rael Emergency
Women's Phonogift

Set for Dec. 9-16

Anxiety, Gloom,
Blackmail
in Atmosphere
of Immorality

Eight thousand metropolitan Detroit women will be called Dec. 9-16 by volunteers working on the Phonogift drive for the
1974 Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund.
Mrs. Ralph Pierce, Phonogift chairman, states: "We've started so much earlier than usual because of the great need
for funds caused by the Mideast situation." The 700 area workers will be briefed by 20 specially trained women who will work under
the direction of Mrs. Shelden D. Stern, chairman of the division's briefing committee for all phases of the campaign, and Mrs.

Isadore Silverman, briefing chairman.
The Phonogift volunteers will be calling from telephones installed at the United Hebrew Schools on W. 12 Mile Rd.
with Phonogift should contact Mrs. Morris H. Brown at the women's division office of the Jewish
Women who wish to help
Welfare Federation, WO 5-3939.

THE JEWISH NEWS

f Jewish Events

A Weekly Review

Editorials
Page 4

Vol. LXIV. No. 13

Reminiscences:
Ben-Gurion's
Jewish Legion
and Bible
Interests

Commentary
Page 2

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December 7, 1973

U. S. Allays Israel's Fears,
Bolsters Support Con Mame

African Insensitiveness:
Frank Talk to New Enemies

Editor's Note: The author of this open letter to an Afri-
ran head of state, a prominent Israeli publicist and lecturer,
is a leading figure in Mapam, the leftist Labor Party, which
he represented in the First Knesset.

By DOV BAR-NIR
Honored Sir,
Now that you have broken off relations with Israel—
the great imperialist and colonialist power that started the
war against puny and isolated Egypt—I suppose you're now
at liberty to rest on your laurels because you have now
fulfilled your duty and assuaged your conscience, as called
upon by the Algiers Conference. Nonetheless, if you have
already acted in accordance with the rule: the Israeli has
done his job and can go, and ranged yourself along with
other African states that have broken off diplomatic rela-
tions with us, perhaps I may be permitted to ask you several
minor questions relating to your "Third" conscience, as a
member of the "Third World," as well as to your anti-
imperialist, anti-colonialist and anti-expansionist principles:
Why didn't you break off diplomatic relations with
colonialist France when it flooded African Algeria with
torrents of blood and caused it to lose 1,000,000 of its
sons? Why didn't you sever diplomatic relations with im-
perialist United States when it sowed fire and destruction
in Asian Vietnam which sought independence and sover-
eignty? Why didn't you sever relations with expansionist
Soviet Russia when it invaded Czechoslovakia and trod the
independence of its people underfoot? Why didn't you sever
relations with Nigeria when it massacred the people of
Biafra without let or hindrance? And why didn't you sever
relations with China when it invaded India, the champion
of the Third World, and "moved" the frontiers at will?
Apparently you are possessed of a very flexible and very
"diplomatic" conscience, and in your gallantry, shun the
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By DAVID LANDAU
JTA Jerusalem Bureau Chief
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The United States is seeking to allay Israeli suspicions and grow-
ing pessimism over the prospects of a peace settlement with Egypt and to bolster its confidence
in continuing American support and friendship. That was the thrust of the message conveyed
to Premier Golda Meir by U.S. Undersecretary of State Kenneth Rush in over two hours of
talks Monday night with Mrs. Meir and other Israeli leaders.
Rush met for over an hour Tuesday morning with Foreign Minister Abba Eban, after
which he told reporters he was optimistic over the prospects of a more stable cease fire and
was confident the Geneva peace conference will open as scheduled Dec. 18.
Rush, who headed the official U.S. delegation attncling the funeral of former Premier
David Ben-Gurion Monday, used the occasion of his brief v;sit to meet Israeli leaders and ease
their doubts, especially over recent reports alleging U.S. pressure, the Jewish Telegraphic Ag-
ency learned. Rush made it clear that Israel can depend on American friendship and that Wash-
ington is resolute in its efforts to pursue its initiatives aimed at stabilizing the eease-fire and
paving the way for the Geneva conference.
Rush also stressed that the U.S. has no specific peace plans that it wants to see imple-
mented at Geneva and does not intend to present the parties with a peace package, the JTA
was informed.
In his talks with Mrs. Meir, which the American diplomat described as "very satisfac-
tory," he reportedly sought to persuade her that Israel's fears of a new outbreak of hostilities
were exaggerated. According to top Israeli sources, the U.S. is confident that fighting will not
be resumed before the Geneva conference gets under way.
The talks did not touch on the crucial question of borders,
on which the American position has yet to be defined. But
Rush did refer to the matter of U.S. guarantees and explained
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that Washington viewed them as paralleling an agreement on
Aid to Israel;
secure borders rather than substituting for such an agreement,
the JTA learned. This apparently eased Israeli doubts for the
USSR Trade Bill;
time being though American views on what constitutes secure
Developments in
borders remain unknown.
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Rush also sought to calm Israeli fears arising from news-
paper reports—especially a New York Times report published
Late News Reports
Monday—that the Nixon administration intends to place strong
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A Prince and a mighty man has fallen in Israel .. .

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—

II Samuel 3:38

Jewish communities throughout the world mourned the death of Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion,
whose death occurred early Saturday morning. He was 87.
Heads of state in the free world sent messages of condolence, and President Nixon, in addition to expressing
his sympathies to the people of Israel, designated as his representatives at the funeral, Monday, the following:
Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Rush, Ambassador to Israel Kenneth Keating,
Detroiter Max M. Fisher and Jacob Stein.
Another Detroiter, Paul Zuckerman, national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, represented the major
Jewish philanthropic agency at the funeral on a two-day visit in Israel.

Pictorial review of the highlights in the life of David Ben-Gurion on Page 2. Editor's tribute and reminiscences
in Purely Commentary on Page 2.

Tributes to the departed leader were expressed in many synagogues last Saturday morning, when news of his
death was spread throughout the world. Memorial services were conducted in scores of communities throughout the week.

Among the first Israelis to learn of his death were soldiers recovering from Yom Kippur War wounds at Tel
Hashomer-Sheba Medical Center where Ben-Gurion had been hospitalized since he suffered a stroke at his Tel Aviv
apartment Oct. 18.
When he was pronounced dead, police immediately cordoned off the ward. Only his children—Amos, Geula and

Renana—were at his bedside.
They had been summoned to the hospital an hour earlier when Ben-Gurion lapsed into semi-consciousness and
his life began to falter. But word of his death spread like wildfire through the hospital complex. The soldiers were
among the first to mourn the man who fathered the Jewish self-defense force in Palestine in the early years of this
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century.

DAVID BEN GURION

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