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Sabbath Scriptural Selections

This Sabbath, the 18th day of Kislev, 5736, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagognes:
Pentateuchal portion, Gen. 32:4-36:43. Prophetical portion, Hosea 11:7-12:12

Candle lighting, Friday, Nov. 21. 4:49 p.m.

VOL. LXVIII, No. 11

Page Four

Friday, November 21, 1975

Dayan Clarifies Palestinian Puzzle

Difficulties have been created in many of
the diplomatic controversies by the injection of
the Palestinian issue. The diplomatic waters are
constantly being muddied by the confusions in-
jected into the Middle East discussions, and use
of the term "Palestinian" has been the cause of
misunderstandings that have aroused enmities
towards Israel.
Few understand the Palestinian aspect as
well as Israel's former Defense Minister Moshe
Dayan. He has lived in areas that were occupied
predominantly by Arabs. He speaks their lan-
guage. He has befriended many of their leaders
and has won the admiration of the Arab masses
in Israel.
General Dayan was interviewed by Har-
per's magazine, and to the question "Do you be-
lieve the Palestinians' situation caused the Ar-
ab-Israel wars?" he answered with an emphatic
No!, declaring:
No. This is not true even of the first
war of '48 which was caused by the crea-
tion of a Jewish state, not because of the
Palestinians. At that time the neighbor-
ing Arab countries — not the Palestini-
ans — did not want to accept the partition
of Palestine, part of which the UN had re-
solved should become Israel. The Arabs
had regular forces — we had not a single
gun, not an airplane, not a tank — so they
thought they could wipe out the Jewish
community. We were then 600,000. So
they made a war in '48 to stop the forma-
tion of a Jewish state in the middle of the
Arab Middle East.
The three other wars had absolutely
noting to do with the Palestinians. The
next war started in '56 because Egypt
blockaded the waterway of Sharm el
Sheikh, the Straits of Aqaba. The '67 war
started because the Russians falsely told
the Syrians that we were about to cross
the Syrian border to occupy Damascus.
The Russians claimed that Israel, en-
couraged by the Americans, wanted to
change the leftist regime in Syria. Just
like that.
Now the '73 war was the outcome of
'67, because after the '67 war our forces
on the Egyptian side were along the Suez

Menora of Thanksgiving

How fortunate for two peoples, linked in
this generation by common interests and devo-
tions, to be able to mark spiritual triumphs with
thanksgiving!
Hanuka and Thanksgiving will be parted
next week by only a single day, and the proxim-
ity of one to another merges them into proper
mutual celebrations.
For Americans and Jews the two festivals
emphasize spiritual edification, the successes of
the highest ideals in human hopes and aspira-
tions.
So, the feast of Thanksgiving. with its re-
minders of an American ancestry rooted in
glory, will be followed immediately with the
lighting of the menora and the Hanuka candles.
The two festivities are occasions for hopes for
continuity of noblest relations between the two
peoples and the endless glorification of the prin-
ciples inherent in the events observed.

Canal. On the Syrian side, we were on
the Golan Heights, sixty kilometers from
Damascus. And for seven years there was
no political progress to settle this prob-
lem. You know, I thought in '67 that we
shouldn't go up on the Golan altogether.
And we shouldn't go to the Suez Canal:
and once we got to the Suez Canal, I
thought we should withdraw. In '73 the
war started because Egypt couldn't stand
us being along the Suez Canal; the same
thing was true about Syria, because there
was no kind of negotiation with the Syri-
ans — nobody talked one word to them.
As a matter of fact, President Nixon said
we should stay forever on the Golan
Heights, and that was the American atti-
tude.
As for the Palestinians — there is a
very narrow strip left where they are liv-
ing here. Four-hundred thousand live in
the Gaza Strip, and some in Jerusalem —
about 70,000 — and some of them in Na-
blus and in other places. This is exactly
the area they call the Eastern Front. Sup-
posing the war starts; I am sure that the
first thing the Palestinians will ask the
Arabs is, "Keep us out of it, because be-
fore anything will be decided we will find
ourselves between the Arab guns and the
Israeli guns. We are living there with our
families and our children and our prop-
erty and we will become refugees. Our
fate will be exactly what happened to the
other palestinians, and we don't want it.
If you are that heroic, okay, destroy Is-
rael. Fight them on the Syrian front and
fight them on the Egyptian front and
fight them by political means, with Rus-
sia and America, but don't try to liberate
the few Palestinians that are left, be-
cause we shall be crushed under this
war." And that's why Jordan did not
come in during the last war. The Palesti-
nians asked them not to.

General Dayan was not alone as an indica-
tor that the Palestinians already have a state of
their own, amidst the 20 Arab sovereignties, in
Jordan. More than 60 per cent of the so-called
Palestinian Arabs live in Jordan, and an under-
standing with King Hussein could and should
contribute towards a solution of the problem
that has become so painful for Israel.
The fact is that the West Bank Arabs are
granted so much autonomy that, in a sense, they
have their own sovereignty there, including
schools, a college curriculum for advanced stu-
dents and their freedom of action for trading in
Jordan, in accordance with the Open Bridges
policies that were established by Dayan when he
was a member of the Israeli cabinet. There also
are Israelis who favor concessions for Palestini-
ans in the process of deliberations to be con-
ducted in statesmanlike fashion. It is the threat
to Israel's security and the PLO aim to destroy
Israel in the process that matters and actually
delimits the so-called Palestinian claims. If
these claims are to be means towards forging
instruments for Israel's destruction, then the
more hawkish attitude will have to predomi-
nate. It is the Arabs who can encourage dovism
by adopting policies for cooperation and ending
the menacing situations that lead to destruc-
tion.

Jewish Archival Institutions
Directory Published by WSU

Wayne State University Press has just issued a valuable "Di-
rectory of Jewish Archival Institutions," in a compilation that serves a
valuable communal purpose.
Produced for the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, this
directory assists communities that traditionally-support the agencies
enumerated and defined in the 76-page brochure to be fully ac-
quainted with the agencies included in the work that was edited by
Philip P. Mason.
The National Foundation for Jewish Culture has become the uni-
fying and coordinating force for major Jewish cultural agencies and
the archival groups chosen for evaluation in the Mason-edited work
are among the activists in the field of collating and defining historical
Jewish material.
In a foreword to the brochure, Harry I. Barron, executive director
of the National Foundation, defines the purpose of the publication and
the value it possesses for communal planning in support of the enu-
merated agencies.
The archival agencies under review in this directory include: the
American Jewish Archives, American Jewish Historical Society, Leo
Baeck Institute, Bund Archives of the Jewish Labor Movement, The
Dropsie University, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Reli-
gion, Jewish Theological Seminary of America and YIVO Institute for
Jewish Research.
In his introduction, editor Mason states that he had visited the
agencies under review, has noted their variations and expresses the
view that the directory shows "the rich holdings of the agencies."

Malamud's Fidelman Stories,
Nierenberg Are Paperbacked

"Pictures of Fidelman" was among the Bernard Malamud fiction
works to attain best selling status.
Now this series of sketches, a combination of wit and irony, is
made available as a Simon and Schuster Pocket Book.
Fidelman, the frustrated artist,
the vengeful human, mirrors experi-
ences marked by struggles for
achievements.
Arthur Fidelman's is a tumul-
tuous existence, and his artistic aims
and aspirations, the hope for perfec-
tion, have given Malamud a character
which he molded into an impressive
series of narratives.
Gerald I. Nierenberg is an inspi-
rer of confidence. In "How to Give
and Receive Advice," also published
as a Simon and Schuster Pocket
Book, the talented are guided on how
to seek advice, what and how to ac-
cept.
The less than 200 pages of this
paperback, which include analytical
BERNARD MALAMUD
guides and an index, has a score of
subjects dealing with success and
failure, motivation and assumption, ideas and creativity. teaching and
learning.
Based on experience, well composed, marked by wit and a sense
of humor, this is a book to delight the reader and assist and guide the
advice-seeker.

