Editorial
Act to Prevent
Genocide! Inform
Your Legislators
Israel Is Menaced
Conflicting
Views on the
'Jewish Seat'
Supreme Court
Controversy
Israel's position is menaced! There is danger of another genocide if Israel's enemies should succeed in their
efforts to destroy friendships for the embattled Jewish state and to prevent fulfillment of cooperation in agree-
ments to defend the people aiming to live in peace.
It is vital, therefore, that our legislators should know American Jewry's sentiments: that a change in Amer-
ican attitudes towards Israel would provide comfort for those who endorse another Holocaust! Our President, our
senators and our representatives in Congress should be informed that every step toward appeasement, every move
in the direction of arming Arabs and denying Israel the right to self-defense would spell tragedy for a people battl-
ing for justice and democracy in the Middle East.
Let our President, our State Department and our members in both houses of Congress know that any attempt
to drive Israel out of defensive positions without proper negotiations for peace would mean a return to the Nazi
spirit of destruction; that it would uphold the hands of the Soviets in their desire to capture control of the Mediter-
ranean area where democracy's position is protected only by Israel.
Let those who make policy for our nation know that there must never be a return either to anarchy or to
the destruction of mankind's basic rights to life and liberty.
In the interest of such rights for Israel and in defense of the Jewish historic position, write to our legislators.
Let them know that we are concerned and that we protest against any effort to contribute towards another genocide
for Israel and the Jewish people!
THE JEWISH NEWS
Michigan Weekly
Commentary
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Review of Jewish News
Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle
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Gunboat Affair Not Over for France:
Government Accused, Dismissal of
2. Generals Provokes Army Officers
Pre-Campaign Fete Tuesday;
Yosef Tekoah Guest Speaker
Yosef Tekoah, Israel ambassador to the United Na-
tions, will speak at the pre-campaign pacesetters meeting
. of the 1970 Allied Jewish Campaign—Israel Emergency
Fund, 8 p.m., Tuesday at the Great Lakes Club, Maxwell
Jospey, chairman, announced.
Ambassador Tekoah began his career of international
diplomacy in 1948 as a member of the Israel delegation at
the United Nations. Since then he has served his country
Continuously in the diplomatic
field.
A graduate of University
rAurore in Shanghai, he re-
ceived a masters degree from
Harvard University and was
an instructor in international
relations there.
He has been ambassador to
Brazil, aided in negotiations
with Greece for commercial
agreements in 1952, w i t IL
Egypt on the Gaza border in
1955 and with Jordan concern-
ing the return of residents of
Yosef Tekoah
the West Bank in August 1967.
From 1962 to 1965 he was ambassador to the USSR.
Campaign officers heading the solicitation of gifts of
$1,000 and over are associate chairmen Meyer M. Fish-
man, Samuel Frankel, Max M. Shaye and Richard Sloan.
Chairmen of pre-campaign are Lewis S. Grossman, Milton
J. Miller and David S. Mondry, and their vice-chairrnev
are Paul Borman, Warren D. Greenstonc and Harold S.
(Related story, Page 7)
Victor.
PARIS (JTA)—The French government is still feeling the repercussions of the "gunboat
affair." An organization of leftist Gaulists, the UDT, has accused it of "complicity" with Israel.
French Defense Minister Michel Debre has demanded more "energetic" action against Israel for
taking over the five boats in defiance of the French arms embargo. And an officers' revolt ap-
pears to be brewing in the French army over the dismissal of two high-ranking generals in con-
nection with the gunboats' departure, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned Monday.
The UDT is a small group led by two ultra-orthodox Gaullists, Louis V allo n and Rene
Capitant. But its demand for a thorough investigation and severe punishment for French officials
allegedly involved in the gunboat episode could be troublesome. Its charge that the government has
"betrayed" former President de Gaulle's Middle East policy.is embarrassing to the Pompidou regime,
which strives to maintain the appearance of continuity with the general's programs and needs the
support of all Gaullist elements to remain in power.
The UDT has claimed to see a link between President Pompidou's statement of July 10
hinting that the total arms embargo against Israel might be eased and the gunboats' departure
from Cherbourg on Dec. 25.
Debre, who served as foreign minister in the de Gaulle cabinet, is trying to forestall any
softening of France's attitude toward Israel. He is known to have proposed a break in diplomatic
relations with Jerusalem in the wake of the gunboat affair.
In an interview broadcast by Radio Luxembourg Sunday night, he made a personal attack
on Admiral Mordehai Limon, the head of Israel's arms purchasing mission in Europe. He accused
him of having written him "false letters" and said, "I find it hard to believe that he knows the
meaning of a senior officer's honor."
The reference was to Adm. Limon's letters clearing the way for the sale of the gunboats
to a private firm for commercial purposes.
(In Jerusalem Monday, Foreign Minister Abba Eban asked F re n c h Ambassador Francis
Hure to clarify the truth of press reports that Debre had accused Adm. Limon of falsehood. He also
handed Hure his government's note rejecting France's views on the gunboat affair.)
.
Debre claimed in the broadcast interview that "President Pompidou had been con-
sidering reverting eventually to a selective embargo but now, after the Cherbourg affair, this is
obviously out of the question."
Meanwhile, widespread dissatisfaction with the way Debre administers the defense minis-
has been reported among high-ranking French army officers. They have been especially incensed
by the suspension, pending a hearing, of Gen. Louis Bonte, who headed the interministerial com-
mission on arms exports which approved the gunboat sale.
The officers have reportedly informed the chief of staff that they "are tired Of being
try
National M.E. Emergency Conference
of Jewish Leadership Called in D. C.
to Discuss Concerns on U. S. Policy
NEW YORK (JTA)---A national emergency conference of Jewish leadership on
Middle East peace hat; been called for Jan. 25-26 in Washington by the Conference of
Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
Conference chairman, said that participants will include
Rabbi Herschel Schacter,
representatives of all of the 24 constituent organizations of the Presidents Conference
that
invitations
were
being
extended to major leaders of Jewish communities and
and •
leadership of Judge Law-
others. A Detroit delegation is expected to attend under he
rence Gubow, president of the Jewish Community Council.
held
against
the background of rising
be
will
The two-day emergency conference
community over what has been described as a
Concern in the American Jewish
policy
on
a
Middle
East
settlement.
"serious erosion" in State Department
Rabbi Schacter cited a Dec. 22 meeting
In issuing the call for the meeting. Secretary
-
of State William P. Rogers, at
between a Conference delegation and
Jewish community's "deep concern
which Rabbi Schacter conveyed to Rogers the
for a Middle East settle-
States
proposals
and apprehension" over recent United
ment.
After the meeting, Rabbi Schacter issued a statement warning that the United
States plan for a Middle East settlement would "strengthen Arab intransigence and
than a negotiated peace
Soviet designs and lead to an imposed settlement rather
pOlicy of our government."
between the parties—the stated expected
to be the largest and most representative
The emergency meeting is
American
Jewish
leadership
since a similar conference in Washington
gathering of
during the 1967 Six-Day War. (Continued on Page 35)
(Continued on Page 34)
Grimness of Struggle in the Will to Live
Emphasizes Israel's Single Peoplehood
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
JERUSALEM, Israel — From the first visit here (in 1949) to the present (the
13th), there is the inevitable impression of contrasts as vast as the progress - of this
astonishingly developing state.
Then under an armistice. the Israel of 21 years ago was grim, functioning
under rules of severe food rations, under constant economic pressure resulting from
the tens of thousands of survivors from Nazism who were arriving for settlement in
the country. There were no fears then. Today, with the armistice as dead as a door-
knob, there is as little fear, and grimness is replaced by even greater determination
not to permit the threats of another Holocaust—this time stemming from Arab cou,in;
—to deter - the builders of the New Zion.
Now as then, one senses at every step the miracle of a nation reborn in de-
fiance of hostility from peoples who would, if they could, perpetuate the status of the
People Israel as the Wandering Jew.
First on land, then in the air, now on the high seas, Israelis do. not play
second fiddle to any other nation. There is a craving for peace—what wouldn't Israel
accomplish for herself and also for the enemy neighbors if there were peace?—yet
even now there is evidence of an exuding grimness that keeps Israel in a state of
alertness, in a defensive mood, always under arms lest the threat from Nasser of an
extended war against Israel "in an ocean of blood and under a blazing sky" come true.
There remains a single major threat: an internal one: Israelis in the main
either deny it or do not treat it too seriously. It is the danger from the Fifth Column
(Continued on Page 34