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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
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This Sabbath, the 18th day of Adar 5729, the following scripturakselections will
be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portions, Ex. 30:11.34:35, Num. 19:1-22. Prophetical p4tion, Ezekiel
36:16-38.
Candle lighting, Friday, March 7, 6:02 p.m.
VOL. LIV. No. 25 s
Page Four
El Fatah Nasser , Hussein and
So much confusion is being encountered
,
in the coverage of world news involving
Israel, the Middle East and world Jewry that
the obligation to clarify the facts grows in
immensity.
A basic fact — Israel's and world Jewry's
appeals for peaceful negotiations with the
Arabs—is being ignored or belittled. An in-
terview with Nasser while the Egyptian dicta-
tor holds tongue in cheek is interpreted as a
sanctimonious declaration, in spite of his sup-
port of El Fatah and the other Arab terrorist
groups. When Israeli and Jewish spokesmen
reaffirm a desire to discuss peace terms with
the Arabs (who else should they be discussed
with, Charles de Gaulle and the Kremlin?),
there are suspicions and denigrations.
All along, Nasser, Hussein and spokesmen
for other Arab countries have been issuing
statements supporting El Fatah leaders, have
released photographs with their arms around
the terrorists who threaten Israel's destruc-
tion, and when a propagandist in the cloak
of a university professor appears before an
audience of intelligent people at a forum of
a great Michigan university he is honored as
an authority. Meanwhile he adopts the Adolf
Hitler method—The Lie—to malign Jews,
Israelis and Americans who know better than
to accept his distortions as facts. Have we
sunk so low as students of world happenings?
The facts regarding the most recent hap-
penings and especially the Nasser position
must be made known. An authoritative com-
piler of the basic facts has collected the recent
Nasser statements and has incorporated them
in the following statement of actual quota-
tions from the dictator's speeches:
March 7, 1969
e Terror
have inflicted considerable losses on the enemy. Most
important of these is the enemy's loss of the feeling
of security which he thought he secured by his cheap
military victory in June 1967. . . The UAR appre-
ciates the resistance organizations' stand in rejecting
the 22 November 1967 Security Council resolution
which the UAR has accepted. It is the Palestinian
organizations' right to reject this resolution. This
resolution may be adequate to eliminate the conse-
quences of the June 1967 aggression but it is inade-
quate to fulfill the Palestinian destiny."
Thus, the parity of purpose between the Egyptian
President's policy and that of the terrorist groups:
the Security Council resolution of Nov. 22, 1967, is
important to the extent that it can be used to bring
about an Israeli withdrawal. The bombs at Zurich
and in a Jerusalem marketplace are likewise im-
portant because they express the Arab governments'
determination to work towards and facilitate Israel's
destruction. This is the two-stage thrust of Egyptian
policy—Israeli withdrawal to the old, insecure armis-
tice lines, to be followed by the ultimate goal of
Israel's total destruction to be launched from the
retrieved bridgeheads.
Everything Egypt has said and done since June
1967 has been consistent with this attitude. It is
reflected at this very time in the news emanating
from Arab capitals. Western newsmen and visitors
are being subjected to a calculated propaganda cam-
paign designed to inculcate the view that a full-scale
war is imminent. An atmosphere of immediate war
(the propaganda organs of the Soviet Union are help-
ing it along) is being artificially generated.
The intended audience of this particular exercise
are Western capitals, Washington in particular. The
purpose is to create a climate of impending all-out
hostilities preparatory to the planned four-power dis-
cussions on the Middle East. What President Nasser
and his Communist allies hope to achieve is to panic
the U.S. government into a hasty and precipitative
action in support of an imposed Mid East plan, one
that would accept the Arab-Soviet dictates of a poli-
tical arrangement, not a peace settlement. The aim
is an Israeli withdrawal without peace. The raucous
voices and gun-fire from across the Middle East
cease-fire lines, the renewed Egyptian provocations
along the Suez Canal, the belligerent declarations of
Soviet commentators, the urgent communiques di-
rected at Western newsmen, and the murderous
attack at Zurich are all instruments of this Arab-
Soviet design.
Full-scale war is not imminent in the Middle
East. President Nasser is the only one in the area
potentially capable of launching such a war and
there is much to indicate that he is not ready for
broad military action at this stage. There is also
reason to believe that the Soviet Union is anxious to
avert a major military confrontation now for fear
that the Egyptians would again lose. What is hoped
and intended is that a measured heightened cres-
cendo wil provide a background to the preliminary
exchanges noW taking place between the four pow-
ers, assertive enough to quell the advocacy of a
genuine peace settlement, directly negotiated and
contracted. It is the Israel view that this war of
nerves has to be appraised first for its motive, and
only then for its content.
It is not Israel that is threatened by the excesses
of Arab terrorism. The real victim is the cause of
peace in the region. Arab governments have it in
their power to restrain the terrorists groups.-They do
the opposite because they see them as military and
psychologiedl instruments of their own policies. Ter-
rorism is represented as the continued warfare of
Arab States which consider their regular armies
incapable of resuming the fight at this stage. A
double-barreled policy is pursued in attempting to
disclaim legal responsibility for terror activities
while praising, arming, financing, training and sup-
plying bases to the terrorists.
Day by day, the terrorist groups state that what
they seek to achieve ultimately, is the destruction
of Israel and of its people, hence, their adoption of
methods that know no restraint. "The important
thing is that Jews are being killed," stated an El
Fatah communique following the bomb explosion at
the‘Mahaneh Yebuda market in Jerusalem on Nov.
22, 1968. An El Fatah statement over Radio Cairo,
Oct 19, 1968, declared:
"All peace solutions produced in the forum of the
UN, the resolution of the Security Council, and Jar-
ring's mission, are but bargaining for the rights of
The facts enumerated here should not be
the Palestine people. We reject and oppose them ignored. We don't seek controversies, and
with all our might since they constitute an attempt at there is such great need for peace and for
peaceful coexistence with the Zionist existence . . .
amity! No rational person desires a continua-
The problem is the liberation of the whole country
tion of the war. Let us strive for a measure
and not eradication of the results of the aggression."
"In talking about the forces of the Arab struggle, of unly — but let it come on the basis of
tru and not through misunderstandings
I must stress the glorious actions carried out by the
Palestinian resistance forces . . . They fulfill a vital
that erely prolong the state of war.
task in sapping the enemy's strength and spilling its
ad there been?cooperation, acceptance
blood ... In pursuance of this policy, the UAR places of the United NatI'ons decision of Nov. 29,
all its resources at the disposal of these organizations
1947, there might have been a very small
without condition or reservation."
ghetto-reduced Jewish state and there would
President Nasser went 'n to say that Egypt has
11 ave been
b
peace. But the Arab states were so
accepted the Security C ncil resolution of Nov.
certain Jews would be driven out of Pales-
22, 1967, since it may be seful in compelling Israel
to withdraw from the occu ied territories. However, tine that they advised their people to leave
the land, believing they would acquire
this is but a first stage. The ultimate aim, that of
everything by means of war.
eliminating Israel, cannot be satisfied by the Council
resolution. This is how he pfit-it: "They (the Pales-
Later, having lost the war in 1948, they
tine organizations) are entitled to reject this resolu-
were willing to accept the 1947 decision. Now,
tion, which may serve the purpose of eliminating the
Nasser informs the New York Times inter-
consequence of the aggression carried out in June
1967, but is inadequate for determining the Pales- viewer that he is willing to go back to the
June 4, 1967, boundaries. Can he be trusted
tinian fate."
On Feb. 1, 1969, the Egyptian president again without a firm peace agreement? The record
shows that he can not and Israel must hold
reiterated his sanction of the terrorist organizations
on to every advantage until there is a guar-
and their aims. He told the opening session of the
antee that terrorism will not turn into another
Palestine National Council:
"By their active operations, the organizations
Holocaust.
Pi.
:F -.stapart -CM 44 ** **
'Ben-Gurion in His Own Words'
Depicts Statesman's Philosophy
David Ben-Gurion always makes good copy, and another book about
him certainly draws renewed attention to the architect of the Jewish
State.
Amram M. Ducovny, who is an American Jewish Committee public
relations expert, is the author of "David
Ben-Gurion—In His Own Words," pub-
lished by Fleet Press (156 5th, NY10), in
which he has compiled the basic sayings
by the - Israeli leader, excerpts from his
speeches, noteworthy declarations re-
garding Israel's status and a number of
anecdotes.
The book does not limit itself to
mere assertions on public policies and
world affairs. It includes B-G's views
on the Bible, on cultural and scientific
matters, on history and politics.
Adding value to his work is Du-
Ben-Gurion
covny's 14-page biography of Ben-Gurion
which provides a better understanding of the Zionist labor leader was
rose to world fame. Ducovny states about him: "Statesman, soldier,
poet, Israel's 20th-Century David strikingly recalls his biblical name
sake. Both cast giant shadows on their times."
This collection of B-G's sayings commences with him as "The
Philosopher" in which there are comments on religion and science as
well as history, and there is this note entitled "Meditation Is Not
Religion":
"In 1961 Ben-Gurion visited President U Nu of Burma. While there
he announced that he would spend eight days meditating in Buddhist
fashion at the house of the Burmese premier. To critics who claimed
he was compromising his Jewish religion, he said: 'I have read much
about buddhism and now I wish to experience the act of meditation.
Those who confuse meditation with a Buddhist religious rite demon-
strate how little they understand of both.' "
As the revolutionary and as the lover of the Bible, Ben-Gurion
emerges here as a leader whose views are rooted in an apprecia-
tion of strivings for liberty for mankind and for the Jew and the
perpetuation of his heritage on the high levels of prophecy. There
is his declaration: "I regard myself first and foremost as a Jew
and only in the second place an Israeli, and I say what I think
as a Jew who is well aware of the fact that there have always been
controversies among Jews on the ideals, position and the future Of
the Jewish people."
His comments on other leaders will be found most interesting. 330
is quoted about Truman, Einstein, Eisenhower, Churchill, Kennedy.
e a e.
Historians will find much of value in the collected sayings of Ben-
Gurion, and for the record there is his statement explaining what this
Eichmann trial accomplished. There also is included in DucoVnYt
accumulated excerpts from B-G the Israeli leader's letter to President
Arturo Frondizi of Argentina in which he affirmed Israel's right to try
Eichmann.
There is special delight in the section quoting the humor of Ben-
Gurion, and his deceased wife, Paula, also figures here. There is
story entitled "A Fast Switch": "'Why are you Jews in such a
• hurry to proclaim a state?' Ben-Gurion was once asked. 'Would 50n
call waiting 2,000 years hasty?' he replied."
For him the Bible points the way, as indicated in this quote: 'The
Bible is a very important guide to use in finding resources in U18
Negev. It said there is copper in the rocks and iron in the mountain!:
I knew it was true because the ancient Israelites knew this count17:
com IpnldeeteedB, ohoekloves the Bible, and speaks of the Book of Books 83 a
Ducovny's book, besides containing a biography of Ben-Gurion, also
n inecslsudaensd aco thorough
ab chronology ykof his life. The book reveals th orough.
research.
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