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November 08, 1968 - Image 2

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1968-11-08

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Purely Commentary

Philip
A Challenge to the Nations of the World
SIOMOYitZ
to Expose the Persecutions Among Moslems
by Since the June 1267 war, approximate) y
Moslem countries will be Jeopardized
t
have Egypt expelled
n
d from or vohri.
the establishment of a Jewish state" was 1,500
tarily
persons due to
made good-
leave
on
the
S.
S.
Cynthia
on September
Absorption
e
n
r
ipm
liz
c)
19,
1968,
is
Jewish
refugees
already
had
been
denaturalized
of t° the
The number in--
roughly of the same order of magnitude as and deprived of any legal status in Egypt

By

It's pitiful — the obstructions in the path of peace in the Middle East
and the spread of the lie with the aid of the Soviet Union!
A typical example of the manner in which the very basis of humani-
tarian efforts is being destroyed by the lie is the Arab repetition of the un-
truth that Israel is torturing and oppressing Arab internees and prisoners.
It has been disproven in the International Red Cross reports, and Israel has the number of Arabs whom the Arab when their departure was suddenly for-
consistently provided data to show how this type of libel is being disseminated League's invasion of Israel in 1948 induced bidden.
er
ftehraetncten
to depart. The major difference
in Hitler-fashion of repeating the lie until it is believed as truth.
been h eel jde7nisjhail mfoernovin p is ris m oo n ntn h o s, w thh ou a g v h e
very material one — is
Failure of the United Nations to endorse
they
were
guilty
of
no
offense
nor
charged with any.
an investigation of the Arab persecutions Egypt and Iraq should be thoroughly of the Jews who came to Israel,
totally and constructively absorbed into the The Egyptian government has not even
of Jews in Moslem countries, while one-

probed. But the Arab states will not permit
of accusing them
sided "decisions" have been arrived at to the Gussing mission to study conditions country, the financial burden being borne gone through the pretense
i release, so it is reliably
probe Israel's actions emerges as one of of their surviving Jewish communities, and mainly by the state of Israel and the Jew of anything. Their
reported,
requires
the
signature
of Presi-
the major indictments of the international another resolution was adopted by the UN ish people.
Most of the newcomers arrived without dent Nasser.
organization. Admitting the great necessity —on Sept. 27, 1968 — a thoroughly un-
in)
In
Iraq,
a
similar
picture
of perse-
for a talking machine that stands in the acceptable one because it limits proposed means or skills, and a vast refugee re-
to cution and hardship emerges. The Govern-
path of a shooting one, the UN nevertheless
investigations only to Israel-administered habilitation program was necessary
give them meat Gazette No. 1562 (March 1968) pub.
train
them;
receive,
house
and
has proven to be a great fiasco. As long
areas. This negated the resolution of June
as the prejudices of the Arab-Communits 1967 and the interpretation of U Thant in immediate employment and find them fished Law No. 10 "for the supervision and
bloc can prevail, it doesn't matter what his report of Sept. 15, 1967. Nevertheless, steady jobs in agriculture and industry; management of the properties of denatnral-
the facts are. And the insistence upon in- the libelous propaganda against Israel con- build new villages and development towns; )zed Jews." It supplements a similar law
vestigating Israel while refusing to probe tinues to find outlets in anti-Israel propa- establish and expand public social and edu- (No. 64, July 1967) and lays down among
the Arabs is an indication of the lack of ganda mills, including Christian periodicals cational services; and speed up social and its provisions that "authorities shall abstain
Matter of from carrying out any transaction of sale
sincerity.
which should know better. (The Christian cultural integration. Within a
True: the fact that there is constant Century is among the offenders). Therefore years, those who were once penniless of immovable properties belonging to a
became
skilled
farmers
and work- Jew." By these laws, it is impossible for
talk without action has prevented shooting it is vital that the facts should be known. refugees
building and settling of a Jew in Iraq today to sell or otherwise
wars in many areas, including the Middle
Data gathered for us by responsible ers. helping in the once
barren areas, and dispose of any immovable property without
East; but failure to act for peace has researchers indicts the Arab lie-spreaders 485 new villages in
made the UN an instrument against peace. and admonishes the UN not to fall prey to sneeding the development of an industrial the permission of the minister of the in-
labor
force
amounting
to a quarter of a terror. They prevent government offices
Why isn't there the recognition of Is-
false propaganda. We present these re-
and private businesses from paying out
rael's justified insistence that any special searched facts here as follows:
million workers.
sums due to Jews, with the exception of
representative of the UN secretary general
Persecuted
Remnant
in
Arab Lands
d)
JEWS IN ARAB COUNTRIES ARE
to inquire into the welfare of the civilian
i) The few thousand Jews left in the small salary allowances.
VICTIMS OF INCREASING
In the period since the hostilities of 1967,
Arab lands of the Middle East have been
populations should also include a thorough
PERSECUTION
made into virtual hostages. With the out- more than 100 Jewish heads of families
examination of the fate of Jews in Arab a) Shrunken Communities
countries? In June of 1967, as part of the
In 1948, there were a total of 350,000 break of the Six-Day War in June 1967, a and community leaders have suffered de-
dilly-dallying of the UN Security Council Jews residing, most of them for genera- number of Arab governments ordered the tention at one time or another. The govern-
and the unending speeches of the Russian
tions, in Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, arrest of the Jewish males, the confisca- ment refuses to allow Jews to emigrate.
representatives at that time, when venom
Libya, Yemen and Aden. By May 1967, on Lion of their property, the rescinding of Official incitement on radio and television
was spread against Israel and the Jewish
the eve of the Six-Day War, their number whatever civil rights they still enjoyed, and and in the press is unrelenting. The popu.
people, a special representative was as- had dwindled to 19,000, as the following turned a blind eye on the mob attacks to lace has been Instigated to boycott Jewish
signed to examine the existing situation
which they were subjected. The govern- citizens. The authorities threaten murder
table shows:
ments unleashed virulent anti-Jewish cam- to extort large sums. Jews have lost their
affecting civilian populations in a war-fern
area. Dr. Nils-Goran Gussing was assigned JEWISH POPULATIONS IN MIDEAST
paigns in the state-controlled press, radio jobs; their telephones have been taken
ARAB COUNTRIES
to that post and when he asked U Thant
and television. At the Islamic Congress away; their businesses sequestered; and
Pre-1948
May 1967 held in Amman in September 1967, it was their right to attend universities has been
for an opinion whether his role as UN's
120,000
2,500
Iraq
special representative should embrace Jews
resolved that "The Jews of the Moslem denied. Jews are prohibited from leaving
Egypt
80,000
2,500
in Arab lands, U Thant replied affirmative-
countries, if it be shown that they have their areas of residence and have to carry
4,000
30,000
Syria
ly, and he recorded his reply in his report
any contact with Zionism or Israel, will be special identity cards.
Lebanon
6,000
6,000
of Sept. 15, 1967, as follows:
regarded as enemies of Islam ... All Moe-
iv) In Syria, Jews are not allowed to
Libya
35,000
4,000
"Since the outbreak of the recent
lem peoples . . . must boycott the Jews travel beyond a mile and a half outside

Yemen
70,000
hostilities, Israel has expressed concern
and treat them as sworn enemies."
Damascus. Having been ousted from their
9,000
Aden
138
about the treatment of Jewish minorities,
ii) In Egypt, all Jews, regardless of places of employment, they live, for the
particularly in certain Arab states. Upon
nationality, were compelled to register with most part, herded into ghettos, on whatever
TOTAL
350,000
19,138
his arrival, the Special Representative
the authorities at the end of May 1967. savings they might have. Jewish teachers
b) Causes of Exodus
was approached on this subject by the
After June 5, 1967, all Jewish males over in Damascus have been replaced by Arabs.
The history of the Jewish communities 18, many of them aged, were arrested. The Jewish charitable institutions have all
Israel Government. The Special Repre-
in some of these countries goes back to When first taken into custody, most Jews but closed down, since their sources of in-
sentative, not being sure whether this
Bible times. Jews have lived in Egypt, were beaten, whipped, abused and denied come abroad have been sealed off. A vir-
particular humanitarian problem should
Syria and Iraq since the days of the First food.
be inquired into under his terms of refer-
teal curfew has been introduced, and
ence, consulted the Secretary-General.
Temple. In some eras, they enjoyed toler-
Those eventually freed had to forfeit checks are made to assure that Jews are
ance; in others, they were subject to their property and nationality and leave in their homes by 10 p.m. Those still going
The Secretary-General informed him that
the provisions of Security Council resolu-
persecution. With the rise of modern Arab Egypt with only their personal belongings. to work must register with the police on
tion 237 (1967) might properly be inter-
nationalism, and particularly since 1948, Hundreds of Jews are still held in custody leaving and returning. They are compelled
preted as having application to the
the Jews of these countries became in- near Cairo. Any Jews yet living in Egypt to carry identity cards marked "Jew."
treatment, at the time of the recent war
creasingly exposed to official loss of rights, exist in misery without means of livelihood Jewish shops and businesses are officially
and as a result of that war, of both Arab
confiscation of property and frequent im- and are in dire need of help. boycotted. The minister of defense (Circu-
and Jewish persons in the states which
prisonment. Pogroms became common-
Until September, Jewish non-prisoners lar No. 4, February 1968, Ref. 26-27-2)
are directly concerned because of their
place, and the Jews of the Middle East were allowed to leave the country. On Sep- listed all Jewish merchants and forbade
participation in that war."
became practically outlaws.
*ember 19, however, a group of 26 Jewish army personnel to deal with them. There
Egypt and Syria refused to cooperate,
In most instances, flight to Israel be- men, women and children set to depart is a total ban on Jewish emigration.
and the other Arab countries went along came their only escape. By 1960, more from Alexandria aboard the S. S. Cynthia
e) The Arab governments oppose any
on a policy of disruption and interference than half a million Jews from Arab League were suddenly told that they would not be United Nations investigation of the oppres-
with efforts for peace, and although UN states (including North Africa) had arrived permitted to leave. The Egyptian authori- sion of Jews in their lands because of the
Secretary General U Thant renewed his in Israel. (Natural increase has brought ties have decided that no Jews, inside extent of that oppression. They have
request for an agreement on this issue, their figure to about 1,000,000). In hardly prison or out, now shall be allowed to banned not only UN representatives from
as late as last April, proposals for coopera- more than a decade, the historic communi- leave Egypt. This applies to Jews who hold looking into the problem, claiming (as did
tion to implement the UN resolution for ties of Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Libya and Ye- Egyptian citizenship, to Jews who are the Nazis in their day) that their treatment
an investigation of conditions remained
men were all but totally eliminated, the nominally stateless though their families of Jews is an internal matter. They have
unworkable.
Jews being compelled to leave behind them have lived in Egypt for generations, and also
refused to allow delegates of the Inter-
It should be made known as widely as their valuables and assets. Many traveled even
to Jews who hold foreign nationality national Red Cross and other humanitarian
possible, in order to offset the Arab propa- with little more than what they could carry if their nationality was acquired
after
organizations
visit the prisons and concen-
Banda, that in principle the UN resolution in their satchels. The threat of the head June 1967. Thus, the small Jewish remnant *ration camps
in which the Jews have been
was accepted by Israel, with a provision of the Egyptian delegation in the UN in in Egypt, about
a result of last year's hostili-
1,000
today,
is
still
being
detained
as
that the status of Jews in Syria, Lebanon, 1947 that "The lives of a million Jews in held hostage by the Egyptian government.
ties. •

New USSR. Peril for Czech Jews as Zionist Uogey Raised
By ALFRED WOLFMANN

(Copyright 1968, JTA, Inc.)

PRAGUE —The Jews of Prague
are amazingly calm in face of a
storm that has been brewing ever
since the Soviet invasion Aug. 21,
which may break any day. In fact,
it seems inevitable. The Russians
and their Czech Stalinist support-
ers are planning a series of "show
trials" in the style of the Slansky
trials of the 1950s in which "Zionist
conspiracy" will be the main
charge and Czech Jews the chief
victims.
The trials are being pressed on
Czechoslovak authorities by the ,
Soviet Union which intends to use
them as a justification of the inva-
sion and occupation of Czecho-
slovakia. The world knows, of
course, that the invasion came be-
cause Moscow could not tolerate

2 — Friday, November 8, 1968

the liberalization measures and person. But it serves the Soviets this stage of
their lives.
reforms undertaken by the regime and their satellites as a convenient
But there is an element today'
of Alexander Dubcek; the more so "bogey" to impress the credulous,
that did not exist when Czech
because most Czechs supported the ignorant and the anti-Semites
Jewry faced disaster in 1939: it
Dubcek and were revolted by the
The East German Communist' is the state of Israel. Thought
repressive climate thatexisted newspaper
"Neves Deutschland"
most Jews here are not Zionists, ,
under his predecessor, Antonin recently ran
a banner headline
they are sustained by the knowl-.
Novotny. There is little wonder the proclaiming
that "Zionists Rule
edge
that there is a Jewish State
Jews in particular welcomed the In Prague." It
was
in the world, a place they can go'
Dubcek reforms. Life for them was echo of Goebbels: a nauseating
"Voelkischer
to
if
life
here becomes unbear-.
miserable under Novotny and some
which headlined,
of the most prominent Czech Jews Beobachter"
able, where they will be wel-'
"Jews Rule In Prague" as Nazi
—loyal Communists, not "Zionists"
corned without question. That
marched into the Czech
—flocked to the Dubcek banner. troops
knowledge, I believe, is the rea-
But the Soviets are out to prove capital 30 years ago.
son why there is no sense of
There are about 14.000 registered panic or despair such as existed
that Dubcek's supporters were
Jews
in
Czecholsolvakia
and
a
few
"counter-revolutionary" and hence
a generation ago when dispos-
the label "Zionist" has been at- thousand not affiliated with Jewish sessed Jews were truly home -
But the total Jewish less.
tacked to them. What Zionism has population is not more than 20,000 But those who
remain at home
to do with the internal politics of compared to 130,000 before World
no illusions, Soviet anti-Semit-
the Communist bloc countries is a War II. Most of the Czech Jews have
ism is overt and is manifested on
total mystery to any reasonable are elderly and apparently prefer the highest levels. The notorious
to face
the anticipated
hardships treatment that the Soviet leaders
THE DETROIT
JEWISH NEWS at home
to becoming refugees
at gave Dr. Franticek Kriegel, the

.

JeWish member of the Czech CoM-
monist Party Politburo, in Mos-
cow, last August, is well known
here. Party boss Leonid Brezhnev
refused to admit him to negotia-
lions because "he is a Jew." Pre-
called him "that
li n osyr,
j
inia erK
G
Kriegel l res igned
Galician
functions a nd iis

fu inec t e i o He
a Ir
poi rh e ospital.
fm
wor m kin hi gs in

he is to be- arrested and brought to
trial "when the time comes."
But there has been an upsurge of
popular sympathy for Kriegel here.
Signs on the walls read "We Want
Dubcek and Kriegel." The Czech
Population generally has refused to
go along with Soviet anti-Semitism,
ill disguised as anti-Zionism. This
is the only bright sign in the whole
picture. Of course, the Soviet at-
tacks on "Zionists" are motivated
by cynical, ruthless politics, not a
lust for genocide.

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