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November 23, 1973 - Image 6

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1973-11-23

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Sharm el-Sheikh,
Not So Important?

Detroiter Studying i n n I srael
Finds New Life-Style in War

JERUSALEM — "Israelis
live not solely in the present.
They live for this hour. To-
morrow is so uncertain that
perhaps it is better to live in
the present and see what
happens," observes Ronald
Sandler, 22, a graduate stu-
dent in international rela-
tions at the Hebrew Univer-
sity of Jerusalem.
Sandler, the son of Benja-
min and Cecily Sandler, of
Parklawn Ave., Oak Park.
Mich., is a graduate of
Wayne State University and
arrived in Israel in July to
study in the Hebrew Univer-
sity's ulpan (intensive He-
brew course) for overseas
students.
He was in Jerusalem when
the first air raid siren
sounded, signaling the be-
ginning of the Yom Kippur
War.
During the war, Sandler
volunteered' to help with the
harvest at Kibutz Mishmarot,
between Tel Aviv and Haifa,
baking bread in Jerusalem
and delivering cans of gaso-
line to industrial firms.
Sandler was affected per-
sonally by the war. An Is-
raeli friend of his was killed
in a battle in Sinai.
"It was that, more than
anything else, which made
me aware of the sacrifices
that are required and the
price that has been paid," he
said.
Sandler is among 4,000
overseas students (out of a
total student body of over
17,000) who were studying in

Synagogues
Join IEF Effort

the Hebrew University's ul-
pan when the war erupted.
They contributed their share
throughout the national emer-
gency by volunteering to re-
place Israelis serving at the
fronts.
Most of the overseas stu-
dents at the Hebrew Univer-
sity elected to remain in the
country when fighting
erupted. On the first night of
the war, whole busloads
donated blood at the Hadas-
sah-University Hospital.

RONALD SANDLER

Ultra-Left, Ultra-Right Pounce
on Israel, ADL War Study Notes

NEW YORK — The ultra-
left and the ultra-right have
little to unite them — except
Israel, according to a study
of public reaction in the U.S.
to the Yom Kippur War, re-
leased by the Anti-Defama-
tion League of Bnai Brith at
its 60th annual meeting in
the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

The report. by Lawrence
Peirez and Maxwell Green-
berg, found that the standard
theme of the left and right
line was to brand Israel as
an expansionist aggressor.
The far left called Israel the
handmaiden of "U n i t e d
States imperialism" and tie
far right called Israel tre
tool of "international bank-
ers" and the "Zionist con-
spiracy."
ADL'S study also found
that 34 of the nation's 50 top
circulation newspapers (68
per cent) blamed the Arabs
for the war, while 14 papers
(28 per cent) were neutral
and ambivalent and two (4
per cent) censured Israel.

Detroit area congregations
are among the many organi-
zations which have responded
vigorously to the Israeli
crisis with contributions to
the Israel Emergency Fund
for the support of humani-
tarian services and programs
overseas.
Some synagogues and tem-
ples organized special proj-
ects such as bake sales and
rallies to raise funds. Others
contributed onetime gifts
from . their congregational
treasuries.
Foremost among the con-
gregations with emergency
contributions was Temple
Emanu-El, with a gift of $7,-
500. Downtown Synagogue
also made a substantial
treasury gift.
Cong. Beth Abraham-Hillel
contributed its earnings from
several regularly scheduled
fund-raising programs, and
both Mishkan Israel and Beth
Shalom collected individual
donations from among their
memberships.
The offices of many con-
gregations became collection
points for monies raised on
behalf of the 1974 appeal."

The ADL called it "dis-
turbing" that 14 of the top
50 newspapers, a substantial
minority, were neutral and
"even declined to condemn
the Arab aggression on
moral grounds."
Peirez said "the most in-
sistently anti-Israel daily
newspaper was the influential
Christian Science Monitor."
The Washington Star News
and the Oakland Tribune ac-
tually attributed the Arab
attack to so-called Israeli in-
transigence.
Organized labor, the
NAACP and the Urban
League spoke out in favor of
Israel, as did the American
Leagion and the Polish
American Congress.
Dr. Mervin F. Verbit, so-
ciology professor at Brook-
lyn College, warned Jews
against an "increasingly
latent — or even incipient —
anti-Semitism" and urged
consideration of measures
"to safeguard Jewish institu-
tions and the rights of indi_
vidual Jews."
Addressing a forum on
"The Future of' the American
Jewish Community," Verbit
said pre-conditions for anti-
ISRAELIS AS SURETY
"And they shall stumble, Semitism "are coming in-
one man with his brother" creasingly to characterize
(Lev. 26:37). This means that American society."
one man will stumble be-
The league presented its
cause of the sin of his bro- 1973 America's Democratic
ther. Hence learn that every Legacy Award to Sens.
Israelite is surety for every Jacob K. Javits (R., N.Y.),
other. —Sifr a and Abraham Ribicoff (D.,

SAY I
H

Conn.). Abba Eban address-
ed the dinner meeting.
At a luncheon session,
HEW Secretary Caspar W.
Weinberger said the depart-
ment's drive for equal em-
ployment in higher education
"does not require universities
to set quotas," or to disre-
gard merit by hiring and
promoting underqualified in-
dividuals.
Weinberger said that "the
issue is not equal opportunity
as such, but the means by
which a university attempts
to meet the objective" of
equal employment for minor-
ities.
He said his department's
affirmative action plan
"should be nothing more nor
less than a process by which
the institution evaluates its
employment posture and de-
signs its own plan to over-
come any barriers that limit
opportunities for qualified
men and minorities."
Noting that the Anti-De-
famation League had been
critical of the federal pro-
gram, the secretary said
that there had been "blun-
ders, misinterpretations and
outright abuses."
Israeli Ambassador Simha
Dinitz said that any bilateral
or multi-national guarantee
of Israel's borders can come
only after Israel has achieved
secure and defensible borders
through negotiations with the
Arab states and cannot be
a substitute for secure bor-
ders.

WASHINGTON (ZINS) —
Political observers said here
that Israel's emphasis on
Sharm el-Sheikh as a vital
strategic base has proven to
be an illusion.
It was believed that con-
trol of Sharm el-Sheikh was
vital to insure freedom of
navigation to the port cf
Eilat and to Israel shipping
destined for East Africa and
the Far East, as well as to
guarantee freedom of oil
shipments to Israel through
the Red Sea.
This concept, say the ob-
ser.vers, was proven un-
realistic. Egyptian war ships
have effectively blocked ship-
ping by controlling Bab el
Mandab which is at the tip
of South Yemen. No vessels
can approach Eilat, despite
the fact that Israel still con-
trols Sharm el-Sheikh.
Bab el Mandab has be-
come the serious problem for
Israel and will have to be
solved if Israel is to secure
its sea channels for trade
with East Africa and con-
tinue to import crude oil
moving through the Red
Sea.

Gratitude
If you pick up a starving
dog and make him prosper-
ous, he will not bite you. This
is the principal difference be-
tween a dog and a man.
—Mark Twain

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Dinitz told the ADL audi-
ence that Israel wants to be
strong enough to defend it-
self, to deter any attack and
to ensure that if any attack
does come it will be repulsed
quickly.

He warned that if the
United States or any other
country were to give a guar-
antee it would be their re-
sponsibility to enforce it if
it broke down. He said
Americans rightly do not
want another Vietnam where
they will have to send Ameri-
can soldiers to defend
another country. Dinitz said
the challenge ahead for Is-
real will be tougher than any
previous challenge on the
political and diplomatic front.

He also revealed that the
Syrians who have refused to
discuss POW releases, "also
refused to consider Israel's
offer to permit 14,000 vil-
lagers from Syria to return
to their homes."

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