12—Friday, December 15, 1967
Ready for Peace, Can't Ignore Reality—Rabin • -- fence measures, immigration, in-
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endeavor of the past century, to
restore and establish the Third
Commonwealth," he said, "still
needs the aggregate effort of the
entire Jewish people. This is a
matter of life and death to two
and a half million Israelis; this
is the greatest test to which the
Jewish peeople have been put since
the destruction of the Second
Commonwealth."
Noting Israel's confidence that
its foremost world ally—the Jew-
ish people—will not let Israel
down, the 44-year-old, Jerusalem-
born military leader, who com-
manded all of Israel's forces dur-
ing the Six-Day War last June,
noted that "peace is not here."
"Willing and ready as we are for I
peace," he stated, "we cannot
close our eyes to reality. The
Arab states have still not recon-
ciled themselves with the fact of
Israel's existence." This was
proven by the decisions taken at
the recent Arab summit confer-
ence, at Khartoum, Sudan, he
pointed -out, adding: "It is clear
and evident that their main con-
tent is negative—no peace with
Israel. no recognition of Israel,
no sitting down to negtiations with
Israel. Regimes and leaders who,
for many years have been foster-
ing hatred for Israel, who have
invested the major portion of their
people's resurces into building up
armies to wage war on Israel—
these same regimes and leaders
continue to maintain themselves
by preaching and calling again for
revenge and build up and the de-
sire for vengeance against Is-
rael."
"The greatness and the power
of the State of Israel and its
Gen. Rabin said that it would
be a "historic mistake" to give
up any territorial gains without
a secure peace treaty. "In the
last round—the Six-Day War—we
have achieved almost perfect mili-
tary lines which, for the time be-
ing is our major achievement. It
would be a historic mistake if we
renounce them without effecting a
change in the basic relations be-
tween ourselves and the Arab
states," he said. It is "our right
to say to the Arabs: If you desire
a peace agreement, let us reach
a mutual understanding—a peace
treaty—and we shall he prepared
to withdraw to lines much more
constricted than the areas we are
now holding. But if you desire war,
continued hatred and non-recogni-
tion of Israel's existence, then we
do not give up a single yard. There
is no reason for us to hand back
to those who would attack us
again, the bridgeheads for their
renewed aggression."
Pincus told the delegates that
"millions upon millions of dollars
are needed from the UJA just to
hold the line in the field of social
welfare." He said the Six-Day
War cost Israel's people many
hundreds of millions of dollars and
now, in order to stay militarily
abreast of the rearmed and still
belligerent Arab states, Israel's
people must continue to spend
more hundreds of millions. "Is-
rael's taxpayers are making in-
credible sacrifices just to meet
this life-or-death defense burden,"
Pincus stressed, "and yet the
vast costs of minimal social serv-
ices for nearly a half-million strug-
gling immigrants must still be
faced."
The Jewish Agency head said
that, in a score of immigrant set-
tlement towns which have been
built with the help of UJA funds;
there are more than 200.000 Jew-
! ish refugees from underdeveloped
Moslem lands who still need every
form of educational and economic
aid to become fully integrated
into Israel's life. "It also has
been estimated," he said, "that
some 200,000 people in the coun-
try are living below 'the poverty
line'—and this is not what you
would call the poverty line in
America."
Rabbi Friedman, announcing that
the Israel Emergency Fund would
continue its drive in 1968, said:
"The logic behind the decision is
quite clear and simple. Israel is ,
faced with a serious military and
security problem, as a result of
the present political impasse. As
long as the Arab world maintains
its position of belligerence, the
people of Israel are forced to di-
vert all their economic strength
and resources to defense at an
enormous cost. This is the prob-
lem and obligation of the people
of Israel, and to this they have
determined to apply all their re-
sources. Nevertheless, parallel and
simultaneous with these costly de-
tegration of immigrants into the
social and economic life of the
country, education for several hun-
dred thousand immigrant children
and other essential humanitarian
and social programs wil Igo on
month after month costing hun-
dreds of millions of dollars."
The totality of this undertaking.
Rabbi Friedman emphasized, must
be the responsibility of world
Jewry because Israel's people no
longer are able to continue to do it.
Herbert J. Garon of New Or-
leans was elected chairman of the
Young Leadership Cabinet.
Baron de Rothschild, gen-
eral chairman of the Fonds So-
cial Juif Unifie, the central wel-
fare agency of the French Jew-
ish Community, told the dinner
guests that American Jewish
aid, through the UJA, re-kindled
Jewish life in Europe, "a light
that almost went out in the wake
of the Hitler era." Fisher called
the outcome of the Israel-Arab
six-day June war a miracle, the
sequel to which would be the
establishment of peace in the
Middle East. Gov . Nelson A.
Rockefeller lauded the life-saving
work of the UJA.
The flood of immigrants over-
whelmed the social welfare organi-
zation of the French Jewish com-
munity, he reported, adding that
even this year, in the aftermath
of the June war, 15,000 Jews from
Moslem countries fled to France.
French Jewry, like that of other
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free countries, made an unprece-
dented response to aid Israel dur-
ing the May-June crisis. With that
momentum, Baron Rothschild said,
the French Jewish community or-
ganized its own UJA to conduct
annual campaigns.
Gov. Rockefeller also said that
the UJA was needed more to-
, day "than at any time since
you first helped to establish the
State of Israel 20 years ago."
Ile declared Israel "must" and
"will" survive as "fresh proof
of the vitality and superiority
of democratic life."
Fisher stressed that "the second
part of the miracle" of the June
victory, the establishment of Mid-
dle East peace' "may be very
long" in coming. A half year after
that victory, he pointed out, Israel
still was standing guard in a
forced mobilization which is very
costly and which has disrupted
Israel's economy and forced cur-
tailment of progressive pro-
grams. He said these programs
had helped raise the standard of
living of Israel's 250.000 Arab citi-
zens to the highest of any Arab
imputation. Under these circum-
stances, he said, Israel could not
mile its aid program for 500,-
000 still unabsorbed Jewish immi-
gr;:nts and for 1,250.1 ,1.0 Arabs now
■■ ithin the occupied territtories.
To guarantee advancement of such
humanitarian purposes, the 1968
UJA campaign must achieve even
greater results than the 1967 drive,
he said.
army is not based on hatred,
not even towards those who seek
its destruction." Gen. Rabin
said. "You will not find in the
education of the Israelis—sol-
diers and civians alike—any ele-
ment of hatred. You will not
find a single speech nor a single
army bulletin with the slightest
intention of fostering hatred.
Our main strength is in the posi-
tive motivation and the will to
build for ourselves a nation and
a state to be proud of. For
this purpose we are ready for
everything."
Ginsberg Explains
Drive's Objectives
(nirect JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
NEW YORK—Edward Ginsberg.
newly elected general chairman of
the United Jewish Appeal, said !
Monday that the UJA's 1968 cam-
paign has been launched as a "no
limit - campaign without the usual
cash goal in order to bring home
to Jewish communities and indi-
vidual contributors the enormous
scope and dimensions of the needs
the 1968 campaign must fulfill. I
Speaking at a conference with,
and local Jewish journalists, Gins-
berg said that "with the sky the
limit" various communities will
exceed their normal quotas. just
as they did -in last June's emer-
gency fund campaign of which the
1968 drive is a continuation. He
said that if a specific cash goal
had been set, many communities ,
and contributors might revert to
the quotas that -applied to them
prior to last June's crisis.
Ginsberg differentiated between
philanthropy, which he described
as "disciplined giving" required
by society and transcending feel-
ing of responsibility and obliga-
tion that was manifest in the un-
precedented outpouring of gifts
from American Jewry last June
when it seemed that Israel was
facing extinction. He chided, how-
ever, those givers who "needed a
war to wake them up" and said it
was the UJA's task to educate
such people to their obligations.
The majority of American Jews, he
nooted, do not regard their UJA
contributions as only a responsi-
bility to their fellow Jews in Is-
rael and elsewhere but as a privi-
lege inherent in the Jewish tra-
dition.
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