- V1111111w7 THE JEWISH NEWS Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951 • Membar American Association, of English-Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association, National Editorial Associa- tion. Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 665, Southfield, Mich. 48075. Second-Class Postage Paid at Southfield, Michigan and Additional Mailing Office's. Subscription $10 a year. PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor and Publisher CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ Business Manager CHARLOTTE DUBIN City Editor DREW LIEBERWITZ Advertising Manager Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sabbath, the 16th day of Tamuz, 5734, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion, Num. 22:2-25:9. Prophetical portion, Micah 5:6-6:8. Scriptural Selections for Fast of Tamuz, Sunday: Pentateuchal portions, Exod. 32:11-14, 34:1-10. Prophetical portion, (afternoon only), Isaiah 55:6-56:8. Candle lighting, Friday, July 5, 8:53 p.m. VOL. LXV. NO. 17 Page Four July 5, 1974 Beware of Calamity to Israel and Jewry Old canards are coming to roost again in the Middle East. Operating under illusions created by the renewed friendships established by the United States with the Arab poten- tates, incentives appear to have been given to those seeking Israel's destruction as a national entity to revert again to claims that even under Jewish statehood the residents of Israel should be limited to those who resided in the the Palestine before partition in the year 1947. Such an incentive had earlier even reverted to a concession, rooted in the inhuman consideration of Jewish rights, that rights to be granted to Jews by Arabs were to be limited to those who resided in Eretz Yisrael in 1917, prior to the issuance of the Balfour Declaration. A Kuwait diplomat was among the most recent authorities to speak in terms of Jewish residents of 1947, and many of his associates had spoken of 1917 as the basis for recognition of rights to be granted to Jews residing in their ancient homeland. This was advanced as part of the arrogance that had as its foundatioi a threat to drive Jews out of their present Israeli residences. While this is an extreme view—in a time when some Arabs have hinted a willing- ness to grant recognition to Israel under conditions that would reduce the Jewish state to a ghetto, a new challenge to world Jewry may be inherent in the new attitudes of confidence gained by Arabs from American friendships which are interpreted as introducing a domi- nance that might well spell destruction to Jewish sovereignty. It is not a matter to be ignored. Accompanying the new condition is a warning to Jews as much as to Israelis to be properly readied to defend the just rights of a community whose rebirth is based on historic realities. It becomes necessary, under the circumstances created by new and most regrettable conditions once again to reaffirm the status of Jewish statehood. In recorded history, Palestine was never an independent Arab state. Jews were pre- dominant in the Holy Land and Arab rulers had limited periods of existence there, as indi- cated in the following historic facts: Israel Rule (Biblical period) Babylonian Conquest , Israel Autonomy (under Persian and Greco-Assyrian suzerainty) Revolt of the Maccabeans Rule of the Hasmoneans and their successors Jewish Autonomy (under Roman and Byzantine suzerainty) Rulers of Arab Caliphates Mecca Umayyides Abbaside Fatimides Selijukes Rule . Crusaders Ayyubids Mamelukes Rule Ottomans (Turks) British Mandate 1350 BCE to 587 BCE to 538 BCE to 168 BCE to 143 BCE to 70 CE to 637 CE to 637 CE to 661 CE to 750 CE to 969 CE to 1072 CE to 1099 CE to 1175 CE to 1291 CE to 1516 CE to 1918 CE to 586 BCE 538 BCE 168 BCE 143 BCE 70 CE 637 CE 1072 CE 661 CE 750 CE 870 CE 1071 CE 1096 CE 1291 CE 1291 CE 1516 CE 1918 CE 1948 CE When the United Nations formally gave the green light to the redeemers of Zion, in 1947, two states were established—Israel and Jordan. The Arabs were to have a state in the area, and the Hashemite Kingdom was recognized as a homeland for the Palestinian Arabs. Actually, the administrative governments of the Palestinian area in terms of years is historically unchallenged in the following figures: 13th Century BCE-586 BCE 586 BCE-132 CE 132 CE-637 CE 637 CE-1071 CE 1071 CE-1516 CE 1516 CE-1922 CE 1922 CE•1948 CE 1948 CE- 1700 years 650 years 500 years 450 years 450 years 400 years 25 years Jews Jews (Sometimes under foreign domination) Romans and Byzantines Arab Caliphate Seljukes, the Crusaders, Mongols, Mamelukes Turks British Mandate Jews The areas occupied by 19 existing Arab states, all members of the United Nations, are so vast that comparisons with the small territory resumed for Israel's existence are odious. But even that small territory, for 3,500,000 people—more than 500,000 of whom are Christians and Moslems who are not deprived of human rights in Israel — is begrudged by more than 100,000,000 Arabs, whose sheiks keep threatening the very existence of the Jewish state. It was to be believed that it would be necessary once again to organize defensive- ly in support of Israel. But the threats exist. The new conditions do not spell security for Israel. The Russian resurgence of Czarist anti-Semitism which has become a Communist credo is again aimed at the Jewish people. With regret and sorrow, these facts must be stated anew—in an appeal to mankind, not to permit a free hand to holocaustian aims to destroy Israel. That is why the urgency compels an admonition to Jews everywhere to be on guard impending dangers, to know the truth and to be on the alert against any attempt at what could well turn into a national massacre in the Middle East. Beware, is the warning to Jewry, because the implied harm to Israel will mean calamity for all Jews. Autobiography of Righteous Catholic Who Resisted Nazis Nazism was not without resistance. The record of defiance of the terror imposed by the Hitlerites is yet to be told in its entirety. The facts are emerging, and one of the most moving stories has just been written by a naturalized American who, as a young girl, rejected Nazi influence, defied the pressures that were imposed upon the Germans and to the very end assisted the victims. In "Walls," published by Beacon Press, Hiltgunt Zassenhaus tells how she resisted the Third Reich. Now practicing internal medicine in Baltimore, Dr. Zassenhaus' courage is becoming known and her fellow Catholics and the Jewish community of Baltimore are giving due recognition to her strength of character which enabled her to reject the Nazi regulations and to register her protests against the oppressors whenever and wherever she could. She had secured a position in the censor's office in Germany during World War II, and in that capacity was able to help many people, especially prisoners of war. She was especially helpful to Scandinavian war prisoners and due appreciation was shown her by the governments of Norway and Den- mark which gave her high decorations. The West German government, too, awarded her deserved honors in 1969. Recognition of Dr. Zassenhaus' fearless acts is becoming so wide- spread that she has been recommended for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Baltimore Jewish community is honoring her, and special services have been arranged for her at Chizuk Amuna synagogue when Dr. Israel B. Goldman will review her "Walls." "Walls" justifies the award to the author of the Orders of St. Olaf and Dannebro by Norway and Denmark and the Bundesverdienst Kreuz given her by the West German president. It is an autobiographi- cal story that relates how, as a young schoolgirl, Hiltgunt refused to give the Nazi salute; how she resisted the order to echo the "Heil Hitler" submissive shout at school or anywhere else. Her resistance was consistent. She befriended the Jewish school- mates and to the very end strove to assist the sufferers. It was in the Hamburg school that she was first confronted with Nazi challenge, and it was from there that her labors continued — in aiding the prisoners, assisting some 1,000 to escape harm and to return to their homes safely. It was there that she began to fulfill her ambition for a medical career. As student and as employe of the German government, in the censor's office, she remained faithful to the principle of resisting tyranny. Her story begins with an experience in East Berlin where a pub- lisher wanted to produce her book, on condition that mention of God was to be omitted. She refused, and on that visit in East Germany she realized the imposing obstruction of the wall. In writing her story she was especially motivated by a hope to overcome the obstacles created by walls which separate humans. Dr. Zassenhaus adds immensely to the compilation of a record to affirm the reality of a resistance movement that operated against Hitlerism within Germany. Minute as it was, it vindicated those who, like Hiltgunt Zassenhaus, refused to bow to tyranny. Regrettably, Dr. Zassenhaus was not, possibly could not, be in a position to know the extent of the horror her people perpetrated against Jews in concentration and extermination camps. That is why the former are mentioned in her story, to a limited extent, the latter remaining the secret it probably was to her. But as a story of courage her "Walls" elevates her to a position amidst the Compassionate and Righteous Gentiles who are deservedly honored by Jewry.