Christians and the Yom Kippur War By CARL DAVIDSON Evangelical Friends Association of Detroit The state of Israel exists today for four primary rea- sons—it is in the will of Divine Providence that a remnant of ancient Israel should return to occupy a portion of the land promised them; it exists because of the sheer determination of the Israeli to live and sur- vive; it exists through the support of the Jewish Dia- spora; it exists because the state of Israel receives moral economic and military sup- port from the Anglo-Saxon Protestant nations of the world. New Left intellectuals and subliminally anti-Semitic con- servative opinion makers have sought to weaken sup- port for Israel among Is- rael's largest non - Jewish allies—the English-speaking, largely Protestant, world community. Several falla- cious canards have been em- ployed. For instance, Israel is presented as an "aggressor" with 2,000,000 Jews sup- posedly "persecuting" 200,- 000,000 Arabs. The Jews are depicted as rich Zionists while the Arabs are seen as poor "third world" colonial captives. This is pure nonsense. The overwhelming majority of Israelis have no interest in adding more acres of Sinai desert to their homeland, nor administering a colonial suzerainty over neighboring Arab states. Israel would gladly welcome the d a y when they could dismantle their civilian-military estab- lishment and channel the precious resources of men and materiel into the peace- ful development of their country. To depict Israel as a rich aggresive nation is a grotes- que distortion. The Arab nations have formented hatred and war for a genera- tion. They have been backed by oil-rich deposits whose enormous wealth and econo- mic power dwarfs that of world Jewry. In addition, the second most powerful na- tion on earth, the USSR, has armed the Arab states with a limitless supply of sophi- sticated weaponry second to none. The Arab nations can halt their "holy war" overnight by diplomatic recognition of the state of Israel and through a rational negotia- tion of demilitarized bound- aries and repatriation of ref- ugees in a Palestinian Arab state in the occupied west bank of Jordan. Apparently, the Arab view of peace in the Middle East It's Nice To Deal With Joe Slatkin's DEXTER CHEVROLET 20811 W. 8 Mile between Southfield & TelegraP . 534-1400 Our Promise To You: BETTER SERV= . is a vision of the peace of a Jewish graveyard. The peace that comes from genocidal extermination is not accept- able to the Ango-Saxon Protestant world or to hu- mankind. The Middle East has been a theater of religious and ethnic fanaticism that makes Ulster look like a Punch and Judy show. The Islamic states systematically perse- cuted Levantine Christians for centuries. The screams for the blood of infidels from the minarets of Turkey still sound in the ears of millions of millions of Armenians who were driven from their home- land less than 50 years ago. The Turks, cheered on by their Arab co-religionists, mercilessly conducted the first Hitleristic campaign of 20th Century genocide as 3,000,000 defenseless Ar- menians were marched to the deserts to be slaughtered and starved for the crime of con- fessing the Christian faith. Once Israel had been driv- en into the sea, one could be sure that a Grand Mufti somewhere would begin a "Holy Jihad" calling for the destruction of the Christian minorities. Critics of Israel have cited the problem of the Pales- tinian refugees as one that stems from the innate "in- humanity and perfidy" of Jews. The total refugee prob lem in the Middle East is one that must be equitably resolved. Israel will assume responsibility for making reparations and providing for resettlement of Arbas, when the Arab nations halt their aggression. However, there is a tend- ency to overlook the fact that a half-million Jews in Mor- occo, Egypt, Yemen, and Iraq were driven from their homes by fanatic pogroms without compensation for their losses of homes and property. There has never been a voice raised to seek reparations from the Arab governments for these losses. If the oil-rich sheiks had spent as much money in re- settling and caring for the Palestinians as they have spent in war-making, the West Bank would be a verit- able Eden. If the Arabs had been as generous in caring for their displaced brethren as world Jewry has been concerned for the refugees from Hitler and the Levan- AZYF Offers Aid to Kibutz Helpers NEW YORK—Scholarships for air fare are now avail- able for young people volun- teering to work on kibutzim in Israel, it was announced by Chaim Ganel, executive director of the American Zionist Youth Foundation (AZYF). AZYF, since the outbreak of war in Israel, has been sponsoring a special Sherut La'am volunteer program for young people from the U.S. and Canada, age 18-30. The volunteers perform non-mili- tary work on kibutzim. Applicants must have a valid passport, a medical examination and sign a com- mitment to work on the kibutz for at least six months. Airfare must be paid by the volunteer, and limited scholarships a r e available. For information,\' call Olek Netzer at the Jewish Center Hebrew department, 341-4200. tine states, there would be no "refugee problem" to complicate peace-making ef- forts today. Had there been a peace settlement 20 years ago, there would probably be only a handful of refugees on the Gaza Strip today. The war is the enemy—and the war- making mentality must be exorcised. The Christian West cannot abandon Israel to the mercy of her Arab neighbors. Israel must be supported while the search for a just and endur- ing peace goes forward. There cannot be a "Chris- tian Anti-Israel" position nor a "Christian pro-Arab" posi- tion. There can be only a commitment to establish the optimum climate for peace to flourish in a land where God desires all His children to live as brethren in unity. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 12—Friday, November 9, 197‘ IT'S A FALLACY Dry Cleaning will not wear out draperies, IF proper methods are used. 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