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SLOMOVITZ Business Manager Editor and Publisher ALAN HITSKY News Editor HEIDI PRESS Associate News Editor DREW LIEBERWITZ Advertising Manager Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sabbath, the first day of Adar II, 5741, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion, Exodus ,38:21-40:38. 30:11-16, Numbers 28:1-15. Prophetical portion, II Kings 11:17-12:17, Isaiah 66:1-24. Candle lighting, Friday, March 6, 6:10 p. VOL. LXXIX, No. 1 Page Four Friday, March 6, 1981 ISRAEL'S OBSTACLES , Obstacles to the peace of the, Middle East are not limited to the Arab antagonists. European diplomats are adding to the agonies. Bruno Kreisky has a devilish role in the support he keeps giving to the PLO. British Foreign Office staffs have joined him in these tactics. Now it is West German Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher who has become. a partner to the pro- posal to recognize the Arab extremists in a de- , moniacal scheme like a "government-in-exile" that is among the damaging elements in the Middle East discussions. Added to these developing animosities is the unhealthy attitude of the European Economic Community. Such European interjections are branded by Israel as "disruptive interference." Pointing to the damaging decisions at Luxemburg, which continues at sessions in Venice, an official Is- raeli statement declares: The Venice Resolution is unacceptable to Is- rael not only because it is considered unneces- sary and superfluous but because of the ideas it enunciates that are rejected by the great major- ity of-the people of Israel and, in part, by the United States and Egypt. "The Venice Declaration calls foi. the 'associa- tion of the PLO in the negotiating process.' This is totally unacceptable to Israel whose leaders will have no truck with this murder organiza- tion. Significantly, President Reagan definced the PLO (in statements before and since his election) as a terrorist organization in no way representative of_ the Palestinian Arabs: Any involvement of the PLO means, in fact, the re- turn of the Soviet Union to the peace-making process — a concept rejected by President Sadat of Egypt and the government of Israel. "There is a national consensus in Israel against the declared attitude of the European Community requiring Israel to return to the 1967 lines. Accordingly, such attitudes do not advance the peace process but endanger it. "The rights of the Palestinian Arabs residing in Judea, Samaria and Gaza have been taken into consideration in the Camp David plan for a self-governing authority (Administrative Council). The Venice Resolution seeks the crea- tion of a Palestinian -state which would be a grave threat to Israel's security and, as an in- evitable Soviet base, a threat to U.S. and West- ern strategic interests. The 'starting points' adopted by the Euro- pean leaders at Luxemburg last December, make the position worse still. Now they have moved from the general to the particular. The lack of realism is displayed in the following proposals: "A call for Israel's withdrawal from East Jerusalem and the internationalization of the city is rejected by the national consensus of Is- rael. It conflicts with the will of the people and the laws of the state. It is an attempt to set the clock back to a 1947 resolution which was washed away by the tide of events in the past 33 years. "The European proposals envisage also .guarantees, including (guarantees) on the ground, presumably meaning the military presence. Israel will, under no circumstances, entrust her security and the safety of her citi- zens to others. Nor does she have any confidence in international guarantees. "The European interference with the peace- making process will prove counter-productive. What is needed is patience; perseverance and the resolve to carry into effect the agreements that were entered into at Camp David. Prime Minister Begin has declared that the Israel gov- ernment adheres to the agreements and is de- termined to proceed along those lines. He is confident that the Camp David Accords repre- sent the only basis for a comprehensive peace in the region." It is because such declarations .are treated lightly — because they stem from Israel! — that the concern over the developing situations grows in seriousness. That is why any internal Jewish disruptions are to be deplored. Israel's friends must act in unison, lest the enemies, who are in diplomatic ranks, remain disruptive and become destruct- ive. COMPATIBL E REALISM Dissolution of one of the country's most im- portant social clubs, after nearly half-a-century of service to the Jewish community and to the nation, leaves a sense of deep regret. It leads to consideration of the elements that have been the inducements for the formation of clubs of that nature. . The need for sociability is urgent. Therefore people organize in groups. Sometimes they are to support important movementts. Often they arefor human contacts and for the formation of sporting teams, as in the country golf clubs. Only a generation ago there were the prej- udices which made the non-Jewish clubs judenrein. There are clubs in this community where Jews still are barred..Then came a period of tolerance, the Gentiles admitting token Jews into membership. Jews retorted by ad- mitting token Gentiles into membership of their clubs. The element of tolerance that creates token memberships is appalling. That's more than de- plorable: it is un-American, it is inhuman. When the important local social club dis- solved last month, there were some comments about the compatibility that necessitated the existence of the local social club. As long as the need for compatibility is recognized as a fact, then it becomes vital to emphasize the impor- tance of the chief factors in Jewish life: the Jewish center and the synagogue. This matter of compatible realism is offered because the anguished who abandoned the ex- pired social club have admitted to such a need for Jewish association. In a larger sense, the total elimination of prejudices could have created the most important social aspect of American indivisibility. Perhaps the synagogue will gain from an otherwise sad occurrence in the community. Shaarey Zedek's Building Acclaimed by Architects The Shaarey Zedek structure is listed in the Michigan Society of Architects' "50 Most Significant Structures in Michigan." Ann Stacey, executive director of the Michigan architects' society, states: "This publication is the result of a year-long exhibit, titled 'A Celebration of Architecture,' as originated by the 1979 Michigan Society of Architects' president, Gene Terrill of Flint. "Funded by a generous grant from the Mott Foundation in Flint, the original exhibit has toured the entire state for more than a year in addition to a week-long appearance at the AIA Convention in Cincin- nati and is booked well into 1981." The description of the Shaarey Zedek building in "50 Most Sig- nificant Structures in Michigan" follows: "Shaarey Zedek, located on Northwestern Highway connecting with the state freeway to Lansing, has perhaps the most dramatic setting of any ecclesiastical building in the state. In its few years, it has become a true landmark seen by thousands in their daily trip from suburb to central city. Occupying a dramatic elevated site, it enriches the visual scene for several miles around. It is a building of architec- tural elegance and power, as dramatic inside as out, a true monument to Percival Goodman, its designer." Israelis as the Uniquely Emerging Independent Folk Israel and the Israelis have been portrayed in a variety of fash- ions. The historical pattern is retained in the main. The new genera- tion of Israeli writers rejects the commonplace and aims to portray the emerging independent folk who defy the ghettoization and emphasize the modernity of a highly democratic state.. In a posthumously published volume, The State of Israel" (Behrman House), Israel T. Naamani portrays the Jewish national entity in its modern form. The democratic form of government, the people and their adjust- ment to sovereignty, emerges in a naturalness that is especially notable in a description by an Israeli. The author of this volume, the late Prof. Naamani, died March 5, 1979, upon his arrival at the University of Louisville where he had taught for 30 years. He was recognized as an authority on Israel. He was a noted Hebraist and an authority on political science and his specialty on Israel developed from his Zionist and Israeli background. His noteworthy book deals with the emergence of poli 4- al Zionism, the migration of Jews and the their status under Ot in rule as well as during the Yishuv. The kibutz, the moshav, the developntent of collective as well as privately-initiated settlements are under review. The author related the Holocaust experiences and the protesting actions to the emergence of statehood. The people, the religious atti- tudes, the political parties, the security, cultural, economic problems receive due consideration. Israel's roles in the UN and as an equal among the nations are duly noted in this highly-recommended vol- ume that serves well for students. This volume provides good coverage of the many aspects of Is- rael's nationhood. Its contents are as valuable now as a Behrman paperback as they were eight years ago when first published as a hard cover volume by Praeger Publishers.