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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the second day of Tammuz, 5741, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
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Pentateuchal portion, Numbers 19:1-22:1. Prophetical portion, Judges 11:1-33.
Candle lighting, Friday, July 3, 8:53 p.m.
VOL. LXXIX, No. 18
Page Four
Friday. July 3, 1981
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THE HONOR OF SELF-DEFENSE
Israel rendered such an immense service to
humanity with the Osirak bombing that the
occurrence will continue to dominate interna-
tional discussions. The event will remain a mat-
ter of major American consideration because an
end to the nuclear reactor in an unstable area
where human values are at stake could well
serve as a lesson for the entire world. Where
there is a menacing threat to one people it could
well emerge as a danger for all peoples.
The newspapers in most countries, always so
very ready to pounce on Israel, having fallen
prey to Arab propaganda by ignoring the dan-
gers to Israel while kowtowing to the Arabs and
to those who threaten Israel's very existence,
have again followed the usual line of partisan-
ship.
There are exceptions to the rule. The Wall
Street Journal, not necessarily ever a partisan
of Israel, renders immense service by exposing
the outrage of the menace to Israel and exposes
facts never to be ignored. Osirak serves as an
avenue for exposure of indecencies and the de-
mand for justice.
Thus, the Wall Street Journal outlined the
realities of the new developments editorially
and also in an article, "Removing the Nuclear
Shadow From the Middle East" by Morton M.
Kondracke, executive editor of the New Repub-
lic. Here is a portion of this important essay in
which Kondracke makes an important revela-
tion which is the fact motivating Israel that the
entire world has ignored and continues to treat
disrespectfully:
"There is an abundance of verbal evidence,
despite Iraq's signing of the nuclear non-
proliferation treaty, that it aspired to become a
nuclear power .. .
If Saddam Hussein got his bomb, it's hardly
open to question what he'd do with it. In August
1980, Baghdad radio carried a speech by Hus-
sein promoting an Arab boycott of countries
which move their embassies to Jerusalem.
Some people may ask if this decision is the best
that can be taken,' he said. 'No, a better decision
would be to destroy Tel Aviv with bombs. But
we have to use the weapons available until it is
actually possible to respond to the enemy with
bombs.'
"Saddam Hussein is not a man whose rhetoric
one should take lightly. He is a proven killer.
Amnesty International reported that Hussein
ordered the executions of 257 people in 1978 and
1979, and 100 more in a six-week period in 1980.
There is an added warning in the Kondracke
analysis of a critical world situation involving
both Israel and America. He states in his Wall
Street Journal article:
"Menahem Begin's warning that Israel would
strike again at a threatening Iraqi reactor
creates an opportunity for France, especially, to
refuse to rebuild the demolished facility. In-
stead of occupying themselves with condemna-
tions of Israel — and certainly afterward —
Western nations and the moderate Arabs ought
to put their minds to preventing Iraq and other
radicals from acquiring nuclear weapons
technology.
"But, beyond all that, the West and the Arab
moderates ought to look at the reactor raid as a
warning about where matters are heading in
the Middle East. The Israelis have won us all a
respite from the threat of nuclear confrontation
in the area, but it is liable not to be permanent.
"Israel has bombs of its own, but it has pro-
posed a multi-lateral treaty to make the Middle
East a nuclear-free zone. That, of course, would
require the Arabs to recognize Israel as a gov-
ernment, which all except Egypt so far refuse to
do. This is something that the Europeans ought
to promote, instead of attempting to force the
Israelis to negotiate with the Palestine Libera-
tion Organization, another entity bent on Is-
rael's destruction."
A series of questions on the entire issue, ap-
pearing with the answers to them as a special
supplement of Near East Report, serves the
cause of truth and presents the facts as an obli-
gation to eradicate misunderstanding. The facts
are presented in this issue; with due credit to
Near East Report, as a cooperative service to all
Americans with a sense of fair play, and with
additional credit to U.S. Senators Rudolph Bos-
chwitz and Alan Cranston, and their associates,
who have not been silent in defense of Israel.
To the New Republic goes appreciation for a
plea for justice and presentation of the ac-
cumulating facts in a four-page editorial in its
current issue. What this editorial did notably
was to refute misconceptions in editorials in the
New York Times and the Christian Science
Monitor on the Iraq bombing issue. The New
Republic editorial states in part:
"The Christian Science Monitor had some ad-
vice: If Israel had regard for international law,
it could have continued working through dip-
lomatic means to achieve an agreement on nu-
clear non-proliferation in the Middle East.' The
Monitor is imagining a Middle East on another
planet. In this-worldly Middle East, no one is
working through diplomatic means to achieve
agreement on nuclear non-proliferation.
Everyone is arming.
"What if the assurances of these critics about
Iraq's peaceful intentions are wrong? Who will
guarantee Israel's security then? In the 1950s
Britain, France and the United States signed an
understanding with Israel to guarantee free ac-
cess through the Strait of Tiran. In May 1967,
when Egypt closed the strait in violation of in-
ternational law, Israel appealed for help; the
guarantee was never honored. The U.S. had
given a separate and firmer assurance in '1957;
in 1967 it claimed it couldn't locate the
memorandum. Israel had to go to war alone.
"Next time, will Kurt Waldheim invoke the
UN charter to prevent Iraq from attacking the
Zionist entity? Even the Christian Science
Monitor can see the problem: 'What would the
United States, in fact, do if Israel were
threatened by a nuclear neighbor who does not
recognize its right to exist?' Answer: 'Here the
onus falls on the international community . . . to
ensure that such threats do not become a
reality.' Some reassurance."
Immediate restoration of American military
aid to Israel should be the first of the reactions
to the distortion of Israel's role in the Iraqi
bombing.
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WSU Press, Jewish Museum Volume
`Artists of Israel: 1920-1980'
Portrays Notable Creations
Israel gains a place among the major art centers in the world. The
evidence was in the four-month exhibition of works by Israeli artists
at the Jewish Museum of the Jewish Theological Seminary of
America in New York.
The details of that exhibition of notable achievements, the artists
who created the impressive works and reproductions from their crea-
tive efforts are included in an important volume which served as the
catalogue for the exhibit which attracted tens of thousands of viewers.
It is the Wayne State University Press volume co-published with the
Jewish Museum, "Artists of Israel: 1920-1980."
The exhibition was administered by Jewish Museum Curator
Susan Tumarkin Goodman.
The catalogued volume contains the works of 37 Israeli artists.
Illustrating their works are 112 photos, 100 in black and white and 12
in color.
The value of the volume is increased by the explanatory essays by
Moshe Barasch, Yoma Fischer and Yigal Zalmona.
In their essays, the three contributors to this volume deal with
"The Quest for Roots," "Inner and Outer Visions" and "History and
Identity." Collectively, they trace the development of art in Israel, the
emergence of a cross section of artistry in the abstract, surrealist,
minimalist, expressionist, realist and conceptual.
Here is the list of artists included in this collective work: Agam,
Ardon, Arikha, Aroch, Bak, Bergner, Castel, Cohen Gan, Danziger,
Efrat, Gross, Janco, Kadishman, Krakauer, Kupferman, Lavie,
Levanon, Lifshitz, Mairovich, Neustein, Nikel, Paldi, Rubin,
Schwartz, M. Shemi, Y. Shemi, Simon, Steinhardt, Stematsky,
Streichman, Tagger, Ticho, Tumarkin, Uri, Weinfeld and Zaritsky.
Conditions in the land, the struggles for survival and primarily
the creative in state-building influence the developing art tendencies.
In his review of the history of art development Zalmona stated:
"The distinctiveness of Israeli art stems from a unique constella-
tion of social and historical circumstances, of utopias and traumas,
myths and ideals, all of which determined the diverse styles of Eretz
Yisrael artists. The history of Israeli art is in many ways the history of
the artists' search for a unique identity, and this search is the under-
lying theme of my essay.
"The founding of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in
Jerusalem in 1906 constitutes the first chapter in the history of
modern art in Eretz Yisrael. Until then, most artistic production
been concentrated in Jerusalem. Of a popular and practical nat i
religious and parochial, and completely devoid of international in
ences, it was created for the impoverished Jewish religious settlement
in what was then a remote province of the Ottoman Empire."
This is like a summary of the notable rise in artistic creativity
and the high values attained by the artists. It provides the back-
ground, the Bezalel Foundation, the emerging progress which has
given Israel high status in the field of art and the artists who created
it.
Biographically treated, "Artists of Israel" attains special merit in
its description of the artists included in this volume, their life stories
and the recognition they gained.
An appended "Bibliography of Art in Israel" also serves as a
valuably definitive addition to the notable collection of 60 years of
artistic achievements.