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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
November 21, 1975
Soviet Union's Role in the middle East
JERUSALEM — The So-
viet Union shares the chair-
manship of the Geneva Con-
ference with the United
States. Yet, the interim
Sinai agreement between
Egypt and Israel saw Russia
vitually frozen out of the
negotiations.
In the Middle East itself,
the Soviet presence is very
noticeable. Recently, Syrian
President Assad made a
sudden visit to Moscow at
which, presumably, joint
strategy vis-a-vis the in-
terim agreement, and the
Nov. 30 deadline for renew-
ing the United Nations
mandate on the Golan
Heights, were discussed.
The Israel Digest reports
that in a recent radio inter-
view, Prime Minister Yit-
zhak Rabin of Israel de-
clared that he had no doubt
concerning the political and
strategic significance of the
Syrian President's journey
to Moscow.
Noting that Syria had
failed to nobilize the Arab
world against the interim
Sinai agreement, Israel's
Prime Minister called at-
tention to the fact that
there has not been any in-
dication that Syria wants
to negotiate at this time.
Other altneratives open to
Syria are the extreme one of
taking military action — for
which Israel must be alert
— or of doing nothing ex-
cept fortify herself while
maintaining the present sit-
uation of no war and no
peace.
Addressing the just con-
cluded International Sym-
posium on Military Aspects
of the Israel-Arab Conflict,
Minister of Defense Shimon
Peres discussed the Soviety
involvement.
He recalled that excessive
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Russian involvement during
the Yom Kippur War, and
after it, increased the scope
of Israeli dependence upon
the United States for assist-
ance, a dependence Israel
does not relish, though it
welcomes the American
stand against war and
against intervention.
does not have these alterna-
tives.
She depends a great deal
upon the goodwill of the
United States, and the fact
Israel's Minister of De-
fense sees the two super-
powers as facing contra-
dictory interests. On the
one hand they want to
maintain their detente, on
the other they want to win
over various nations in the
Middle East.
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Egypt has shown its rec-
ognition of this super-power
dilemma by turning from
Moscow to Washington with
a degree of expectations
which Jerusalem finds wor-
rying.
Meanwhile, there is a
western attempt to reduce,
and if possible, to end, the
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Sing along with
Doug:
Jewish Community Centers and YM-YWHAs affi-
liated with the National Jewish Welfare Board emphas-
ize creative Jewish programming related to Jewish holi-
days and to other aspects of the American Jewish
experience. These Center nursery school children in cos-
tumes have come out of a house shaped like a giant drei-
del to re-enact the Hanuka story of Judah Maccabee.
JWB publishes a Hanuka manual, plays, candlelighting
ceremonies, and other program materials for the use of
Jewish communities in the U.S. and Canada.
Robert Klane's 'Fire Sale'
A Poor Attempt at Humor
"Fire Sale" by Robert
Klane may be the most
aptly titled novel of the
year.
The book is one man's at-
tempt at humor, and in this
reviewer's attempt at a
printable opinion, "Fire
Sale" fails miserably.
Gone are the days of the
late 1960s when four-letter
words were sprinkled
loosely in every sentence by
all-knowing teeny hoppers
to shock those "straight"
adults. But Klane is trying
to revive them.
The author of a similar
book and dismal movie in
1970, "Where's Pappa?,"
Klane writes about a
"typical" middle-class
family in "Fire Sale." The
dying father owns a failing
department store, which is
burned down by an insane
friend.
The mother believes the
hospital is a Miami resort
hotel, and brings in visitors
to play cards with the un-
conscious man.
The children are more of
the same, and Klane sprin-
kles it all with four-letter
words to convince the reader
of the down-to-earth earthi-
ness of it all. Some of the
children, and even the
father, are upset at the end
of the book when a doctor
discoyers that the father
will live.
The book's publisher,
Atheneum Press, does its
best on the jacket to con-
vince the reader: "And those
readers and critics who are
certain that Philip Roth car-
ried the Jewish novel to its
farthest and most outra-
geous limits will have to re-
vise their thinking."
No, they won't.
—A.H.
Democracy is a cause that
is Ile Ver \von, but I believe it
will never be lost.
—Charles A. Beard
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