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Emergency Needs: Retreat Means Defeat
This community's serious philanthropic effort, titled Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel
Emergency Fund, hurls a challenge unprecedented in the history of fund-raising for over-
seas needs as well as for local services.
The campaign will end officially on Monday, and the results are so impressive that
they create pride in the generosity of most of our people.
Yet, there is cause for concern. If a sizable portion of our citizenry is not enrolled
in the great task of giving comfort to embattled Israel, while protecting the domestic needs,
then all talk about unity will have been an exaggeration.
The urgency stemming frpm the Middle East demands the enrollment of every con-
cerned Jew in our community.
While giving assurance to Israel that the hands of the people threatened with war will
be upheld by kinsmen, it is urgent that the agencies which keep a community alive should
not be ignored. Both factors are vital in the present operation for Jewish self-protection—
at home and abroad.
Unless every potential contributor will have responded to the current call for action
—the great success will have been marred somewhat by a measure of indifference.
It is the elimination of such indifference that is as important as the large sum to be
subscribed in the present emergency.
All of which sums up a call to all our Jewish fellow citizens: do not write yourselves
out of the unified action to assure security for Israel and self-respect for the Greater Detroit
Jewish community.
Threats: Factors in Israel's Concerns
Many sighs of relief were heard last week
when it was announced that the government
crisis involving formation of a cabinet under
the premiership of Golda Meir had been re-
solved. Israelis were relieved, Jewish com-
munities in the Diaspora were pleased, and
there was a restoration of calmness - over an
impending Mideast crisis in Washington:-
Nevertheless, the tensions have not re-
ceded, and the concern over impending dan-
gers to Israel has not diminished. That is
why the voice of the leader of Israel's oppo-
sition, Menahem Begin, continues to arouse
Israelis and to keep alive a protesting -ele-
ment that represents a sizable minority in
the Jewish state.
In spite of disengagements, exchange of
prisoners and some expressions of hope that
there are improved opportunities for peace
between Israel and the Arab states, there re-
main the threatening antagonisms from Yas-
ser Arafat, George Habash and others who
keep speaking in terms of "liquidating" Is-.
rael. An example of the form the threats have
taken is this message to the Popular - Com-
mittee on Palestine functioning in Jedda, Sau-
di Arabia, which was broadcast by the Voice
of Palestine with this quotation from Arafat,
chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organi-_
zation:
"We are now in the tenth year of our Revo-
lution, which is the longest of Arab revolutions.
The Algerjan one lasted seven and a half years
while that of the Palestinians had its beginnings
in 1917-. • . The Ramadan war (of October 1973)
was an important turning point . . . For the first
time the decision to fight was an Arab decision,
and its most important result was this war. Per-
haps in ten years' time another decision will be
taken to liquidate the arrogant enemy complete-
ly. . . . The decisive word will be spoken by
Arab solidarity and Arab weapons. We have
always said that it is not easy and that the war
is a long, drawn-out one. We did not say that
we would eat lunch in Jedda and dinner in Tel
Aviv. We did not lie.
"We were asked: 'Why did you train the
Young Lions (Fidayun boys' troops)?' We re-
plied: 'It is this generation which will reach
the sea.',"
That's one sample of unending, threats to
liquidate all of Israel. The threats are multi-
plying. BBC Monitoring Service quotes Voice
of Palestine broadcasting an address to the
celebrants of the ninth anniversary of Fatah,
Dr. Baron's Definitive Classic
Holland, W. Europe, S. America
in Scholar's Notable_ Record
Dr. Salo Wittmayer Baron's classic and encyclopedic work, "A
Social and Religious History of the Jews," has been enlarged with
the appearance of Volume V in the series.
Like the previous works, this volume is co-published by Columbia
the Arab 'terrorist organization, by that move- University
Press and the Jewish Publication Society of America.
ment's number two man, Salah Halaf, alias
It is a second edition of this work and has been published with
Abu Ayad, who said:
the author's revisions and with numerous additions to the original.
I do not want to discuss the Security Coun-
Volume V in this series deals with "Late Middle Ages and End
cil resolution, because if we collected everything
of European Expansion (1200-1650) : Resettlement and Exploration."
we have written and said about the resolution,
Prof. Baron, historian and pedagogue,
then this hall would be full of pamphlets issued
provides basic lessons in the history of the
by various organizations on this subject. Brief-
period under review in this volume as a
ly, we cannot disavow our attitudes. We have
guide to developments that have relevance
said that the Security Council resolution (242)
to our time. The opening chapter in this
does not touch on the Palestine cause from either
volume is entitled "Dutch Jerusalem" and
far or near.
the inference is to Holland's having become
We, the Palestine Revolution, have demand-
a symbol of justice- for the Jews. It came
ed the liberation of the whole of Palestinian
after difficult controversies "that after
"territory, and consequently we have no right
achieving undisputed sovereignty in 1648
to talk about a part of our national—territory.
the States General proclaimed to the world,
Our attitude should be clear and defined as to
on July 13, 1657, that the Dutch Jews were
whether the peace conference is a conference-
Dr. Baron
citizens of the Netherlands and in their
of treason which we ought to attack, whether all travels or mercantile dealings abroad must be treated as such . . . "
those who attend it are traitors, or whether we
Interestingly, the account of struggles for just rights in Holland
should say that the Arabs cannot achieve any- is 'followed by Prof. Baron's analyses of "French and English Ambi-
thing at the peace conference.
guities." He shows how "history in the making paved the way for
Also:, BBC Monitoring Service quotes the (the Jews') emancipation and integration into Western society." This
terrorist leader Habash as having said at a development is explained by the fact that "while the old historic
meeting at Beirut University: "The only way development had largely conveyed anti-Jewish lessons, the new his-
to defeat and crush the Zionist and imperial- toric realities of the nascent capitalist order, the standing armies, the
power struggle and the overseas expansion, combined
istic presence in our homeland is to wage a international
with the new approaches in religion and science, all favored the ad-
protracted popular war."
mission of Jews to the Western lands."
BBC states that Dr. Habash called on the
The major portion of the new Baron volume deals with the Spanish
PLO to declare that it "decisively and cate- era, with the Inquisition and the role of the Marranos. In two sections,
gorically refused to become a party to a settle- "Iberian Downgrade" and "Iberia's Colonial Empires," Dr. Baron first
develops that condition in Spain proper, leading up to colonial ex-
ment on the basis of UN Resolution 242."
to -Portugal's colonial experiences as well and to the
The emphasis on presence of Jews in Is- pansions,
toward 'South America and the injection of Spanish Inquisition tact
rael is a repeated warning that the intention in that area, getting into Brazil and other lands.
of the enemies -of the Jewish state is to crush
Dr. Baron describes how the growing Marrano dispersion "opened
it completely.
new outlets for the energies of the most persecuted segment of the
All the debates at the United Nations Jewish people." He describes the Marranos' penetration into Iberian
emerge as farcical in view of the refusal even possessions in the New World and declares that "the Marrano Diaspora
to negotiate on the basis of Resolution 242 thus formed nuclei for future Jewish settlements in areas theretofore
which had been held out as a weapon against unkown to Europeans," Brazil described as "the most spectacular
of such settlement.
Israel and which Israel alone seemed to re- example"
There also was the auto-da-fe, the Inquisition's method of perse-
spect as means to negotiate a solution to the cuting and torturing Jews that was put into action when the Spanish
tragic problem in the Middle East.
were in control in South American areas, and this historical record
In view of these uninterrupted develop- tells about the tortures on Jews charged with Judaizing after they
ments; the situation remains serious -and the had left Spain and, abandoning Marrano status, sought a return to
concerns for Israel's security are valid. The Judaism.
While pointing to inquisitional tactics and quoting some incidents,
struggle for peace, and primarily for the fu-
Baron nevertheless states that ittle is known about the New
ture of Israel, thus continues to be one of Dr.
Christians and even less about professing Jews who lived in Manila
major agonizing concern for pleaders for before or after the Spanish occupation. Regular Jewish communities
peace. Prayers for the success of Secretary were established on the Philippine" Islands only after the Spanish
of State Henry A. Kissinger's aims have never American War," he states.
been as valid and as necessary as they are
For the 370 pages devoted to these topics, Dr. Baron added another
today. The Middle East mess remains rock- 180 pages of notes. This indicates the extent of research and of infor-
mation offered in this instructive work.
hewn.