Ramparts Essays
See Prospect for
Mid East Peace
Slow, undramatic e f f o r t s are
underway to ease the tensions be-
tween Arab and Jew in Israel.
The little-reported movement—
with literally fantastic possibilities
for world peace—is told in the
October issue of the Catholic lay-
man's magazine Ramparts.
Judy Stone, a , staff ,writer who
recently visited Israel, found two
individuals — and Arab man and a
Jewish woman—working independ-
ently to end the bitterness be-
twee.n their peoples.
The two, she said, were drawn
to their work by a common mag-
net: the horror of the crime against
humanity that was Auschwitz.
And they are making important
progress toward a common goal:
the end of "ten miserable years
of bloodshed, misunderstanding,
suspicion and lack of objective
knowledge about each other among
Jews and Arabs that have caused
a deep wound in the body of
Israel."
The woman is Nina De-Nur, the
daughter of a prominent Israeli
surgeon and the wife of one of
Israel's most famous authors, a
survivor of AuSchwitz who still
uses his concentration camp num-
ber, Ka-tzetnik 135633, as his pen-
name.
Nina De-Nur started her work
slowly, by inviting Arab visitors
to her home and she herself visiting
the homes of .Arabs. Her manner
is non-political, and personal, and
her dream: an Israeli "peace
corps" for Arab villages and estab-
lishment of a John F. Kennedy
peace center for the Middle East
on the Israel-Jordan border in
Jerusalem.
The man is Abdal Ariz Zuabi,
an Israeli-Arab and the 38-year-
old deputy mayor of Nazareth,
who is working to break down
"walls of non-understanding and
suspicion" between Arab and
Jew.
He feels if this can be done with
the quarter-million Arabs living
among the approximately 2,000,-
000 Jews in Israel, "the Arabs of
Israel can become a real, living
bridge between the Jews in Israel
and the Arab peoples outside."
"This might be one of the keys
to peace throughout the world, not
only in the Middle East," the Arab
leader said in Ramparts.
Zuabi has helped found a new
school which he hopes will meet
this goal: the Great Haviva Cen-
ter of Jewish-Arab and Afro-Asian
Studies, which is located in the
Hadera area north of Tel Aviv.
The school now has 26 Arabs
and 20 Jews as students. By con-
trast, there are only 140 Arabs
among the 14.000 students in Isra-
eli universities, Miss Stone re-
ports.
(Zuabi outlined his views and
his school's plans to a group of
Detroiters during a visit he paid
here last spring. His views ap-
peared in a report in The Jew-
ish News).
Israeli Defense Chiefs
in Paris; Mirage Seen
as Subject of Talks
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish
PARIS—Gen. Yitzhak Rabin, Is-
rael's Chief of staff, and Brig. Gen.
Ezer Weizmann, commander of Is-
rael's air force, started talkq Mon-
day with French military officials.
They were joined Tuesday by
Shimon Peres, deputy minister of
defense.
The talks reportedly were aimed
at an agreement for sale to Israel
of the French Mirage-4 bomber
which can carry atomic weapons.
Gen. Rabin and Gen. Weinnann
are visiting various military es-
tablishments in France, as well as
the factory • where the Mirage jets
are made. During Gen. Rabin's ab-
sence, his post will be filled tem-
porarily by Brig. Chaim Barley.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, September 18, 1964-7
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Arabs Spend $1.75 Million in U.S. to Wcfge Its Verbal War on Israel
NEW YORK (JTA) — Arab and
anti-Israel propaganda agencies in
the United States have spent a
total of $1,750,000 during the past
year to finance propaganda against
Israel among all segments of the
American people, including uni-
versity campuses, it was reported
by Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein, chair-
man of the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee. He spoke at the
annual installation rally of Bnai
Zion, American fraternal Zionist
order, held at the New York Hil-
ton Hotel.
In contrast to this expenditure,
Rabbi Bernstein emphasized, the
sum of only $146,000 was spent by
the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee to disseminate factual
information on events in Israel and
the Middle East.
The American Israel Public
Affairs Committee, with head-
quarters in Washington, D.C.,
conducts public action aimed at
maintaining and improving
friendship and good will between
the U.S. and Israel, he said.
In a breakdown of expenditures
in the past year Arab and anti-
Israel agencies in this country, Rab-
bi Bernstein, a former adviser on
Jewish affairs to the U.S. Army
commanders in Europe, reported
that a minimum of $186,000 was
spent by the Arab Information
Center with regional offices all dent Norman G. Levine and State
over the country, which provides Supreme Court Justice Arthur
lectures to service organizations, Markewich.
women's clubs and church forums;
In his address, Rabbi Bernstein
over $1,000,000—tax exempt—was warned that American Jewry is "in
spent by the pro-Arab American
Friends of the Middle East in
Washington, which works in busi-
ness circles and also provides Arab
students for indoctrination in the
colleges and universities of the
land; and over $25,000 was spent
by the so-called Palestine Arab
Delegation that functions chiefly at
the United Nations. In addition,
Rabbi Bernstein listed the anti-
Zionist American Council for Juda-
ism, which spent, last year, over
$350,000.
The meeting marked the instal-
lation of Edward Shall as newly
elected president of Bnai Zion, as
well as other national officers and
members of the administrative
commitee and executive board. The
installation ceremonies • were pre-
sided over by the outgoing presi-
a race between assimilation and
meaningful survival." He empha-
sized that "Jewish cultural survival
is important not only to Jews but
to mankind."
Desalination Planners at Work
Expert on the Orient
Pedro Teixeira, a 17th century
Portuguese Jewish traveler and
author, was one of the leading ex-
plorers of his era and an acknow-
ledged expert on the Orient of his
time. His journeys included China,
the Philippines, Persia and remote
portions of South America.
American and Israeli desalination and nuclear power experts
will resume meetings in Washington this month on plans for a
$100,000,000 atomic power-water desalination plant in Israel. Agree-
ment on American-Israeli cooperation was reached in Washington
during Prime Minister Levi Eshkol's visit last June. Shown above
discussing the project, are (L. to R.) Myer Feldman, special counsel
to the President; • Ambassador Avraham Harmon of Israel; Premier
Eshkol and President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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