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 Page 2 Review of Jewish News Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Vol. LVI, No. 17 ° 27 'Shame' Inherent in Racial Strife Anti-Semitism in Liberal Quarters Editorials Page 4 17515 W. 9 Mile Rd., Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 — 356-8400 — January 9, 1970 $7.00 Per Year; This Issue 20c 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