Eric Hoffer Writes:
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*If Israel Perishes, the World Perishes*
If Israel were to perish, it
would mean the holocaust for the
entire world, Eric Hoffer, long-
shoreman-philosopher, warns. In
the first of a series of articles in
the Detroit News, which he has
Joined as guest columnist, Hoffer
wrote Sunday:
"The Jews are a peculiar people:
things permitted to other nations
are forbidden to the Jews.
"Other nations drive out thou-
sands, even millions, of people and
there is no refugee problem. Rus-
sia did it; Poland and Czech-
oslovagia did it; Turkey drove out
a million Greeks, and Algeria a
million Frenchmen; Indonesia
threw out Heaven knows how many
Chinese—and no one says a word
about refugees.
"But in the case of Israel, the dis-
placed Arabs have become eternal
refugees. Everyone insists that Is-
rael must take back every single
Arab.
"Other nations when victorious
on the battlefield dictate peace
terms. But when Israel is vic-
torious it must sue for peace.
Everyone expects the Jews to be
the only real Christians in the
world,
"Other nations when they are
defeated survive and recover. But
should Israel be defeated it would
be destroyed. Had Nasser trium-
phed last June he would have
wiped Israel off the map, and no
one would have lifted a finger to
save the Jews.
"No commitment to the Jews by
any government, including our own
is worth the paper it's written on.
There is a cry of outrage all over
the world when people die in Viet-
nam or when two Negroes are
executed in Rhodesia. But when
Hitler slaughtered Jews no one
remonstrated with him.
"The Swedes, who are ready to
break off diplomatic relations with
America because of what we do
in Vietnam, did not let out a peep
when Hitler was slaughtering Jews.
"The Jews are alone in the
world. If Israel survives it will
be solely because of Jewish ef-
forts and Jewish resources.
"Yet at this moment Israel is
our only reliable and uncondition-
al ally. We can rely more on
Israel than Israel can rely on us.
And one has only to imagine what
would have happened last summer
had the Arabs and their Russian
backers won the war to realize
how vital the survival of Israel is
to America and the West in gen-
eral.
"I have a premonition that will
not leave me: as it goes with Israel
so will it go with all of us. Should
Israel perish the holocaust will be
upon us.
"Israel must live!"
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