10--Friday, July 15, 1966
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Hubishi-Acre's Arab Deputy Mayor
BY MORRIS MARGULIES
One of my most memorable visits
to Israel occurred last April, when
I met Acre's Arab deputy mayor,
M. Hubishi.
Though the deputy mayor under-
stands English and can speak it
(if not fluently), he preferred to
conduct the discussion in Arabic,
with Kemal Mansour, a Druze who
speaks an excellent English, trans-
lating my questions into Arabic
and his answers into English.
After disposing of the appro-
priate amenities, I inquired how
the Arabs feel being Israeli citi-
zens. Hubishi, through the inter-
preter, replied that his election to
the second elective office is proof
that the Arabs and Jews get along
very well.
How do economic conditions af-
fect the life and welfare of the
two communities, was my next
question. The deputy mayor an-
swered that this was an individual
matter. Just as there are Jews who
are fairly well off, who are, so-to-
speak, of the middle class, and
others who belong to the prole-
tariat, the same is equally true
of the Arabs living in Israel. He,
personally, owned his own home,
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operated a car and a had a color
TV set.
Knowing that it will be some
weeks before Israel will begin
television broadcasting, I asked
where the programs he was watch-
ing, originated. "Egypt and Le-
banon," he replied.
To my inquiry regarding the
contents of these programs, I
was told that they were mostly
music and news. I persisted: was
the news slanted and do the
programs contain propaganda?
The news, he thought, was in the
math, honest, but it did contain
considerable propaganda. When
I asked why Israel does not jam
those stations, as does Soviet
Russia, Egypt and all other dic-
tatorship countries, I received
the interesting reply that Israel
is a democracy, and will no more
do that than would the United
States.
I then asked: "In view of your
statements about the equality the
Israeli Arabs enjoy both politi-
cally and economically and their
comparative affluence, how is it
that no Arabs have ever gone to
Israel's Arab neighbors to inform
them of what you just told me?"
The deputy mayor smiled, it was a
rather wan smile, but he did not
answer.
However, Mr. Mansour, the
Druze, said the mayor is not an-
swering the question, because he
knows that any Israeli Arab who
would venture to cross the border
would be killed before he could
deliver any such message.
The Druze said further that there
had been instances, very few in-
deed, where some young Arabs un-
dertook such a mission and if they
were not killed, were imprisoned,
starved, beaten and tortured until
they agreed to return and serve
as spies and saboteurs.
This explains, he concluded, why
Israeli Arabs, unlike their Egyp-
tian, Jordanian, Syrian and Le-
banese ethnic brothers, do not
cross the Israeli borders and tell
the neighboring Arabs thd facts
about Arab life in Israel.
Aggressive Arms
Sales Challenged
by Sen. McCarthy
U.S. to Sign Convention for End to Discrimination
GENEVA (JTA) — The U.S. gov- was made at a meeting of the UN
ernment will sign the Convention Economic and Social Council.
for the Abolition of Racial Dis-
crimination, it was announced here
by Ambassador Arthur J. Gold-
NEW YORK (JTA) — Sen. Eug- berg, chief U.S. delegate to the
ene McCarthy, Minnesota Demo- United Nations. The announcement
crat, has questioned the shift of
United States policy from one of
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to the Middle East to one of seek-
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"undermined" by $35,000,000,000
worth of armaments exports.
Between 1950 and 1965, accord-
ing to Seen. McCarthy, the United
States supplied _relatively small
amounts of military aid to the area
or about $100,000,000 worth of
weapons to Iraq, Jordan and Saudi
Arabia. Now Saudia Arabia is buy-
ing $400,000,000 worth of British
Supersonic jet fighters and U.S.
Hawk Missiles. Jordan has been
given U.S. tanks and on April 2,
the State Department said the Un-
ited States had agreed to sell "a
limited number" of supersonic
fighter-bombers, reportedly the
Lockheed F-104, costing $2,000,000
each. Sen. McCarthy indicated that
poverty - stricken Jordan would
probably get credit to buy the cost-
ly planes.
He noted that the State Depart-
ment had been under increasing
pressure about Jordan because of
the United States sale to Israel of
weapons previously promised by
West Germany under an arms deal
canceled in 1965.
Sen. McCarthy quoted Secretary
of the State Dean Rusk as saying
that the United States has tried
over the years not to promote the
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not to encourage it by our direct
participation." The Senator added
it was 'difficult" to reconcile that
statement with the "aggressive
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ter for Yiddish writers in Israel to
be named for the late Yiddish poet
H. Leivick, will be built in Tel Maine Labor Parley
Aviv with funds contributed by Ar- Urges End to Soviet Bias
gentine Jews. Some 200 contribu-
BANGOR, (JTA) — A' resolution
tions have already been received urging an end to the "religious
by the Beit H. Leivick Building and cultural restrictions and de-
Committee here which is headed p•ivations" on Soviet Jewry by
by Abraham Zak.
Soviet authorities was approved by
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delegates to the Maine State Fed-
It is not wise to threaten from erated Labor Council conventions
jail. Russian proverb.
at the request of the Jewish Labor
Committee.
The resolution also urged the
United States government 'to pm-
sue these violations of human
VIETNAM
Britain's MANCHESTER GUARDIAN has this to say:
"America's involvement . . . has trapped the United States in one
of the most barbarous wars of this century. It is destroying life
in the country that it was meant to defend. So long as it lasts, it
poisons the prospects of better relations with the Soviets. And it
diverts American attention from urgent tasks elsewhere. The bar-
barity of the war ought, by itself, to make President Johnson
pause. Fire bombing and explosive bombing of suspected villages
in the South, massive raids on targets in the North, the torture
and murder of prisoners and civilians, the uprooting of peasants
and splitting of families, the burning of craps—these have been
characteristic of the war's conduct."
You have an opportunity to show your opposition to
Johnson's war by helping the campaign of JAMES LAF-
FERTY, who is running for Congress in the 17th District
Democratic primary. Help send a voice of peace and de-
cency to Washington. Contribute your time and money to
help stop the savage destruction of a country and a people
we purport to save and let us return to the building of
our Great Society.
JAMES LAFFERTY FOR CONGRESS
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rights vigorously through various
diplomatic channels and within
the United Nations." The resolu-
tion called attention to the situa-
tion of the Jews in Russia and
noted that the AFL-CIO unit was
joining many labor, religious and
civic leaders "in condemning the
religious and cultural oppression
of Soviet Jewry."
Mapai Backs Proposal
to Keep Same COL Pay
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The Mapai-
Ahdut Avoda alignment formally
endorsed a proposal Monday un-
der which cost-of-living allowances
paid to Israeli workers in addition
to basic salaries will not be in-
creased this month despite a rise
in the cost of living index esti-
mated at between 5 and 6 per cent
over the past six months.
Normally, the allowances would
be increased every six months fol-
lowing such a rise in the index.
Under the proposal, employes
earning up to 1,400 pounds ($467)
monthly would be compensated for
the higher cost of living by in-
creasing old-age pensions and fam-
ily allowances administered by the
National Insurance Institute. The
present cost of living system would
remain in force through 1997.
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