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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 13th day of Heshvan, 5733, the following scriptural selections
will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Gen. 12:1-17:27. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 40:27-41:16.
Candle lighting, Friday, Oct. 20, 5:25 p.m.
VOL. LXII. No. 6
Page Four
October 20, 1972
Truth to the Fore to Demolish Canards
Never to be forgiven in Arab attitudes
toward Jews is that their collective policies
have led Israel to retaliation. Had it not been
for the terrorists, there would not have been
an invasion of Lebanon to uproot the Fatah
concentrations. Were it not for the murder-
ous acts, there would have been no retalia-
tions. Were it not for the mass murder of
doctors and nurses who were on a Hadassah
mission of mercy, there might never have
been a Deir Yassin.
The inhumanity of Arab arrogance which
condoned the wave of terror, the threats to
Israel's existence, the spread of rumors and
distortions, all combine to add fuel to a
fire that is raging on many fronts. The spread
of hatred has become intolerable.
An exchange of letters on the subject
published by the New York Times throws
light on the major bones of contention in
the matter of terrorism and retaliation. An
Arab .ipologist gave a long list of alleged
Jewish atrocities—Deir Yassin, Kaf'r Kassem,
Khan Yunis, others. Of course, he failed to
indicate that some of ,the tragic occurrences
were strictly results of military actions in
which Arab lives were lost.
Fortunately, paralleling these claims a
Christian minister wrote to condemn the ac-
cusations relating to Deir Yassin. Abbot A.
Rudloff, writing from Wetson, Vt., in re-
sponse to a Times article earlier, wrote as
follows:
Abduliah Bichara's "Mideast: A Can-
vas for Fairness" (Op-Ed. Sept. 20) rightly
praises "the chivalry and gallantry of the
desert which molded the Arabs." But
one sentence in that article cannot go un-
challenged, and it had better be chal-
,Jenged by a gentile Christian, who looks
hack at 20 years' residence in the Middle
East. I mean the sentence: "In no instance
throughout the history of the tragedy of
Palestine had the Arabs tried to emulate
the terrorism thrust upon them in the
Deir Yassin massacre."
That Deir Yassin is brought up again
and again by Arabs is, in my opinion, a
tacit testimony in favor of Israel. It seems
to be the only case available. But the case
of Deir Yassin is not at all clear. It was a
war action. The inhabitants were warned
by loudspeaker. I will simply quote one
testimony of an Arab inhabitant of Deir
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Yassin who survived. Yunes Ahmad As-
sad, as published in the Jordanian daily
"Al Urdun" of April 9, 1955, wrote: "The
Jews never intended to hurt the popula-
tion of the village, but were forced to do
so after they met enemy fire from the
population which killed the Irgun com-
mander." The only inaccuracy of this
statement is that the Irgun commander
was wounded but survived.
But before Deir Yassin the Arabs mas-
sacred 40 unarmed workers at the Haifa
oil refineries. The Jews of Motza and He-
bron were ruthlessly massacred (among
them the venerable Rabbi Zalman Sach).
A convoy of 71 Jewish doctors and nurses,
a convoy clearly marked with the medical
insignia, was ambushed by Arabs on its
way to the Hadassah Hospital on Mount
Scopus, and all of its unarmed personnel
were senselessly murdered.
We are grateful to an eminent Christian
for calling attention to them and for giving
emphasis to truth in an incident that has
brought so much anguish to Israel.
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In quest for the views of Arabs residing
in this country on the Middle East tensions,
the New York Times published a report by
John L. Hess. While the outlined reactions
are filled with bias, misrepresentation of
facts, unjustified animosities, we should be
grateful for the Hess presentation because
it provides an opportunity to expose the dis-
tortions.
There is the political angle. Arabs are dis-
gusted with both McGovern and Nixon for
friendly attitudes toward Israel. This matter
should be left to statesmen for reply. There
is an American interest in the Middle East
and a need to keep it free from active con-
flicts. To prevent warfare, it is vital that
Israel be fully provided with protective
means. Only a strong Israel will deter the
Arabs from fulfilling the threat to destroy
the small state. Nothing else need be taken
seriously. A secure Middle East is in the
interest of the United States, whether Sadat
and Arafat like it or not.
But there are some matters in the NY
Times article that could mislead people, and
they must be refuted. For instance, Arab
spokesmen now make much of the unsuccess-
ful gun-smuggling that was prevented from
developing from Israel to the United States.
Anything of this sort is stopped at the source,
but Arabs in Brooklyn, the Arab bloc at the
UN, the Communist anti-Israelis have at-
tempted to make much of it. How can a sen-
sible person read such nonsense without a
smirk? While even a threat of violence does
not emerge above a sensational news story,
the Arabs still are sending the bomb letters
through the mails. The latest was a letter
bomb sent to the Nelly Sachs Home for
Elderly in Berlin. That's how these merchants
of death are conducting a war! But they seek
excuses in unstymied gun-toting.
What really takes the cake is Hess' quot-
ing in the Times story a Flatbush Avenue gro-
cery clerk who "said bitterly": "I have a wife,
two children and a father and mother in Jeru-
salem, and I cannot see them." Why? There
is freedom of travel, without search, for
Arabs in Israel, and 160,000 of them came
from all-Arab lands to Israel to see friends
and relatives the last summer alone. But a
Brooklyn grocery clerk gives the impression
he is discriminated against! That's the sort of
falsehood that gets into print, and there is so
much of it that we should be on guard lest
the repudiators of falsehoods become too
tired and stop answering the libels.
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Middlemas' Studies Show Lack
of British Refugee Sympathies
Official British attitudes that limited immigration of sufferers
from Nazism to pre-Israel Palestine, the anti-Semitic trends that
were in evidence, the machinations that interfered with proper com-
munications in an era of tragedy, are among the revelations in "The
Strategy of Appeasement: The British Government and Germany
1937-39," by Keith Middlemas, published by Quadrangle Press.
There were struggles then within the British cabinet, and there
was misinformation and misrepresentation that affected public opinion.
Neville Chamberlain's views emerge here anew, and the attitudes of
the appeasing elements are presented in the light of documents now
become available.
With reference to the move "to suspend or strictly limit
Jewish immigration into Palestine," Middlemas' account contains
this footnote: "The Cabinet showed itself quite unsympathetic to
the problem of Jews escaping from Germany. Even after the
horrifying pogrom of 9 November (1938), the Foreign Policy Com-
mittee was not prepared to envisage finding place in Britain for
more than a fraction of the number expected to flee. They debated,
inconclusively, settling Jews in British Guiana or Western Aus-
tralia, and blamed the United States for not increasing the
American quota (14 November)."
Many wanted "to meet Hitler halfway." Middlemas states: "Some
of Cordell Hull's advisers feared that the break-up of Czechoslovakia
presaged further Germz.n .adventure, and American relations with
Germany worsened. After the anti-Semitic outrages of November 1939,
Ambassador Wilson was recalled from Berlin. Yet Roosevelt continued
to hope that German aggression could be contained peacefully . . ."
The author of "Strategy of Appeasement" states also in relation
to the events in 1938: "In the anti-Semitic fury which raged after the
murder of (Ernst) vom Rath, a German diplomat in Paris on Nov. 9.
by a Polish Jew (Herschel Grynszpan), much of the blame for the
pogrom was ascribed by the German press to the instigation of
British politicians. A footnote to this reads: "Sir (Robert) Vansittart
wrote on Dec. 13—"one of the merits of the Jewish persecution in
Hitler's eyes is that it enables him to confuse democracy and Jewry
in the eyes of the ignorant. Moreover the persecution being bound to
excite overt horror furnishes the means to keep alive, by counter press
campaigns, German feeling against the democracies and against this
country in particular. It is worth noting that the German press cam-
paigns are directed rather against us than against France."
Keith Middlemas' review of the tragic events of the Nazi era
add another valuable chapter to the revelations and commentaries
which define the horror instigated by Hitler and his cohorts.
Heschel Essays in Paperback
Twenty important essays on religious freedom and the human
values in our modern life, by Prof. Abraham Joshua Heschel, have
been collected for a new paperback issued by Schocken Books.
In "The Insecurity of Freedom—Essays on Human Existence,"
there is a variety of current subjects, commencing with "Religion in a
Free Society" which was first published in 1958 by the Fund for the
Republic and including texts of addresses delivered at White House
Conferences on Children and Youth.
The eminent theologian, in these addresses and essays, concerned
himself with religion and race, Israel and Diaspora, Jewish education,
Jews in the Soviet Union and other matters Which relate to problems
that are major in Jewish canmunity planning at this time.