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Waiting for the Verdict
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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath (Rosh Hodesh Elul), the thirtieth day of Ab, 5721, the following Scriptural
selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pe•tateuchal portions, Reek Dent. 11:26-16:17, Num. 28:9-15. Prophetical portion, Iasaiah
66:1-24.
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Licht Benshen, Friday, Aug. 11, 7:20 p.m.
VOL. XXXIX. No. 24
Page Four
August 11, 1961,
Israel's Difficult Struggle for Life
Israel's recent rocket launching and
the eventual dispute over the Jewish
State's rights to purchasing missiles in
this country on a par with. her Arab
neighbors have brought to light the basic
difficulties that now affect Israel in rela-
tion to her neighbors.
Very important revelations have just
been made of the situations that devel-
oped during the past few years. It has
just been made known that even before
the Suez campaign in 1956, an attempt
was made by President Eisenhower to
mediate an agreement between Israel and
the United Arab Republic. He sent as
his emissary Assistant Secretary of De-
fense Anderson, who first conferred with
Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion
and then went on to Cairo to meet with
UAR's President Nasser. His mission
failed because Nasser remained intransi-
gent.
In a dispatch from Jerusalem to the
New York Times, its special correspond--
ent, C. L. Sulzberger, now reveals many
of the facets of the Israel-Arab conflict
and the pressures to which Israel is being
submitted. He describes Israel's quest to
get U.S. agreement for a mutual secur-
ity pact, the failure of the Anderson mis-
sion and the "benevolent interest" in
Israel by the United States which is re-
garded as "meaningless" by Israelis.
Sulzberger's report indicates that the
Eisenhower Doctrine and the Western
Big Three guarantee of a status quo in
the Middle East applies only to Com-
munist assaults and "none of this coun-
try's (Israel's) enemies' are Communist."
The fact that. Nasser and other Arab
leaders are constantly flirting with the
Kremlin and are accepting aid from Khru-
shchev as well as Washington apparently
is being totally overlooked by the White
House.
"The Western guarantee is ineffec-
tive," Sulzberger maintains, qualifying it
with the assertion that, "After all, Israel
violated it in 1956, backed by two of the
guarantors, Britain and France." He
thereupon analyzes Israel's policy ap-
proach as being based on securing Mis-
siles, and he explains:
steps Israel considers essential for its safety.
And the confirmation of this belief, from this
Government's viewpoint, is our continued re-
fusal to sell missile anti-aircraft batteries.
"The Israelis consider this refusal unreas-
onable because, they argue, such weapons are
purely defensive and are particularly needed
by a tiny state, especially one whose neighbors
remain formally at war with it. But they now
realize that this critical item for their pro-
tective arsenal won't be forthcoming. They
have managed to manufacture a rocket of their
own and are 'presumably working on a guid-
ance system. But it will probably be years
before they can successfully make this.
"Israel continues to rely on what might be
called a miniature strategy of massive retalia-
tion. The only way it can see of scaring Nasser
from attempting any planned attack is by prom-
ising punitive reprisals.
"Such thinking, it must be emphasized, is
not now current. Government leaders insist
that no war is worth the price; that peace is Dr. Julian Morgenstern's Classic:
more important to Israel than the greatest
conceivable military victory. But if the Arab
- states gain a qualitative' as well as a quanti-
tative arms advantage over Israel, the attitude
could change. And the quest for anti-aircraft
One of the great classics in Biblical literary studies, "The
missiles should be regarded against this back- Message of Deutero-Isaiah," by Dr. Julian Morgenstern, former
ground. Missiles rather than treaties are now president of Hebrew Union College, has been issued by Uni-
. uppermost in the Israeli mind."
versity Publishers (59 E. 54th, N.Y. 22).
It is no wonder that in recent months
_ In the eminent scholar's study is
Israel's spokesmen have been using incorporated the text of Isaiah, chapters
guar de d terms. and evaluating their 40 to 48, with relevant Hebrew texts
country's status amidst their war-threat- and lengthy annotations. He explains:
"These nine chapters are characterized
ening neighbors.
a marked and easily recognizable lit-
The young and very small state re- by
erary style and a singular unity of
mains in a precarious position. As long historic setting, thought and purpose,
as its neighborS continue to get aid from which stamp them as the product of
Soviet Russia, while the United States one, single prophetic personality and
shuts its eyes to the Communist alli- distinguish them decisively from Isa.
ances by the anti-Israel nations whose 34-35, 49-66."
He points out that the prophet's
friendship Washington is courting, the
addresses in these chapters are ad-
dangers are multiplying.
The friendly attitude of our Govern- dressed to the Babylonian Jewish com-
munity, to the descendants of those
ment towards Israel is not to be ques- who
were carried into exile to Baby-
tioned. There is no doubt that President
from Jerusalem and Judaea by
Kennedy, like Eisenhower before him, lonia
Nebuchadnezzar, 50 years before the
would welcome peace between Israel and prophet's advent among them.
Dr. Morgenstern
the Arabs. But if the American attitude
Dr.
Morgenstern
explains
that,
50
years
earlier, a message,
towards Israel will remain one only of
by
Jeremiah,
bid
"these
Jews
settle
down
in
the land of their
"benevolent interest" , then the stalemate present sojourn, adjust themselves sympathetically
to their new
will continue and Israel's troubles will environment, beget children and children's children, seek and
go on, unabated. That's most regrettable. promote the welfare of the various local communities into which
A firm attitude by our Government could they would have become incorporated, and there pray on behalf
alter the situation. A supply of necessary thereof to Yahweh. . • . This was a message of far - reaching
"These facts of recent diplomatic history
defense missiles would serve a purpose significance, in first degree and immediately for Judaism, and in
have led Israel to a new policy approach. The
in the event peace negotiations continue second degree and ultimately for world-religion; for it was the
country has no written alliances, although it
to be postponed. The future, meanwhile, very first affirmation by any prophet or spokesman of Yahweh
counts heavily upon implied -French military
promises only precariousness for Israel, that it was possible for a Jew to worship Yahweh outside of
support and on more generalized American
sympathies. But it feels that, should Colonel
and therefore also for the entire Middle Palestine. . . . Now for the first time the new principle was
distinctly formulated, by Jeremiah, that Yahweh was primarily
Nasser implement by a sudden surprise attack East and for the world peace hopes. -
and essentially the god, not of the land, but instead of the people,
his frequently announced pledges to squash
Israel . . . and accordingly . .. wherever Israel might come to
Israel, eventual aid from the United States
dwell . . . there Yahweh could still be found."
and France might come too late. The first
three hours of such a war might be both
Dr. Morgenstern thereupon proceeds to contrast the differing_
critical and fatal.
In a communication to Attorney Gen- authorships of Isaiah, Deutero-Isaiah and Trito-Isaiah, and to show
"For Israel is so small that its main cities,
eral Robert F. K e n n e d y, in which he that the former (chapters 40-48) envisaged Jews carried into exile
Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem could be
urged
that George Lincoln Rockwell's in Babylonia, whereas Isaiah 49-66 saw Jews scattered in all direc-
bombed by Nasser's swift MIG-19s before any
American Nazi Party should be placed on tion's. Other prophecies are invoked to indicate the sentiments
effective defense could operate. This would
the subversive list, I. L. Feuer, national relating to the exile. Dr. Morgenstern states:
greatly hinder mobilization efforts. And Israel's
"Yahweh has, according to Deutero-Isaiah, chosen Israel as
commander
of the Jewish War Veterans,
relatively few airfields could be destroyed by
servant in order that it may be the agent or mediator of His
charged that Federal employees had His
an unexpected raid. In effect, the jet has still
salvation for all mankind. This thought of universal salvation,
further shrunken this small .land.
backed Rockwell financially and that the mediated
through Israel, is, likewise basic to the entire message
"Therefore, the primary aim of Israeli for-
Rockwell "hate bus" that traveled on its of Deutero-Isaiah."
eign policy today is not to seek any formal
voyage of bigotry to Alabama was pur-
This study shows that in later chapters "the salvation of Israel
treaties of alliance but to get permission to
chased by a U.S. Defense Department by Yahweh
is always of national, political character, salvation from
buy defensive ground-to-air guided missiles.
employee.
dominion over and oppression of it by . other nations," and Dr.
The only nation effectively producing such
Since then, Congressman Seymour Morgenstern adds: "This concept of Yahweh's salvation is manifestly
weapons in the West is the United States.
Halpern has asked Secretary of Defense the very antithesis of that of Deutero-Isaiah."
Consequently, Jerusalem has been trying to
Robert S. McNamara to dis char g e a
The historic aspects of the rule of Cyrus and the rebuilding
purchase American 'Hawk' and 'Nike' missiles.
holder of a strategic U.S. Army civilian of the Temple, the "hailing of Cyrus as Yahweh's annointed," the
But here too it has so far met with no success.
"There were apparently two primary diplo-
whom he identified as the "hate bus" choosing of Israel for a specific purpose "in relation to all man-
kind," the world-plan of Deutero-Isaiah that "all warfare must of
matic objectives for Premier Ben-Gurion's re-
purchaser.
necessity end forever," are incorporated in the scholarly work by
cent trip to the U.S.A. The first was to ascer-
These are indications of a need for Dr.
Morgenstern.
tain whether the Kennedy Administration had
immediate
and
prompt
action
to
call
a
any different Middle Eastern policy from that
• The prophet is described as the spiritual disciple of Ezekiel;
halt to the outrageously un - American "reaffirming the latter's doctrine of 'for His name's sake,' that it
of the Eisenhower Administration. The second
activities of the Rockwell group. -It is was Yahweh's purpose to restore unregenerate Israel from exile in
was to gain agreement on the sale of missiles.
clear, in view of the latest revelations, Babylonia to its native land, there Himself to purge it of its
"Every indication is that Ben-Gurion de-
that Feder al action should be taken iniquity and its impulse to sin . . . and this to the end that the
cided policy in Washington has not changed—
against the bigots, and it is urgent that nations -might recognize Him as a true world-god and respect and
at least as far as Israel is concerned; that we
remain well-disposed but unwilling to take the
such action should be instituted at once. honor Him accordingly."
`Deuterodsaiah Message'
Bigots Must Be Curbed