Border Tensions Mount
Reports in the Lebanese press
that had been used as bases by
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Eshkol replied to a statement El Fatah. It was noted that the stated that the Syrian government
by the Soviet Union which had de- latest outrage showed that this has ordered evacuation of villages
clared Israeli action against Syria's retaliatory raid had, -so far, proved close to the Israeli border on the
Communist - oriented government insufficient to warn the El Fatah grounds that Israel was "massing"
would be "folly." "It is Syria's terrorists against repeating their troops along the frontier. Syrian
sources were quoted as saying
behavior," he said, "and not her attacks.
The entire northern border was that the Damascus government
regime that matters."
The tensions regarding the tense although in Almagor itself has notified all Arab governments
northern border with Syria mount- work was proceeding as usual. and the United Arab Command,
ed as Israeli army investigations Almagor was the home of two Is- which has its headquarters in
found that the mine near Alma- raeli farmers who were murdered Cairo, of the charges that Israel
gor, which killed the two Israelis, in August of 1963 by a band of was preparing to attack Syria.
had been planted by members of about 10 Syrians who had crossed Syria's Maj. Gen. Hafez Assad,
Syria's army, and not by the civil- over the Jordan River into Israel. who is Minister of Defense, was
ian saboteurs organized in the El At that time, the UN Security quoted as threatening Israel with
Fatah terrorist gangs. Israeli army Council debated Israel's complaint a "war of liberation" if Israel
investigators found, in probing the against Syria at great length, and "dared to wage aggressive war
incident, that three Syrian army nine. of the Council's 11 members against Syria."
Other Arab newspapers from
saboteurs had infiltrated the area voted for a resolution condemning
near the village, coming from a Syria. However, the Soviet Union nearby countries announced that
Syrian military base in the imme- had exercised its veto power, "Palestine Day" was observed
diate vicinity of the Syrian-Israeli keeping the resolution from formal throughout - "the Arab nation"
adoption.
Monday, marking the anniversary
border.
of the date when the. Arabs living
The army announced that, last-
in Israel fled from that country
Saturday, Syrian MIG-21 jet • 17 Leadinc, Clergymen
and became refugees as Israel de-
planes flew over Israel in the
clared its independence, 18 years
vicinity of Almagor. The army Endorse Statehood
ago.
said that the Syrian craft re- Paper on Anniversary
turned to Syria before Israeli
Israel Submits Complaint
NEW YORK—(JTA)—Seventeen Against Syria to UN Council
jet fighters, sent aloft imme-
leading New York clergymen of
diately, could engage the MIGs.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA)
the Catholic, Protestant and Jew- — Israel Tuesday submitted a
Israel has file d a complaint
ish
faiths
joined
Sunday
in
cele-
about the overflights as well as
complaint to the Security Council
brating the 18th anniversary of on Syria's aggressions, culminating
over the fatal mine incident with
the Syrian-Israeli Mixed Armi- Israel's independence, by endors- in the deaths of two Israelis whose
ing a famous, 75-year-old Ameri-
stice Commission.
jeep was blown up by a Syrian
The tensions in Israel, follow- can document which had called mine planted in an Israeli field
for
the
establishment
of
a
Jewish
ing Monday morning's mine ex-
near Almagor. The Israeli com-
plosion near Almagor, reached state in Palestine. The clergymen plaint stressed that the Almagor
heights unparalleled in many hailed the rebirth of Israel as the incident constitutes "a gross viola-
months. Experienced observers ex- fulfillment of God's promise.
tion" of the 1949 armistice agree-
Among the signers of the state- ment between Israel and Syria.
pressed fears that, unless Syria
abstains from further provocations, ment were Francis Cardinal Spell- "Syrian conduct," declared Israel,
even more serious incidents of the man, Roman Catholic archbishop "represents a constant and ever-
of New York; Dr. Dan Potter, recurring threat to the interests
gravest nature may be expected.
Israeli newspapers warned of executive director of the Protest- of regional peace."
the "s e r i o u s consequences" to ant Council of New York; and
Ambassador Michael S. Comay
which Syria is exposing herself.
Rabbi Harold Gordon, executive
noted that "hired terrorists" which
Even Kol Haam, organ of the vice president of the New York
he stated, "have the unreserved
Israeli Communist Part y, ex- Board of Rabbis.
public backing of the government
pressed support for the Israeli
The old document which the of Syria," have carried out 47
government Tuesday. Hol Kaam clergymen endorsed as a re- acts of violence and sabotage
not only backed the Israeli posi- minder of Israel's contemporary
against Israel since January, 1965.
tion but also voiced sharp criti- significance is known as "The The Israeli letter did not Call upon
cism against Pravda, organ of the Blackstone Memorial." It was pre-
the Security Council to meet on
USSR Communist Party, for a re- sented to President Benjamin Har-
the issue.
cent article in which Pravda de-1 rison in 1891 by William E. Black-
Last week Israel filed two sharp
scribed Israel as "an imperialist stone, a religious layman and -
base." The local communist news- businessman of Chicago, who. protests with the Security Council
paper attacked "all those who back after visiting Palestine, appealed against Jordan, accusing the Am-
Syria's aggressive acts," and ap- for "an international conference man government of a "gross viola-
pealed to the Israel government to consider the condition of the tion" of the Jordanian-Israel armi-
"not to give in to Syrian provoca- Israelites and their claim to stice agreement by carrying out
an unprovoked attack against an
tions."
Palestine as their ancient home." Israeli road-repair gang in the
The two young Israelis were
In 1916; the memorial was pre- Mount Hebron area, resulting in
killed early Monday morning about sented at the White House again,
32,5 yards from the Syrian border, to President Woodrow Wilson, and the deaths of two Israelis and the
at a spot inside Israel north of was said to have influenced Mr. - wounding of three others, two of
them seriously.
Lake Tiberias.
Wilson in his endorsement of the
The complaint—which did not
The men formed the advance Balfour Declaration a year later.
party for a convoy of three trac-
The statement was issued by the request a meeting of the Security
tors manned by other Israelis en- America-Israel Society, an inter- Council — was handed to Dr. J. G.
gaged in clearing the fields of faith body headed by Baltimore's de Beus, this month's president of
rocks on behalf of a Jewish Nation- Mayor Theodore R. McKeldin, the Council, by Comay.
Israel reported that work was
al Fund afforestation project. former governor of Maryland.
They left Almagor at 4:30 a.m.
Among the original signers of resumed May 12 on the patrol track
and proceeded to a spot in the the Blackstone Memorial were the in the presence of UN military ob-
field where work on the project Chief Justice of the United States servers stationed on both sides of
had been started safely last week. Supreme Court in 1891, the gov- the Israel-Jordan demarcation line,
Suddenly, their jeep blew up. The ernor of Massachusetts, the mayor in accordance with a proposal
occupants of the jeep, Amikam of New York, Congressman Wil- from the chairman of the Israel-
Shamai, 27, and Peter Fabian, 25, liam McKinley, later to become Jordan Mixed Armistice Commis-
were still alive when reached by President of the United States, sion. The letter added that notice
the men on the tractors, but died and outstanding industrialists and of the planned resumption had
within a few minutes while being merchants like John D. Rockefel- been given in advance to Jordan-
ian authorities through the MAC.
taken to a nearby hospital.
ler and John Wanamaker.
The letter added that repair of
The incident, it was said here,
the track was completed in two
could have the gravest implica-
tions for Israel. It was pointed out $6 930 000 WIZO Budget hours "without further incident or
that, three weeks ago, when a
TEL AVIV—(JTA)--A 1966-1967 Jordanian interference."
The second letter, signed by Co-
series of El Fatah sabotage raids budget for the Women's Interna-
had been carried through from tional Zionist Organization of 20,- may, noted that the MAC "has not
Jordan, Israel staged a reprisal 800,000 pounds ($6,930,000) was yet considered the Israeli com-
raid into two Jordanian villages, submitted to the WIZO executive plaint regarding the murderous and
blowing up a number of houses by Mrs. Miriam Benporat, treas- unprovoked Jordanian attack"
urer. The figure compared with Israel requested only that its pro-
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
17,000,000 pounds ($5,666,000) for tests be circulated as Security
Council documents.
I the previous fiscal year.
10 — Friday, May 20, 1966
Jewish Laws on Sex Are Emphasized,
Called Vital to Marriage Success
Emphasizing that "Family
Purity is that life-long education
in the love of life which com-
mences even before life begins,"
and declaring that chances for
success in Jewish marriages are
d i r e c t l y proportional to the
couple's observance of biblical and
talmudic conjugal prescriptions,
Rabbi Norman Lamm offers ad-
vice on "Jewish insights into mar-
ried life" in "A Hedge of Roses,"
published by Philipp Feldheim (96
E. B'way, N.Y. 2),
Rabbi Lamm, who is assistant
professor of Jewish philosophy at
Yeshiva University and associate
rabbi at the New York Jewish
Center, warns that most marriages
that are failures have become "ex-
ercises in strained tension only
occasionally relieved by periods
of happiness."
Rabbi Lamm's explanatory
booklet deals with the Jewish
view of sex, "Judaism's uncom-
promising strictures on adult-
ery," the rights of women, and
he states that "the divine image
and sexuality are not antonyms,"
that: "To possess a soul and to
beget children are not an in-
consistency, a flaw in creation,
a divine oversight. The Jew
finds no lasting antagonism in
the encounter between man's
divine image and his sexual
nature, between body and soul."
Rabbi Lamm's description of
Family Purity — Taharath Ha-
Mishpaha—and his evaluation of
the _Jewish views on sex life are
the bases of this study.
He declares: "Family Purity rep-
resents the joyous Jewish affirma-
tion of life and the abhorrence of
death and suffering. The institu-
tion of the mikvah offers the pos-
sibility of a magnificent beginning
for human life in love with life."
This "symbol of the waters" as
indicated by the mikvah is ade-
quately explained in Rabbi
Lamm's interesting brochure.
International Trade Fair
Opens in Tel Aviv June 21
TEL AVIV (ZINS) — Tel Aviv
is set to receive thousands of in-
dustrialists and merchants from all
parts of the globe at the interna-
tional trade fair June 21. Forty-
three countries, an increase of four
over last year, will participate in
the exhibits. The fair will close
July 6.
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