Israel Cabinet Ministers Peres, Allon Write Important History Works
- ..;rael's diplomats are emerging he gives an account of his relation-
as men of research. as historians ships with the French, in the era
and as literarily skilled. Not only that led to the strong friendship be-
Ab 40 Eban, already noted for sev- tween the two nations. The various
eral important books, as well as sources of arms supplies that were
for impressive recordings, but opened as a result of Peres' and
others in the Israel government his associates' activities provide
have written and are writing his- forts leading to amazing Israeli
attainments in many lands.
tory.
Not only the military but the
Two of them are gaining special
attention for their important books educational. the industrial and the
describing Israel's experiences in social aspects of Israel's life are
the wars for freedom and in the developed by Peres. For example,
struggle for survival. They and in his references to educational
plans and the outlook for future
their books are:
"David's Sling" by Shimon Progress, Peres states:
Peres, member of the Israel cabi-
"Education is becoming more
net, minister of immigrant ab-
and more a central branch of the
sorption, published by Random
modern economy, and it is as
House.
essential to invest in human
beings as it is in machinery.
"The Making of Israel's Army"
I have no doubt that the Jewish
by Yigal Allon, Israel's deputy
nation has the means to finance
prime minister, published by
the education of its children here
Universe Books.
Allon's new book is his second in Israel. Moreover, to travel
in a year. His "Shield of David— abroad to study has been a tra-
The Story of Israel's Armed dition with our people, and living
Forces," published by Random in other places has usually con-
House, was reviewed in our col- tributed to the maturity and self-
confidence of the student and
umns on Jan. I. The new work,
while an excellent addendum, is broadened his studies.
much more than a mere continua-
"Israel is likely to contain
tion of the earlier theme. It also is some 30 per cent of the Jews in
a compilation of important essays the world, said that brilliant
by other noted Israelis and as such, young Israeli nuclear physicist,
gain's the importance of an an- the late Prof. Amos de Shalit,
thology on the subject and as a when he urged that young Jews
compilation of significant state- come to Israel to study. This
ments alluding to Israel's historic prompts an extreme suggestion
experiences.
for those of the 70 per cent who
"David's Sling" is both a per- would continue to live abroad—
sonal document relating Peres' that they at least spend 30 per
experiences in army building, in cent of their lives in Israel. As a
assuring Israel's military strength.
matter of fact, the Zionist move-
as well as a record of many ment has always regarded edu-
political negotiations that have cation as the firmest guarantee
helped make history for Israel.
of its future. I think that Dr.
Weizmann's first practical Zion-
Unquestionably one of the very
ist step was taken on Mount
revealing documents relating to
the emergence of Israel's de-
Scopus when he laid the corner-
stone there of the Hebrew Uni-
fensive mechanisms, Peres' book
versity of Jerusalem in 1918. Ben
has the great merit of evaluating
Gurion dreams of making the
events as well as personalities.
. ".'..eres' role in negotiating for Sde Boker Institute a combination
arms took him to many areas and of the Yavneh Yeshiva (the an-
-- cient Talmudic Seminary), Ox-
ford University and MIT! Zion-
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nation's relationships with world
Jewry and the free world, and he
sees a bright future for Israel's
industrial structures.
Yigal Allon's "The Making of
Israel's Army" deals with the
background, the history of the de-
fense forces, the gradual steps that
led from the first guardians of
Jewish rights in the early colonies
to the Hagana, to the Palmach, to
the army as it functions today.
It is natural for Allon to deal
with the force with which he was
associated, the Palmach. He is ex-
pert in describing the labors of
Orde Wingate, of the military
genius Yotzhak Sadeh who was one
of the creative forces in the found-
ing of Israel's armed units. Allon's
is the story of the earlier military
leaders and the present. His book
is history as well as descriptive of
a people's determined will not to
be crushed by overwhelming forces.
Every aspect of Israel's battle
for life is reviewed here, briefly
but effectively, and all the wars
are evaluated.
Then there is the second portion
of the book which is devoted to
"Voices and Documents." This is
where the valuable papers devoted
to the role of Israel as a military
and social force become more
fully understandable. "The Oath
of the Palmach" precedes the com-
plete texts of "The Palmach Field-
Training Program" and the report
on "Training of Palmach NCO's
at Dalia." This is history not
usually found in similar works, and
by providing them, the author fills
a need in understanding the emer-
gence of the Israel fighting forces.
Allon himself is represented in
these essays with "Profile of a
Commander," "Letter to an Emis-
sary" and "Circular Letters to
Emissaries."-
Foundations of Hagana and
Oath of Haganah are included
together with evaluative analyses
of events and proposals relating
to the army by Yitzhak Sadeh,
Yisrael Schohat, Haim Guri,
Yisrael Galili, David Ben-Gurion,
Yosef Tabenkin, Gavriel Cohn,
Yigael Yadin, Abraham Tamir,
David Karmon, Uri Milstein and
Itzhak Rabin. The latter's is
the text of his now historic ad-
dress on Mount Scopus soon after
the Six-Day War.
Descriptive maps relating to the
subject of the book serve the
reader well.
Michael Howard commends Al-
lon's book in a foreword. He warns,
because the British antagonisms
are recorded here, that:
"For the military analyst and
historian the work is of course of
absorbing interest. The Israeli
army was made in action. It was
a regular and a conscript force
at the same time. Conscripts, as
Yigael Yadin had put it, were
simply 'regular soldiers who hap-
pened to be on leave 11 months
of the year.' It had—and has—a
refreshing freedom from obsolete
tradition. In its early days it
effected a synthesis between the
ideas of the British Army, in
which so many Jews served, and
the looser discipline of the Pal-
mach; a synthesis which has
been further refined under the
severest of tests. It has taken not
only foreign arms but foreign
ideas—notably those of the late
Sir Basil Liddell Hart — and
adapted them to its own needs.
It is now a uniquely successful
military organization, command-
ing, especially since the Six-Day
War, a world-wide prestige.
A word of warning. Allon
writes for his own people, not for
foreigners and least of all for
Englishmen. His account of Brit-
ish policy in operating the Man-
date and of Jewish resistance to
it is not dispassionate. Nor will
it be only Arab readers who will
be somewhat taken aback by his
account of the 'liberation' of Arab
towns and centers of population
in 1948. Allon appears no more
conscious than the majority of
his compatriots of the irony of
`liberating' territory from a popu-
lation which has lived there for
centuries. But as Allon points
out, the Jews in 1948 fought with
the desperation of men and
women for whom there was 'no
alternative.' They still do so
today."
Peres and Allon have added im-
mensely to an understanding of
Israel's armed forces and of the
role of Israel as a nation that
knows how to emphasize its will
to live. Their two books are his-
torically significant.
ticipation of organized labor in
the United States in the growth of
Israel's economy through the Is-
THE DETROIT. JEWISN NEWS rael Bond .campaign.
warring neighbors and not as a
military purpose.
Patriotism is described as "ir-
relevant and is replaced by
logistics."
Many of the historic aspects of
the Middle East wars are reviewed,
giving the Rolbant book a place in
contemporary resumes of events
that have led to the Arab-Israel
struggles. There also are geograph-
ical analyses that help reach an
understanding of the issues that
confront the embattled people of
Israel.
Problems related to immigrant
absorption and the role of new-
comers as conscripts in Israel's
army are reviewed as part of the
study to indicate the Israeli demo-
cratic ideas and the aim to estab-
lish a free society, marked by the
integration of newcomers through
the various areas that also include
the army.
The author also touches upon the
Israeli position as a defensive
force for the protection of the
democratic ideal in the Middle
East and the continuing difficul-
ties that emerge from Russia's as-
sistance to Israel's enemies are
linked to the global confrontation..
On this score Rolband declares:
"Should the Arab states embark
on a new war against Israel with
the aid of communist military
forces, Israel will find herself in-
volved not only in the defense of
her own existence, but equally in
the defense of world freedom and
international law. For, while Arab
and communist dictators may be
prompted by two different sets of
political purposes, the outcome
would be one : extension of World
communism over the area of the
Middle East. Thus the free world
has only one possibility: to resist
the intrusion of world communism
by making it impossible for the
Arab states to set the Middle East
afire. Whatever the Western atti-
tude to Israel, and this of neces-
sity cannot be uniform, the free
Describes Israel's Soldier
world should for its own sake be
Rolbant's Army Profile
deeply interested in the preserva-
Much merit attaches to tion of the state of Israel and the
another book dealing with the strengthening of her defense
Israelis' defensive methods and forces."
their defensive forces in "The Is-
raeli Soldier—Profile of an Army"
by Samuel Rolbant, published by
Thomas Yoseloff.
Rolbant served for 15 years as
education officer with Israel's
armed forces, and he writes with
knowledge of the army and its
leadership, internal structure and
gradual development.
Rolbant's contribution to an un-
derstanding of Israel's military
forces lies primarily in his ex-
planation of the social aspects of
Israel's readiness to render serv-
ice in defense of their homeland
and in delineating the structure of
the army.
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His book, as a "Profile of the
Army," describes the place of the
Israel army in the country's na-
tional consciousness and his em-
phasis is on the fact that the army
exists only "to provide security
against the Arabs." Thus the need
U.S. Unionists in Israel
on Fact-Finding Trip
JERUSALEM—An Israel Bond
delegation of prominent national
trade union leaders from the Unit-
ed States arrived in Israel at the
invitation of Labor Minister Jo-
seph Almogi to participate in a
10-day fact-finding tour of the
country and to meet with top gov-
ernment and Histadrut officials.
The delegation is headed by
John H. Lyons, of St. Louis, pres-
ident of the International Associa-
tion of Bridge, Structural and
Ornamental Iron Workers of
America, AFL-CIO. One of the ma-
jor objectives of the visit is to
explore ways to increase the par-
is primarily for protection against
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