Hannah Arendt Views Violence
Contrasted With Rising Power
risil disobedience and violence,
the after-effects of the publication
• f the Pentagon Papers, the role
of the press—these issues that
.,.e of such vital concern to all
nu•ro.015 receise ctose scrutiny
froin one of the
ration's ablest
scientists and experts in
a: and international mat-
,.
of the Republic."
Its Ilarcouct Brace Jo-
liannah Arendt deals
.
••with "Lying in Poli-
Disobe•dience,• . "On
and "Thoughts on Pub-
an • I: .'tutor
N•••nilt see; the need for a
Dr
.,.iii , , u, the national character
people While
..f
the Amerman
siewin.t the effects of "lying in
i•olitics." as /1 as evidenced in the
publication of the Pentagon docu-
she expresses confidence
ments,
that "the halfhearted attempts of
the government to circumvent
Constitutional guarantees and to in-
timidate those who have made
Lip their minds not to be intimi-
dated will not he enough to
destroy the Republic. -
Dealing with power, its means
of suppressing violence, Dr.
Arendt asserts that "every de-
crease in power is an open in.
sitation to violence—if only be-
cause those who hold power and
1 ,-,1 it slipping from their hands,
be they the government or the
gos erned, have always found it
difficult to resist the temptation
to substitute violence for it. -
strength.
`Power
Sh , • notes
1.•• •••
yi.il•nce—these
the
to indicate
hot v., - is
means toy which man rules over
man
th• y held to be synon-
es base the same
s
e
function It is only after one ceases
affairs to the
)
reduce
public
•
laismess of dominion that the origi-
aid data in the realm of human
affairs will appear. or. rather,
ieappear. in their authentic di-
,er-otv "
There is the added definitive
comment, "Politically speaking,
it is insufficient to say that
powu'r and viole•ce are not the
same. Power and violence are
opposites: where the one rules
absolutely, the other is absent.
ink-nee appears where power
is in jeopardy, but left to its
own course it ends in power's
disapprrance. This implies that
it is not correct to think of the
opposite of violence as nonvio-
lence; to speak of nonviolent
power is actually redundant. %Its.
knee can destroy power: it is.
utterly incapable of creating
Analyzing civil disobedience. Dr.
Arendt declares:
''The current danger of rebel-
lion in the United States arises
not from dissent and resistance to
particular laws, executive orders.
not even
policies,
and national
from denunciation of the 'system'
or the 'establishment' with its fa-
miliar overtones of outrage at the
standards of those
moral
low
in high places and the protective
atmosphere of connivance that
are
surrounds them What we
confronted with is a constitutional
crisis of the first order, and this
crisis has been affected by two
very different factors whose un-
fortunate coincidence has resulted
in the particular poignancy as
well as the general confusion of
• the situation There are the fre-
quent challenges to the Constitu-
tion by the administration with
the consequential loss of confi-
dence in constitutional processes
by the people. that is. the with
drawal of consent: and there has
come into the open. at atu,ut the
same time, the more radical un
willingness of certain sections of
Ny
Japanese Official
in Israel to Pay
Lydda Victims
TEL AVIV (JTAl—Seio Otta,
director of the foreign relations
department of the Japanese Red
Cross, arrived in Israel Wednesday
to handle the arrangements for
the payment of 51,500,000 in in-
demnifications for the victims of
the Lydda massacre of May 30.
Otta was received by Japanese
embassy representatives here and
then left for Jerusalem, where he
met with foreign office and Magen
David Adorn officials. He will also
meet the Lydda victims who are
still in Tel liashomer Hospital out-
side Tel Aviv in order to express
the feelings of regret of the
Japanese government and people.
A special committee investigat-
ing the emergency medical care
at Lydda Airport found that while
the evacuation of victims at the
HANNAH ARENDT
time of the May 30 massacre was
carried out promptly and efficient-
the population to recognize the
ly, this was done on a spontaneous
consensus universalis."
basis and not as an organized
Arendt,
a
native
of
Han-
effort.
The committee suggested
Dr .
rover, Germany, studied in the that a central medical body be
Marburg and Freiburg universi- set up at Lydda to tackle all prob-
ties and received her doctorate lems such as first aid, notifying
from Heidelberg University. She ambulances at nearby stations and
fled from Germany to France in preparing a team of first aid order-
1933, headed the French section lies at the airport.
The committee also suggested
of Youth Aliya, lived in the
that a prearranged plan for dis-
United States since 1941 and be-
tributing the injured to various
came an American citizen in 1951.
hospitals be prepared and prac-
Her associations included - re-
tired.
search director, Conference on
Tuesday
Premier Golda
Jewish Relations, chief editor,
Schocken Books; executive direc- Meir eulogized Prof. Aharon Kat-
to Jewish Cultural Reconstruc- zir-Katchalsky, head of the Poly-
gon, successor to the organiza- trier Department of Weizmann In-
lion for heirless Jewish cultural statute. who was killed in the
property in postwar Germany; Lydda massacre. Mrs. Meir said
visiting professor at Columbia, that if Israel appears today among
Berkeley. Princeton and Chicago leading nations in science, i! is
universities; now University Pro- because of people like Katzir. The
lessor at graduate faculty of New eulogy was delivered at a 1,V•i7
School for Social Research. She mann Institute meeting marking
has authored a number of books, the one-month anniversary of Eat
and the most controversial which zir's death.
drew much criticism of her atti-
One of the men responsible f.:
tilde from Jewish quarters was his death, Japanese terrorist Kozo
her "Eichman in Jerusalem."
Okamoto. will go on trial Monday.
Kleins"Israel': Instructive Book
While "Israel—land of the Jews"
by
the husband-wife team, II
Arthur and Nina C. Klein, is in-
tended for younger readers, it un-
doubtedly was meant for teenagers
and those initially studying up on
the Middle East and the Jewish
rote there Because this volume.
published by Bobbs-Merrill, is ex-
cellent as well for adult readers,
and for all students of the Israel
position.
The authors of this volume have
traced the Holy Land history from
1500 BCE to the present in their '
task of presenting "the highlights
in the striking and sometimes im-
probable story of how this small
strip of land became so indelibly •
associated with the Jewish peo-
ple."
From 'The 'Promised Land'
That Abram Entered"—the start
of their story—they proceed to
1948, the year of Israel's Declara-
tion of Indepundenee, in a stirring
description of the "Next Year in
Jerusalem" (the title of the con-
cluding chapter) aspiration. It is
here that they point to "the re-1
turn," to being in Jerusalem at I
last even after 18 years of Israel's1
independence, because Jews were
barred from the Holy City by the
Jordanian enemy.
Sandwiched 'between these two
chapters are 12 more chapters that
deal with these historic periods:
Hebrews as slaves and eventual-
ly as Canaan's conquerors, 10G
BCE; the David-Solomon periods
and the country's fateful division,
928 BCE; first Exile, first Return,
67 BCE; from Alexander the Great
Stitch in Time: Israel
to the Ilasomeans, 6'7 BCE: revolt
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NEW YORK—Thanks to Israel,
up to 135; the Talmud, up to 300;
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Israel under Byzantines and Per-
will not be caught with its panties
i sians, 570; rise of Islam, 800;
down.
strange Jewish sects, 1075: bloody
The Alice Cooper rock band had
era of Crusades, 1300; false mes-
planned to wrap its latest record
siahs, 1750; and revival of ancient
album in paper panties imported
dream, up to 1913.
from England. How- ever, the U.S.
It is noteworthy that the Kleins
Federal Trade Commission ruled
cover not only the tragic events
that the panties did not meet U.S.
flammability standards and seized but also the positive and construc-
tive, the periods of literary accom-
the illegal panties in what was
probably the world's biggest panty ' plishments. The chapter on the
Talmud illustrates this.
raid.
The series of maps , relating to
But Robert Keller, representa-
the eras under review, prove most
tive of the Israel Trade Office here.
helpful to reader and student. The
announced that 600.000 pairs of
brevity of the chapters the thor-
Israel-made flaineproof panties
oughness of research, the sue.
were being - made available .. at
cinctness of the approach to the
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suhiects---z:.11 c,rmbine to make this
At the suggestion, - that Israel had
a noteworthy addition to the library
performed a mitzva, Keller replied
that "This is no gin E. a .‘• a y This is
on Israel and Jewish history
the profit motive at work. -
emerging from Zionist ideology
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
18—Friday, July 7, 1972
Baltimore Rabbi Sues Six Policemen for Beating
NEWARK (JTA)—'Rabbi Nor- lie contended further that "false
of obstructing
traffic
charges"
and failure to give "a good ac-
Rabbinical College. in Baltimore, count of himself" were later dis-
filed suit in federal court in missed in municipal court.
bert Liner, 39, chairman of the
Rabbinical Alumni of Ner Israel
Newark, seeking $500,000 in dam-
ages for alleged violation of his
civil rights by six Jersey City
policemen.
Rabbi Liner said in his com-
plaint, filed against the six po-
licemen and the city of Jersey
City, that he was allegedly arrest-
ed while trying to fix his car on
a Jersey City street.
He charged that he was taken
to a sta' m house where he was
searches- and where anti-Semi-
tic remarks were allegedly shout•
ed at him. Rabbi Liner added
that his ritual items were taken
from him and that this made it
impossible to carry out his daily
religious exercises while be was
in jail.
Ile said he was handcuffed and
incarcerated without being told of
any charges against him.
The complaint charged that One
of the police officers took him
from his cell, "grabbed the plain-
tiff and dragged him to a dark
corner of the jail where he con-
tinued cursing him and viciously
struck him on the neck, body,
legs and arms."
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