Abba Eban's Historic June 6 and 19 United Nations
Speeches Permanently Preserved on 2 Recordings
War. There is a flagrant breach
of elementary human decency
and of international morality in
this odious comparison—Israel
with Hitler Germany. Our na-
tion never compromised with
Hitler Germany. It never signed
a pact with it as did the USSR
in 1939. To associate the name
of Israel with the accursed ty-
rant who engulfed the Jewish
people in a tidal wave of slaugh-
ter is to violate every canon of
elementary taste and fundamen-
tal truth."
History was made at the United
Nations in June and the chief his-
torian was Israel's Foreign Minis-
ter Abba Eban. His collected
speeches are certain to provide
the encyclopedic knowledge about
his country's status and the situa-
tions that have turned the Middle
East into a boiling cauldron.
During the trying weeks, when
the Soviet Union's representatives
at the UN kept attacking Israel and
disrupting the routine of the
world organization, audiences num-
bering in the millions were glued
to the radio and television sets to
hear the voice of Abba Eban.
Eban added the following as-
sertion to his condemnation of the
Soviet role:
That voice has been recorded so
that his speeches will remain un-
forgotten epics in world history.
Two of his speeches now are
available as Spoken Arts records.
One—on two sides—as SA 986 of
Spoken Arts--contains the com-
plete text of Eban's June 6 speech.
which now commands our atten-
tion and anxiety would never have
occurred. To the charge of aggres-
sion I answer that Israel's re-
sistance to the lowest ebb of its
fortunes will resound across his-
tory, together with the uprising of
our battered remnants in the
Warsaw Ghetto as a triumphant
assertion of human freedom.
From the dawn of its history the
people now rebuilding a state in
Israel has struggled often in des-
perate conditions against tyranny
and aggression. Our action on June
5 falls nobly within that tradition.
We have tried to show that
even a small state and a small
people have the right to live. I be-
lieve that we shall not be found
alone in the assertion of that right
which is the very essence of the
Charter of the United Nations."
The June 19 speech marked the
reiteration by Abba Eban of his
plea for peace. He concluded that
address by stating:
"In respect to the request for a
condemnation, I give a simple an-
swer to the Soviet representative.
Your government's record in the
stimulation of the arms race, in
the encouragement throughout the
Arab world of unfounded suspicion
concerning Israel's intentions. your
ABBA EBAN, shown delivering his historic
constant refusal to say a single
The other speech, that of June
speech at the United Nations on June 19, 1967
"The Middle East, tired of
word of criticism at any time of
19 in which he reviewed Israel's
wars, is ripe for a new emer-
status and renlied to the Soviet for the law of nations" which was uttered by Soviet Premier Alexei declarations threatening the violent
gence
of human vitality. Let the
abuses, is in two volumes—four proclaimed by Nasser in closing N. Kosygin. The Russian UN rep- overthrow of Israel's sovereignty
opportunity not fall again from
sides of the two records SA 987/ the Straits of Tiran to Israeli ship- resentative made all sorts of de- and existence—all this gravely un-
our
hands."
988 of Spoken Arts.
mands of Israel, accused Israel of dermines your claims to objectiv-
ping.
Spoken Arts Records, which in-
ity. You come here in our eyes not
It was on the second day of
Welcoming the cease-fire reso- being an aggressor, called for the
a judge or as a prosecutor, but clude outstanding educational re-
the Six-Day War, after the 15- lution. Eban then, eloquently, pro- withdrawal of the Israeli troops as
rather as a legitimate object of in- cordings, are the result of the pi-
man UN Security Council had claimed the basic principles about from occupied territories.
ternational criticism for the part oneering efforts of the president
After reviewing the history of
adopted the cease-fire resolu- "the depth and authenticity of Is-
that you have played in the som- of Spoken Arts, Inc., Dr. Arthur
tion, that Eban rose to deliver rael's roots in the life, the history, the Middle East conflict, tracing ber events which have brought our Luce Klein. All of the Spoken Arts
his great address of June 6. It the spiritual experience and the the background of a war that re- region to a point of explosive ten- records are supervised by Dr.
was in that address that he culture of the Middle East. "It was sulted from Arab threats to an- sion. If the Soviet Union had made Klein and Paul Kresh, the firm's
made the appeal: "Not back- then that he affirmed again that nihilate Israel, Eban turned to the an equal distribution of its friend- vice-president.
ward to belligerency, but for- 'there will never be a Middle East USSR, showed how Russia had ship
Among the Spoken Arts record-
amongst the peoples of the
ward to peace."
without an independent and sov- changed its attitude of friendship Middle East, if it had failed to ex- ings are Eban's readings of Psalms
shown in 1948 when Israel gained
State
of
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It was the historic speech in
ploit regional rancors and tensions and Ecclesiastes, Dr. Mordecai
In that speech he emphasized statehood, into animosity, and list- for the purposes of its own global Kamrat's "Invitation to Hebrew,"
which he criticized the speedy ac-
ed the weapons that Russia sup-
tion of U Thant in withdrawing the the inevitability of direct negoti-
policy, if it had stood in even- ' readings of Psalms by Morris Car-
UNEF troops from the Israel- ations between Israel and the plied to the Arabs, primarily to handed devotion to the legitimate novsky, "The Song of Songs" in
Egyptian border, declaring that Arab states for a permanent peace Egypt.
interests of all states, the crisis Hebrew and English.
A major portion of the June 19
the UN role becomes problematic. and not for an armistice, declar-
ing:
address was an expose of the role
He then declared:
"Israel in recent days has
"The problem of the future proved its steadfastness and vigor. of the Soviet Union in inciting to
in the Middle East. Eban then
role of a United Nations pres- It is now willing to demonstrate war
to USSR invectives, stat-
ence in co”flicts such as these. its instinct for peace. Let us build replied
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ourselves a question that has the wreckage of the old. Let us
to the Israel government the
arisen as a result of this expe- discern across the darkness the
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rience. People in our country vision of a better and a brighter
scene comparison between the
and in many countries ask: What dawn."
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Yoske Ambulance was among the first
President Johnson said that "the hot line between the United States
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Avraham Harman, who is leaving his post as Israel's Ambassador
to the U.S., was honored by the New York Board of Rabbis with a
testimonial scroll and the establishment of the "Avraham Harman
Award at the Hebrew University for outstanding literary contribu-
tions to the enhancement of the relationship between our two com-
munities, American and Israeli Jewry." (From left): Ambassador
Harman, Rabbi Edward T. Sandrow, N. Y. Board of Rabbis' presi-
dent: Jack D. Weiler, UJA leader; William Kaufman, president,
advisory council of the N. Y. Board of Rabbis.
branch of the Magen David Adom. He
installed a telephone in his apartment
at his own expense, in order to make
it easier to get in touch with him.
For seven years Yoske helped the needy
of Ashdod, and he helped hundreds of
women from Ashdod and the surround-
ings who were about to give birth.
Many tens of births took place in his
ambulance and all went off in good
order. The women of Ashbod knew that .
one could always rely upon Yoske
Ambulance. Tens of children in Ashdod
love Yoske, respect him, and come to
him. They are "his children," who
were born in his ambulance.
But Yoske Ambulance, fifty-five years'
old, has no children of his own. He is
a confirmed bachelor. He is "married"
to his ambulance and cannot part from
it.
When he left the Magen David Adom
a year ago. Yoske could not settle
down in any other work. The driver-
midwife bought an (private) ambulance
of his own. It goes without saying
that the ambulance has (bears) the
nameplate "Yoske Ambulance." Yoske's
apartment has again become a public
institution.
(Published by the Brit Ivr(t Olamit
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Foundation for Jewish Culture).
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can be obtained through local Hebrew
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