Arab Protests in Jerusalem, West Bank Lead to Arrests
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- At
least 90 persons, including
30 schoolgirls, were arrested
in East Jerusalem Tuesday
as pro-terrorist high school
students continued to clash
with Israeli police.
A total of 470 demonstra-
tors have been arrested since
disturbances began on the
West Bank Nov. 13 and spread
to East Jerusalem Monday.
While the unrest appeared
to have' abated somewhat on
the West Bank, police were
forced to use high pressure
water hoses to dislodge stu-
dents at the Al Mamuniyah
Girls School inside the Old
City walls who were hurling
rocks from the roof and win-
dows.
In addition to 30 girls, po-
lice detained 10 boys found
inside the building who are
believed to have incited the
girls to riot.
About half of the shops in
the cnct City were closed
Tuesday but most shops in
the modern sections of East
Jerusalem were open after
authorities warned the mer-
chants that they would be
shut down indefinitely if they
obeyed the rioters protest
call.
Arab bus drivers lined up
their vehicles to block tht
main road between East and
West Jerusalem outside the
central bus terminal. But
they drove off after being
warned by police. Several
hundred demonstrators who
tried to march on the Chris-
tian quarter of the Old City
were dispersed by police.
According to Jerusalem
Police Chief Heinz Breiten-
feld, the trouble began when
students at several Arab high
schools surged into the streets
in a demonstration of solidar-
ity with PLO chief Yassir
Arafat.
Despite the disturbances
tourists and Israeli shoppers
strolled the streets of East
Jerusalem and hunted bar-
gains at the shops and stalls.
Unrest continued in the
West Bank towns of Ramal-
lah, Bethlehem and Bet Jalla
where students chanling PLO
slogans hurled stones at • Is-
raeli soldiers. School strikes
continued for the third con-
secutive day in Al Bira.
Youngsters attempting to
march on a local school were
dispersed by Israeli police.
In Ramallah, Halhul, Dura
and Kalkilya many pupils
did not show up for classes.
Others gathered outside the
schools shouting slogans and
New Photographic Volume Says
_Good Old Days Were Terrible •
To social historian and au-
thor Otto L. Bettmaan, thun-
der of the Rettmann photo ar-
chives, the current craze for
nostalgia is not just misdi-
rected but also injurious to
the national health.
"We let our minds escape
into a historical never-never
land instead of facing the jet-
stream of reality," the 70-
year-old archivist said.
Agreeing with sociologist
Alvin Toffler that nostalgia
"mirrors a psychological lust
for the simpler, less turbulent
past," Dr. Bettmann has ap-
plied his photo library on the.
history of civiliz4ion to sug-
gest that the so-called "Gild-
ed Age"—the years between
the Civil War and World War
I—were far from gay and
k happy for the American pop-
ulace. ,
He presents this revision-
wt. ist view of history in his new
Il
r
k • .
ger Sought
With Arafat
a
essin
Ha'aretz Reports
lit e
'
BASEL (ZINS ) — The
Basel correspondent of the
Hebrew d a i l y Ha'aretz,
quoting sources in Switzer-
and, has written that the
land,
leeting between F r en c h
Minister Jean Sau-
anargues and YasSir Ara-
'at, took place at the behest
of Secretary of State Henry
The report says that at a
meeting during the UN ses-
sions in New York Kissinger
Ai urged the French foreign
' f
.".'faler to receive the ter-
rist leader, explaining that
Kissinger, could not do
so for fear of adverse re-
action by the American
public.
At the same time, Kis-
'1, singer is said to have as-
serted that any settlement of
' the Mid dle East conflict
could not be reached without
the participation of Arafat in
the negotiations, and that the
U.S. would therefore wel-
come a French initiative to
deal with this delicate issue,
;since "a meeting with Ara-
' fat is not only desirable hut
indeed necessary."
God that gives the wound
may give the remedy. This
is one day, but tomorrow is
.- 'another . . .—Miguel De Cer-
vantes
book 'The Good Old Days—
They Were Terrible!', pub-
lished by Random House.
Illustrated with more than
300 engravings, cartoons and
photographs from the years
1861-1918, Dr. Bettmann's
book is designed to "put
things back into proper per-
spective." He describes the
picture book as "a modest,
personal attempt to redeem
our times from the asper-
sions cast upon them by
nostalgic comparisons . . .
Even if we are today beset by
endless frustrations and prob-
lems, on balance we are ac-
tually much better off than
the 'Gay Nineties' genera-
tion:"
The hundreds of pictures
Bettmann presents to but-
tress his thesis that "nostal-
gia can be justified as fiction
but as history it's pure bunk"
are those, he says, "that are
omitted as a rule from con-
ventional histories."
All the hue and cry about
rampaging crime-in-the-
streets is not unprecendented.
Between 1869190, he observes,
crime in the • cities rose
445 per cent, while the popu-
lation grew by only 170 per
cent. In 1893, one out of ev-
ery 11 Chicagoans was ar-
rested for "crime in the
streets."
Other "nostalgic compari-
sons" to today's urban per-
plexities include drug addic-
tion, government . corruption,
housing shortages, pollution,
dirty streets and traffic fa-
talities.
He concludes, "All hard-
ships have been forgotten:
the plight of the working
man, .the unremitting hunger
of the vagrant, the incredi-
bly awful sanitary conditions,
the inhumane exploitation of
women and children, the
cruel fate of the crippled and
insane.
"The dirty business of "the
gilded age" has been swept
under the carpet of oblivion:
what we get is a glowing pic-
ture of Arcadia, of blue-skied
meadows where rosy-cheeked
cherubs play and millionaires
sip tea.
"The blood, sweat and tears
of the past have been dried
up, so to speak, and what re-
mains is an aura of charm,
good feeling, as if life in "the
good old days" had been just
all fun and games, a sort of
continuing performance of
the Ziegfeld Follies."
62—Friday, Nov. 22, 1974
waving Palestinian flags. No
clashes were reported.
Israeli authorities said the
unrest, sparked by Arafat's
inflammatory speech to the
UN last Wednesday, was in-
tended to destroy the image
of peaceful Jewish-Arab co-
existence on the West Bank
and in Jerusalem which Is-
rael has worked hard to build
during the past seven yeafs.
In an attempt to curb the
unrest on the West Bank, stu-
dents demonstrating outside
of Jerusalem were brought
before military courts during
the past two days. Of 132 that
were tried, 59 received sen-
tences of up to six months in
jail, two were acquited and
71 paid up to IL 1,000 (now
about $166) in fines.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Orthodox Girls Aid
Prooklyn Elderly
NEW YORK (JTA)-
Ninety members of the Bnot
Agudath Israel, the girls or-
ganization of Agudath Israel
of America, are participating
in a pilot program of regular
visits to elderly Jewish resi-
dents of Brooklyn's Boro .
Park section which includes
daily delivery of hot Glatt
kosher lunches to 18 to 20
of the elderly Jews who are
homebound.
Rabbi Menachem Lubin-
sky, director of the Boro
Park Senior Citizens Center,
where the program is based,
said the project was started
last spring and has been
"working well." He said
plans were being made to
inaugurate a similar pro-
gram at the organization's
newest Senior Citizens Cen-
ter, which was opened last
week in Flatbush.
Agudath Israel sponsors
five such centers, which are
funded by the city's human
resources administration.
Whatsoever thy hand at-
taineth to do by thy strength,
that do; for there is no work,
nor device, nor knowledge,
nor wisdom in the grave,
whither thou goest.—Eccle-
siastes 9:10.
Traveling is almost 1 " 1-e
talking with men of (
centuries.—Rene DescarLes
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