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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 26th day of Tammuz, 5739, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Numbers 30:2-36:13. Prophetical portion, Jeremiah 2:4-28, 3:4.
Wednesday, Rosh Hodesh Av, Numbers 28:1-15
Candle lighting, Friday, July 20, 8:45 p.m.
VOL. LXXV, No. 20
Page Four
Friday, JUly 20, 1979
CRITICS AND DEFENDERS
Involvement in the debatable Middle East is-
sues has become a political game for many, for
the critics of Israel's policies and those who de-
fend them, even for those wrangling over the
peace arrangements between the two major na-
tional entities.
The differences of opinion in the ranks of Is-
rael's duly elected government serve as specula-
tive means of criticizing, often defaming the
ruling forces in Israel.
Both the critics and defenders, the defamers
and apologists, have a legitimate role in the
argumentative processes.
Nevertheless, there are factors not to be ig-
nored. They- relate to the heads of the Israeli and
Egyptian governments, whose decisions to
negotiate the peace factors should not be un-
dermined. Rumors and incitable accusations
are not helpful. They - could undermine honora-
ble approaches to the aims for a workable peace.
Similarly, the disputes over the newly formed
settlements require rational considerations,
and resort to the issue as a basis forharming the
peace talks must not be tolerated.
Elon Moreh had become a hornet's nest. It
was and in some respects remains the target for
renewed condemnations of Israel. Yet even this
serious development has its limitations and
double-edged argumentation. As long as there
is an element in the military that believes the
Nablus settlement is urgently needed for de-
fense there is ground for serious consideration
of its legitimacy. The study now being pursued,
on orders from the Israel Supreme Court, should
help resolve the issue. Sound judgment -will be
the ultimate decisive means Of concluding the
debate.
Meanwhile, in the matter of settlements, and
the West Bank, as the media keep referring to
what is Judea and Samaria, remains a subject
for dispute. Into it must be drawn the views of
the most responsible authorities who have had a
share in shaping the major decisions on the sub-
ject.
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It is timely to call to witness Prof. Eugene V.
Rostow; undersecretary of the State Depart-
ment for Middle East Affairs who had much to
do with framing U.S. policies during the critical
years of 1967-1968. In a letter to the New York
Times relating to the West Bank and Israel's
recognized right., to settlements he declared:
"Shortly after the 1967 war, Israel took the
position that its administration of the West
Bank and the Gaza Strip would respect the
principles of the Geneva Convention but that its
provisions were not binding, because the area
was not part of the territory of any signatory
state. In this position, the Israelis are clearly
right:"
Another of the formulators of the 1968 UN
decisions, former U.S. Chief Delegate to the UN
Arthur Goldberg, also justified Israel's position,
especially in relation to Jerusalem. In an article
on the subject he stated:
"A most important aspect of Resolution 242
and the key to a comprehensive settlement is
that it neither commands nor prohibits territo-
rial adjustments, but rather remits them to the
parties to negotiate to the end that secure and
recognized boundaries are ensured and peace
guaranteed.
And Resolution 242 in no way calls for a
division of Jerusalem, a Palestinian state, or
recognition of the Palestine Liberation Organ-
ization (PLO).
"I am confident that if Jordan and Syria are
willing to enter into negotiations in conformity
with the true spirit of Resolution 242 for a peace
treaty, as President Sadat has urged them to do,
they will find that Israel, with the support of the
United States, will show flexibility and
willingness to make reasonable compromises as
it did in the negotiations with Egypt."
The Middle East waters can be further mud-
died by prejudice. They can be purified by ra-
tional approaches and by negotiations devoid of
indignity or hatred. This is what must be stri-
ven for in the critical situation affecting the
peace of the most volatile area in the world.
RESISTING PRESSURES
because the search is not for cooperative tasks
It didn't take long for West German Chancel-
with all of the Middle East nations but result in
lor Helmut Schmidt to deny provocative state-
a partisanship stemming from fears of Arab re-
ments on Israel during an interrogation about
taliation for anything like kindly gestures to
President Carter's request that he join in
Israel, and the quest for oil which makes the
pressuring Israel on the question of settle-
Arab the most powerful controller of public
ments. There is always the escapism in affirm-
opinion in many areas.
ing friendship for Israel. Willy Brandt also re-
sorted to that defensive mechanism after he had • The German flirtations with Arabs are not
new, and similar patterns are in evidence in this
joined in providing a platform for Israel's vilest
country and in most of the capitals of the world,
enemy, Yasir Arafat. -
including Japan. Viewed collectively, the
These involvements by the world's diplomats,
American, the German and other salutations to
including the American, are like a package deal
Israel's enemies and condemnations of Israel on
— a resort to articulation in 'extolling Israel's
the score of the establishment of new settle-
existence while collaborating with those who,
ments represent what is feared as pressure.
under the guise of seeking justice for the Arabs,
While there have been denials of pressures by
•strike at Israel's leaders vituperatively.
White House and State Department officials,
Even the German claims of adherence to a
traditional friendship for Israel has this limita- and attempts to circumvent the charge that it
tion: that through the years there have been exists in Bonn, it is nevertheless a crucial issue
for Israel to be on guard against. It is something
flirtations with the Arabs with an aim towards
that invites American Jewish vigilance,
increasing relationships with them. Unfortu-
nately, such policies become damaging to Israel against a pressure-laden disaster for Israel.
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"Untold History of Israel" (Grove Press) was a best seller when.
published in France. It is assured a similar acceptance in the pub-
lishers' confidence in one of the most impressive works about the -
Jewish state, in the announcement of a first printing of 30,000 copies.
This is an immediate anticipation of best-seller status.
Hesi Carmel, who co-authored the book with Jacques Derogy, is
an Israel newspaperman. He was Israel's consul general in Los
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L'Express of Paris. Derogy is a French Jewish journalist who also
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Their account of events in Israel is
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For completeness of the story of Is-
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Tel Aviv of Chaim Arlosoroff. This revives interest in one of the most -
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For a full understanding of the background of events that ac-
counted for the Zionist revolt against the British, the assassination of
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an era of great conflict.
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The emergence of statehood, the conflicts with the Arabs, events
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