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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the fourth day of Av, 5736, the following scriptural selections will be read in oar synagognes:
Pentateuchal portion, Deute•nomy 1:1-3:22. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 1:1-27.
Thursday, Fast of the Ninth of Av
Wednesday evening, Lamentations. Thursday morning, Pentatenchal portion, Deuteronomy 4:25-40: Pr o phetical port))
Jeremiah 8:13-9:23.
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VOL. LXIX, No. 21
Page Four
Friday, July :30,
1976
Resisting Terrorists' Taunts
The free world may yet learn a lesson from
the terrorists sufficient to resist them.
The most impressive lesson, which may
prove to be the most effective, was at Entebbe.
It was more than defiance on the part of Israel:
it was the courage inherent in the will to live
linked with the duty to assure life and security
for Fellow Man.
Nevertheless, the world appears to be di-
vided between those who adhere to the human
factor and the backward backers of the barbari-
ans who fail to realize that while the Western
citizens are the first to suffer from hijacking
and kidnapping, extortion and blackmail, no one
is immune from the dangers that have been
heaped upon mankind.
A New York Times editorial touched on im-
portant factors in the tragic situation emanat-
ing from the terror that has gripped all of man-
kind, meriting special consideration for its
analysis of the basic facts. Under the heading
"Security After Entebbe" that editorial stated:
The hijacking of an Air France plane
Israel on Troubled
Lebanese Border
Had there been a sense of reason the mere
fact that Israel had not been at war with
Christian-dominated Lebanon before the pre-
sent bloodshed in that country might have been
sufficient to prove that when there is a desire to
perpetuate amicable relations warfare becomes
unnecessary. There is added proof in the Israel-
Lebanese relationships of a quarter of a century
that were convincing enough to show that peace
is not an impossibility in the Middle East.
Of course, the Christian attitude played a
role in those experiences. The Maronite
Catholics are known to be friendly to Israel's
historic role and to the justice of the national
redemption that developed from the age-old
dreams that have become imbedded in the
Zionist ideal. That is why the Maronite leaders
had hoped for peace with Israel.
Now, while Lebanon bleeds, Lebanese on
the Israel border are finding means of escape
into Israel when they are under attack. Injured
Lebanese are being treated in Israeli clinics,
some 100 seriously injured citizens of Lebanon
are being treated in Israeli hospitals near the
border of the two countries.
Even more: the seriously affected farmers
who have lost the means of selling their
products in the war-torn country have found a
customer in Israel, and the latter is purchasing
the products of her Lebanese-farmer neighbors.
All of which proves the Lebanese agonies
born out of bigotry and hatred stemming from
fratricide and religious prejudice and the con-
trast provided by Israeli's quest for good
neighborliness and respect for human values.
One would imagine that the Lebanese ex-
perience alone would serve to encourage the best
relations between Israel and her neighbors. But
the latter still begrudge little Israel breathing
space and the right to live. And a cowered
international society doesn't possess the courage
to end bloodshed in a once progressive state and
at the same time affirm that peace is not only
possible but that it is a product of Israeli
dreams, hopes and aspirations.
that culminated in the brilliant rescue opera-
tion at Entebbe airport in Uganda is an inci-
dent that now belongs to history. But what is
still very much alive is the problem of enforc-
ing and improving airport security to prevent
such hijackings in the future. One would
have thought by this time that enough had
already been said and done — as the result of
many such hijackings in the past — to have
thwarted this latest murderous attempt on
the lives of civilian airline passengers.
Yet no review of the Air France incident
can ignore the ridiculous ease with which the
hijackers accomplished their initial purpose.
The hijackers were apparently so easily iden-
tifiable before the event that it is reported
that some passengers, including the missing
Mrs. Dora Bloch, openly expressed alarm
when the hijackers came aboard the plane
with their suspicious-looking handbaggage.
But evidently no official of either the French
airline or the Athens airport was alert
enough — or concerned enough — to stop
them.
The method employed by the hijackers to
evade whatever security exists at the Athens
airport was simplicity itself. They flew into
Athens from an Arab country — where no ef-
fort would have been made to prevent them
from embarking; and they boarded the Air
France plane from a transit lounge in Athens
without ever going through security. This
hole in the security precautions at Athens
airport, a major transit point for many air-
lines, is so obvious that only negligence can
explain its existence. How many other world
airports are similarly unguarded?
Given the fanaticism of, and the funds
available to, would-be hijackers, a perfect
record of prevention will doubtless be impos-
sible. But the world's airlines such as Air
France, and airports such as Athens, can do
a great deal better than they have been
doing. What is required are the determina-
tion to take every measure possible to protect
plane passengers and the will to enforce the
necessary precautions.
The major admonition is to be firm in act-
ing, in mobilizing all available guards against
the terrorists. There is also the accusation, pri-
marily against the Greek government, for fail-
ure to screen criminals at airports. The tragedy
that struck an Air France jetliner was due to the
freedom hijackers had to board that plane with-
out proper checking at Athens. What had oc-
curred at Athens was impossible in Tel Aviv.
But Air France shares guilt for the freedom ac-
corded the hijackers who boarded the plane so
freely with massive ammunition.
Other airlines must learn the Air France
lesson and the screening imposed on travelers by
El Al must be applied and utilized by all
airlines.
The United States asks for international ac-
tion to outlaw hijacking, to adopt legislation
that would provide for the isolation of countries
that condone hijacking and give shelter to the
criminals who should be banned from civilized
society.
Too many have suffered from these crimes
for their continuation to be tolerated. Those who
permit it or encourage it must be rated outside
human ranks.
tAaNq IT TOgli-IER
FOR A BETTER
ISRAEL
Out of the Whirlwind' Depicts
Tragedies of the Holocaust
'
"Out of the Whirlwind," edited by Albert H. Friedlander
(Schocken), is more than "A Reader of Holocaust Literature," as the
subtitle describes the book. It is, of course, all of that, 'but it is much
more. It is valuable as a guide for the unknowing about the Hitler era
and as a textbook for all schools, for the Jewish and for high schools
and universities.
It provides the answer for those who are in a quandary about
available material to describe the life of Jews in the ghettos and in the
concentration and death camps. It echoes the experiences of the noted
authors whose recollections of the tragedies, their personal agonies,
the records of their relatives and friends — all merged into a volume
that summarizes the suffering sustained under the Nazis, as well as
the struggle for survival. It is that, too, as indicated in the "Song of the
Partisans" that introduces a chapter entitled "The Road Back," the
period of a renewed faith beckoning the oppressed to see the light that
had begun to emerge through the clouds.
Friedlander's dedicated labors that are so apparent in the results
he attained in gathering the various essays, articles, reports and per-
sonal stories, receive emphasis in the introductory explanatory state-
ments that precede each of the sections in the book. Combined, all of
the essays and the definitive explanations add to the book's value as
an information record-retaining work about the Holocaust, the vic-
tims and the beasts who terrorized the 6,000,000 Jews who died at the
hands of the Hitlerites and the 10,000,000 others from many of the
nations of Europe who were sacrificed on an altar of brutality.
Friedlander had written a biography of Rabbi Leo Baeck in which
he related the noted scholar's Theresienstadt camp experiences.
Baeck's essays are included in this noteworthy anthology. Others
whose memoirs and reminiscences are Part of this collective effort
include Elie Wiesel, Alexander Donat, Anne Frank, Anna Langfus,
Abraham Heschel and others.
Friedlander included in this work the expose of the Vatican role
and the failure of the Catholic prelate to act in the Christian Rolf
Hochhuth's "The Deputy."
"Out of the Whirlwind" gains importance in the illustrations, the
actual photos of occurrences in the ghettoes, gathered for this volume
by Jacob Landau.
One of the original photos left as a tragic reminding
of the Holocaust, appearing in the Friedlander book.