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News Editor
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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 18th day of Au, 5739, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25.
Prophetical portion, Isaiah 49:14-51:3. •
Candlelighting, Friday, Aug. 10, 8:22 p.m.
VOL. LXXV, No. 23
Page Four
Friday, August 10, 1979
CARTER'S 'ONE-SIDED PI E TY
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In an article, that was special to the New
York Times, by Leonard Silk, in the Times of
Aug. 1, appears this explanatory note by Silk in
reference to an interview he had with President
Carter:
In last night's discussion, the President
ranged from the economy and energy to Middle
East peace making and Presidential politics. At
one point he likened the Palestinian cause to
the civil rights movement in the United States.
He predicted that few Palestinians would actu-
ally choose to return to the West Bank, if given a
chance, and doubted that other Arab states
genuinely wanted a new Palestinian state."
Coming as this statement did on the heels of
the Wall Street Journal's charge of "one-sided
piety" in American relations with Israel, and
William Safire's accusation of a tilting in Car-
ter's policies toward more pro-Arabism, the
White House owes more than an explanation of
an attitude that is already causing serious
damage.
In the matter of policing the Sinai, now that
Israel has made the very evident sacrifice of
withdrawing from a very vital area, the Israelis'
anger over failure of adherence to a definite
commitment by the President, in a written
statement to Prime Minister Menahem Begin,
for retention of the international force, is
understandable. The Israeli position is based on
pledges which were counted on, and Israel's
Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan would not have
been as adamant if the original assurances were
not based on fact and agreement between Israel
and the United States.
Now, to liken the Palestinian claims to a civil
rights movement is tantamount to saying that
there is social and political criminality in the
Israeli policies. If this were applicable, the
Jewish people and Israel's friends would rebel
against the Israel position. But it is not true. It
is untrue that Palestinians who are related to
22 Arab states are suffering from civil oppres-
sions at the hands of Israel. There is only one
country in the entire Middle East where Arabs
act freely and resort to protests, often to vio-
lence, against their neighbors, and that is in
Israel. Yet an American official infers that
these people are engaged in a civil rights battle.
These are more than rumors to be scotched.
They call for a clear-cut American policy of fair-
ness. They call for abandonment of "one-sided
piety."
WALLENBERG PR FIASCO
How can the public relations media of
humanitarian and libertarian movements ex-
plain the delay in action to press for information
about Raoul Wallenberg and his release from a
Russian prison or mental instutition if, as his
family and friends insist, he is still alive? ,
For 30 years this newspaper and other period-
icals have been publishing data about one of the
greatest of the World War II heroes who risked
their lives to rescue Jews from the Nazi murder
camps. His family, especially his aged mother,
kept insisting that he was alive under Russian
incarceration. There were reports from people
who claimed to have seen him in a Russian
prison. Yet, nothing was done about it until an
interested lady, Annette Lantos, started a per-
sonal campaign in Raoul's behalf; until Raoul's
sister, Mrs. Nina Lagergren, came to this coun-
try to press for action in her brother's behalf.
Mrs. Lagergren's success in enlisting the
interest and support of prominent U.S. Sena-
tors, of securing the interest of national Jewish
organizations, is proof that the delay in action is
inexcusable.
If it is true that former Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger vetoed a proposal for action by
the State Department, then he has much ex-
plaining to do. The Swedish government appar-
ently failed similarly in the demands for inter-
cession and its record is far from clean.
The entire matter is an indictment of the pub-
lic relations media, of the leaders of major
movements, Jewish and others, for failure to act
before it became too late.
Is it too late now? At least, the concerned are
not silent. That's what was needed all along to
prevent a human relations fiasco.
TESTING DIASPORA JEWRY
Spreading anti-Israel sentiments show a
trend, on a worldwide scale, to give respectabil-
ity to the PLO. In a number of countries there is
an approach to official recognition of the ter-
rorist organization in the permission granted it
to establish offices in several capitals of the
world.
Some even fear that, if it were not for the
organized protest against it in this country, the
PLO might gain a foothold also in the United
States.
This is evidence of a spreading danger that
calls for an increasing vigilance against the ter-
rorizing elements.
In a sense, the Jewish community is put to the
test.
Unless there is unity in Jewish ranks in de-
fense of Israel's position, against all elements
which speak out in favor of a movement like the
PLO that seeks Israel's destruction, the menace
will grow.
It is not enough to seek unity in fund-raising.
This is vital but must be considered as
supplementary to the demands for justice for
the Jewish position, in defense of Israel's right
to protect herself against every manifestation of
hatred.
Even those in highest quarters of government
leadership must be challenged when they give
comfort to Israel's enemies. This is the task and
the duty in quest of unity in Jewish ranks.
The propaganda mills are grinding many
misrepresentations which may poison the
minds of the American people. Jewry's unity in
preserving the truth is vital in the respon-
sibilities shared in efforts to defend Israel's very
existence.
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Lippincott Volume ,
`Israeli Women Speak Out':
Distaff Who's Who Gallery
Geraldine Stern entitled her distaff book "Israeli Women Speak
Out" (Lippincott). It is an appropriate title for a very interesting
collection of women notables who play important roles in Israel's life.
A volume about the women in Israel would be incomplete without
Geulah Cohen, the stormy petrel who was among Prime Minister
Menahem Begin's severest critics in the Knesset. Miss Cohen has just
defected from the Likud party in protest against Begin's concessions
to Anwar Sadat.
Geulah Cohen's hard-line approach
to the demand for all of Palestine" as
part of the state of Israel is alluded to
in the interesting essay about this
firebrand whose role in Israel appears
in this book under the title "A Woman
is a Woman is a Woman is a Woman."
A woman justice of the Israel Sup-
reme Court is impressively described
by Geraldine Stern. Justice Miriam
Ben-Porat emerges as a fascinating
distaff member in Israel's society. As
the first woman to 'sit on a supreme
judicial body of any country with a
common law system, Justice Porat re-
ceives acclaim which is echoed in "Is-
raeli Women Speak Out."
An Arab woman is another of the
notable women in Miss Stern's book.
Violet Khoury is introduced as the
GEULAH C ► HEN
only woman so far to be elected mayor
of an Arab village. Kfar Yassif in northern Israel is the village thus to
have given honor to a woman.
A native of Newark, N.J., Marcia Freedman, a founder o
,
feminist women in Israel, who gained a seat in the Israel Kne
rightfully attains recognition in the gallery of notable women in this
book.
Sylva Zalmanson, the Russian Jewess who is a mechanical
engineer, and who suffered in Russian prison camps before coming to
Israel, attained the respect noted in the Stern essay as one of the
famed among the emigres from the USSR.
It is interesting to note that one of the women included in the
Stern book is the granddaughter of Dr. Martin Buber, Judith Buber
Agassi, a distinguished political scientist and sociologist.
Senta Josephthal, a refugee from Nazi Germany, is described as
the founder of Kibutz Galed and is lir head of the Agricultural
Center which serves the settlement movements.
A note of sadness is reflected in the story of Esther Schahamorov
Roth who was a member of the Israel team at the Olympic Games in
Munich in 1972. She was the witness to the murder of 11 of her
teammates by Arab terrorists.
Ruth Levin, widow of the noted Israel statesman who was his
country's ambassador to Denmark, is an artist of note. She retains a
high rank among Israeli women.
All of the characters in this interesting volume were interviewed
by the author, and an intimacy is retained in all of the essays.