All Faiths Aid Israel in Emergency

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survivors from Nazism, who told
of the determination not to permit
Ititlerism to rise anew and how
young and old in Israel enlisted to
protect their homeland.
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Jewish college students and fac-
ulty reacted strongly and demon-
stratively during the Mid-East,
crisis, Bnai Brith Hillel Founda-
tions reported.
The spirited concerns, emotional
shock waves and eagerness for
positive action that swept across
the adult Jewish community also
captured the campus.
The giving to the Israel Emer-
gency Fund has been as universal
and spontaneous as the feelings '
generating it.
In an unprecedented and histor-
ic action, the Jewish Community
Federation of Cleveland donated
61.000.000 from its endowment
fund, which had been slowly and

steadily built over decades for use
in local capital and growth pro-
jects.
Brandeis University canceled its
meeting on June 5, in favor of the
Combined Jewish Appeal rally for
the Israel Emergency Fund.
The annual meeting in New Jer-
sey of Essex County's Daughters
of Israel Pleasant Valley Home
for the Aged turned a drive to re-
tire a mortgage into a successful
emergency fund-raising function."
Chicago's Beth Emet Reform con-
gregation gave up its major fund-
raising event in favor of the Israel
Emergency Fund and turned over
$250,000; its confirmation class,
cancelling its party, contributed
$1,600.
The tiny Jewish community of
Okmulgee, Okla., deciding the rec-
ord $1,700 it had raised for the
new fund was inadequate, sold its
synagogue for an additional $4,000.
Refugee groups, their core mem-

ART BUCHWALD'S CLASSIC:

'Tiny Sovereign' to the 'Savior
of Suez': How Can I Repay You?

Art Buchwald. in a column in the
Detroit Free Press, recapitulated
occurrences in Arab lands and the
relationships among Arab rulers in
a conversation he envisioned be-
tween President Nasser and King
Hussein. Buchwald offered this ac-
count of the Nasser-Hussein dia-
logue in an article entitled "With
You as Ally, Who Needs Foes?":
While the Israelis published one
such conversation that they heard,
there were others that took place
during those four fateful days. I
heard the tape of one the other
day, and while I can't swear to its
authenticity it certainly sounded
like Nasser and Hussein to me.
It went like this:
HUSSEIN: "Gamal, my brother
and true defender, what the hell
have you done to me? You made
me lose Jerusalem. Bethlehem and
all the land west of the Jordan."
NASSER: "Well, nobody's per-
fect."

HUSSEIN: "I am not criticiz-
ing you, 0 hero of the Arab
world and valiant conqueror of
the Gulf of Aqaba, but that little
piece of paper I signed with you

last week also made me lose the
Arab Legion."
NASSER: "Little king, do not
despair. There is still much we
can do."
HUSSEIN: "Such as what, 0
mighty prophet of the Sinai?"
NASSER: "Well, you can burn
down the American Embassy for
a start. I always find when I lose
a war that there's nothing like a
good embassy fire to make people
forget."
HUSSEIN: "A good idea, 0 god
of the Gaza. I shall burn down the
U.S. Embassy. Anything else?"
NASSER: "Then you must re-
sign."
HUSSEIN: "But, savior of the
Suez, how can I resign?"

NASSER: "It is the only thing

to do. my tiny sovereign. if you
don't resign, the people will

scream for your resignation. But
if you do they will shout for you

to stay."

HUSSEIN: - How do you know
this. 0 wise one?"
NASSER: "This isn't the first
time I've lost a war."
HUSSEIN: "True leader of the
Arab bloc, tell me, how do I ex-
plain the loss of Jerusalem to my
people?"
NASSER: "Tell them Ameri-

fund; and he urged them all to do-
nate the gift money they had been
planning to give him.
Cars, furniture, household goods
and jewelry were sold from coast
to coast to raise money for the
historic drive. An engaged couple
in Boston sent in their engagement
ring "as tangible expression of
our feelings for our brethren in
Israel." A Dutch Jewish Fgmily
in Oakland, Calif., contributed
their family heirloom jewelry.
Chicago's Green Acres Country
Club closed its golf course at the
11 a.m. peak Sunday hour and con-
ducted a membership rally that
produced $1,250,000.
People have cashed in life in-
surance policies and securities,
liquidated holdings and emptied
savings accounts—from the thous-
ands down to one total savings of
$1.73.
One of the most deeply satisfy-
ing aspects of the first two weeks
of the emergency campaign was
the full-hearted participation of
non-Jews.
Large-scale gifts have come in
from essentially non-Jewish com-
panies all over the nation. The
Garden City Jewish Center in
Queens, New York, which usually
gets about 60 out for a meeting.
drew 1,000 to an emergency fund
A New Brunswick. N.J., boy rally — most of them Italian-
about to be Bar Mitzva wrote American neighbors who contri-
every invitee to the reception per- buted heavily toward the sum
sonally, saying he had asked his of $42,000 raised. Several Cath-
parents to cancel it and contrib-
ute the money to the emergency 30 — Friday, June 23, 1967

ories of tyranny and death camps
undiminished, took decisive action.
A Memphis refugee group aban-
doned its plans to erect a memor-
ial and contributed the full $15,-
000 it had collected.
Habonim of St. Louis raised
$1,000 in a day from its members,
all of modest means, and has add-
ed $8,000 since. The New. Ameri-
cans Club of Denver, composed
of former refugees, raised $11,000
in a 25-minute telephone cam-
paign.
An elderly couple living on Soc-
ial Security walked out of the sun-
shine into national UJA head-
quarters in New York to donate
the full $2,000 they had saved "for
a rainy day."
Jewish youth rose to the occasion
and acted just as sacrificially. A
Brandeis University student from
Brooklyn flew home the day be-
fore his final exams, rushed to
withdraw his hard-earned $2,500
tuition money, turned it in to the
Israeli Emergency Fund and
caught a return plane in time for
the exam. Dozens of reports of
grade and high school students
giving lunch money and after-
school earnings have been re-
ceived daily at UJA national head
quarters.

otic colleges and universities
made substantial contributions, in-
cluding $5,000 from Fordham Un-
iversity in New York. A temple
in Oceanside, N.Y., turned in $70,-
000 with the notation that most of
it came from non-Jews. In Miami,
Jewish and non-Jewish Cuban ref-
ugees were matching each other
dollar for dollar in a $50,000 drive.
An Irish-American policeman
outside a synagogue rally in New
Jersey gave $20 with the comment,
"Those Jews are doing a real
good job." Other checks have
come in steadily from former
members of the Irish Republican
Army. Christian families of Arab
background have also been repre-
sented in the outpouring of funds,
from a southern costal town, two
large Midwestern cities, the met-
ropolitan New York area and the
Pennsylvania coal region, all ac-
companied with hopes and prayers
for peace in the Middle East.
In North St. Louis, a Negro wo-
man contributed $25 "from my
heart, because some very fine
Jewish people have been so kind
to me." In Baltimore, when a Jew-
ish driver offered to pay a Negro
driver for minor accident dam-
age, he was told to give it to the
Israel Emergency Fund. A Negro
client in Atlantic City, informed
he was getting payment on a
judgement he had won, told his at-
torney: "Give it to the UJA Fund,
I want to help."

can marines and British com-
mandos wrested the city from
your brave soldiers while the
Israeli dogs cringed in their fox-
holes until the cease fire was
sounded."

HUSSEIN: "Of course. Why
didn't I think of that?"
NASSER: "Obviously you've
never lost Jerusalem before. You
see, my fragile monarch, it isn't
how you fight a war that counts,
but whr.t you say afterward that is
important. Look at me. The Is-
raelis took Gaza, the Sinai, Aqaba,
and they are sitting on the Suez
Canal. Yet the latest poll shows
my popularity is at an all-time
high."
HUSSEIN: "If you had only lost
Cairo you would live forever."
NASSER: "Say, by the way,

Arab brother, I'm drawing up a
new defense pact with Jordan.
How about coming over this
week to sign it."
HUSSEIN: "0 glorious deliverer,

to think you still want to protect
me after what you've done al-
ready."
NASSER: "Hush, now, What
good is a great UAR army if it
cannot offer assistance to a little
friend?"
HUSSEIN: "How can I ever re-
pay you?"
NASSER: "Could you loan me
the use of an airplane until
Thursday?"

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