70—Friday, Dec. 6, 1974

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Dr. David Lazar,
Jewish Writer, 72

Harold B. Kukes,
Ex-Firm President

Israel's Security Problems Reviewed

By AMNON RUBINSTEIN directly and indirectly. For and military support.
Dean Rusk, in the days of
(Editor's Note: the author the first time there were
Territorial issues are im-
is dean of the college of law signs of military intervention portant, however, we have that "wicked" Rogers, in the
days of "the Jew Kissinger,"
at Tel Aviv University.)
on the part of the Muslim played up the territorial as- Johnson, Nixon and Ford.
One of the most depressing world and the "Third World." pect much too much. The This policy is adherent to
aspects of the public contro •The writing on the wall said type of arms which Israel Resolution 242, which is op-
versy 'about Israel's security that Israel is becoming the will receive is a hundredfold posed to the annexation of
problems is the emotional ap- cynosure for the enmity of more important than the ex- territories.
proach, laden with self-pity, the entire developing world. act location of the border
The United- States regards
which characterizes it.
In the context of economic line.
itself responsible for "the de- -
Here is the state of Israel, distress, we have discovered
"Davar" Editor Hanna fense of Israel, and not of its
small in area, rich in suffer- how far we have fallen back Zemer has already pointed conquests."
ing, surrounded with abys- in our relations with the free out the foolhardiness in Is-
The extremist right thinks
mal hatred, standing almost world. When we went forth rael's policy towards Syria, in terms of the ghetto Jew,
alone against a mighty mili- to battle in the 1967 war the which says we shall concede and its relations with the
tary and economic coalition, world cheered us on, and its nothing and be tough in cop- United States are impregnat-
ostracized by most of human- communications media, with ing with the toughest and ed with conceptions of the
ity.
almost no exception, ac- cruelest of our enemies. The good land baron and the
,Israel has few natural re- claimed our victory. After six investment of enormous sums wicked land baron. In it
sources; its natural resources years of crawling conquest in the erection of a city on eyes, Dr. Kissinger
are human. In a wasteland and annexation, of political the Golan will serve no secur- have been the Jewis
fr-
we founded a democratic and braggadocio and y denigration ity goal and will severely in- cessor with the Gentile nd
productive society, which has of others, it turns out that jure Israel's genuine political
baron, and since he has re-
contributed to science and deep erosion has stricken the interests.
fused -to fill this role, he is a
world civilization.
sympathy towards Israel.
We are fighting for our sur- Jewish renegade.
Under difficult circum-
Many Israelis naturally vival and not for our right to
However, Dr. Kissinger's
stances of constant belliger- claim that this erosion is an build another city in the terri-
approach
reflects the consis-
ence, we maintained freedom expression of anti-Semitism tories. One of our troubles is
of expression and civic and the like, but the truth is that we are thinking of our tent standof all the U. S. ad-
rights, as no other society that the erosion has also oc- security problems in terms ministrations since the Six
has done in modern times. curred within world Jewry. of 'tower and stockade' (over- Day War. I also think that
Venezuelans Rally for Soviet Jews
This small island is located A substantial segment of the night construction of Jewish territories are important and
NEW YORK (JTA)—The band headed one of Latin in the midst of enemies youth cannot go along with settlements in Mandatory Pal- we cannot, for the sake of our
security, return to the 1967
wife of former Costa Rican America's few democratic whose main Strength comes Israel's policy.
estine), while our region is borders-.
not by virtue of some human
President Jose Figueres, was
At the General •Assembly entering the Nuclear Age.
The people who realize that
among_th4 guest speakers at regimes, expressed her sup- effort but rather by chance, of the Jewish Agency, Eli
Continued support on the
port
of
Soviet
Jewry's
fight
like a geological aberration, Wiesel spoke about the tre- part of the United States— Israel will have to pay a-high
the First Seminar of Vene-
price for its existence, in-
zuelan Women on the Current for freedom, saying, "What and they have the support of mendous difference , within support which must find' ex- cluding the supreme price
one
of
the
mightiest
empires
U. S. Jewry between the pression in a defense pact— that -a person can pay, want
Situation of Soviet Jewry, re- we cannot guarantee for
sweeping identificatiOn with is 10 times as important as to'essure its wellbeing by all
cently ended in Caracas.
others, isn't guaranteed for humanity has ever known.
It is easy to yield to gloomy Israel during the Six Day further settlements.
MrS. Figueres, whose hus- ourselves."
means, political as well. This
and foreboding mood; it is War and the relative apathy
Today we are facing the faith is not superficial; it is
easy to write about our unjust towards it in the Yom Kippur
fate; it is easy to publish art- War. The difference in the strongest among the powers, nourished by the two natural
icles directed against Sadat, attitude towards us is not a not bands of rioters. We must resources of our land — the
take this into consideration, heart and the mind.
Brezhnev, Arafat, "the Jew happenstance.
even if it means foregoing
Kissinger," perfidious Eur-
Our failures stem from un- historical affinity and moral
A play is like a picture:
ope, the African ingrates, the realistic conception of poli-
rights which we may have to
entire world, the Gentiles.
tics. Only a fool 'would be- territories which are paternal the actors are the colors,
and they must blend with
But the responsible Israeli lieve that an Israel victory in
one another if a perfect work
will not be satisfied with con- the first days would have inheritance.
The United States has had is to be produced.--Joseph
vincing himself that the changed the -deep and funda-
world is evil and he is good. mental processes in t h e a fixed policy, in the .days of Jefferson
He doesn't want to be the world's economic and politi-\
most righteous man in the cal policies, which found ex-
cemetery. He must think pression during the Yom
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those who believed us to be a rael's position; how to pre-
global power, forever im- vent war while preparing for
mune—stemmed from sev- it.
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The war made' it clear that proceed at an accelerated
we shall no longer be permit- pace; we must double and
ted. to deal the Arab states a triple our military effort.
telling blow—it being in the
What is not so obvious is
interests of the two super- that military might ' cannot
powers not to allow this deb- stand up to the political chal-
acle.
lenge. Our military might it-
The oil weapon was wielded self is conditioned on a politi-
by the Arabs effectively and cal factor—the willingness of
with unexpected unity, and it the United States to support
illustrated t h e increasing us with arms and money. The
measure of the world's de- military might must be con-
pendence on the economic served for a war that will be
and monetary prowess of the forced on us, when we have
Arab states.
no choice, or for a time of
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The war clarified what was er intervals, with the power
already clear, namely, that of destruction growing in
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MINIUMUOION

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Dr.
David Lazar, a - veteran jour-
nalist and writer, who was
one of the translators of
Herzl's "The Jewish State,"
died here Nov. 27 at age '72.
He had willed his body to
science.
Born in Crakow, Poland,
the was a graduate of the
local university in Oriental
studies but soon he chose
journalism and writing as
his profession. In addition to
work as a literary critic, he
wrote essays. and travel
books.
Arriving in Palestine in
1941, he soon became active
on local newspapers and in
a writers' association.
He was a founder. in 1948
of the evening newspaper,
Maariv, and served as one of
its senior editors. He was
active in the international
PEN Club.

Harold B. Kukes, retired
president of Michigan Bolt
and Nut Co. and former vice
president of Michigan Screw
Products Co., died Nov. 29
at age 64.
Born in Chicago, Mr.
Kukes was a member of the
Standard Club of Detroit,
Franklin Hills Country Club,
Cong. Beth Abraham-Hjllel
and Cong. S'haarey Zedek,
Bnai Brith and Men's Ameri-
can ORT. He was the founder
and donor of the Harold and
Bella Kukes Pulmonary
Fellowship at St. Joseph
Hospital in Ann Arbor. He
resided at 16252 Mayfair,
Southfield.
He leaves his wife, Belle;
two sons, Michael a n d
Thomas; a daughter, Mrs.
Sidney (Barbara) Goldman;
three sisters, Mrs. Manuel
(Shirley) Rosenthal, Mrs.
Morris (Rose) Leon and Mrs.
Joseph (Eva) Marshall; and
three grandchildren.

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