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Polls and Realities in Middle East

By SAM LIPSKI

States might reach agreement
(Copyright 1970, JTA, Inc.)
with Russia at Israel's expense,
At the time of the 1967 Six-Day
a further 30 per cent said that
War, Gen. Moshe Dayan made it
it was "impossible" for such a
clear that Israel did not want thing to happen and 17 per cent
"American boys to spill their blood
expressed no opinion.
for Israel." Since the war, Israel's
The interesting aspect of these
consistent policy has been to reject polls is the Israeli ambivalence
any suggestions of direct American towards the United States. On the
military aid and to insist only on one hand they want and need
the right to purchase desperately American support, but on the other
needed planes and sophisticated they are suspicious about being
weaponry, which she can get only negotiated away as a pawn in the
from the United States.
Big Power game. On the one hand
Officially this is still Israel's they want the United States to
position. And in the recent White force the Soviet missiles and pilots
House briefings given to underline out of Egypt, but one the other
the seriousness of the Middle East they are not ready to accept direct
confrontation senior American ad- American support in the form of
visors emphasized that they did not pilots.
see the need for an American
If American public opinion polls
military presence on Israel's side
at this stage to counter-balance can be taken as any guide there
is a much more definite view in
the Russian involvement in Egypt.
But the emphasis must be on the the United States about direct mili-
tary aid for Israel—and that view
phrase "at this stage." Already
is a negative one. A Gallup Poll
the question of American involve-
taken in February, before the
ment has been raised in Israeli
became known,
newspapers and, unofficially, Is- Russian buildup per
cent of the
raeli leaders acknowledge that showed only 1
American public favoring sending
however efficient their forces might
U.S. troops to aid Israel and 58
be, they cannot contend with Soviet
per cent saying the United States
power if Moscow decides to esca-
should stay out of the conflict. A
late.
Louis Harris poll in 1969 showed
According to the poll taken by
that
while 44 per cent of Americans
the Public Opinion Research of
sympathized with Israel and be-
Israel, 62 per cent of the total
lieved the United States should
adult population opposes the
come to its aid if threatened with
suggestion that American pilots
destruction, only 9 per cent advo-
should participate actively in the
cated
the use of American troops.
Arab-Israli conflict, 32 per cent
It is clear that after the Vietnam
favor it and the remaining 6
experience
the American public
per cent expressed no opinion.
would not support the despatch or
In another poll 50 per cent said
use
of
American
forces in the Arab-
they believed that the United
Israeli conflict, even if the Soviets
were directly backing the Arabs—
as of course they already are. This
must be a critical factor in Mos-
cow's planning. For despite the
DART!
tough talk which has come from
President Nixon and his advisers
in recent weeks it is the military
clout behind the talk which Moscow
is weighing. The real reason why
CHARGER!
there can be no valid comparison
with Cuba is not that the Russians
have more missiles today than
they had in 1962. It is because the
Russians suspect there is much
POLARA!
less likelihood that President Nixon
would feel free to act in an emer-
gency as a result of the American
public mood of war-weariness.
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The tragedy of our times would
be that having at least expressed
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the realities of the Arab-Israeli
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conflict, President Nixon would
allow the policy of drift to take
over to the point where he has no
choice but to allow Israel to be
destroyed or to send in the troops.
There are still some alternatives
left; but they depend on an un-
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Summer Placement
Successful Despite
Job Lag, JVS Feels

DICK STEIN

With the 1970 summer placement

program drawing to a close, the
Jewish Vocational Service will no
longer maintain temporary offices
at Temple Emanu-El.
Although final figures are still
to be tabulated, a JVS spokesman
indicated that this summer's pro-
gram has been successful, in light
of the difficult labor market and
high unemployment.
All job applicants and others
seeking the services of the agency

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MISS VICKI BAKING

At a recent cocktail party, Dr.
and Mrs. Leonard Raking of La
Salle Rd., Huntington Woods, an-
nounced the engagement of their
daughter Vicki Susan to Eugene
Kerry Herman, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Kelmar Herman of W. 11
Mile Rd., Huntington Woods.
The bride-elect, who attended
William Penn College, and her
fiance, a. pre-medical student at
Wayne State University, are plan-
ning to marry next June.

People
Make News

Meyer Krentzman of New Haven,
Conn., has been named director of
the Eastern Can-
ada Region of the
Union of Ortho-
dox Jewish Con-
gregations of
America and of
its youth arm,
the National Con-
ference of Syna-
gogue Youth, as
announced by
UOJCA President
Krentzman
Joseph Karasick
and Regional President Hyman
Baum. Krentzman will coordinate
the various communal and youth
activities of the growing synagogue
community in and around the
province of Quebec.

Dr. Alvin I. Schiff Named
to Jewish Education Unit

announced by A.
Walter Soco 1 o w,
,resident.
An authority on
teacher education
and educational
administration,
Dr. Schiff re-
places Dr. Leo-
nard Rosenfeld,
' Dr. Schiff
vho has resigned
to settle in Israel with his family.
A researcher and writer, Dr.
Schiff, who served from 1956 to
1965 as Jewish Education Commit-
tee consultant, is author of "The
Jewish Day School in America,"
published by the JEC Press in
1966. He is currently editor in chief
of Jewish Education quarterly.

The two plays of the University
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at the STAGE II and Theater 113.
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directed by Dominic Missimi, is
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