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An old joke—declare war on the United States, lose it and then you'll get
all the aid you need and even more—has become a reality.
Badly beaten Anwar el-Sadat emerges as the victor. Because he had not lost
everything—how could he, he asked for a cease fire?—commentators and news
analysts now evaluate the Egyptians as having emerged the great warriors.
So—Sadat speaking: "My army is ready to finish off the Israelis if they do
not return to the Oct. 22 positions." (No one but he knows what demarcations there
were after-Israel had taken root in Egyptian territory on the West Bank of the Suez).
Sadat speaking, also on Oct. 31: "I am restraining my military men with great
difficulty because they want to liquidate this pocket and consider it an easy job.
The Israelis themselves know this. They have _told some people their position is
fragile. But I do not want to break the cease fire." (This was said in Cairo while
Golda Meir was in Egypt fraternizing with Israeli soldiers.And Moshe Dayan had
already been in Egypt, publicly portrayed there, a week earlier).
Sadat speaking: April 25, 1972, in Cairo: "Jews are a nation of liars and
traitors, of instigators of plots, a people born for acts of perfidy." (All who have
been misled into believing that Sadat and his cohorts were fighting only Zionists,
take note: he speaks as the enemy of all Jews).
Sadat speaking, June 8, 1971: "We must be ready to sacrifice one million
martyrs, not to weaken, give in or bargain." (Is this restraining his military men
and. liquidating the Israel army with ease?).
Now it is time to look at the record and to learn the character of the mil-
itary Egyptian genius who seeks Israel's destruction.
Equating personalities can be dangerous, unless the equated aligns himself
with the counterpart. Now is the time, therefore, to become acquainted with Sadat
the Nazi.
In September 1953, several news agencies reported that Hitler was still alive,
and a Cairo weekly, Al Musawwar, asked a number of Egyptian personalities: "If
you wished to send Hitler a personal letter, what would you write to him?"
Anwar Sadat, one of those questioned, answered in Al Musawwar No. 1510 on
Sept. 18, 1953, as follows:
"My dear Hitler,
"I congratulate you from the bottom of my heart. Even if you appear to have
been defeated, in reality you are the victor. You succeeded in creating dissensions
between Churchill, the old man, and his allies, the Sons of Satan. Germany will win
because her existence is necessary to preserve the world balance. Germany will be
reborn in spite of the Western and Eastern powers. There will be no peace unless
Germany once again becomes what she was. The West, as well as the East, will pay
for her rehabilitation—whether they like it or not. Both sides will invest a great deal
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of money and effort in Germany, in order to have her on their side, which is of great
benefit to Germany. So much for the present and future.
"As for the past, I think you made some mistakes, like too many battlefronts
and the shortsightedness of Ribbentrop vis-a-vis the experienced British diplomacy.
But your trust in your country and people will atone for those blunders. You may
'be proud of having become the immortal leader of Germany. We will not be sur-
prised if you appear again in Germany or if a new Hitler rises up in your wake.
"Anwar el-Sadat"
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This is what the Jewish people has to contend with! This is the enemy who is
becoming the darling of Washington, the confrere of Kissinger and Nixon, the great
defender of justice. Has it become easy again to make Jewry the scapegoat in a
world crisis? Therefore, while exposing the chief culprit, it is time to make a few
accusations. WE ACCUSE:
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In the darkest hours of the difficult task
to end Jewish homelessness the Zionist way,
there were few friends for the struggle for
justice and freedom. Except for the Con-
gress in the U. S. and individual libertari-
ans, Jews were virtually isolated. Dr.
Chaim Weizmann then commented that if
Jews were to consent to pass out and to be
relegated to a museum, as an history mem-
ory, as a relic of the past, they would be
glorified and sanctified.
Is this the position Jewry finds itself in
today, in an unfriendly world, in an atmo-
sphere of hatred and virtual rejection?
Shortly after the 1967 war, Israel's For-
eign Minister Abba Eban told the world
community:
"This was the first war in history that
on the morrow the victors sued for peace
and the vanquished called for uncondi-
tional surrender."
Does American pressure, Soviet ani-
mosity, a country like Holland (Remem-
ber Anne Frank!) making it known it is
not pro-Israel, and a score of other inci-
dents, prove that the experience of 1967,
and of earlier years, being 'repeated?
If it is, then the question must be posed:
is there an iota of honesty left in interna-
tional relations?
Among the guiltiest is West Germany.
We know the reasons:
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OIL . . . PROFITS . . . SUBMISSION
TO OIL DIGGERS WITHOUT SEEKING
A HUMANE SOLUTION!
Bonn still has the mark of Cain on its
image. The West German leaders have not
completely mitigated in the German rec-
ord the terror that accounts for many mil-
lions of dead—among them the Six Million
Jews. More than half a million Jews who
were destined for the German gas cham-
bers managed to find homes in Israel. They
are escapees from the Germany that manu-
factured Genocide! The first to have been
revealed as objecting to American weapons
going to Israel through their territory to
prevent another Genocide for the survivors
from the German Genocide was the Fed-
eral Republic of Germany. Shame upon
Bonn for that act! Let it not be forgotten,
just as the Nazi Holocaust is never to be
forgotten!
As the record of the new threat of a
Genocide upon the Jewish people is being
studied, there is need to take into account
the role of the Red Cross.
Red Cross manipulations must be stud-
ied, challenged, a reckoning demanded.
Whenever there is a question about Israel's
role, there have been numerous Red Cross
incriminations against the Jewish state.
And the Jewish state has cooperated in pro-
viding blood plasma for Arabs, in listing
the names of Arab prisoners and casual-
ties immediately. But Israel is having one
helluva time securing information 'about its
missing soldiers. Why is the.Red Cross op-
eration so faulty?
There is a very serious complaint
against Red Cross. Israel's counterpart,
Magen David Adom, has been in existence
for more than a quarter of a century. Its
adherents have pleaded for recognition as
part of the International Red Cross. That
just right has been denied the Israeli hu-
manitarian agency—an agency as ready to
assist Arabs as Jews. WHY? Why has Ma-
gen David Adorn been denied membership
in the world organization, while the Arab
Red Crescent, the similar Arab organiza-
tion, had been admitted to the International
Red Cross decades ago. WHY? We repeat
again and again, as we have done in the
past: WHY? Will Jewry remain silent on
that score, too? Wouldn't Jean Henri Du-
nant, the founder of the Red Cross, whii
more than 80 years ago propagated Zion-
ism and Jewish statehood, have been
ashamed that the movement he created
should have fallen so low?
WE ACCUSE, yet, in resentment, we
have hope, and faith. We know Israel will
not be destroyed. That's our faith. We ask
for a sense of justice and decency from
mankind: therefore, we have hope for a
better day.
Perhaps the destruction of a Magen Da-
vid helicopter on a mercy flight, and murder
the Israeli physician who was in the copter,
will move Red Cross to just action.
A record for fairness to Israel in the
White House, the remembrance of the early
Hitler days by the chief spokesman for the
President on foreign issues, may create the
firmness needed to overcome arrogance
that accompanies threats to destroy Israel.
Is it too much to ask contrition from
mankind's guilty for Genocide and carnage?
We remember, therefore we ask—and
challenge. Others may forget, therefore we
remind them.
This is a time for contrition. Mankind
must not sell honor and decency and justice
for oil!
Arab failure even to provide through the
Red Cross a list of 440 Israeli prisoners of
war? Israel gave the list of the 7,000 Arab
POWs, and there is nothing on record, now
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or during the Six-Day War, of inhumanities
by Israel toward captured enemies. Com-
Forgotten Balfour Date
How many are aware of the fact that pare this record to the murder and torture
the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, of Israelis! But the Detroit News makes a
which was issued on Nov. 2, 1917, seems joke of a serious matter. Another source
of shame from an American newspaper!
to have been forgotten this year?
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When it was overlooked by Jewish com-
munities, they were reminded of it by Arabs Jewry's Great Losses
who often marked the day by work stop-
Israel is as concerned with the refugee
pages and boycotts.
problems as are those who make the status
The present crisis occasioned by the of Arab homeless a weapon against Israel.
Yom Kippur War seems to have relegated
Constantly reminded that a million Jews
the date to an unnoticed background. Yet,
were forced to leave Moslem countries, one
the 57-year-old document remains historic.
wonders whether the facts are taken into
The immediate mention of it is only the
Balfour Concert of the Zionist Organization account.
Here are a few basic figures of the near-
of Detroit—and that won't be until Nov. 25,
three weeks after the actual Balfour Decla- total demolition of Jewish communities in
Arab lands:
ration date.
Sept. 1973
1946
At least, the historicity of a significant
110,000
500
act recognizing the Zionist aims will not Egypt
400
120,000
Iraq
be totally forgotten.
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10,000
1,500
Lebanon
3,500-4,000
30,000
Syria
Shame on the CS Monitor
500
50,000
It has not ended: •the Christian Science Yemen
In three North African countries which
Monitor remains the chief abuser of impar-
tiality in press approaches to the Middle had large Jewish populations—Morocco,
East situation. If it had spoken outright as Tunisia and Algeria—only 35,000 Jews re-
anti-Israel it would have been easier to main. But in the late 1940s there were
220,0('0 Jews in Morocco, 75,000 Jews in
tackle such an enemy. But it poses in an
Tunisia
and 130,000 Jews in Algeria.
aura of fairness, while resorting to such
Only Iran and Turkey have well-func-
abusive news terms as "Israel's land grab,"
tioning Jewish communities-80,000 in Iran
etc.
It is no wonder that the CSMonitor has and 20,000 in Turkey. But Turkey, too,
become the darling of an ousted Council for 60,000 Jews in the late 1940s.
Not to be ignored is the fact that the
Judaism official whose extreme hatred for
Israel was resented even by the anti-Zion- hundreds of thousands of Jews in Moslem
countries not only were forced to emigrate
ist council.
but were robbed of all their possessions.
Christian Scientists whose organ has be-
Arabs under Israel's administration
come so abusive would do well to examine
have
never had it so well, but a million
their journalistic spokesmen who have
Jews suffered expulsions and were robbed
failed to serve the causes of truth and jus-
of their means. When people speak of com-
tice.
pensation, let them remember the outrages
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against Jews, most of whom have lived in
'Humanity' of Editorial
the lands that ousted them longer than the
A Detroit News editorial writer must
Moslems themselves;
have aimed at being cute when he wrote in
an otherwise fairly objective approach to No Rejoicing . . .
Israel scored a triumph by resisting
the Mideast issues under the heading "No-
body Likes a Peacemaker": "Perhaps we overwhelming forces and preventing the
erred when we did not insist that the Arabs nation's destruction. No one rejoices over
Is It 'the UN of Lyncherdom?'
There is still the matter of the UN. The give up one Israeli prisoner for every pail victories. There is too much mourning.
anti-Jewish speeches that had been heard of fresh water delivered to the Egyptian There is sadness, and Israel instead chose
to quote from Samuel I: "How the mighty
there naturally aroused the indignation of 3rd Army."
What kind of business is this—equating have fallen . . ." because of the deep
American Jewry.
To paraphrase a comment by Mark Israel's record of having provided plasma desire for peace. No one wins from wars.
for Egyptian prisoners, of aid given their The only triumph is in peace. Whence
starving and parched, with the outrage of cometh peace?
2 Friday, November 9, 1973 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Twain, the international organization has
emerged as the "UN of Lyncherdom."
Whence comes correction of a shocking de-
gradation of an important cause?