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Sabbath Scriptural SelectiOns
This Sabbath, the fifth day of Tevet, 5741, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateachal portion, Genesis 44:1847:27. Prophetical portion, Ezekiel 37:15-28.
Wednesday, Fast of' the Tenth Day of Tevet
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VOL. LXXVIII, No. 15
Page Four
Friday, Dec. 12, 1980
COVENANTS OF HATE
Gathering poisonous moss, like a rolling,
stone, the hate-mongering of the PLO is gaining
momentum. Even in the traditionally most-
liberal ranks, there is a yielding to the advo-
cates of Israel's destruction.
They have gone to Madrid, to the conference
analyzing the Helsinki accords, with pressure
for giving a voice to the terrorists in matters
relating to human rights, and only the voice of
the U.S. has barred that attempt.
Whether it is the petro-dollar or the mere aim
to crush Israel, the PLO has gained ground.
King Hussein of Jordan, himself in a vise, al-
ways seeks self-rescue by constantly reverting
to the attack on Israel, his continuing declara-
tion being that the PLO is the voice of the Arabs.
This is how the Middle East struggles always
revolve. Out of chaos there is the developing
unity that is always achieved by means of sol-
idifying Arab forces in the war on Israel. That's
why the cry of "Jihad" reverberates whenever
there is mention of Israel or Jews to the Arabs.
Because of this growing menace, the decline
in political and social morality and in the
human rights obligations among the nations of
the world, the menacing conditions keep
threatening Israel. There is always the
scapegoat, and in the current situation he is the
prime minister of Israel. It has becomes° easy to
single out a man for attack as means of justify-
ing barbarities and threats to the very existence
of a nation.
To the menace spelled PLO is appended not
only the support from hitherto democratically-
judged nations but the especially-shocking role
of the United Nations. The issuance of official
PLO postage stamps by the UN, the domination
there of anti-Israel blocs, combine to undermine
Israel's position and the hopes of world Jewry
and Israel's Christian friends for an assured
Israeli security.
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It is the weakening of pro-Israel forces and
the danger of a divisiveness in Jewish and gen-
erally pro-Israel ranks that must be a cause of
concern.
The old and repeated cry for solidarity in pro-
Israel ranks must be emphasized anew. The
danger to Israel's existence is too menacing.
Whatever the language of those speaking in
terms of justice for Palestinians, the truth must
be revealed regarding the fallacies of such con-
tentions.
There is an honorable element in Israel's
ranks that approves of Palestianian rule, per-
haps also of a new Palestinian government to be
added to the 21 Arab states now menacing Is-
rael, Egypt being the only exception. Chief
among them is Arie Eliav, who had held impor-
tant Israel government positions, who was in
the Israel embassy in Russia when there were
good relations between the two countries. He
had great popularity, and gained the nickname
"Liova." Eliav is an extreme advocate of grant-
ing Arabs rights that are considered dangerous
to Israel's existence. His case is analyzed in an
article in Midstream magazine by Benno
Weiser Baron, entitled "Fight the Brainwash,"
in which he exposes false claims in support of a
Palestinian myth:
"I listened last spring to a speech by Arie
(Liova) Eliav, a man of so many Zionist and
Israeli a.edentials that he commands my re-
spect, even if I can't share some of his views. He
is one of the first and foremost Israeli doves. I
could even applaud his speech, because his
analysis of why we should strive for peace with
the Palestinians made sense. Yet more than the
speech, I liked the man. We had lunch together.
I said: Peace now is certainly better than peace
later, or no peace at all. But do you know any
Palestinian who is ready for peace now?' Eliav
gave me one name of a 'PLO moderate,' one Issa
Alfatawi. I learned later that Alfatawi had re-
ceived together with Eliav a Peace Medal' from
that great friend and benefactor of Israel, Au-
stria's Chancellor Bruno Kreisky.
"A few days later somebody read me over the
telephone a statement by Issa Alfatawi. In it,
Alfatawi indeed said that he would settle for a
Palestinian state on the West Bank and in
Gala, which makes him a PLO moderate.' But,
he added, `of course, all the Palestinians who
left what today is Israel will have to be allowed
to return to their original homes.' All the Pales-
tinians who left means every IWestinian with
exception of those who remained in Israel pro-
per, on the West Bank, and the original inhabi ,
tants of the Gaza Strip, and it means, of course,
also their children and children's children.
"To how many of the estimated four million
Palestinians in existence can this apply? Two
million? Two and one-half million? The most
impressive argument Eliav had made in his
speech againSt holding onto the West Bank and
Gaza was that this would add 1,300,000 Arabs
to the 600,000 who are Israeli citizens and that,
combined, they would outbreed within a short
time Israel's Jews and by the non-violent proc-
ess of democratic elections change the Jewish
character of the Jewish state. If the injection of
some two million or more Arabs into what
would remain of Israel after the surrender of
the territories' is the idea of a 'PLO moderate'
— what should we have to fear from the PLO
fanatics?
At that lunch meeting I also mentioned to
Eliav that he had participated in October, 1979,
in a conference in Washington organized by the
MAPAM publication New Outlook, which
turned in to a meeting-ground for Israel haters
of every ilk, including Alfred Liliental of the
Council for Judaism fame and I. F. Stone. 1. F.
Stone an enemy?' exclaimed Eliay. He wrote
the most heart-rending articles about Aliya Bet
and the end of the British Mandate.' This was in
1946, 1947, 1948. Eliav had either not kept up
with the changes which three decades have pro-
duced in Stone, or he deliberately ignored
them."
What else needs to be said as an admonition
against splitting the Jewish ranks? Is more evi-
dence needed?
If the menace of the PLO is to be averted even
in the slightest, if Israel's isolation is to be re-
duced if not totally prevented, there must be
unity in Jewish ranks. Solidarity is an obliga-
tion.
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Published by Herzl Press
`Zionism in Transition
Defines Many Challenges
'
"Zionism in Transition" (Herzl Press) is a most definitive work. It
gives new strength to the historic and libertarian movement in the
views of the leading ideologists of the movement and it-serves as a
most valuable guide for Jewish communities everywhere in the cur-
rent aim to solidify Jewish thinking and devotion to the movement
that gave birth to the,state of Israel.
Edited by Dr. Moshe Davis, the list
of essayists in this volume is a verita-
Atf m-
ble Who's Who in modern Jewish
thought and leadership. The foreword
by former President Ephraim Katzir
of Israel adds significantly to the de-
finitive in the valuable volume.
So impressive are the contents, of
this important work that two.excerpts
from the introductory comments by
Dr. Davis an d Dr: Katzir are of special
merit:
"Zionism should be understood not
only as the movement for the Return of
the Jewish People in its Homeland in
Eretz Israel, but also as that creative
historical process which intensifies
the content of Jewish life
everywhere."
MOSHE DAVIS
—Moshe Davis
In this 20th Century we have reached the point where scientific
technology can make far-reaching changes in human life. It is allthe
more important, then, that technology be directed by moral values.
Here is the new challenge for Zionist planning .. .
"It seems to me that the great intellectual potential of the Dias-
pora in cooperation with Israel's own capacity can go far towards
making Israel a pilot plant for the 21st Century, a pilot plant created
by the combination of science and Jewish values."
—Ephraim Katzir
The thoroughness with which the Zionist ideal is treated in the
light of current experiences and in evaluating the roots of the move-
ment becomes evident in the totality of aspects covered in the imy
tant essays. The authors deal with aliya and with the social probleL
with the economics and the Arab-Jewish issues.
The fact that "achievements and problems" are studied by such
personalities in the movement as Charlotte Jacobson, Ben Halperin,
Alfred Gottschalk, Dr. Emanuel Rackman, Mordecai Waxman and
others is an indication of the authoritativeness of the approaches to
the basic issues.
Many of the challenges are touched upon. Noteworthy is the
essay "Renewing the Zionist Vision" by the former Detroiter, Prof.
Daniel Elazar.
The list of authors attests to the importance of this noteworthy
achievement treating Zionism in all its aspects. The authors of the
essays include Yehuda Nini, Yehuda Bauer, Arye Leon Dulzin, David
Polish, Nathan Rottenstreich, Avraham Shenker, Isadore Twersky
and a score of others. They represent all the parties in Zionism and
spokesman from many communities, giving the volume a global
interest.
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