well as two 2,000-ton
Skoryi destroyers and four minesweepers, under the 1955
arms pact with Czechoslovakia. With eight modern
ocean-going submarines, the British experts claimed,
Egypt has become a real Menace for shipping.
The British sotirces said they had no information on
whether the four new submarines would join the first
four in Alexandria harbor, or whether some or all would
be stationed in the Syrian port of Latakia or in the Gulf
of Aqaba. They pointed out that because of their unusual
range, the submarines could exercise powerful control
over the entire Mediterranean Sea.
The new "unity" among Arab states, the anti-Israel declarations now being
made by rulers who hitherto were indifferent to the Arab-Israel conflict and who
were antagonistic to Gamal Abdel Nasser but who now are changing their tunes,
and the bids for patronage from Nasser by Lebanon and Jordan, whOse fears of
Nasserism caused the latest Middle East crisis, are interpreted as mounting threats
to Israel.
It is believed in many quarters that the Arabs' triumph at the United Nations,
as a result of the adoption of their resolution by the UN General Assembly, now is
developing into a new attempt to strangle Israel.
The fact that the moribund Arab League has been revived by the adoption of
the Arab nations' resolution is proving especially disturbing to Israel where criticism
is mounting in protest against Ambassador Abba Eban's vote in favor of the resolution.
JTA's Jerusalem correspondent reports that Israeli circles are pointing out that the
Arab League had in the past repeatedly proved to be a negative instrument incapable
of constructive action at solving the real problems of the Arab countries. It would
be naive, the Israelis say, to assume that the adopted resolution would put an end to
Nasser's expansionism or that it could solve either the Jordan-Lebanon problems or
the inter-Arab feuds.
In a cabled report to the New York Times from Beirut, Sam Pope Brewer
stated that as a result of their triumph at the UN the Arabs now aim to bring Israel
back into the lindelight and he made the following observations relative to the new
dangers facing Israel:
"Comment here indicates some minds are turning toward the idea that the
Arab agreement will make it possible to liquidate the conflict with Israel not through
peace but through superior strength by union among the Arab countries.
"Along with applause for the resumption of friend-
ship among the Arab states there are suggestions that
now is the time to think again of crushing Israel.
"The influential and moderate newspaper L'Orient
said in a front page editorial:
"The change of regime in Iraq has finished an
essential stage in the revolutionary process born out of
the Palestine campaign. The liquidation of the men
responsible for the loss of the Holy Land is now complete.
From now on it should be possible to coordinate Arab
action regarding Israel.' "
New emphasis, marked by exaggerations, is being
placed on the Arab refugee problem. In a front page
story, the New York Herald Tribune on Monday published
a report by Joe Alex Morris Jr. from Wadi Seer, Jordan,
that "Palestine refugees in Jordan live in hatred of Jews
and the West" and that: "About 55,000 persons live here
without water, sanitation or hope. But water and sanitation
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`When you eat the labor of your
hands, happy shall you he'
—Psalm 128:2
Hebraic traditions always have guided mankind to a
recognition of the values of manual work and of man's
creative efforts.
On Labor Day, we take pride in the fact that Jewish
literature, from the Bible to modern times, has invested
labor and the laborer with a great sense of dignity.
Even the Sabbath was instituted by the Almighty as
a means of blessing labor, for it is in the high conception
of labor that the Sabbath was created as a day of rest.
In the Talmud and in rabbinical literature, the
sanctity and dignity of labor played a great role and
idleness always was discouraged and decried, as in.
Proverbs (6:6-8): •
Go to the ant, thou, sluggard.;
Consider her ways, and be wise;
Which having no chief, overseer, or ruler ;
Provideth her bread in the summer.
And gathereth her food. in the harvest.
Thus, in compliance with Jewish traditions, we wel-
come another Labor Day with these Biblical quotations:
'Be strong and. work' (Haggai 2:4) .. 'Man is born to labor'
(Job 5:7) -. . .'Six days shall you labor and do all your work'
(Exodus 20:9) .. . 'He that tilieth the ground shall have plenty
of bread, but he that followeth after vain things is void of
understanding' (Proverbs 12:11) . . . 'Through idleness of the
hands the house leaketh' (Ecclesiastes 10:8). And from the
Talmud we quote: 'He who does not teach his son a trade
teaches him robbery' . . :Even in Eden Adam was not
permitted to eat before he had earned his bread by work' . .
'Torah without work must at length fail.' . . . 'A wife may have
a hundred servants. and yet it is her duty to do some work,
for idleness causes lasciviousness.'