THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Every week,1000 people
come to a land at war
to be at peace.
Why do they come?
By the tens and thousands. Every day. Every week.
They crowd themselves onto ships -. Push themselves across
difficult terrain. They come to a society whoselanguage they
don't know. Whose customs are unfamiliar. To a nation strug-
gling for sheer survival. To a people making a life and death
stand against the constant threat of annihilation.
But they come.
Sometimes with just the clothes on their backs. And always
with one thought in mind.
Freedom. From oppression, injustice and hatred.
For to these Jews, Israel means an end to running. And the
beginning of peace. Of life with dignity.
A peace they defend, no matter what the cost. And the cost
is phenomenal. The people of Isra0 spend virtually all their
energy, resources, young men and women and money to guard
against terrorism and hostile armies.
While they fight this struggle the other battles for Jewish
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survival continue.
The care of the old, the sick, the handicapped.
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Survival means sacrifice.
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The building and staffing of Schools, clinics and vocational
centers.
And the journeys, settling and training of the thousands of
immigrants who come seeking peace.
These battles are ours. Through the United Jewish Appeal
we can win them. As we have in the past and as we will con-
tinue to do in the future.
If we build only one school this year, it will be a school that
didn't exist last year.
Every immigrant we settle and train, turning him into a pro-
ductive member of the society he dreamed of, will be one more
blow struck for justice and freedom.
Every life we save will be measured in ways we cannot
even fathom.
More than ever before we must put ourselves beside those
who are helpless, those who are ill, those who are seeking
hope and new life in Israel. And we must be certain that when
we are called upon, we are as ready and as strong as we have
to be.
Life asks no less.
1971 ALLIED JEWISH CAMPAIGN ISRAEL EMERGENCY FUND
April 1-May 5, 1971
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