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SLOMOVITZ Business Manager PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor and Publisher ALAN HITSKY News Editor HEIDI PRESS Associate News Editor DREW LIEBERWITZ Advertising Manager Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sabbath, the second day of Tammuz, 5741, 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, July 3, 8:53 p.m. VOL. LXXIX, No. 18 Page Four Friday. July 3, 1981 -, .Z''... . ,..2,, .. =,-.----...--. '--- 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. irt.,..'—' . ., cizjib / 43: 9,94- -----.1 .- 44/44.2 174/7 ''''' e r(V -1 .1 • s • ' • / • ./,„ 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.