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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 22nd day of Av, 5734, the following scriptural selections
will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Deut. 7:12-11:25. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 49:14-51:3.

Candle lighting, Friday, Aug. 9,

VOL. LXV. No.

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8:23 p.m.

August 9, 1974

Threatening Lesson: Is UN Protective?

A new warning of menacing threats to
security confront Israel as a lesson from the
developing events on the island of Cyprus.
The mere fact that Turkish forces could
invade the island and the United Nations
supervisory force there is an indication that
aggression can not be subverted by a small
intermediary force.
As an endless factor in the war-threaten-
ing Middle East crisis, the Russian role as a
massive supplier of arms to Syria, on an
even larger scale than the arming of Egypt,
emerges as one of the greatest dangers to the
peace of that area and of the entire world.
Israel Minister of Defense Shimon Peres,
Chief of Staff Mordecai Gur and former De-
fense Minister Abba Eban concurred in warn-

ings that a new war may result from the
overwhelining military supplies being pro-
vided by Russia to Syria. On the basis of
the experiences on Cyprus, what is to pre-
vent the enemies of Israel from ousting the
UN forces? Gamal Abdel Nasser gave the
UN warning to withdraw its supervisory
force, shortly before the Six-Day War. It
was the most drastic step toward war. But
even advance warning apparently is not nec-
essary. All that is needed is the desire to
wage war.
Another indication is added to the many
evidences of insecurity that Israel is in great
trouble—unless the Arab states actually talk
peace and recognize Israel's sovereignty. It's
a blissful thing to hope for.

Who Will Solve the Refugee Problem?

The unresolved refugee problem is certain to be major on the agenda of the approaching
Geneva conference which is to deal with the Middle East situation and with proposals for
possible 'peace negotiations between Israel and the Arab states.
How will the problem be tackled? Will the major world powers, the United States and
the Soviet Union, be pragmatic about it? Will all the facts relating to the issue be taken
into consideration?
Responsible research conducted in Israel by the Association for Peace on the question of
refugees in a number of world areas presented these facts.

REFUGEE PROBLEMS WHICH HAVE BEEN SOLVED BY THE_ INTEGRATION OF
RE FUGFFS IN THE COUNTRIES WHERE THEY SOUGHT REFUGE.

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Number of refugees integrated

Year

Countries involved

1945-48

West Germany

9.7 million Germans from Eastern Europe,
(Poland, Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia)

1945-48

East Germany

3.8 million Germans from Eastern Europe

India

8.5 million Indians from Pakistan

1947-50

Pakistan

6.5 million Pakistanis from India

1953-55

South Korea

5.5 million Koreans from North Korea

1954-56

South Vietnam

1 million Vietnamese from North Vietnam

1947-50

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Israel's position on refugees was outlined in the study as follows:
The 700,000 Jewish refugees from Arab countries, and the survivors from the Nazi Holo-
caust, have been resettled and integrated into Israel's economy.
Israel is willing to agree on full compensation to Arab refugees, as part of a workable
agreement on the entire matter of resolving the conflicts with the Arab states. In fact, Israel
is prepared to participate in and cooperate with the International Development Fund in arriv-
ing at a solution of the refugee problem.
What's the' Arab role in the serious issue? Are they prepared to assist in solving prob-
lems affecting 1,500,000 refugees in the camps? Are the Arab states, with their $20 billion
in world banks willing to assist in solving the needs?
This is no longer a one-sided matter. Arabs owe a responsibility to their kinsmen to
put an end to suffering among them. The problem can not and will not be solved by a mass
invasion of Arabs into Israel. This would inevitably lead to Israel's destruction, and that's
a danger that neither Israel, nor her kinsmen throughout the world, nor the world powers,
can afford to countenance.
The security of Israel is at stake, and the civilized world is expected to combine the
forces of civilized people to prevent an entire people's destruction. The Geneva conferees
will be put to the test soon in this vital issue.

Rabbi Kirshenbaum's Anguish
Over Nazism, Plea for Justice

Rabbi David Kirshenbaum, for 40 years the revered spiritual leader
of the London, Ontario, Bnai Moshe Ben Yehuda Congregation, adheres
to the need to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive. His new
book, "Religion—Love or Hate," is dedicated to the memory of
members of his family who perished as victims of Hitler—his elder
brother and his family and his wife's parents and their six children.
The book is an appeal for justice and genuine spirituality. It is
an excoriation of those who betray true faith.
Furthermore, it is an affirmation of the role of the Jew in the
history of mankind, and the final chapter in his book is entitled
"Jews — the Thermometer of the World's Progress," in which he
expresses this moving sentiment:
`We have been drowning in a sea of poisonous hatred for 2,000
years. Nations, large and small, have pursued us with fire and con-
tinue to do so, have sought and still seek to annihilate us spiritually
and physically. Venom and antipathy is disseminated against us
everywhere, poisoning the atmosphere and stifling our life's breath.
We have been blamed and still are blamed for all world catastrophes.
To this day we are the most convenient scapegoat for all the mis-
fortunes that befall this world. We have been cast into dark, unlit
ghettoes; the sky has been reddened by the flame of the auto-da-fe
of the Inquisition and in more recent years by the fires of the German
gas chambers. All this has come to pass solely because we sought
to create an ideal, civilized world, to raise man to the heights of
heaven, to revolutionize his primitive behavior and control his bestial
instincts."
"The attitude of a country to the Jews," he declares, "is the
moral thermometer of its attitude to good and evil, to justice and
righteousness. A country which is poisoned with racial hatred which
does not concern itself with man's deeds but with his birth and
racial origin and which pursues and persecutes its Jews—is through-
out debased with evil. . . . Truth, justice and equality simply cannot
co-exist with anti-Semitism."
Rabbi Kirshenbaum, who has won the esteem of non-Jews as
well as Jews in his community, having been elected to important
offices, is unhesitant in challenging inactivity in Christian ranks
during periods of horror like Nazism. He cries out against the "de-
basement" of their professions by scientists who collaborated with
the mass murderers. Expressing his horror over "the gruesome and
sadistic murders perpetrated by the German nation," he expresses
his agony by stating:
"Man's mastery over the world, the seas and the skies die
change him, did not ennoble or refine him—in short, failed to lu
ize man. There was a time that when man saw blood he It
experience shock. The sight of human suffering would evoke tears.
Today man accepts human tragedy with indifference."
In the deeply moving chapter "Our Account With Germany"
he expresses "added outrage -over what had happened to Jewry and
mankind.
He draws upon many incidents to emphasize the "Z'hor"—Re-
member!—so that the Hitler terror should always be kept in view
for condemnation.
In "America and the St. Louis" he expresses his anguish over
what 'the United States had done in failing to rescue the escapees
from Nazism on a boat that was returned to Germany, most of the
travelers eventually perishing in extermination camps.
Great Britain—Perfidious Albion—also -is subjected to condemna-
tion for having barred Jews from settling in pre-Israel Palestine as
escapees from the Nazi terror.
Rabbi Kirshenbaum's new book is deeply moving, stemming from
involvements in tasks to prevent recurrence of the horrors of the
last war. It is a definition of high Jewish principles that plead for
human justice.

