Fear for Israel May Avert Third World War
By PHILIP. SLOMOVITZ
been called up for service, many
EILAT, Israel—This is the most automobiles were requisitioned,
southern point in Israel, and while • taxi services were reduced to half.
But there was no panic and the
there isn't a man in uniform in
sight this could well be the start- fear that the news of a possible
new
conflict did not affect tourism.
ing point of the third world war.
While Israel's sovereignty ends Large numbers of visitors kept
here, the passage of Israeli boats arriving and their schedules were
120 miles south from here and kept intact.
While, at the same time, Moslem
from the Red Sea on which this
desert town of Israel is located mosques reverberated with cries
may well prove to be the crucial for a jihad—a holy war—against
and deciding factor in a war- Israel. the only demonstrative
religious note involved in the new
threatening situation.
United Nations Expeditionary critical situation was the bless-
Forces were stationed in 1956 at ing that was given Israeli troops
Gaza and Sharm el-Sheikh, the on the Sabbath by Rabbi David
seaway through which Israeli Peretz of Tiberias who went so
far, in a deviation from Orthodox
shipping • has gone on without
piety, to visit reservists on buses
hindrance since Israel removed :
her troops after the Sinai Cam- transporting them to assure them
that
it was a mitzva—a blessing
paign at the insistance of President
to travel on the Sabbath when de-
Eisenhower and the then UN Sec-
fense of one's life and the state's
retary General Dag Hammar-
security is involved.
skjold. While UNEF troops were
A major challenge in the newly-
stationed at Sharm el-Sheikh. the
developed situation is directed at
attainment of freedom of passage
the United Nations. The fact that
through it by Israel. which re-
Ahmed Shukeiri's so-called Pales-
sulted also in establishment tine Liberation Army is taking
of the enlarged Eilat Port. was over control of the Egyptian front
the great victory Israel attained
at the Gaza border is a point in
in their war of 1956 in which she proof of the fallacy of the en-
had Great Britain and France as
couragement that has been given
partners.
Now, with the UNEF removed
not only from the Gaza Strip but
also from Sharm el-Sheikh. the
test will come from Gamal Abdel
Nasser's decisions relative to the
status of Israel's Sharm el-Sheikh
shipping. Should the Egyptian dic-
tator decide to interfere with such
shipping. a war may be inevitable,
in spite of the presence in that'
area of the U.S. Sixth Fleet. If
the Egyptian ruler should decide
to keep his .eyes shut to Israel's •
maritime movements. there will
be a continued cold war but active
fighting will be avoided.
There are other dangers. In '
the event the new situation results
in a renewal of Fedayeen infiltra-
tions from Egypt and El Fatah
sabotage by invaders from Syria.
and should such activities result •
in mass deaths of Israelis. Israel
will not sit back idly and a serious
conflict is certain to develop.
The surprise action by Nasser
which resulted in the withdrawal
of the UNEF. naturally created
serious concern. Tel Aviv. a city
teeming nightly with cafe life and
teenagers' mass associations so-
cially, assumed the aspect of a
deserted city commencinic with the
May 17 news •of a new crisis in
Middle East developments. The
busiest night of the week—Sat or-
day—saw Tel Aviv as virtually
abandoned by its youth. They had
the Palestine Liberation Organiza-
tion at the UN. Jordan's King
Hussein had repudiated the PLO
and Shukeiri's activities have been
repudiated. To have permitted him
to function, while he was threaten-
ing the United States with an al-
liance with the Vietcong, was
viewed by many as a grave danger.
Now Shukeiri and his PLO have
come home to roost—and they
could well instigate the Arab peo-
ples who are unaware of the
existing dangers to involve Israel
and the entire free world in a
third world conflict.
•
Arabs Try to Break Up
Frisco Pro-Israel Rally
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA)—Police
were called to break up a disturb-
ance Sunday in Golden Gate Park
when about 100 Arabs tried to dis-
!runt an Israel Independence Day
celebration.
The Arabs marched into the area
where 1,500 were celebrating the
oc ca s io n, carry4g anti-Israel
placards. Some of the Jews tore
the placards away from them and
destroyed them. A police detail
I separated the two groups and
ended the melee.
Friday, May 26, 1967-3
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Cooper-Faxon Resolution Passes
State House of Representatives
1 State Reps. Daniel S. Cooper of the borders of the State of Israel
and Jack Faxon introduced a re- and to do anything necessary for
l .- • t dpreservation
solution in the State Legislature' o peace in the Middle East.
requesting the President and Con- , I The resolution was passed im-
press to reaffirm their commit- ' mediately due to the emergency
ment to preserving the integrity nature of the situation.
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