THE- DETROIT 'JEWISH' NEWS
8—Friday, -January 17, 1969
Peace Is Indivisible
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
In groping for purpose, the UN
since its inception has made many
mistakes. The one it made recent-
ly, when the Security Council ap-
proved a resolution condemning
Israel for its retaliatory raid on
Lebanon, was one of the gravest in
its history because its impact could
only be intensification of the pro-
claimed Arab objective to drive all
Israelis into the sea.
If Israel merited censure, then
the cynical disregard by the Arab
states for more than 20 years of
the very UN resolution that gave
birth to Israel certainly merited
greater condemnation, for here the
root of the matter was not action
and reaction by the parties in-
volved but fundamentals basic to
the existence and functions of the
international body. For, let there
be no mistake, when the Arabs and
their Soviet masters speak of
liquidating the consequences of
aggression they mean, despite the
tortuous semantics, the extinction
of Israel as a political state and
not a political settlement that
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would lead to an adjustment of the
territorial issue that was sprung
by the outcome of the Six-Day War
in 1967.
Admittedly, Israel in its incur-
sions and reprisals has not always
been right, but neither has it al-
ways been wrong, as one would
infer from the UN record. One
would have to be incredibly naive
not to recognize the varied situa-
tions and elements that enter into
UN decisions. But only the cynical
and the amoral can countenance an
international orientation that is
seemingly always based on poli-
tical expediency.
Particularly shocking at the most
recent UN performance was the
British-American alignment against
Israel. As to France, it was merely
echoing the hatred that dictator de
Gaulle, a man of limitless gall, is
currently harboring for Israel and,
it is believed, for the Jewish peo-
ple. As to our own policy makers
in Washington, they have obviously
not yet come around to the realiza-
tion that the crisis in the Middle
East will not be resolved by the
rod of admonition of the powerful
but through green-table talks by
the affected parties.
The crux of the issue is quite
simple. The Soviet Union does not
want tranquility in the Middle
East, where it has penetrated in
fulfillment of a dream going back
to Czarist days in Russia. In a
climate of peace, the Soviet Union
could not have gotten a foothold in
that area of the world. And it is for
that very reason that Moscow is
deliberately driving the Arabs to-
ward the pit. The transparent aim
is to direct Arab destiny with the
view to foisting on the Arab world
political chains that would link
them in eternal slavery to Moscow.
What is tragic about the ambi-
valent American position on the
Middle East is that it serves the
Soviet purpose. When we link I
hands with Moscow in resolutions
of condemnation of Israel without
intransigence, we in essence con-
demning direct and indirect Arab
intransigencve, we in essence con-
done the very terrorism which
triggers retaliation, thus contribut-
ing to the vicious circle which ulti-
mately could be the Middle East's
death trap.
The uncontestable fact is that
the terrorists are operating from
Arab soil, by which is meant soil
that is under the control of govern-
ments who would be precluded
from claiming innocence or lack of
responsibility if the matter were
before a court of justice. No gov-
ernment can shirk responsibility
for what happens on its soil as a
result of guerrilla activities directed
against a foreign country. Our own
General Pershing gained top fame
by driving the Mexican bandits
back deep into their own soil when
they made gangsterous forays into
U.S. soil. The Arab states know
damn well that the terrorists are
planning to overpower, to destroy,
a foreign state—Israel. By giving
them official approval and moral
support, the governments of those
countries have become partners to
crimes and cannot therefore es-
cape liability. Infiltration and ter-
rorism are invitations to reprisals.
Those who encourage gangster
raids on Israel must be made to
know they cannot escape the conse-
quences of their crimes.
Cleveland Campaign Has
$7,150,000 Goal for 1969
CLEVELAND (JTA)—The Jew-
ish Community Federation has set
a slightly increased 1969 goal for
the Jewish Welfare Fund Appeal
of $7,150,000, it has been announc-
ed by Lloyd S. Schwenger, who
was elected to a second one-year
term as federation president. He
said that the 1969 campaign would
again include a separate Israel
Emergency Fund but that no goal
had been set because of "the over-
whelming needs to be met in
Israel."
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