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THE JEWISII, NEWS
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Sabbath -Scriptural Selections '
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This Sabbath. the.25th day of Heshvan. 5732. the following scriptural selections will
be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion. Gen. 23:1-25:18. Prophetical portion. I Kings 1:1-31.
Rosh Hodesh Kislev, Torah reading's. Thursday.and Friday. Num. 28:1 15.
Candle lighting. Friday. Nos: 12,
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VOL. LX. No. 9
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November 12, 1971
The . ZionisLidea and the Balfour Legacy
When Jakob Malik, as spokesman fOr the .
Soviet Union, at the United Nations, launched
his attack on Israel, he did not limit himself
to the political situation. He slurred Jews.
and Zionists_ and _ Ziohism were his special
target_ •
While' threatening Yosef Tekoah, the Is-
raeli delegate, that `.'the long nose" of anyone
intruding in Russia's affairs would be cut off,
he also referred to the Jews of New York, to
the United States, to supporters of Israel, and
his charge was that `.`some political leaders .
because of mercantile and electoral considera-
tions, follow the leash of the Zionists and
support them by every means."
Following the Arab, line, Malik described
Zionism as the evil elementand Zionists as
t of Tekoah
the bogeymen. It is to the credi
that he ignored the vitriolic and instead pre-
sented an interpretation of Zionism which
should be used as a credit by those who have
been the target , of Soviet attacks at the UN.
Tekoah's address at the UN contained these
definitive evaluations of Zionism -- as a great
ihaf-Was ZiOnism. When they formed the Jew-
ish - Brigade in: the Second= World War to fight
Hitler while certain that Mr. Malik's present
Arab allies supported him, that was Zionism.
When Jews went to Nazi- gas chambers with
the name of JerusaleM on their hps,•that was
Zionism. When, in the forests of Russia and
the Ukraine, Jewish partisans foUght-the Ger-
mans and sang of the land where palms were
growing, that was Zionism. And when Jews
fought British colonialism while the Arabs of
Palestine and the neighboring Arab States
were being helped by it, that was Zionism.
Zionism is one of the world's oldest anti-im-
perialist movements. It aims at securing for
the Jewish people the rights possessed by
other nations. It harbors malice to none. It
seeks co-operatian and understanding -with
Dr. Israel Eldad, currently a leciurer -in 'humanistic studies at the
the Arab nations and with their national Technion
in Haifa and at Beersheba University,' was a Jabotinsky
movements.
Revisionist and supports the Herut .poliCies of Menahem Begin. He was
"And therefore may I suggestto the rep- a Brit 'Trumpeldor--Betar—associate and supported the Lehi "Fighters
resentative of the Soviet Union if he wonders for the Freedom of IsraeL" • ' -
why I had to reply to him that he ponder and • He is to this day a militant-Zionist and his Views - are presented
give some thought to what Zionism has been, in "The Jewish Revolution—Jewish Statehood,"-published by Shengold.
to what J ewish " ry has been, and then
There are 'no apologies in this IMIUMe•for. Israel's 'deeds in attain-
perhaps he will Understand the longings, the ing statehood. and the- charges that Israel created the refugee problem
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dismissed
categorically.
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aspirations of Jewish' people in the Soviet Un-I
The author makes a strong case for the. -Jew I who were either
ion, of Jewish people everywhere, and the • expelled
or compelled- to leave the Arab Countries, and he points out
hopes of the state of Israel for peace and cO- how extensive is the, claim of Jews against Moslem lands.-
operation, for friendship -and fraternity with
- Then there Is the issue involving Jordal..The - term, he em-
their neighbors and with : Other countries
phasizes, Is only that of a river - ,not a-country—and he inahts
large and small IP
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. there never was such a country, Pointing out how it arose out of
We invoke this definitive statement at
British political schemes.
Uncompromising Role for Israel
Outlined in Dr Eldadis: Book
"May I say to him, (Mr. Malik), if he still
does not know what Zionism is, that when
Jews were exiled from . ;their land as far back
as the Seventh Century before , the =Christian
area, when Jews sat by the rivers of Babylon
and wept but also sought. Ways to go home,
that was already Zionism, Mr. Malik. When,
in a mass revolt against their exile, they re-
turned and rebuilt the temple and re-estab- this time in order that there should be a full
lished their state a few thousand years ago, appreciation of libertarian principles inherent
onism.
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that was already Zionism. When they were in Zi
The late -Arthur James Balfour and the
the last people in the Mediterranean' basin to
resist the forces of the Roman enipire and to international leaders-who labored for the rec-
ognition of Jewish rights in their ancient
struggle for independence, that was Zionism.
- understood the historic ideals of
When, for ---centuries after the •Roman con- homeland
the Movement.
quest they refused to surrender and rebelled
When
the
Zionist Organization of Detroit
again and again against the invaders, that marks the Balfour anniversary 'at its annual
was Zionism. And when, uprooted from their celebration on Dec. 5, it will be giving pin-
land by the etiti4uerOrs .aid dispersed: ;by: , Oasis to the goals for freedoni and justice
them all over the world, - thav'eontmued to for Jewry as they were represented in Zion-
dream and striae
return
to
to Israel, that
. ist ideology.
Zionism When, during the logg succession af - .
A- great movement cannot be besmirched
foreign invaderi, they tried"repeatedly.to re- as easily as the Maliks intend, either at the
gain sovereignty at least in part,of their• home- UN or. anywhere. else. What 'Jews -do;: air De-
land, that was Zionism-And when they-volun- troit lewry :will dem- Mist- rate at the amnia'
teered from - . Palestine and- front, all - over , -Balfour celebration, will -reaffirm the adher-
world to establish Jewish .armies' that 'fought
ence to principles embodied--in an historic
on the side of the 'allies:in the, First World effort to assure that prOPhecY is not de-
War and helped. end OttoMent' Subjugation, 1 graded.
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Jordan is described' as a Western protectorate, first British. now
American. Jordan is described as "an artifact nearing its end" and
Dr.• Eldad warns of grave dangers to Israel in the event Egypts, the
Iraqis -or Arafat's terrorists should gang up against the country. He
calls. therefore, for the retention of the areas administered by Israel,
considering them legitimate -parts of the bind, warning of dangers to
many minorities in the Middle East and predicting that Israel's triumph
also will help the minority groups. -
There • is firmness in Dr. Eldad's assertion: "Since for the
Arabs it is not a question- of life and death as= they have 15
alternative states of their own, there min be no lisabt that we
moat continue our own liberation. movement 1w. 1,1 awareness of
•the justice 'and inevitability of our came and .1u.kdi eonsciousness
of our own strength. Like the Wattintord O e theummiler elements
among the Sews of the Diaspora, NEVER AGAIN; Mir watchword
here inustker WE ARE HERE TO STAY. Iblnia what the Arabs
must be told."
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This, in a:sense, summarizes a volume
Which, Dr. Eldad re
views the many. problems facing Israel, the. dangers the- state is
confrOnted with,.the.accusations leveled:-at Israelis and the arguments
that stem from a philosophy Of the nationalism so effectively-defined
by the',
Dr. Eldad draws upon the -lessons of, history to show .that the
- Holocaust was the result of a failing • Jewish "diplomacy" which did
not recognize the importance of 'Jews relying - cot - themselves 'and on
their right-to affir
' their' status in -thaw
-rid.' Hit hoot is an affirma-
tion of the right of Jews, to be masters of their own destiny, and in
the course of his analysis of previous -experiences he points to the
Comments by Soiiet;iisitOrs on their visits_the
_ Communists in the Middle East, will• ob- 'Bastille
and to the failure of emancipation promises.. "-
in rtaneefiloe: 004 jiroof Of , ject to ; the settlethent in Israel of young peo-
hii readers to that periodin history:when Jews were led
the necessity for Orginized*tiOWin defense pie who ay become subjects for Israel army to %lie-refers
,belleve
-in an. iMpending salvation that ended in tragedy and he
of the many thousands in- 'he USSR Who are recruitment, thereby embarrassing the Rus- recalls; the 'French
experience by= stating: - •
clamoring for the right;
zfg .toc:
, ..pursue :their cub sian positiop of anti-Israelism.
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"During the first stases of the French Revolution the Jews
tural inclinatiOns 424.,./41911:111Se of the restric7
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—with
theleieeption
of the ultra-Orthodox—were among its most
Russian Jews who are settung in Israel
tions imposed upon,thenii*aeking for the
enthusiastic supporters. They composed "suck anthems as `France
right to leave. the SOyi eVj pn and ', to settle arrive there with joy and are welcomed en-
is our Zion, Paris our Jerusalem and-the Seine our Jordan.' The
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- t busiest:many. There • are some difficulties in
in Israel.
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silver crowns of prayer shawls and golden ritual:vessels from the
ed. It is be- finding immediate housing and prompt job
The twit.requesti . aile-
synagogues were offered in Robespierre's. 'Temple of Reason.'
reconstruct their placements, but Israel solves these problems. -
cause they have.a:deXtratio -.*itec
Torah scrolls were used to cover the drums beaten during the
hitherto curtailed:actiailitigiditur to adhere to They are problems not of Russian JeWaalcirie -
numerons liberty parades. Same -150 years later they came to be
Jewish pursuits in their tiiltliral and spiritual but-of a growing population that is-_biiisling
. purposes, as drums and for boot leather—this
time in Auschwitz.
desires not to abandon their heritage, it was at the seams. -
the Bastille remained intact; there would have been
natural for them to ask: for permission to go
Factually,: Russian Jews desire i6 -g6 to
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of. Rescuing:USSR,Je Yry
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to Israel. It is there, they are convinced, that Israel and.lsrael is:prepared to receive them.
they can benefit -from their heritage.
"Nor would there have been .modemTiminSin le-lead:tie Jews
As long as-there are ,obstacles;-there is; juitifi:.
ek.to. their Own land?'
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Some Jews have been given the right to cation for , protests=:-against` discrimination
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In this-lesson the reader finds realism•of:the failure of -the false
in Israel. and it appears from the con- The task of assuring a !raven for Soviet Jewry'
from the revolutionaries and of the realist* of self-.help that
demnations of the protesters by the two chief --in Israelgoes on Without : interruption :hopes
fro consistency
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self-help leads
Russian spokesmen in Canada and-,in krarxe_ ., and _any-mterferestce. merely encourages in- • to stems
protection of national
that their main excuse for delaying the issu- creased labors in a task that must be viewed
For the Herut-minded;- Dr. Elded's volume is a gtdde to their 'Philo-
ance of exit visas to others who are clamoring as lifesaving and rescuing those who are cul- sophy;
for the general reader it is a .descriptdie document of many
for them is that the Arabs, the chief allies of turally and spiritually oppressed.
realistic approaches- to conditions that currently affect