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." DON'T PLAN your trip to ISRAEL until you see what '''-IIISTADRUT offers you. NEWS OW COST TOURS FOR FALL St WINTER Write or visit Histadrut Tours: 12701 West Ten Mile Rd., Oak Park, Mich. 48237 or call 541-7040. HISTADRUT: the People Who Built Israel—Est. 1920 If you want the most for your money be sure to call 541-7040 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." 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