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The Detroit Jewish News, 1963-08-30

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Where Israeli Frontiersmen Were Under Attack

An Israeli soldier was killed in a Jordanian gunfire attack on Aug. 25 at the spot indicated by arrows on the
map. The Syrian attacks which were aired by the United Nations Security Council, after Maj. Gen. Odd Bull had
reported for the UN Truce Supervision Organization upholding Israel's accusations against Syria, occurred at
Almagor, north of the Sea of Galilee, in the frontier settlement at Korazim that is being developed by Jewish
National Fund workers. Korazim was a rocky, barren, and forbidden hillside before the Jewish National Fund
launched a land-development project there two years ago. A Nahal unit, consisting of boys and girls in the
Israeli Army, moved in to restore this sector to make it fit for human habitation. Since then, many settlers have
been attracted to the newly-formed border village overlooking the water of Kinneret. Despite the explosive
situation at Korazim, JNF workers there continue to operate their tractor, under Syrian fire.

HE JEWISH NEWS

Unfortunate

Incidents
on Israel's
Borders

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'Seasonal
Rush' to the
Synagogues

A Weekly Review

Editorials
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Vol. XL IV, No.

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Security Council Censure for Syria

U.S. Takes Lead in Condemning
Murders, Infiltrations in Israel

'Victims of Nazis
Joined in March:
Signs in Yiddish

All the national Jewish organizations,
including all the Zionist movements, all
women's organizations and representa-
tives of all branches of American Jewish
religious movements, joined Wednesday's
March on Washington for Jobs and Free-
dom.
Among the participants were survivors
of Nazi concentration camps who carried
banners in English and Yiddish. There
were many signs with Biblical quota-
tions in Hebrew.
All the Jewish Trade Unions were
represented in the march.
The Zionist Organization of America.
the Labor Zionists, Hadassah, Pioneer
Women, Farband, Mizrachi and other
Zionist groups and their youth affili-
ates endorsed the march and were
represented in the marching lines.
There were Jewish spokesmen at the
rally that followed the march. Rabbi
Joachim Prinz, as president of the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress, stated in his ad-
dress at the Lincoln Memorial that "the
American Jewish community is proud to
share this historic day, proud to join in
the great struggle for equality which the
Negro people have so patiently and
courageously launched." He quoted Hillel:
"If I am not for myself for whom am I
. . . and if not now, when?" in his
endorsement of the NOW freedom move-
ment that characterized the march.
A prayer was delivered at the assem-
bly by Rabbi Uri Miller.
Prominent Jewish spokesmen were in
the Detroit delegation to Washington.

Censure of Syria for its aggressive and murderous infiltrations into Israel and the murder
of two Jewish farmers was being planned, on Thursday, by the United Nations Security Council,
as this issue was going to press. Spokesman for the major nations uttered their condemnations of
the Syrian brutalities, and for the first time since Israel's national rebirth it became apparent that an
Arab nation would be condemned for attacks on Israel.
With Russia apparently abstaining, it appeared certain that there would be no veto to the
UN Security Council's actions.
The United States took the lead in condemning Syria and other nations followed, after studying
the report of Maj. Gen. Odd Bull. chief of staff of the UN Truce Supervision Organization, which in-
dicated that there were infiltrations and that Israel had not built up military installations against Syria,
as the latter charged. -
The Council's action is the first instance in 12 years of a UN censure of an Arab state. The last
time that happened was in September, 1951 when the Security Council condemned Egypt for barring
Israeli shipping in the Suez Canal and ordered the Cairo government to cease such discriminatory
action.
Israel Ambassador Michael Comay speaking at the Council's afternoon session Wednesday stated
that Israel has been encouraged by the statement of U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson to anticipate
that the Security Council "will take firm and vigorous action" to condemn Syria for the acts in-
volved in Israel's current complaint. He said his government is willing to enter into discussions with
the Truce Supervisor toward. the desire to establish peace in the region.
The Israel diplomat reported the judgement of the Israel government after careful study of the
Bull report, to wit, that Syrian military forces were shown to have been the parties responsible for the
Almagor murders.

Comay stressed that the time given in the Bull report when the Almagor murders were said
to have occurred conformed "precisely" with the time reported by a nearby UN observation post as
that when shootings were heard in the area of the murder. The time referred to in both instances was
1715 GMT on Aug. 19.

Comay went on to prove that the testimony given by Nissim Abdu, the third Israel settler who
escaped the ambush party, "had the stamp of complete authenticity" and could not be proved to
have been slanted in order to show that the attackers were of this or another origin.
Comay also cited the testimony given by witness Ashkenazi, a member of Almagor Kibbutz,
as further corroborating the official Israel complaint to the Council. Witness Ashkenazi had given UN
investiciators significant details about routines in the Almagor Kibbutz which Syrian observers, he
said, had studied over a long period of time: even to the extent that the attackers were appraised of
the fact that at the time of the attack, dusk, personnel in the nearby UN observation point exer-

Civil Bights Cause Backed
by 'Tel Aviv March': Jewish
Role Hailed by Negro Chiefs

(Direct JTA Telegraph Wires to The Jewish News)

TEL AVIV—An estimated 100 Americans now in Israel
joined Wednesday in a "Tel Aviv March" in support of the
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
The delegation was received by American Embassy of-
cials who accepted a petition from the marchers asking
for enactment of President Kennedy's civil rights legislation.
Among the marchers were a number of American Negroes.
Police held traffic back to assure a quick and unimpeded
approach for the marchers to the Embassy building. They
carried posters with the slogan "Support the Washington
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Synagogue Council Labor Day Message

Asks End to Discrimination Travesty

The Synagogue Council of America, the national representative body of the
Jewish religious community in America, issued a statement on the occasion of Labor
Day urging the labor movement to stand in the forefront working for civil rights
and the benefits of all people irrespective of religion, race or nationality.
In his Labor Day message, Rabbi Uri Miller, president of the Synagogue
Council of America, stated:
"It is a travesty for discrimination to exist within the labor movement, and
we welcome the efforts exerted under the leadership of great and goodly men to
have the labor movement reflect the loftiest of ideals of American life and the highest
level of ethics in the execution of its program."
Rabbi Miller extended the sincere greetings of the Jewish community to the
working men and women and the organizations which represent them and stressed
the great contributions of Jewish tradition and Jewish ethical teaching to the
protection and dignity of the working man.

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