JEWISH NEWS (LISPS 2 -5 520) THE Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with the issue of July 20, 1951 Member American Association of English - Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association. National Editorial A zisociation. Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 Postmaster: Send address changes to The Jewish News, 17515 W. 9 Mile Rd., Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 Second-Class Postage Paid at Southfield, Michigan and Additional Mailing Offices. Subscription $12 a year. PHILIP 'SLOMOVITZ CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ Business Manager DREW LIEBERWITZ s HEIDI PRESS Advertising Manager Assistant News Editor Editor and Publisher ALAN HITSKY News Editor Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sabbath, the seventh day of Tevet, 5739, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion, Genesis 44:18-47:27. Prophetical portion, Exekiel 37:15-28. Tuesady, Fast of the 10th of Tevet Pentateuchal portion, Exodus 32:11-14; 34:1-10. Prophetical portion (afternoon only), Isaiah 55:6-56:8. • Candle lighting, Friday, Jan 5, 4:57 p.m. VOL. LXXIV, No. 18 Page Four Friday, January 5, 1979 Poison of Inerasable Hatred _ Objective students of events affecting the Middle East are emphasizing, convincingly, that while Israel is dealing with the tangibles, and has made many concessions to Egypt, the Egyptian negotiators keep demanding the in- tangibles. Israel concedes to withdrawals, has given up the Abu Rodeis oil fields and offers to abandon three air bases. Egypt asks the Israelis to bow to unreasonable demands, such as per- mitting Anwar Sadat to join Syria in the event of a new war, contrary to treaty specifications. Perhaps this is not surprising. After the his- toric Sadat visit in Jerusalem in November 1977, the love feast threatened to end when the hatreds of the past were revived and Menahem Begin was called a Shylock in the Egyptian press. Have conditions improved to any degree? There are very sad indications of ingrained hat- reds which may be inerasable. In a report to the New York Times from Cairo regarding the fal- tering peace talks, Christopher Wren revealed the following: "Mustafa Amin, a leading columnist, sum- med up a popular view of the negotiations when he wrote several days ago: 'This may be the first instance in history where a thief claims com- pensation for his own crime.' "Articles by writers such as Anis Mansour have become little more than personal attacks on Prime Minister Begin for allegedly thwart- ing President Sadat's efforts to achieve peace. Mr. Begin was never popular in Cairo, but opin- ions of him reached a new low after he accused President Carter, a popular figure here, of sid- ing with Egypt. "While Egyptians pride themselves on their tolerance, some street interviews this week turned up an undercurrent of anti-Jewish feel- ing. 'We always say, 'You are the loser if you deal with a Jewish merchant,' and I think that Egypt is now dealing with a Jewish merchant — Begin,' said Murad Sami a graduate student in commerce. " 'We are now dealing with Jews, not Israelis,' said Hussein Ismail, a government employee." There is another tragic note in the Wren re- port, Mrs. Sadat was believed to be an influence for good and for fair play. It was said that she had induced her husband to work for peace. She is the same lady who joined an anti-Israel fac- tion at an international meeting of women in Mexico about three years ago. She was forgiven and treated as a friend. But Wren makes an- other expose in his report: "President Sadat's wife, Jihan, canceled plans to address an international medical con- ference in Cairo early this month after she learned that several Israelis were among the delegates. The Egyptian Medical Syndicate de- cided to bar Israelis from further conferences until a peace treaty has been concluded." Here we have a reversion to the old prejudices which indicate an emphasis on a basic fact. The realism lies in the recognition that Israelis are not alone in their quest for peace and their de- sire for their nation's security. All Jews share in that desire. What needs to be added is that mil- lions of Christians nourish similar hopes. But this is not the spirit in which the refer- ences to Jews have been made. It is the Jew chosen for opprobrium who emerges from the hatred, with the general aspect of Arab think- ing labeling everything that is hated as Zionis- tic, Jewish or both. - It is the inerasable poison that is in evidence. It lends credence to the speech that was deliv- ered in 1898 at the Austrian Social Democratic Party congress in Vienna. Victor Aler, Austrian labor leader, admonished his audience: "The last anti-Semite will die only with the last Jew." This is the tragedy of our experiences. There was a hope that it would become a myth. Sadat and his cohorts regrettably may give the rooted anti-Semitic theory a new twist of realism. Iran's 80,000 Jews Iran is the only Moslem country whose Jewish population doubled in the last 40 years. There were 40,000 Jews in Iran in 1935. Their numbers increased to 90,000 in 1948, went down to 80,000 in 1960, as a result of migra- tions, and has remained at that number of 80,000 since then. Now they are in jeopardy. Under the Shah Pahlevi they had protection. There is an Israeli consulate, El Al Israel Airlines operates there and it is hoped that despite the damage to the El 40 Al offices in Teheran there will be a return to normalcy. But the Moslem hostility is on the -surface. It is not a hidden phenomenon. It links with the Arab world's threats to the existence of the Jewish state and to the safety of its institu- tions and its people. Added to the impending dangers is the hostil- ity to the United States among the Shah's enemies and the equating of that hostility with the American-Israel friendship and the raising of a Zionist issue in the process.. A repeating chapter in Jewish martyrology may thus be re-opening. If the 80,000 Iranian Jews are to face the danger of an emerging do- minant factor in a land that may operate on anti-Jewish policies, then the rescuing of a population will present a very difficult problem. Several thousand Iranian Jews have left the country and many children have been evacuated since the beginning of the rioting more than a month ago, The search for and providing security for a community as large as Iranian Jewry cannot be a simple matter. It, may not even be solvable. Under existing condi- tions the status of 80,000 Iranian Jews is there- fore a concern not to be taken lightly. With Russia's influence a threat to any solution and with the U.S. involvement becoming a major task, there is a gravity in this problem for the world community. It is major for Israel and world Jewry. Random House Volume `Battles of Bible' Trace Warfare in Ancient Eras Biblical military history is impressively reconstructed in a most informative volume, "Battles of the Bible: A Modern Military Evalua- tion of the Old Testament" (Random House), in which former Israel Ambassador to the U.S. Chaim Herzog describes the'Israeli triumphs over the Phillistines, Arameans, Assyrians and others. . Collaborating with him in the presentation of the vast material included in this volume was Mordechai Gichon, former head of the military history department of Tel Aviv University and presently professor of Roman archeology at Tel Aviv University. Herzog authored several volumes in which he evidenced his knowl- edge of military experiences, including one on the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Thus, both authors are especially qualified to deal with the subject of the "Battles of the Bible." A rich history of military tactics, of weapons used in the battles described, come into evidence from the invasion of Canaan by the Israelites under Joshua, the conquests of David and Solomon and the split of the land of Israel into the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel. The successful rebellion of the Maccabees is an especially inform- alive portion of a book that enlightens Bible students and undoub- tedly proves fruitful for modern Israel in retracing the steps that enabled a small nation to triumph over superior forces in the realms of ancient times. The illustrations used in defining the tactical methods and the weapons that were used, and the 40 detailed maps, lend special significance as history to this volume. The authors' explanation of their approach to the book's topic and their division of labor in tackling the subject matter is best explained in the preface, which states: "This book has been written in the attempt to apply to the biblical narrative modern military thinking and understanding. "Thus we were guided by a desire to narrate the military history of the Bible in terms of modern military concepts aril accepted ter- minology. In this manner, we felt, the military genius of many of the captains of war whose story is related in the Bible would emerge in its full scope, while the applicability of the principles of war over thr• centuries of history would be re-emphasized. "If there were any misgivings in our minds, when beginning our research, about the applicability of modern military logic to events two and three thousand years removed, these have been dissipated during the actual process of writing this book. Bearing in mind the quantitative changes brought about by modern weapons and equip- ment, the same basic laws — strategy and tactics — that apply to modern conventional warfare also applied to war in the distant past. "The very rigid and distinct factors of geography have been a principal and constant factor in commanders' considerations over the ages. We ourselves, in the course of years of military service, have had occasion to draw on the lessons of the ancient past as we contemplated the problems of the present in Israel's struggle for independence and for the maintenance of its security. The factors which influenced the generals of Judea and Israel of old continue to influence the generals of Israel today . ." "This book is, a joint endeavor. We have enjoyed the benefit of mutual advice and consultation. Each drew upon the specific experi- ence and qualifications of his colleague. In writing the book, Mor- dechai Gichon concentrated on the period of the First Temple while Chaim Herzog dealt with the period of the Second Temple till Judah the Maccabee's death in battle with which the Bible's military ac- count ends."