.i.alatiftwErpretionwpw - NEwsommumumimenumummumwouposemosuur f • -vr-vtirwitniaiivaxvi%, •-• 7 -5,4 ,- , Former UN Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan W arns of 'Ideological' Battles Endangering Israel By DANIEL P. MOYNIHAN (Excerpted from an address before the annual Executive Committee Meeting of the United Jewish Appeal) B y 19 7 2 , films were being On April 29, in a debate shown on Russian television of the Economic and Social that it said: "you've got to of Hitler with Ben-Gurion's Council, the representa- get out of the occupied terri- tories . . . you've got to re- head superimposed. tive of the PLO spoke of As the campaign devel- the Pretoria-Tel Aviv settle the Palestinians . . . In the United Nations, oped, we saw it in UNESCO you've got to do this or there are 47 members of the in 1974, with the first Axis, and explicit refer- you've got to do that." — No, Islamic League which, if charges against the Israelis ence to the Axis between that anti-Zionist resolution you add to 17 Communist of committing crimes Nazi Germany and Fascist said Israel does not have a Italy in the 1930s and early right to exist! countries, gives you almost against culture. That's the 1940s. a working-majority in any first time it really appeared In October, a distin- On the 10th of May, in the guished British literary General Assembly. The ef- outside the Soviet Union in Security Council, the Soviet critic, Guronway Reese, ob- fect of that majority has an international forum. Union spoke of racial geno- indeed begun to be felt — And then, in 1975, the c ide carried out by Israel on served the debate at the and it has been directed at proposition appeared that t United Nations and wrote a he occupied West Bank. column for the journal En- Israel, one of the two de- "Zionism is a form of rac- `Racial genocide." Where counter. This Welshman — mocracies left on the main- ism." id you first hear that not part of UJA, not an land of Asia. Israel thus You've got to think of becomes a metaphor for the the Nazis parallel here. It p hrase? American, totally outside Recently, at a meeting of this event — wrote that: democracies in the world at starts slowly, first with t he Committee on the Exer- large. "There were ghosts crimes against culture, c This attack on Israel then with the assertion R ise of the Inalienable haunting the UN Third ights of the Palestinian Committee — the ghosts of comes at a time when her that Zionism is a form of military strength has been racism. It next appeared P eople, a representative Hitler and Goebbels and established in a series of at the Human Rights Com- s poke of the sealing of part Julius Streicher — grinning four wars and 28 years of no mission in Geneva in Feb- v o f the city of Nablus as a with delight to hear not only iolation of basic human Israel, but Jews as such, peace. Since the military ruary of this year, which strength of Israel has been adopted a position about r ights reminiscent of the denounced in language proven, there has been a "war crimes" committed g hettoes and concentration which would have provoked shift in the attack upon Is- by Israel in the occupied ca mps of Nazi Europe. hysterical applause at any This is an outrageous Nuremberg rally and justi- rael consonant and coordi- territories. th ing. Of all the things that nated with a perception of I will read you some y ou might ever have thought fied a special edition of Der Stuermer. the declining position of lib- phrases from the UN Hu- th eral democracy throughout man Rights Commission, b at the Jews might have "And there were other een charged with, surely the world. and ask where you first en- y ou would never have ghosts also at the debate," This current attack upon countered this kind of rheto- th Reese wrote in Encounter, liberal democracy, which ric: be ought they would have "the ghosts of the six mil- en charged with being lion dead in Dachau and has been a sustained effort "Annexation of parts of su ccessors to the Nazis. of the totalitarian Marxists occupied territories . . . de- Matthausen and the other from the beginning of this struction and demolition k We must read Orwell to camps, listening to the century, began in a two- . . . confiscation and appro- po now the extraordinary same voices which had wer of the absolute inver- cheered and jeered and piece article in "Pravda" in priation . . . evacuation 1971, propounding a thesis . . . deportation . . . expul- si on of truth. The incredible abused them as they made po wer of that total inversion their way to the gas cham- which is devastating and sion . . . displacement and of reality gives it a claim to gers. For the fundamental breathtaking in its daring. transfer of inhabitants . . . cr thesis advanced - by the It says, simply, that the mass arrests . . . adminis- un edence by virtue of its believability. Jews, far from once hav- supporters of the resolu- trative detention and ill- And I am telling you ing been victims of the treatment . . . pillaging of tion, and approved by a th at it is being believed in majority of the Third Com- Nazis, are successors to archeological and cultural th is country. The symbols mittee, was that to be a the Nazis. property . . . interference I have spoken to a number with religious freedom . . . of progress, the symbols of Jew, and to be proud of it, rightousness, are being and to be determined to of experts in this area, and affront to human beings." seized by the other side, none seems to be satisfied I ask you, where did you the anti-democratic side, preserve the right to be a with his understanding of first hear that language, " Jew, was to be an enemy of and Israel is coming to be the origins of the campaign, . . . of ex-appropriation, a nation whose right to the human race. but all agree that the cam- confiscation, evacuation"? "After the defeat of Na- paign began with the series You heard them in the Nu- exist is under question. tional Socialism, which cost The point about the anti- the world millions of lives, in Pravda. remberg Verdicts. Zionist resolution was not and the horrors of the Final Arab Buyers Gobbling Up British Property By MAURICE SAMUELSON (Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.) LONDON — A cartoon in the Daily Express recently showed an Arab sheikh, fresh from buying the Dorchester Hotel, getting ready to bid for Buck- ingham Palace, the home of the Queen. The message was typical of the reaction here to the hotel's purchase by an Arab business consortium for 9.5 million pounds ster- ling. One of the waiters at the hotel exclaimed: "Blimey, they'll be taking over the world." The Dorchester is, in fact, only the latest in a series of large property purchases by Middle East oil interests. It is by no means the biggest. The Kuwaitis paid 90 mil- lion pounds for Saint Mar- tin's Property Co. whose portfolio includes Tintagel House, headquarters of the London Police Force. Abu Dhabi paid 36 million pounds for a 44 percent stake in the Commercial Union Tower block in Lon- don. . O Rich Arabs have also been buying very expensive homes. Mohammed Mandi Al-Tajer, ambassador of the United Arab Emirates, paid 500,000 pounds for a large country castle, in addition to his string of homes in London. One of the richest men in the world, his for- tune is put at more than 2 billion pounds. Al-Tajer was one of the powers behind the. World Festival of Islam, staged on a nation-wide scale this summer. There are many other signs of the Arab presence in London. Many Arabs come for medical treat- ment at the 90-pound-a- day Wellington Hospital, Britain's newest private hospital. One wounded Omani soldier has been there for more than a year and the bill for his treat- ment is expected to reach 100,000 pounds. The hospital is on the edge of Regent's Park where a more recognizable symbol of Arab influence is taking shape. The London Central Mosque will open next March with room for 3,000 worshippers. The biggest house of Moslem prayer in Europe, its final cost is ex- pected to be three million pounds. There are more than 100,000 wealthy Arab visitors to London every summer. These, however, are only the external aspects of Arab financial investment in Brit- ain, which one leading busi- nessman estimated a few months ago at 3 billion pounds sterling on long- term deposit. It was first felt here in the immediate aftermath of the Yom Kip- pur War when the price of oil was quadrupled. Within a year of the war, London was said to have attracted 6 billion pounds sterling on short-term deposit, ena- bling the British economy to remain solvent at a very dif- ficult time. In fact, Arab investment has turned out to be far less extensive than was pre- dicted immediately after the Yom Kippur War. At that time, the press was busy calculating how many days' oil royalties would be needed for the Arabs to buy the principal British indus- tries outright. These predic- tions have not materialized. Only Kuwait appears to have embarked on a deli- berate investment pro- gram in Britain as a long- term hedge against the depletion of its oil re- sources. Through its spe- cial investment office in London, Kuwait has sunk many hundreds of millions of pounds in hundreds of companies. But they rarely take more than a 10 percent stake in any one. Among Arabs, too, there are different views about buying up hotels. A Saudi Arabian promoter was quoted as saying Arab money would be much bet- ter invested fruitfully in the Arab countries. But 'the Saudis themselves often have strange ideas about what constitutes construc- tive investment. Solution, one would have thought that such voices would have been silenced forever, at least in any so- ciety which even half-pre- tended to be civilized. The truth is otherwise. "Today, the authentic voice of anti-Semitism — strengthened and invigo- rated by the riches and hatreds of the oil-producing nations — is once again re- spectable. "It speaks in the best so- ciety, and nowhere more blatantly or stridently than in the General Assembly of the United Nations." That's what this Welsh observer thought of that resolution. We must realize that the campaign is working. It is succeeding. The doubts have risen in peoples' minds. The symbols of progress and righteous- ness have been increas- ingly and successfully cap- tured by the other si Israel can never be de feated on the battlefield, but it can be defeated o the ideological front, an it is being defeated in th UN, day after day, week after week. The United States knows, and Israel knows — but other people disappear. With any luck, we mustc ten or eleven votes at most in the United Nations. Where are our allies? Where are the den' of the world? Don'' ee that we are all tc4;s t,._ _ in this, and that Israel has be- come a metaphor for democ- racy? This is the issue ahead 6-, us. It is a challenge to analy- sis and intellect which think we have not met in our time, and about which I am not, in fact, very confident. But we will not give up — we will not stop fighting. DANIEL P. MOYNIHAN Israel's Theaters in Trouble By MOSHE RON Jewish News Special Israel Correspondent JERUSALEM — Israel has many vital problems but one cannot be indifferent to those regarding cultural life. The Hebrew theaters are now passing a crisis in spite of support of millions of Pounds. The National Thea- ter "Habima" is in the worst state. Art Director Shimon Finkel resigned. Jossi Yis- raeli, who replaced him, had good intentions but went too far. He came back from the U.S. with wide theatrical knowledge, but did not take into account the realities in Israel. Yisraeli had great plans. He chose thtee per- formances to be shown at the same time in one eve- ning in three halls, and the theater suffered heavy loses. The former general man- ager of Habima, Gabriel Zifroni, who succeeded in completing the new building of the theater, did not agree with Yisraeli and resigned. In the meantime, Minister for Education and Culture Abram Yadlin reduced the financial support for all Hebrew theaters and cul- tural institutions. Habima will have to close its two smaller theaters and will continue only with the big hall. Yisraeli also introduced some performances from the classic Jewish reper- toire. If he had performed'i them in the traditional Jew- ish style he would ce,rf-' -q-y have scored successes But Yisraeli turned use performances into n circus-shows. Israel'S cul- tural life suffers from two things: a tendency to break with the past and no respect for the old cultural values. The Israeli government, , which has lavishly sup- c, ported the Hebrew thea- ters, has deserved better art performances. Former art director of Habima, Shimon Finkel, published a booklet about his experiences in the Na- tional Theater. He blames Yisraeli for blunders.