Robert St. John Indicts An Immoral Era In World History
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sources at our own rate of
•consumption — five times
our statistical share.
We live in what is without
doubt the most immoral era
in world history. Regard for
the sanctity of human life
has rarely been so low in so
many parts of the world.
After United Nations Sec-
retary-General Waldheim re-
turned-from a trip to drought-
plagued Africa, where mil-
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Dec. 5—To Mr. and Mrs.
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Nov. 24—To Mr. and Mrs.
Alan Matlen (Ellen Krowitz),
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son, Marc Gordon.
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Nov. 20,--To Mr. and Mrs.
Barry Grant (Barbara Ellis),
4611 Fairway Ridge, West
Bloomfield, a son, Jeremy
Adam.
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Nov. 13—To Mr. and Mrs.
Sol Zeiler (Channie Lefko-.
witz), 23120 Marlow, Oak
Park, a son, Marc Howard.
* * *
Nov. 10—To Mr. and Mrs.
Ronald Gunsberg (Marleen
Goldstein), 29809 Bedford
North, Southfield, a daughter,
Lisa- Beth.
* * *
— Oct. 17—To Mr. and Mrs.
Martin Friedman ( Marlene
Kanter), 14751 Talbot, Oak
Park, a son, Jeremy Brian.
* * *
Aug. 27—To Mr. and Mrs.
Allen F. Greenfield (Joan
Ellen Gaynor), 29520 Ruther-
land North, Southfield, a
daughter, Lisa Faye.
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To Mr. and Mrs. Steven
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Leslie, Oak Park, a daugh-
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lions were on the verge of
death frofn hunger and thirst,
he declared: "This region has
not seen such a disaster in
centuries. Peoples and coun-
tries could disappear from
the map."
His call for quick help
went out at a time when
some of the Africans' Third
World brothers in the Mid-
dle East were bothered by
quite a different problem —
what to do with the avalanche
of golden francs, marks, Brit-
ish•pounds, yen and dollars
pouring into their laps be-
cause they had discovered
how to highjack the rest of
the world (including all the
undeveloped countries) by
the simple device of doubling,
tripling, quadrupling, quin-
tupling, sextupling, septupl-
ing and even octupling the
price of a liquid which west-
ern engineers and geologists
had discovered under the
surface of their land.
Had there been any moral-
ity or even a tiny sense of
brotherhood in the hearts of
the Arab sheiks and emirs
they could have done some-
thing to solve their own
problem, while at the same
time becoming heroes to
their Third World brothers
in Africa. But this is what
they actually did:
Libya: The previous years
she had collected $214 billion
for her oil. For disaster re-
lief in Africa, $760,000. Ku-
wait: $5 billion from oil;
$300,000 to Africa. Saudi
Arabia: $5 billion from oil;
not a cent to Africa.
Iraq: More than $2 billion
from oil; not a cent to Africa.
Abya Dhabi: In one year the
equivalent of $23,000 for
every man, woman and child
in the country from oil. Not a
cent to Africa.
Qatar, Bahrain, Iran and
Algeria: No help whatsoever
to Africa, although all were
wallowing in a slough of
oily gold.
Even the fact that a large
percentage of those facing
death in Africa were fellow
Moslems failed to affect the
hearts or loosen the purse
strings of the Arabs.
Cruel-heartedness and im-
morality are. evident also in
the attitude of the oil-rich
Arabs toward their blood-
brothers in the Palestine
refugee camps.
In the past 26 years only
poverty-stricken Jordan has
permitted any of the Pales-
tinian refugees from what is
now Israel or Israel-occupied
territory to leave the camps
and become citizens of the
host country.
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia
have been most generous in
making cash grants to Syria
and Egypt for the purchase
of war machinery, but the
only , money that has been
appropriated by them for
even indirect help to the
Palestinian refugees has gone
to make propaganda in the
Western world about the
pathetic conditions in which
they live.
They have seen to it that
those conditions 'are not im-
proved, for if they were the
refugees could not longer
serve as an instrument of
anti-Israeli propaganda.
The recent record of the
United Nations is fraugh
with examples of contempt
54 Friday, Dec. 13, 1974
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for the high principles so
nobly enunciated in the UN
Charter.
After the Palestinian ter-
rorists slaughtered 18 men,
women and children at
Kiryat Shemona, a resolution
was passed in the UN con-
demning Israel for her re-
taliation without even men-
tioning the outrage that had
caused the reaction. Our
chief US delegate to the UN
voted for the resolution.
Eleanor Roosevelt must
have turned over in her grave
recently when the UN Com-
mission on Human Rights, of
which she was once the dis-
tinguished chairman, voted
21 to one to condemn Israel
for "war crimes," called "an
affront to humanity," be-
cause of her treatment of
Arab civilians in territories
occupied since the Six-Day
War.
This, in spite of Israel's
providing them with better
educational opportunities
than they had ever enjoyed,
a right to elect their own
local officials for the first
time without outside inter-
ference, efforts to provide
them with some of the 20th
century amenities they never
had before, attention for the
first time to their health and
physical welfare, and a
chance, for the first time in'
their lives, to earn a respec-
table living wage.
"War crimes?" One is re-
minded of Alice in Wonder-
land: "When I use a word
it means just what I choose
it to mean!"
But the grossest example
of recent international im-
morality came when it was
proposed to welcome to the
UN, Yasir Arafat, head of
the Palestine Liberation Or-
ganizatjon which had proudly
- taken full credit for such
atrocities as the killing of 105
innocent civilians in the
shooting at Lod (now Ben-
Gurion) airport, in the Olym-
-pic Games killings at Munich,
in the attacks on the settle-
ments of Ma'alot and Kiryat
Shemona, in the. killing of an
Amercian Ambassador and in
some lesser but bloody out-
rages.
In their• several years of
murderous . activity the Arab
terrorists have violated the
fundamental principles' of
Christianity, of Judaism and
of their own Moslem religion.
They have never differ-
entiated between the un-
involved and those they call
their enemies. They have
blown up planes on the
ground and planes in flight.
They have made it necessary
for every person who today
takes a flight of even 200
miles to have his luggage
and his body examined as if
he were a common criminal.
They have spread the con-
tagion of terrorism so widely
that it is now an accepted
practice among a certain ele-
ment of society that if you
feel wronged .by your fel-
lowmen, or by the system,
you get a lethal weapon, take
hostages, demand a million
dollars, insist that cell doors
be opened so that certain
convicted criminals may go
free, and then that a plane
be provided so you can fly
to some country that,is so
oral it will neither'prose-
cute you nor permit your
extradition, even if in the
course of your little adven-
ture you have killed 50 or
100 innocent people.
The prototype for those
who have recently used 'ter-
ror in various places for
various places for various
purposes is this same Arafat,
who was to be legitimatized,
respectabilized and welcomed
to the UN, an organization
dedicated, so its Charter
says, to the practice of toler-
ance, of living together in
peace, and to the dignity of
the human and the funda-
mental rights of every indi-
vidual in the world.
Here was a man who again
and again had stated that
the prime purpose of his
terrorist activities was to
bring about the' • •complete
destruction of one of the
member states of the UN,
legitimately created 26 years
ago on the basis of a UN
resolution.
(Until King Hussein was
forced to capitulate to Ara-
fat, the PLO had the destruc-
tion of the Hashemite King-
dom of Jordan, another 'UN
member state, as a second
objective. Secretly the PLO
probably still aims •at. eli-
minating Jordan as a sepa-
rate entity.)
And so the matter was put
to a vote. It was not surpris-
ing that all 20 Arab states
voted yea.
It was also to be expected
that the resolution would be
supported by all 10 European
communist states, following
the lead of the Soviet Union,
which in 1947 had voted for
the :partition plan that
brought Israel into existence;
in the hope of getting Great
Britain, the mandatory power,
out of the Middle Eait and
now supported the Arabs
with the aim of destroying
whatever American influence
might remain in the area.
Because the People's Re-
publiC of China is a com-
petitor of the Soviet Union
for Arab goodwill it was per-
haps natural that she, too,
would vote yes, and that
some other Asia countries
would follow suit.
But Africa? For years Is-
rael, with feeble resources
and limited capital, had been
'helping various African
countries with their problems
of irrigation, - fertilization
housing, education.
Israel's . technical . schools
and universities were sprin-
kled with African students
there on scholarships. Be-
sides, had not the Arab
world turned a cold shoulder
to Africa in her recent mo-
ment, of distress? So this is
how Africa voted: In favor
of welcoming Arafat, 31;
against, none; not voting,
four.
Twelve Latin American
countries with which Israel
had had friendly relations
voted for Arafat. So did Aus-
tria, the country that gave
birth to Hitler; Franco's
Spain, Moslem Turkey, joined'
by Cyprus, Finland, France
(!), Greece, Ireland, Italy,
Malta, Norway, Portugal and
Sweden.
One hundred and five in
all—by ghoulish coincidence
the exact number of men,
women and children mur-
dered by Arafat's organiza-
tion in their most recent acts
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS of anarchial terrorism.
Twenty nations abstained
and nine were recorded as
not voting — 29 countries
without the courage to take
a stand. The nays totaled
four: Israel, Bolivia, Domini-
can Republic and the United
States.
And so murder was legiti-
matized, Arafat was en-
nobled. And the State of Is-
rael — prayed for and
dreamed 'about for two mil-
lenia and finally established
.in 1948 at tremendous cost
in human terms — was put
on notice that because ap-
parently it is easier for
modern men to get along
without morality than with-
out oil, the architect of Is-
rael's destruction would be
accorded all the honor due a
Messiah.
It is to weep!
(Editor's Note: Robert St.
John is the former NBC .cor-
respondant in London, and
author of several books about
Israel. This article is appear-
ing simultaneously in
Jewish News and the
copal magazine, The Chm
man.)
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