Catholic Writer Reveals Row Arabs Aimed at Israel's Destruction, Tells About Moving Reunion of Jew, Arab The Pilot, official organ of the Archdiocese of Boston, last week commenced a series of articles on the situation in the Middle East, by Father Henry A. Atwell, news editor of the Catholic Courier of Rochester, N.Y. The Pilot intro- duced the series with a front page SHALOM—a two-column hope for peace headed with the Shalom in Hebrew. The first article by Fr. Atwell in the July 22 issue of Pilot is headed "Legacy of Fear, Bitter- ness Bar Middle East Peace" and is accompanied by a photograph showing a deeply moving, warm reunion in Maale HaHamisha near Jerusalem of two friends who had not seen other for 19 years — the Israeli Jacob Virbue and the Arab Ahmad Azu Aziz. In his article Fr. Atwell stated: "When the Isr a e li forces fought their way across Mount Scopus and the Mount of Olives, historic hills overlooking ancient Jerusalem, Jewish soldiers cap- tured a hotel run by an Arab Christian woman. "They used the hotel as a bar- racks while the frightened wom- an hid in the cellar for two days. "She was able to peek between cracks out a boarded up cellar window and noticed the young Israelis weren't as frightening as she expected them to be. "Hunger finally forced her out and when the soldiers asked her why she had been so afraid, she told them. 'I thought you would do to us what we would have done to you if we had won.' "In the week we were in Israel, I didn't meet anyone who didn't believe that the Arabs meant what they had been saying for twenty years — that they were going to push Israel into the sea, that they would annihilate every Jew." Describing the runion of a Jew and an Arab in a kibutz, Fr. At- well wrote: "The kibutz in Hebrew was known as Maaleh HaHamisha- the Hill of the Five—named for five of the pioneer group who had been killed by Arab gunfire and in memory of others wounded by sporadic shooting in later years. "Yet, even as the president of the kibutz, Jacob Virbue, was showing us all this grim evidence of the hazards of life there during the past two decades, an Arab, his white burnoos shielding his head from the hot sun, came up to him. "We then witnessed a very emo- tional moment. "The Jew and the Arab paused briefly to look at each other and then embraced and only with dif- ficulty kept from weeping for joy. "The two bad been friends 30 years ago, before diplomats di- vided their land. For the past 20 years their nations raised an im- passable barrier between them ... a barrier which couldn't, however, divide their hearts. "We were invited to the kibutz canteen to share the festive occa- sion .. . with grapefruit juices. "Later Louis Ouzer, my photog- rapher companion, asked the kib- utz president, "That Arab friend of yours—he's been an "enemy" for 20 years—can you really trust him to come over here so freely?' "'Look into his face,' the kib- utz president said, 'what do you think.' "Fear in the heart of one per- son, bitterness in another heart, total trust in that of still another —of such opposites must Jews and Arabs ultimately forge some sensi- ble solution to the agony and the hopes of these people." Michigan's Congressman Broomfield to Join Rep. Farbstein on Mission to Middle East House Foreign Affairs Committeeman to Study Israel Security Situation WASHINGTON (JTA) — T h e House Committee on Foreign Af- fairs announced that it is sending a two-man, bipartisan delegation to Israel to study the current situa- tion and make recommendations on policy. The delegation will be com- posed of Rep. Leonard Farbstein, New York Democrat, and Rep. William S. Broomfield, Michigan Republican. The Congressmen REP. WILLIAM BROOMFIELD will meet with Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, and other leaders. They will study prospects of Arab-Israel peace and make pro- posals to advance regional stability and security. The two Congress- men said they would particularly examine the new administration of Jerusalem and the status of the holy places. They will view the Arab refugee situation, especially on the West Bank of the Jordan River. The Congressmen intend to visit the cease-fire lines and evalu- ate the truce supervision organiza- tion. Another member of the commit- tee, Rep. Robert Taft, Jr., Ohio Republican, said that he would examine Israel's security situation and relations with its neighbors "in view of the unrelenting Arab belligerency." The Administration has embark- ed on a "backdoor method" of re- suming aid to the Arab nations that severed diplomatic relations with America, Rep. J. Herbert Burke, Florida Republican, a member of the House Agriculture Committee, charged in a House speech. Rep. Burke said the U.S. De- partment of Agriculture has in- prominent Arab citizen to join vited bids for $20,000,000 in grains together in raising the Argen- to be given to Sudan, a nation that tine flag. declared war on Israel and severed The Arab communities' in Argen- ties with the United States. He said tina have been subjected to a that the aid deal was being made heavy anti-Jewish and anti-Israel through Somaliland, which was propaganda barrage directed by the acting as a "front" for Sudan. Arab legations and consulates here. A U.S. Commerce Department Members of the Argentine Arab publication, "International Com- community were accused at vari- merce," reported that while the ous times of collaborating with the Middle East business situation re- anti-Semitic Argentine neo-Nazi mained unsettled, "U.S. trade with organizations. Israel seems to be about as usual, with no special problems being re- Five Burmese Join UN Force of Observers in Canal Area ported." UNITED NATIONS (JTA)—Five Negotiations opened on a request Burmese army officers arrived in by the Israel government for large- Jerusalem Monday to join the Unit- scale U.S. food assistance, the State Department made known. ed Nations team of observers in the Suez Canal area. They will take The accord, when concluded, would provide Israel with its first offi- up their posts after being briefed by Lt. Gen. Odd Bull, the secre- cial aid from America since the tary-general's personal represen- outbreak of hostilities. tative, who is directing the cease- Israel was said to be seeking fire observation operation. agricultural commodities valued at The Middle East crisis issue was nearly $30,000,000 under the terms of the Public Law 480 known as the formally returned to the Security Council Monday when the secre- "Food For Peace" program. tary-general transmitted to that Argentinians Protest Gomulka's body the records of the emergency Attack on Jews in Poland special session of the general as- BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — A sembly which had struggled with special convention of Polish Jews the question from June 17 to July living in Argentina adopted a reso- 21. No meeting of the council has lution July 19 protesting against an been called to deal with the ques- attack on Jews in Poland for hav- tion. ing welcomed Israel's victory over The Egyptian delegation com- the Arabs last month. plained to the secretary-general The attack had been made by that Israel was attempting "to Wladyslaw Gomulka, Communist escape its obligations under the Party chief in Poland, who de- Hague Convention of 1954" on nounced these Jews as "fifth the preservation of cultural prop- columnists." erty in the areas occupied by The convention was addressed by Israel. Ambassador Moshe Alon of Israel Israel, in another letter to the and Chief Rabbi David Kahane. secretary-general, rejected Jordan's Abraham Mitelberg, Buenos Aires charge that captured documents publisher, presided at the meeting. published by Israel, establishing Efforts to bring about a rap- that Jordanian forces had been or- prochement between the Jewish dered to kill Israeli civilians, were and Arab communities in Argen- forgeries. The Israelis offered the tina have been meeting with an documents for inspection. encouraging degree of success, it was reported here. In the city of Tacuman, leading physicians of Arab and Jewish de- scent signed a statement calling Pot your meaty where your heart is for peace and harmony in the Mid- IN AMERICA dle East between Israel and its Arab neighbors. A similar state- ment is now in preparation in Buenos Aires, to be signed by prominent Argentine Arab and Jewish personalities. In San Rafael, in Mendoza pro- Invest In vince, during a patriotic cere- mony, the mayor asked a leader U.S. SAVINGS BONDS of the Jewish community and a THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, July 28, 1967-11 Majority of Brazilians B ack Israel in Conflict RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — More than 98 per cent of the resi- dents of Rio de Janeiro believe that if Brazil had to choose sides between Israel and the Arab states, the choice should be to support Israel, according to a public opinion poll here by Jornal de Brasil, the country's largest morn- ing newspaper. The poll showed that 75 per cent of the respondents believed that, even if Israel may have been first to open fire in last month's war with the Arabs, Israel was right because the war had been provoked by Egypt. On the issue of returning Is- raeli-occupied areas to the van- quished Arab states, 58 per cent said Israel should do so, 38 per cent opposed return of the oc- cupied areas, and the rest could not make up their minds. 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