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Sabbath Scriptural Selections

This Sabbath, the 14th day of Tanzuz, 5727, the following scriptural selections

will he read in our synagogues:

Pentateuchal portion, Num. 25:10-30:1. Prophetical portion, 1 Kings 18:46-19:21.

Candle lighting, Friday, July 21, 8.44 p.m.

VOL. 1.1, No. 18

Page Four

July 21, 1967

Israel's Problems: Approaches to Solutions

Israel's victory on the battlefields was so includes many thousands of Arabs who, im-
quick and decisive that it is safe to say that poverished, felt they could gain from inter-
during the brief war there really weren't any national aid and settled with refugees in
battlefields. Now they are emerging. Now their camps. The actual number of refugees
there are problems that were not so visible includes at least 70 per cent or more who
during the challenging months — years! — are younger than the State of Israel. But
when Israel was in danger of extinction and the hatred for Israel has been imbedded in
the small nation had to gird for war in order all of them.
to survive.
Now, being excellently treated, there is
During the years of tension and uncertain- a peaceful relationship between Jews and
ty there were few friends—if any!—who act- Arabs in the Old City of Jerusalem and
ed or even spoke up in Israel's defense. It wherever refugees can mingle with Israelis.
was a lone battle and the only certain friend At a meeting at the Overseas Press Club
was the Jewish people. There were times in New York last week, at which reporters Einstein's Zionism Noted
when the Jewish community was unaware of described their experiences during the week-
what was transpiring, and it took the final long war, Hugh Mulligan, AP war corres-
hours of grave danger, during which all the pondent who was in EM Gev kibutz when Lord Snow Depicts Nine World
Arabs spoke only of annihilation when they it was under mortar attack, told of 11 Gen-
addressed themselves to Israel, and it took tiles from abroad who elected to remain Giants in His 'Variety of Men'
a great crisis to create unity. Now there there during the fighting and a German
C. P. Snow shares with his readers his impressions of a number
is the problem of retaining this unity, of youth "who declared that if anyone must
educating the nations of the world not to die there he should be the first." The Over- of giants whose creative labors or their leadership on the diplomatic
speak of Israel as a trigger-happy people— seas Press Club Bulletin, carrying the an- scene have influenced world affairs.
"Variety of Men," published by Charles Scribner's Sons, is an out-
there hasn't been a single celebration of the alysis of that exchange of experiences, re- standing
work, and Lord Snow emerges from it again as one of the
victory because Israel is and must remain ported as follows:
most creative literary figures of our time.
somber!—and of getting people to realize
"Mulligan, who covered the war in the
Albert Einstein, Lloyd George, Rutherford, G. H. Hardy, H. G.
that basic solutions are demanded of the Sinai Peninsula as far as the Suez Canal, Wells, Dag Hammarskjold, Stalin, Winston Churchill and Robert Frost,
embattled state upon whose shoulders is into Syria, and at the Allenby Bridge in Jor- men whose works and whose guidance of their nations' affairs left
placed the responsibility for refugees, for dan, mentioned that at no time did he see indelible marks on world history, are evaluated. This is not a collection
a crippled economy, for an industrially-im- any evidence of Arab prisoners being mis- of biographies but a series of commentaries on the scientific, govern-
poverished condition due to war, for de- treated by Israeli soldiers. This was af- mental and literary skills of the men under review. Lord Snow had
met all of these men except Stalin. He recalls many stories about the
pleted manpower taken from the farms, firmed by Charles Harbutt, another member personalities
thereby imperiling Israel's agricultural status of the panel, who covered the war in all the reader. he describes and he leaves an indelible impresson upon
as well. sectors as a photographer for Newsweek and
His Stalin story includes the details about "the doctors'
This is not a time for gloating, and we Magnum Photos. Both said also that Egyp-
plot", one "that is difficult to regard as sane." Lord Snow asserts
"it was a lunatic web of persecution, like the pictures that
are yet to have proof that Israelis have in tian officers and other Arabs in high posi-
paranoiacs often draw."
any way abused privileges. tions questioned did not believe that the
Continuing his story, Lord Snow states: "Stalin died before the
The time had come to affirm the rights US Air Force participated in the fighting,
doctors
could be killed, and the first act of the post-Stalin regime was
and the claim was used deliberately to manip- to vindicate
to life and liberty. and they acted.
them. It was lucky he died in time. For otherwise there
There was an alternative: to yield to ulate the thinking of the Arab masses."
would have been another series of purges, with Jews the victims ...
From all quarters come reports of the In his earlier years he had shown no signs of personal anti-Semitism:
the threats of destruction, and Jews would
have been admired as martyrs! It's an old good treatment accorded to Arabs by Israel.
it would have been impossible for one
story: if Jews had consented to disappear Now Israel has the major responsibility of
brought up on Marx and Lenin. True, some
from the face of the earth, what wonderful dealing with the refugee probletn. It is
of his enemies, Trotsky, Kamenev, Zinoviev,
our conviction that if Israel is given that
were Jewish. But so were a high proportion
objects they would be in museums!
of the original revolutionaries. So was
But Israel, and world Jewry, have no in- assignment it can and will solve the refugee
Kaganovich, who was a life-long supporter.
problems with the aid of the vast sums of
tention of becoming museum pieces!
Stalin
knew better than anyone the primitive
Therefore the right to life and liberty money spent by the United States through
anti-Semitism of the illiterate peasants from
must be recognized—and the demonstrations the United Nations.
whom he sprang, the anti-Semitism endemic
Unfortunately—tragically—the Arabs do
of friendship from unbiased Christians give
through Russian history. But it was only
us courage to believe that there is a proper not seem ready to sit at one diplomatic
towards the end, when the remnants of
ecumenism based on the recognition of all table with Israel to talk peace. That is why
training, ideology, reason itself had snap-
it is so necessary that the international poli-
the basic humanitarian rights for all.
ped, that he came to share it himself."
It is in recognition of such basic rights tical game for power, for the quest for naval
This conclusion is not too convincing.
that we are convinced that the existing prob- bases—as is the case with the USSR—should
Communists today, like Stalin, show evi-
dence of having inherited anti-Semitism
lems can be solved, that the refugee issue end. When that ends, peace will be in
Einstein
from Czarist times, and Stalin was no
can be settled, that all the peoples in the sight—provided those who are bargaining
to the basic rule. But Lord Snow's view is interesting
Middle East can, as they should, live in for power stop providing arms to the de- exception
nevertheless.

harmony, benefiting from mutual accord. feated monarchs and dictators and insist
The refugee problem can be solved. There on order in the Middle East.
We are confident that such an order can
have been exaggerations. The actual maxi-
mum number of Arabs who had fled from be attained, that Israel can lead the entire
Israel contrary to the Israelis' appeals that Middle East towards an era of tranquility.
they remain was 540,000. The padded num- But Israel must be given that opportunity.
ber of approximately 1,300,000 now quoted Will that time come within our lifetime?

Vatican-Israel Jerusalem Negotiations

In spite of all the anger, vituperation,
name-calling and abuse leveled at Israel, there
is an excellent chance and all hope that good
relations will be established between Israel
and the Vatican vis-a-vis Jerusalem.
What matters is not the unified city in-
sofar as such negotiations are concerned but
the status of the Holy Places.
In that regard the Israeli prime minister,
Levi Eshkol, has stated emphatically that
Israel is ready at all times to concur with
the wishes of all religious denominations to
have their religious places placed under their
control.
The Vatican is receiving full right–to su-
pervise and to regulate the Christian holy
sights. It is to be hoped that the many
Christian denominations will themselves show

a desire for such accord and will cooperate
with whatever decisions are made in the
conferences Israel is holding with the Vati-
can. Then the entire problem will be solved,
regardless of the abuse that comes from the
godless Russians who have suddenly become
concerned over house of worship or from the
misled United Nations representatives from
Latin American and Asian countries.
Just rights are being accorded by Israel
also to Moslems, and it stands to reason that
freedom of worship will be universal and not
unilateral.
Meanwhile Israel is exerting all required
energies to improve the social status of all
Jerusalemites. A new day of hope, peace
and social justice has dawned for the Holy
City of David.

Albert Einstein's Zionism is touched upon in the fascinating
essay about the great scientist. Lord Snow states in this respect:
"Throughout the twenties he made himself the champion of good
causes. He became a Zionist, though his religious thinking was
quite un-Judaic" he was on the side of Zion, out of an ultimate
loyalty and also because the Jews were the insulted and injured
of this world. He spent a lot of time trying to promote interna-
tional pacifism." And on the score of Einstein's religious attitudes
a footnote asserts: "To a Gentile, his moral thinking often seemed
strongly Judaic."
There is an earlier reference to Einstein's early life, his unhappy

first marriage, and Lord Snow states: "Einstein had to become a state
official of the Hapsburg Empire, in order to do which he had to

declare his religion. He had lost all connections with Judaism: but
anti-Semitism was strongly in Austria, and that was enough reason
reason for Einstein to insist on registering himself—Israelite."
(From his first marriage Einstien had two sons—one a scientist,
the other apparently an unhappy case. His second marriage to a
cousin was a happy one).
Einstein's role in the development of the atomic bomb is dis-
cussed — Einstein's name having served to bring him together with
Franklin Roosevelt through the famous letter. But Einstein was given
too much credit for the bomb itself. What Lord Snow does is to
indicate Einstein's warning made to a TV audience in 1950 when
he declared:
"A weird aspect of this development lies in the apparently
inexorable character. Each step appears as the inevitable conse-
quence of the one that went before. And at the end, looming
ever clearer, lies annihilation."
Einstein the good, the gentle, the wise is depicted in this excellent
essay. The other delineations of the men chosen for "Variety of Men"
are equally impressive, making Snow's latest work a great book.

