THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
6--Friday, November 6, 1970

Calls for U.S. Aid to Israel

Whitney Young Labels Arab-Black Amity a Myth

(Continued from Page 1)
Young wrote: "If the Arab na-
tions had really been concerned
with improving 'the social, eco-
nomic and political existences' of
their people, they would long ago
have ceased threatening to push
Israel into the sea and concen-
trated their energies on improving
the lives of the people."
In his letter, Young contrasted
the situation in the Arab countries

Near-Collisions
at Lydda Airport
Probed by Gov't.

TEL AVIV (JTA)—A series of
narrowly avoided mid-air collisions
over Lydda Airport—the most re-
cent involving an El Al transport
carrying Premier Golda Meir to
the United States—has led to a
full-scale investigation of allegedly
serious safety shortcomings at Is-
rael's only international air ter-
minal.
Minister of Transport Shimon
Peres appointed a committee of
aviation experts to investigate the
incident two weeks ago when Mrs.
Meir's plane and its escort of four
Phantom jet fighters almost col-
lided with an Israeli transport
plane shortly after taking off from
Lydda.
The incident was disclosed a
week after it occurred, leading
to charges by the Israeli Airline
Pilots Association that the minis-
try was trying to hush up the
affair. According to the news-
paper Maariv, there have been
58 complaints of near accidents
in local airspace since the be-
ginning of 1970.
Israeli air investigators said the
number would have been higher if
the pilots had reported all cases,
Maariv reported.
Of the 58 complaints, 46 involved
near collissions between civilian
airliners and military planes and
12 were between Israeli and
foreign civilian airliners, the paper
said.
The most serious occurance was
last July 8 when an El Al Boeing
707 jet nearly collided with a
BOAC VC-10. The El Al captain
cothplained that only at the last
minute did the Lydda control tower
instruct the British jet to change
course.
Pilots blame the situation on
the fact that Lydda has only one
international landing strip. They
also cited a shortage of navigation
equipment in the Lydda tower con-
trol tower, poor discipline of the
personnel and the need for stricter
procedures to be followed by the
control tower and planes.
Peres has since announced that
his ministry will spend $8,000,000
in the next few years on sophisti-
cated electronic equipment and
navigational aids at Lydda.

as well as institutional racism in
America, with Israeli efforts on
behalf of its growing population
of Oriental Jews. "My 1969 visit to
Israel impressed upon me the fait
that Israelis are acutely conscious
of the gap afflicting their Oriental
population and are taking steps—
educational and economic — to
close it."
The civil rights leader observed
that the Oriental Jews of Israel
came to that country to flee "the
most brutal kind of religious op-
pression and social and economic
discrimination." T h e advertise-
ment signed by Young in the New
York Times last June 28 was spon-
sored by the A. Philip Randolph
Institute. It was signed by 64 Ne-
gro leaders of organizations, elect-
ed officials, educators and busi-
nessmen. It urged "our govern-
ment to take steps to help guaran-
tee Israel's right to exist as a
nation."
In his Oct. 7 letter explaining
his stand, Young sharply rejected
criticism of Israel's occupation of
former Arab territories. He noted
that the Israeli occupation of the
West Bank has been "the most
lenient armed occupation in his-
tory. Despite the repeated acts of
armed terrorism, West Bank
Arabs enjoy self-government under
the leaders appointed by the Jor-
danians, publish anti-Israel news-
papers and freely propagandize
against the Israelis, an extra-
ordinary situation."

He added that West Bank Arabs
have found jobs and higher pay
within Israel itself; and receive
equal payment in employment and
other benefits. Young observed that
in the years preceding the Israeli
occupation, Arab citizens were
"brutalized and mercilessly ex-
ploited by the Jordanian ruling
tlasses."

Black Editor Warns of Rising
Tide' of Pro-Arab Feelings
ST. LOUIS (JTA) — A leading
Negro newspaper man warned
here that while black Americans
are g ene r all y sympathetic to
Israel, a "rising tide of pro-Arab
feeling" rooted in a variety of
causes, is becoming increasingly
evident among segments of black
militants, intellectuals and persons
living in the inner cities.
Howard. B. Woods, editor and
publisher of the St. Louis Sentinel,
presented this analysis of the divi-
sion of black opinion on the Middle
East conflict to a conference of
local Jewish communal and stu-
dent leaders convened here by the
Bnai Brith International Council
and the Jewish Community Rela-
tions Council of St. Louis.
The "popular pattern" of most
black militants, Woods said, "is
to be anti-establishment. Since
they view the establishment as
being pro-Israel, they feel they
must be pro-Arab."

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Woods- said that anti-Israel feel-
ings among black people in under-
developed urban areas could pos-
sibly be attributed to "long dor-
mant attitudes on domestic condi-
tions rather than being based on
international situations." .
Woods, who was part of a group
of 10 publishers of Negro news-
papers that toured Israel on a 10-
day study mission last year,. said
that "great masses" of black peo-
ple have "an - afrmity and warmth
for the land" of Israel as "the seat
of Christianity."
But, Woods added, this feeling
"does not necessarily spin off to
include the Israeli people and
their objectives." He said that
some Blacks feel the United States
is "fearful of black communism"
while "trying to co-exist with
white communism. This brings
about an attitude, especially
among black intellectuals, of a
double standard in international
affairs which conditions thinking
on other international matters, in-
cluding the Middle East."
Woods said that the "presence
of exiled Blacks in Arab countries
should not be viewed lightly in the

Aliya From Chile Up

context of black opinion toward
Israel."
The publisher called his visit to
Israel a "unique experience" that
impressed him with the Israeli
people, their technological ad-
vances and the concept of the
kibutz as a means of development.
He said that in order for the
U.S. "to push for withdrawal' of
military personnel in Egypt and
develop a blue-print for a Middle
East settlement, there must be a
transformation of American opin-
ion—including that of Blacks—to
convince us that there is more
involved than the localized Arab-
Israeli problem. What is in-
volved," he said, "is a major
Soviet attempt to extend its domi-
nation over the entire Middle
East."

SANTIAGO (ZINS)—The liveliest
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community of Chile these days is
the unprecedented wave of en-
thusiasm for aliya.
In a recent six-month period, 500
Chilean Jews embarked for Israel.
In one week, an additional 100
middle-class families left for Is-
rael, and increasing numbers are
preparing for aliya in the very near
future.
According to a correspondent,
this movement is not the result of
any special drive, nor is it attribu-
table to any of the Zionist parties.

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