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By RABBI SHERWIN WINE entitled to their
generosity and go and bother the Israelis instea d officers whose prestige was de-
of Birmingham Temple
hospitality. of buzzing the tourists. He - thinks stroyed by the Israeli army and
July. I went to three Arab co
The Palestinians were strange that Anwar Sadat ought to marry whose business is war.
tries.
.
intruders who had to be repatriat- Golds Meir and end the silly war
It also is the will of Palestinian
That adventure would not be ed to Israel, not because they were
In Gaza, an Arab writer tells
unusual—except that I am both a .Arab brothers, but because they me that Nasser wasted Egyptian refugees who are feared and hated
Egypt, Lebanon and Syria. Can
Jew and a rabbi.
were foreign_strangers. — -
money in. Yemen, Syria and Pal in
OF HARVARD ROW
unarmed civilians overthrow an
I lied to get in. On my visa a 13- While - the daily press -expressed stine. He suggests that it's about armed regime? Most likely not.
Designers of Fine furs
time
that
Egyptia
started
ns
think-
the
love
of
the
people
for
their
plications to Egypt and Lebano n,
-Complete Fur Service
I told them that I was a tea c her Palestinian brothers, the:street op- ing about Egyptians first.
11 MILE AND LAHSER
Since 1967, Nasser was much THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
(half a lie) and religiously unaf inion was vastly different. -The
Phone: 358-0850
Mated. They gave me no troub le. mass media, being contzolled bY less popular than the propaganda
Friday, October 15, 1971-23
In the end, I was even able to the military regimes, speaks for would indicate. Among educated
civilians,
his
Arab
adventurism
the government. The man on the
add Syria to my Est.
Using English and French I street, I learned, has no public was a personal ego trip and deeply
resented. They prefer Sadat.
found no - difficulty speaking t 0 voice.
They believe that Sadat wants
The Syrian and Egyptian peo-
students, merchants, military o f-
to
bring the war to an end, that
ples-appear
about
as
'enthusiastic
facers, professionals and petty
bureaucrats.. Everyone wa s for war as the Quakers. In Cairo, he is less ambitious for an Arab
empire
and that he will tear down
eager to talk, eager to share his there are a million refugees from
Suez and a shortage of tourists. the secret police apparatus of the
laughter and anger with me.
My being American was no li a- The military draft is oppressive military regime. -The trial of Sa-
personal rival, All Sabry, was
Willy. In fact, it turned out to be and the cost of war . xnaterial tax- dat's
wildly - popular. First of all,- be-
an- asset. The popular hatred of es an already strained economy.
In Cairo, a merchant tells me cause he was the Eerie 6f the
the Russians made me a negativ e
that he went back to chain Nasser regime. And second of all,
saint. I was the foe of their foe
smoking
during the Six-Day .War. because he was the agent of the
The Arab -world is poverty. S Y-
COMPLETE
24 Personalized Shops
The lies of the government ra- Russians.
ria and Egypt are seas of Ori en-
e
Enclosed Mall
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The hatred of the Russians is
tai destitution. Although Beirut' is dio about Arab victories drove
universal throughout E g y p
him
to
nervous
exhaustion.
He
both. rich, modern and European
Their bulky Slavic figures are
can no longer trust the military
it is a bizarre exception in a worl d regime.
Commonplace in the bazaars of
of tuirelieved shabbiness. In over
Cairo, an the seashore of Alex-
In
Luxor,
a
Coptic
guide
jokes
populated Egypt the mud but an d
andria, and in the ruins of Lux-
the diseased body are commo n- about Egyptian jets flying over- or, (near Aswan).
head.' He wonders why , they don't
Although they
place.
are the official allies of the
The Arab world is the military
Egyptians, the darlings. of the
presence •. . .0In both Syria and
government and the defenders
Egypt the army rules through a
of the Arab motherland, they
single political party, through a
are heartily detested.
rubber-stamp parliament a n d
They are hated with good rea-
through military repression.
son. The Russians are arrogant
The Arab world is seculari-
and boorish. They are radically
TEL AVIV (JTA)- -- Israel- is prejudiced.
zation. Unlike the Arab regimes
of Libya_ and Morocco, the rul- approaching the time when immi-
Their- crimes go even farther.
ers of and Egypt use Is- grants from'the United States and The military regime has mort-
lam rather than believe in it.
Soviet Russia will form half of all gaged the entire Egyptian econ-
As the national religion of the immigrants to this country, Ab- omy to the -Russians in order to
Arab people, inseparable from its sorption minister Nathan Peled pay for the war material.
history and mythology, Islam is said, here at -the opening of "Ali-
The Arab world is a world with-
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- indispensable to the Arab ego. yada-72" an exposition displaying out Jews. In Beirut 6,000 Jews
Bono Jacob Wig Shop
Juts Noonan Toluoll Agency
Egyptians and Syrian intellectu- thousands of items available to live in safety under the protection
Burton'. Gal
Maher Fins
Charlotte's. Inc_
als are always praising the vir- new settlers,
aapo's Osikfron's S/rappo
of the Christian elite. In Damas-
David.* Lodi.' Shoos
l
e n.,. Hair Toshio,*
Peled observed, however, that cus, 2,000 Jews live in fear and
tues of the Koran while never set-
Moan 114uppou Clothi..
faoproti Geode.. Conanoso Post.
National Bahl. of Surthfiald
ting foot in a mosque. (In this re- the authorities and national insti- dare not venture far from their
Jades
Gunge Ohronstain, C.M.W. & Jewels,
Aube. Cloonan
spect, they are very much like tutions cannot bear the burden houses. In Cairo, a thousand Jews
Oriohlol Paquin Raw. Doh
IP. R. Ilafba. Sohoa
Parisian Fashions
the Jewish admirers of Judaism). of immigration alone. He appealed remain, the survivors of a wealthy
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Kaaba/ Moots A Poultry
Fatal Ihnhars (Racist)
Jarogo✓ s Tots 'a' Toms Sham
Taggory d Norrani vow
Islam has become more propa- to the- established. population, to community of 100,000 Sephardim.
Amid Illaluny
.
Wc.r.P 9IrkTi C.,-
the various immigrants' _ associa-
ganda. than practice.
I Visited the famous synagogue
The-Arab world is mutual dis- tions and to the newcomers them- in Old Cairo where the rediscov-
trust.: Paranoia a bout other selves to help.
ered Geniza storehouse had - yield-
Louis A. Pincus, chairman of ed the Jewish world its priceless
Arabs is a national disease. You
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have only to speak for a few the Jewish Agency, used the occa- manuscripts.
AMERICARD
minutes to any native-to hear sion to dismiss rumors that immi-
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Situated in the center of the
loud complaints about the for- gration'would be curtailed because Coptic quarter, it was surrounded
MASTER
eigners. 'The foreigners* are, not of mounting internal,econamic -and by an ugly high wall and a badly
CHARGE
- the imperialistic English, French social problems. Immigration is tended garden. In the synagogue
and Jews. The hatred of these one of the main pillars of Israel compound there were low stucco
be a
intruders would be understand- and essential to its security, Pin- houses, painted yellow, and hous-
able. - .
cus said.
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IMO
The foreigners are simply other
leave Egypt even if they wanted
Arabs. The Lebanese hate the Syr- Israel to Dedicate
to.
ians. The Syrians hate the Egyp-
.
The synagogue- building is. it-
Burton's gal
ti
tians
and the Egyptians, in turn, First Astronomical
self a thousand years old. A dec-
hate both the Lebanese and the Observatory in Negev
orated entrance arch introduces
in
Syrians.
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an interior of sedate dignity.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass '(JTA)—The High
Mutual hostility goes even fur-
ceilings,
upholstered
wall
ther. Each country is only a geo- first astronomical observatory in benches, wicker-backed chairs,
seductive
graphic concept, with no true na- Israel officially opens Oct. 26 at Hebrew inscriptions painted in
tionality to correspond to it. With- blitzpe Ramon, a little town some gold and Torahs in silver-fili-
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soft spills of
each territory there are dozens 100 miles south of Tel Aviv in the gree cases combine to recall an
of religious and ethnic groups Negev, it was announced here by era of bourgeois elegance.
the • Smithsonian Astrophysical Ob-
which war with each other.
Not so long ago the Jewish up-
whisper-soft
, Arab unity is a joke so long as servatory.
per class of European Cairo came
Some of the world's leading as- to worship in this shrine of Egyp-
propagandists pretend that any-
body who speak; one of the hun- tronomers are expected to attend tian Jewry. They bare fled. Only
nylon jersey
dred Arab d elects is an Arab— dedication ceremonies for the new a middle-aged nervous sexton re-
Florence
and
George
S.
Wise
Ob-
regardless of his -family- history
mains, the caretaker of an irrele-
. . . just one from
and his ethnic memories. Lan- servatory, a field research facility vant temple and 42 Jews about to
our great
the department of physics and die.
guage is an essential ingredient
selection of
astronomy
of
Tel
Aviv
University.
of nationality. But in a pre-secular
If the military regime of Egypt
after-five
The $1,500,000 installation fea- and Syria could tarn from fanta-
world it is not the whole recipe.
tures a 40-inch reflecting tele- sies of victory and power, if they
glamour gowns!
Ironically enocgh, the parochi-
'A
M
scope
and
its
associated
electro-
alism of 'Arabs extends to the
could train their people to be co-
nic equipinent for advanced operative and self-disciplined, if
Palestinians, the so-called heroes
OPEN
studies of the stars and galaxies they could raise the standard of
of the Arab struggle against
and for research on quasars and the lower classes -without destroy-
Western - imperialism. Every-
SUNDAY
X-ray sources.
where I went, the locals volun-
ing the vitality of the bourgeoisie
12 TO 5
The localion of the observatory and the professionals, if they could
- teered their opinion of the Pal-
estinian refugees in their midst. makes it particularly useful for free tb*mselves from economic
Since lower class ' Palestinian cooperative programs with obser- bondage to the Russians, if -
refugees, had turned to begging, vatories 'in the Western Hemi- could stop pursuing the Musm of
thievery and smuggling in order sphere. The observatory was estab- Arab unity and strive to heal their
to survive, their presence-yeas as lished with assistance from the own domestic quarrels—
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welcome as inner-city Bl(cks in Smithsonian.
Then the Arab-world might be
suburban Warren. There was lin
happy-
GLAMOUR AND LEISURE SPORTSWEAR A FASHIONS
fraternal bond milibb. Could per-
I would never, read a book if it
The Wailietween the Arabs'and
suade the Lebanese or. Syrian to were possible' for M e to talk half the Jews -is no longer (if it ever-
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