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Study Details the Arab Effort
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Oil in Israel? Ha! But Maybe...
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Unlikely things happen
when Israel strikes oil. Ron-
ald Reagan converts to
Judaism, the wife of the
head of Gulf Oil joins
Hadassah, a little old Jew-
ish man from New York,
bent on battling City Hall by
any means, is regarded as
the Meshiakh, and an oleh
from Texas discovers the
Eleventh Commandment.
Never happen in a million
years, you say? Screenwri-
ter Melville Shavelson
makes it all come true in a
funny fantasy entitled "The
Eleventh Commandment."
Published by Reader's
Digest Press, "The Elev-
enth Commandment"
relates the adventure of
Jacob Schoenbaum, a feisty,
aging Jewish gentleman
from New York who's not
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government bureaucracy,
and his daughter, Sonya,
and son-in-law Chaim-Har-
old Barak-Bernstein of
Texas.
The story centers around
one of Scheonbaum's angry
moments when, following
his move to Israel with his
daughter, he finds that City
Hall has turned off his
water for non-payment.
Determined to fight back,
he arranges to have his own
well dug.
As his Shabat cholent din-
ner overcooks on the stove
and the drillers prepare to
leave after coming up dry,
an explosion - rips through
the area pouring oil over
everything.
Schoenbaum attributes
the explosion to the over-
cooked cholent, however, in
a hastily called Cabinet
meeting Schoenbaum and
Israeli leaders learn that an
error at the Dimona nuclear
facility caused the explo-
sion, exposing a gold mine
of an oil well for Israel. Not
only is the oil pouring out of
this well coming from
beneath the Israeli surface,
but, miracle of miracles, all
of the oil from underneath
the oil-riche Arab nations,
too.
Schoenbaum becomes a
celebrity—the minister of
consumer affairs—and the
word "schoenbaum" is
adapted into the language.
Its meaning: any wide
opening.
Former Israeli Prime
Minister Golda Meir is
called from retirement, for-
mer U.S. Secretary of.State
Henry Kissinger is sent to
negotiate for America's fuel
needs and the Pope receives
an Israeli emissary of
whom he inquires about
increasing the papal fuel
supply for the winter.
Among the other unlikely
happenings: Israel has
assets of $12 billion and for
the first time .in its history
has a problem it can
handle: prosperity.
France's elegant Maxim's
restaurant moves its oper-
ation to Israel where crepes
suzettes are flamed in -
shmaltz and Arabs and the
Soviet Union are kowtowing
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nger works out a deal with
the U.S., Israel and Russia
whereby the U.S. will get
Israeli oil, Russia gets U.S.
wheat and Israel gets Jew-
ish immigrants from
Russia.
But the new found pros-
perity (Golda becomes a
blonde, buys designer
clothes and spends time at a
health spa to lose weight)
starts to backfire. With all
the leisure time and debau-
chery caused by the import
of an Arab harem, Israel
finds it is becoming
"goyish."
What is the solution? In
Schoenbaum's case to
answer is : God only knows,
and that's the key to getting
Israel back to normal (?)
and world politics back to
their familiar vein. The dis-
covery of the Eleventh
Commandment on the
"back side" of an ancient
goatskin parchment is the
tool that brings about the
denouement. To tell it here
is to ruin the mystery.
Shavelson is clever in his
tongue-in-cheek barbs at
his characters, at Israel, at
the U.S. diplomats and Jew-
ish Princesses (what Jewish
American Princesses are in
other countries). Yet behind
_every comedian there is a
serious side, and Shavelson
hits his audience at the out-
set with the following
acknowledgement:
"The author wishes to
acknowledge the existence
of the state of Israel." It's a
heavy thought at the begin-
ning of the book, but only
helps to point to the author's
sincerity in his love for the
Jewish homeland.
His love for Israel can
also be felt in each incred-
ible incident in "The Elev-
enth Commandment,' ' an
hilarious novel which
shouldn't be missed, and
God willing, should only
come true.
NEW YORK—A major
study. tracing the success of
Arab states in re-defining
the nature of the Middle
East conflict has been pub-
lished by Americans for A
Safe Israel (AFSI).
The 30-page document
details the-efforts waged by
Arab leaders during the
past 10 years to shift the
focus of international atten-
tion away from their own
refusal to recognize Israel.
To achieve this goal, _the
inquiry shows they devised
as a propaganda _ ploy a
"Palestinian" nationalist
entity.
The report contends Jews
were the original and true
Palestinians. Before 1948.
Zionist groups. publications
associations, and songs all
used the term "Palestine"
in referring to their land.
While Arabs rejected the
notion of a Palestinian
entity. insisting that the
land was part and parcel of
southern Syria, Jews looked
upon "Palestine" as a dis-
tinct land.
Although the Jews had
their own name for the
region—the Land of Israel—
the Arabs never treated the
area with enough attention
to give it an identification of
its own.
The AFSI study details
the historic Arab rejection
of a separate "Palestinian
Arab state" west of the Jor-
dan River. noting that the
British Mandate had
already been partitioned
into Palestinian Jewish and
Palestinian Arab areas.
The report, "The Palesti-
nians: A -Political Masquer-
ade." is available from
Americans For a Safe
Israel, 147 East 76th St..
New York 10021. There is a
charge.
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