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Sabbath Scriptural Selections

..This Sabbath, the seventh day of Tamniu,' 5740, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Numbers 19:1-22:1. Prophetical portion, Judges 11:1-33-.

Candle lighting, Friday, June 20, 8:53 p.m.

VOL. LXXVII, No. 16

Page Four

Friday, June 20, 1980

REALISM TO THE RESCUE

This is a time for realism, for acceptance of
the brutality of facts demanding concessions no
matter how they hurt. This is a time to seek
solutions to painstaking developments compel-
ling resort to every available effort to assure
prevention of calamities that may prove too
costly to tolerate.
Granting that the media may have been un-
fair to the Israeli positions in diplomacy and in
dealing with the problem of Arabs in and sur-
rounding Israel, assuming that many news
analysts acid commentators are somewhat prej-
udiced in their treatment of Israel, the circus
lated reports are so devastating that they can-
not be ignored. The major American publica-
tions have begun to circulate reports about at
listing instances of tortures of Arabs by
Israelis. Because such condemnations are cer-
tain to multiply, it is urgent that they should
not be ignored.
The first obligation is to correct whatever
shortcomings may exist, to provide assurance,
that bestialities will not be tolerated by Israel,
that if the reports contain even a grain of truth
they must lead to the prevention of bestialities
and to guarantees that protection of life and
liberty in Israel will be for all, for Moslems and
Christians as well as Jews. It is the only way of
perpetuating Jewish ethical codes in a Jewish
state.
There is the more serious issue: that of estab-
lishing the best relations with Arabs, of creat-
ing a cooperative spirit with the Arab popula-
tion within Israel and on the borders, hopefully
leading to the eventual attainment of peace in
the entire Middle East. This will call for conces,
sions. It will challenge diplomacy and the abil-
ity of peoples with a common kinship to assure
safe and decent neighborliness for all.
The call is for concessions, for an acceptance
by Arabs of an autonomy that spells dignity and
the fullest respect of all peoples, one for the
other.
Palestinians are not interpretively PLO.
They are Arabs who have lived in Palestine,
who aspire to autonomy in what they may wish
to label again as "Palestine" although tens of
thousands of them already have their citizen-
ship in Jordan which has been part of Palestine.
How can an accord be attained? How can
Saudi ,Arabia and Jordan be brought into the
peace-making process, when they are actually
suffering from fears of assassinations from
other Arabs in the tense era of retaliations?
Had there been unity and a sense of justice on
the international front, without the weapons
wielded under the power of oil, and had the
European powers cooperated towards peace, the
problem could be resolved. The effort still
should be made with whatever concessions may
have to be made to the Palestinians.
There is no doubt about the unity in Israel's
ranks towards a common goal. The belief that
there are party differences on the subject in
Israeris exaggerated. An analysis of some of the
latest developments in the New York Times, by
its Israel correspondent David Shipler, ex-
plained that there really are no divisions in
Israel on the basic issues' among the political,
parties, that only the methods of solving the

problems are at issue. Shipler points out:
At the moment, for example, the Labor Party
is working hard to appear more flexible than
Mr. Begin's coalition on,Palestinian issues, cal-
ling for an end to Jewish settlements near Arab
towns and for some territorial compromise on
the West Bank.
"Foreigners are fooled by this more easily
than Israelis, who remember which party was
in power when the first militant Jewish groups
established settlements adjacent to Arab popu-
lation centers, which party yielded repeatedly
to militants' demands by turning fledgling
camps into villages and suburbs such as Kiryat
Arba, the provocative center for ul-
tranationalists at the edge of Hebron. It was
Labor, of course. And in some of these cases the
defense minister who said eyes' was Shimon
Peres, the Labor Party leader who now attacks
the Begin government for putting settlements
near Arab towns.
"Perhaps the Labor Party has changed its
mind. Or perhaps things just look different
when you're not in the saddle. In any case, many
Israelis expect _little dramatic change if Labor
wins the next election."
Therefore, abandoning internal controver-
sies, there should be unity of action in Israel.
The problem is one of involving the Arabs in a
responsive mood. For this the friendly ap-
proaches of the world powers are necessary.
This cannot be attained by making Palestinians
an issue attached to hatred rather than to the
realism of acknowledging that Palestinian
means whoever lived or lives in pre-Israel
Palestine. This includes Jews as well as non-
Jews, Moslems and Christians on a par with
Jews.
Until the realistic approach is assured the
difficulties will be perpetuated. It is with an
accord in view that all must work for as speedy a
realization of cooperativeness as can possibly be
mobilized. It will call for concession and
humanism on all sides. It is the necessity for an
avoidance of renewed bloodshed that will be
all-too-costly to-contemplate.

UNITY Is VITAL

Never before was Jewish unity as important
as it is in this critical hour in world history.
' Israel's very existence is threatened. The
European community, greedy for oil, is ready to
sacrifice the Jewish state. Great Britain, whose
basic principles were thought to be in Scriptures
and in prophecies in the redemption of Zion,
subscribes to the intrigues of the barbarians
who are reviving the menace of anti-Semitism.
This has become the goal of the European na-
tions and Britain, France and the Scandina-
vians are endorsing it.
To assure that Israel's only'friend the United
States, remains on Israel's side, unity is _essen-
tial. Therefore, American Jewry should support
the Begin government and repudiate the so-
called peaceniks whose untimely condemna-
tions of Israel's defensive methods are threats to
the very existence Of Israel.
The PLO has gained ground, and Israel must
retain the defensive line to overcome it. Let that
be the motto of all seekers of justice in the cur-
rent struggle for decency.

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Agnon's Novels, Narratives
Reissued in 3 Paperbacks

Three paperbacks just issued by Schocken BoOks mark the repub-
lication of the widely acclaimed novels and short stories by Shmuel
Yosef Agnon, the winner of the 1966 Nobel Prize. in Literature. -
The most massive of the three new paperbacks is the 485-page
novel, "A Guest for the Night," translated by Misha Louvish. It first
appeared in 1968. A publisher's note gives the additional facts about
this novel and its translation:
"The Hebrew original of this novel appeared under the title
`Oreah nata lalun' as volume VII of the first edition of Agnon's works
(Schocken Publishing House, Jerusalem, 1939). The title is a phrase
taken from Jeremiah 14:8. The work was reprinted several times; a
definitive, revised version was issued as volume IV of the Schocken-
Haaretz edition of Agnon's narratives (Jerusalem-Tel Aviv 1953).
The basic translation into English is the work of Misha Louvish. For
the rendition in its present form the publisher had the cooperation of
Professors Naftali C. Brandwein, Allen Mandelbaum, and Oscar
Shaftel."
"The Bridal Canopy," the 390-page
novel, translated by 'I.M. Lask, first
published in 1967, added significantly
to the status of Agnon in the world's
literary circles. A review by Edmund
Wilson summarized the appeals in
Agnon's writings which gave his
stories realism while they combined
the tradition and the Jewish legacies
with contemporary experiences. Wil-
son wrote:
"What makes Agnon so remarkable
and an appropriate recipient of the
Nobel Prize is that he is able to em-
body in his talmudic world so much of
our common humanity, and even of
our common morality, so much of -
ironic humor and ironic touching
pathos, that he can be read, I should
think, with appreciation by anyone."
There is particular charm in the
third p erback, the shortest, the
SHMUEL AGNON
128-pagtv'In the Heart of the Seas."
This, too, was translated by I.M. Lask. This story has the added -
attraction of the series of appropriately expressive illustrations by T
Herzl Rome. The drawings captured the spirit of a notable Agnon. "In
the Heart of the Seas" was one of Agnon's earliest works, published
1948 and re-issued prior to the 1980 edition in 1975. This charmL
story undoubtedly was among those that contributed towards Ag-
non's selection for the Nobel Prize.

Children of the Holocaust

"Children of the Holocaust" by Helen Epstein, first published by
Putnam as a hard-cover book, has been re-issued as a paperback by
Bantam Books.
This deeply moving story recounts the experiences of Holocaust
survivors as they were passed on to the author by her parents.
Explored is the meaning of recollections of the horrors from the
tattoo of her mother's arm to the depressions, mounting to rages,
which continue to affect her father.
There is a subsequent normalization as the children and the
mother who survives the father also accepts the realism of a new era
in America. But the memories linger.