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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the seventh day of Elul, 5731, the following scriptural selections
will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Deut. 16:18-21:9. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 51:12-52:12.
Candle lighting. Friday, Aug. 27, 6:56 p.m.
VOL. LiX.
No. 24
Page Four
August 27, 1971
Palestinians' Rules: Aim to Destroy Israel
With the reconvening of the United Na-
tions General Assembly, the resumption of
debates over the existing Middle East situa-
tion, the emergence of propaganda against
Zionism, we keep hearing again an argument
for just rights for the Palestinians. It is an
argument based on the aim to destroy Israel.
It sounds like a code of justice, as an appeal
for assistance to homeless and dispossessed,
but its basis is the extremists' objective of
annihilating the existing state of Israel.
When the anti-Israel forces resumed their
campaign against Zionism in the columns of
the Wayne State University student publica-
tion South End, the so-called Palestinian
cause was presented again. What are the
Palestinian claims? In translation, the "Pal-
estinian National Covenant," as amended at
the July 1968 meeting in Cairo by the Pales-
tinian National Council, reads:
Article 1: Palestine is the homeland of the
Palestinian Arab people and an integral part of
the great homeland, and the people of Palestine
is a part of the Arab nation.
Article 2: Palestine with its boundaries that
existed at the time of the British Mandate is an
integral regional unit.
Article 3: The Palestinian Arab people possesses
the legal right to its homeland, and when the lib-
eration of its homeland is completed, it will exer-
cise self-determination solely according to its own
will and choice.
Article 5. The Palestinians are the Arab citizens
who were living permanently in Palestine until
1947, whether they were expelled from there or
remained. Whoever is born to a Palestinian Arab
father after this date, within Palestine or outside
it, is a Palestinian.
Article 6: Jews who were living permanently in
Palestine until the beginning of the Zionist in-
vasion will be considered Palestinians.
Article 15: The liberation of Palestine, from an
Arab viewpoint, is a national (qawmi) duty to
repulse the Zionist, imperialist invasion from the
great Arab homeland, and to purge the Zionist
presence from Palestine. Its full responsibilities
fall upon the Arab nation, peoples and govern-
ments, with the Palestinian Arab people at their
head.
Article 19: The partitioning of Palestine in 1947
and the establishment of Israel are fundamentally
null and void, whatever time has elapsed, because
they were contrary to the wish of the people of
Palestine and its natural right to its homeland, and
contradict the principles embodied in the Charter
of the United Nations, the first of which is the
right cf self-determination.
Tribute to Garvett
Morris Garvett was a man of faith.
The distinguished leader's devotional ac-
tivities throughout his life, his dedicated work
in the synagogue and its educational tasks,
his communal interests—these had guided his
principled attitudes toward his community,
the Jewish coreligionists and his fellow men.
His life's story, outlined in the biographi-
cal data about him, shows the extent of his
labors—in fields of law, health, education, so-
cial services and religious devotions.
That is why he was chosen for the Jewish
Welfare Federation's Fred M. Butzel Award,
and that is why he was elevated to the presi-
dency of Sinai Hospital. As president of the
Jewish Community Center, as a Bnai Brith
president, and especially as head of educa-
tional projects, he left an inerasable name in
the records of the Detroit community.
As a great lawyer, a devoted communal
worker, one whose years were dedicated to
educational and congregational services in
Detroit Jewry, Morris Garvett's memory is
honored as a blessing.
Article 20: The Balfour Declaration, the Man-
date Document, and what has been based upon
them are considered null and void. The Jews are
not one people with an independent personality.
They are rather citizens of the states to which
they belong.
Article 21: The Palestinian Arab people, in ex-
pressing itself through the armed Palestinian
revolution, rejects every solution that is a substi-
tute for a complete liberation of Palestine, and
rejects all plans that aim at the settlement of the
Palestine issue or its internationalization.
Article 22: Zionism is a political movement or-
ganically related to world imperialism and hostile
to all movements of liberation and progress in the
world. It is a racist and fanatical movement in
its formation; aggressive, expansionist and colo-
nialist in its aims, and fascist and nazi in its
means. Israel is the tool of the Zionist movement
and a human and geographical base for world
imperialism.
Article 23: The demands of security and peace
and the requirements of truth and justice oblige
all states that preserve friendly relations among
peoples and maintain the loyalty of citizens to
their homelands to consider Zionism an illegiti-
mate movement and to prohibit its existence and
activity.
Article 24: The Palestinian Arab people believes
in the principles of justice, freedom, sovereignty,
self-determination, human dignity and the right
of peoples to exercise them.
Note the final point: there is a belief in
justice, but apparently the Jew—the Zionist!
—is outside the sphere of fairness.
In fairness to the Arab claimants, we
have just presented their covenant and we
invite analysis of it.
Israel has been established by decision
of the international body and is now ap-
proaching its 23rd year of existence. It is an
established state, with 3,000,000 citizens. But
the Arabs do not recognize it. As articles
2, 19, 20 and 21 indicate clearly in what we
have quoted, those who are organized as
Palestinians would wipe out historical reali-
ties. They do not grant Jews equal right to
"independent existence," as they claim for
themselves. They insist only on complete
control of the area that had been mandated
to England and is now the sovereign state
of Israel.
Note how they define Palestinian: one
who inhabited Israel at any time and children
born after 1917 to a "Palestinian Arab
father" anywhere. The only Jews who would
be recognized as citizens are those who lived
in Paldstine prior to "the beginning of the
Zionist invasion," as their article 5 states.
The so-called "Zionist invasion" is dated as
1917.
In other words, Jews who had come to
Palestine after 1917 would be expelled. It is
another way of defining a genocidal objec-
tive. And this the world is asked to accept
as an act of justice for Palestinians!
There are acts of justice for Arabs in
Israel today. There isn't an Arab community
anywhere that has been treated as well, that
has benefited culturally and economically as
much as have the Israeli Arabs. But their
kinsmen are determined upon a genocidal
war against Jewry—and neither Israel nor
Jews anywhere else will submit to such
barbarism.
Yet the scheme for annihilation of Jews
is being propagated and is not rejected in
some quarters. It is to be hoped that those
who can read the above quoted statement
properly will recognize the demoniacal pur-
poses of the enemies of Israel? We can only
hope for objectivity where hatred and preju-
dice and misrepresentation of the Zionist
goals has set in.
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Social History of Nazi Germany
Reveals Humanism Indifference
As a social history of Nazi Germany, "The 12-Year Reich" by
Richard Grunberger, published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, is
one of the most important additions to the studies of conditions that
led to the Holocaust.
Because he deals with the years 1933-1945, Grunberger has made
an important contribution to the research regarding conditions that
emanated from Nazism and affected or influenced European and world
affairs.
The study of conditions that existed among Jews in Germany is among the
valuable portions of this volume. The author relates many little known facts
and points to many misunderstandings regarding the Jewish postion, especially
the exaggerations that emanated from anti-Semites.
He points out, for example, that Jews were not as uniformly
prosperous as was believed. He states: "Against their over-representa-
tion hi certain areas of lucrative commercial activity-11 per cent in
real estate brokerage, 25 per cent in retailing, 30 per cent in the cloth-
ing trade and 79 per cent in department stores—must be set the fact
that in 1933 one in three Jewish taxpayers had an annual income of
less than 2,400 marks and one in four Berlin Jews (31,000 out of
170,000) were receiving charity."
Jews failed to reproduce themselves in 'Germany, according to
Grunberger. His figures show: "The 33 live births per thousand of the
population registered in 1910 indicated an over-all German fertility
rate exactly twice as high as that of the Jews. Between 1911 and 1925
the excess of deaths over births among the Jews of Prussia was 37,000.
These negative vital statistics were compounded by an increase in the',_
number of mixed marriages and conversions to Christianity."
Of interest is the comment that Jewish businesses continued to prosper even
under Nazism until 1938 because customers felt Jewish merchants were giving
them good value.
Grunberger maintains that "Catholic areas were less prone to
anti-Semitism than Protestant ones."
Referring to the pogrom of Nov. 9 and 10, 1938, known as the
National Crystal Night, Grunberger states that it "signified that Ger-,- .
many had passed the point of no return on the path of regression to
barbarism." He added: "The very term 'crystal night,' suggestive. of _
the plate glass shattered in the course of the pogrom, was in its way
symbolic, as stressing material damage to the exclusion of physical
and spiritual barbarity."
That pogrom, the author points out, "divided the German public into three
groups: the shocked but silent at one end, the looters and vicarious sadists at
the other—and a broad middle stratum of inert bystanders given to comments
like, 'A piano can't help who it belongs to' in response to the sight of storm
troopers throwing a Bechstein from a second-story balcony."
Grunberger is skeptical about future replenishment of the exter-
minated Jews, as contrasted with the population growth among others.
He makes these. comments:
"Since 1945 time has slowly done its healing work—though not
for the Jews of Europe. Even Russia, which suffered an estimated
20,000,000 casualties at the hands of the Nazis, today has a larger
population than prewar.
"But world Jewry will never again number 18,000,000. Nor will synagogues
ever rise again in the old Jewish heartland between the Baltic and Black Sea
on soil fertilized with ashes. This will be Hitler's permanent memorial—and
he would hardly have wished for another. History will record that just as
hatred of the Jews was the kernel of Nazi theory so their murder was the
culmination of Nazi practice."
"Without anti-Semitism," Grunberger believes, "Nazism would have been
inconceivable." He states: "Although the interplay of social anxiety and national
frustration turned many Germans into Jew-haters, their anti-Semitism barely
approximated the millennial Nazi vision of a universe purged of every trace of
Jewish existence.
There was public indifference to Jewish suffering in 1941-2, not
because the Holocaust was not a real event to Germans, "but because
Jews were . . . remote and not real people."
In a footnote, Grunberger asserts: "Somewhat later in the war,
after most of the Jews in Europe had already been exterminated, Nazi
propaganda had little difficulty in further inflaming German anti-
Semitic feelings by projecting Ilya Ehrenburg and Henry Morgenthau
as the Russian and American incarnations of the Elders of Zion con-
spring to crush Germany."
Throughout his volume, Grunberger, reviewing historical events
and in numerous footnotes, points to the tragedy of German Jewry
and the barbarism of the Nazis. "The 12-Year Reich" thus assumes an
important role as history of the Nazi barbaric years.