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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 18th day of Shevat, 5731, the following scriptural selections
will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Exod. 18:1-20:23. Prophetical portion, Isaiah. 6:1-7:6, 9:5, 6.
Candle lighting. Friday. Feb. 12. SA2 p.m.
VOL. LVIII. No. 22
Page Four
February 12, 1971
Peace Aims
Jews and Palestinians:
hood, and desire autonomy, some of whom
Neither a cease fire nor an armistice as-
sures peace, yet it contributes toward hopes
for a prolongation of a cessation of firing
and of an anticipation that perhaps the war-
ring nations will reach accord to end the
ridiculous prolongation of enmities.
After so many years of bitterness—it
started when there were very few Arabs who
were instigated as fellaheen enslaved by the
rich landowners. to oppose Jewish resettle-
ment of the wastelands of the ancient Holy
Land towards the end of the 19th Century—
there has to be an understanding between
cousins. Perhaps the bitterness began much
earlier, with the banishment into the desert
of Isaac's half-brother, Abraham's son Ish-
mael. But that does not call for perpetua-
tion of hatreds between brothers and cousins,
among nations who are neighbors and who
must have amity, who are in urgent need of
peace in order to elevate the lowered stan-
dards of their impoverished peoples.
For another month there will be a cease
fire. That's not enough. There has to be
an effort, in all earnestness, to achieve peace.
Dr. Gunnar Jarring apparently is qualified
to strive for it. United Nations Secretary
General U Thant at last appears to be co-
operating toward that end. The United
States is in earnest in its quest for an ac-
cord that will end not only the Arab-Israel
controversy but also the East-West struggle
in the Middle East. If only Egypt stands in
the way of peace—it is an accepted fact
that Jordan and Lebanon would grab 'at an
opportunity to end warfare, and Syria and
Iraq are too hawkish and to a degree, too un-
important to be considered—then every ef-
fort must be made to attain the desired end:
a genuine peace based on sound and solid
agreements.
This is where the trouble-making nations
enter into the picture. It is not Russia alone.
Russia plays a major role in preventing a
true peace by its attitude toward Israel and
its arming of the Arab states. But if the
other powers, the other members of the Big
Four, were to insist upon Russia's fullest
cooperation, perhaps we would not be nearer
a lasting peace. But France is filled with
venom against Israel, the British policies
have been abominable in regard to Israel,
and the United States has stood alone in the
struggle for peace. Without unity in the
ranks of the Big Four it is inconceivable how
the peace objectives can be attained. There-
fore, guilt lies not with Egypt alone, or with
Russia as an accomplice to war, but with
France and Great Britain as well.
Does Israel share guilt? A study of the
map, of the earlier status before Israel's
acquisition of the occupied territories, must
indicate that an outright abandonment of
the gains Israel made in June 1967 would
mean an immediate return to the dangers
that existed until June 4, 1967, and might
mean Israel's destruction. That neither Israel
nor her friends, neither Israelis nor their Jew-
ish kinsmen, not the Jewish state nor those
in the Christian world who stand staunchly
by Prophecy can accept or condone in the
slightest degree.
This, however, does not eliminate the
urgency of concessions. In the secrecy of
diplomacy there nevertheless emerges the
frequent hint of Israel's readiness to con-
cede, to evacuate some areas, to draw back
somewhere. These depend, in all reason-
ableness, upon the type of peace agreements
that can be made through Jarring and by
mutual agreement between Israelis and
Arabs, primarily between Israel and Egypt.
• Israelis themselves, however, are not
totally in an accord about either the demand-
ed withdrawal from occupied areas or the
manner of negotiating with Arab dissidents.
An issue that has emerged forcefully is that
of the Palestinians, the tens or hundreds of
thousands among the refugees who seek state-
like the Yasser Arafat group demand the
total ousting of Jews from Israel, others who
are ready to negotiate for the creation of a
new Arab state.
It is with these Palestinians that it be-
comes necessary to negotiate, and this is a
concession that Israel will have to make very
soon. It must be acknowledged that Arafat
or any one else who talks about Israel's de-
struction or the reduction of Israel into a
state that will accommodate Jews who lived
in Palestine before 1918 can not be dealt
with. That spells another Genocide and no
sensible person, no human being, will accede
to another murderous proposal. Yet there
is the issue involving Palestinians and that
can not be ignored.
The ultra-liberal Mapam-oriented Middle
East magazine New Outlook took up the mat-
ter involving the Palestinians in its latest
issue. The former Israel minister of hous-
ing and development, Mordehai Bentov, ern
phasizing that "We Can 'Initiate' Support
for the Palestinians," stated that such initia-
tive "may be of historic significance" and
his analysis of the issue concludes:
Story of Young Heroine
'Tribute to Anne Frank' Recalls
Teen-Ager's Courage, Tragedy
A most dramatic chapter in the history of the Holocaust has been
reconstructed in a volume that recalls the tragedy of a courageous
teen-ager.
Doubleday has just issued a large volume en-
titled "A Tribute to Anne Frank" in which arc
gathered vital facts in her case, the glory that
"We most declare that we want a solution came as memorial to the Dutch Jewish girl who
based on the principle of equality: we recognize wrote a diary that remains one of the most sig-
the fact that both peoples have equal rights in nificant accounts of life in hiding during the
one historic homeland; and that we are con- Nazi regime in Holland.
vinced the "Palestine problem" will be solved only
Edited by Anna G. Steenmeijer, together with
when each of these peoples enjoys their historic
rights in the part of the ancient homeland that Anne Frank's fither, Otto Frank, and Henri van
Praag,
chairman of the Anne Frank Foundation,
will have become its political homi. Each has the
Anne Frank
right to the same degree of independence, sov- this fully illustrated work was produced in Amster-
ereignty and security. Each will concentrate on dam. Marc de Klijn, who is responsible for the layout and design of
solving the problems of refugees,. etc., within this book, contributed in large measure toward its production.
the boundaries of its own state. Relations between
Otto Frank had hesitated for some time to 'make public many of
the Palestinians and Jordan are not our affair,
but we want to see a Palestinian state established the letters that had been written, tributes that were paid his daughter,
the
detailed
stories that accumulated about her, some of her unpub-
(logic would have it that this state will be estab-
lished poems and essays. When an anthology was proposed, he yielded
lished on both banks of the Jordan)—in which the
to
the
appeals
that they be gathered into this volume.
Palestinian i people will enjoy life in freedom,
peace and prosperity. Only then will the Pales.
Now, in this work, are reproduced many of the valuable
tinians cease to be pawns in the hands of Arab photographs, the writings of those who joined in their acclaim of a
states and their rulers. We must promise to do girl who emerged with such eminence both in deploring the tragedies
our utmost to rehabilitate the Palestinian refugees in which she was a major suf-
in their homeland and help to solve their prob- ferer as well as in expressing
lems.
confidence "that peace and tran-
"I am certain that an initiative of this kind quility will return again."
will have an effect not only on the Palestinians,
We have in this volume an ac-
but also on other Arabs In search of power. The
more we help to lessen tension between Israel and count by experts of the back-
the Palestinians, the easier it will be for Egypt ground of the Anne Frank Diary,
notes on the Anne Fru* House
to make peace with us.
"Above all, Israeli initiatives to solve the which has become an historic
Palestinian problem are vitally needed for our museum in Antwerp, notes on
own good. Whoever notes the prevailing mood documentations and the listings o
among the young can see that tbe Israeli people schools -that were established to
do not want solutions running against their con- memorialize Anne Frank.
science. The fate of the Palestinian people, that
Many lands are represented
is so closely bound up with our own, weighs on here, including. Israel, and the
the conscience of many Israelis and we won't be reproduced unpublished works o
completely 'happy in our state as long as the the young author add value to a
Palestinians haven't achieved political independ- significant work.
ence in a state of their own."
The editor of this volume, Anna
Israel's problems will not be solved in
Jewish debating societies or on television G. Steenmeijer, was the manager
of the Anne Frank Documentation
programs or in disputes between hawks and Center and now is on the Com-
doves or the conservatives and the New Left. mission of Programed Instruc-
Yet it is vital that just as the Israeli Bentov tion for Retarded Children. By
strives for methods to attain peace through gathering some of the writings of
Al- Hamishmar and New Outlook and the Anne, some of which emerge as
ranks of Mapani, so, also, must we, in the classics, the editor has perform-
Diaspora, encourage every means of reach- ed a magnificent task.
ing accord with the Arabs, of establishing
amicable relations with them, of strengthen-
ing friendships between Jewish and Arab
citizens of Israel. If the proposals to nego-
tiate with reasonable Palestinians has merit,
it should be pursued. Hawkish approaches
won't help and dovish blindness will harm.
There must be some means of attaining the
goal through revolutionary means if neces-
sary—granting that an approach for direct
negotiations with Palestinians is revolution-
ary.
These ideas are uttered with prayer in
heart that there be a speedy end to the.war
—and an attainable peace meaning a sort of
friendship between Arabs and Israelis.
Tributes to Anne incidentally
serve as rebukes to tyrants, as
rejections of warfare, as acclaim
of humanitarian Ideals to which
Anne had dedicated her thoughts
while in hiding from the Nazi
beasts who later took her to
Auschwitz—to be murdered.
The Anne Frank House
in Amsterdam • -
The lessons of the Anne Frank Diary after Hiroshima, the studies
conducted in Israel to alert the youth about the inhumanity that stems
from terrors like Nazism, scores of other applications are recorded-
in this deeply moving collection of essays which revive the Interest
that is so vital in assuring prevention of repetitive crimes from de-
mented dictators.
Doubleday adds a great classic to the literature exposing t1M
Hitler terror with this outstanding work.