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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the fifth day of Tammuz, 5742, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Numbers 16:1-18:32.
Prophetical portion, I Samuel 11:14-12:22.
Candlelighting, Friday, June 25, 8:54 p.m.
VOL. LXXXI, No. 17
Page Four
Friday, June 25, 1982
AND REALI S M
In the path of conflict, strewn with casualties
tragic in nature, many reactions are deplorable.
There are the agonies resulting from the deaths
stemming from warfare, from injuries that
leave their lasting pains. There are the senti-
ments and the angers.
Wars are never compensatory in the fullest
degree. The causes are resented and the suffer-
ers from them are not immune from pain.
In Israel, as among the Lebanese who have
suffered under the heels of the Syrians and the
PLO, there are the sorrowing. These are the
inevitables from, wars. There is no cheering,
only anxieties.
Already confirmed as fact and compulsion for
Israel not to ignore her plight under the-threats
that caused the current war is the condition
under which Israel had to invade Lebanon with
the aim of ousting the Syrian and PLO enemies.
It was an action delayed too long. It was a mat-
ter of protecting the security of Israel and her
citizens. Also established is the truth that
Lebanon should be rescued in the process. The
expulsion from that long-suffering land of the
Syrian army and the PLO forces enables the
Lebanese to re-establish themselves as a free
people, devoid- of oppression from invading ter-
rorists.
While all this is occurring, the enemies of
Israel are distorting facts. They speak of
genocide, when as a matter of fact it is their
sheer terrorism and brutality that had been im-
posed on innocent peoples.
The propagandists like the extremest in the
thievery . . There is no shame in the spreading of
untruth. An innocent child is among the victims
in the war and its body is displayed as an ac-
cusation against Israel, against Jews, with the
exaggerated charge of thousands dying. Now it
is revealed that where thousands are listed
among the dead, that number is ascribed to an
area whose entire population was less than half
of the accusatory figure.
Why do some in public ranks and among the
media fail to indicate that contrasted with the
few thousand of victims of warfare there were
the close to 100,000 who were murdered, some
massacred, in the process of the disrupted
equanimity of a once-free Lebanon when the
PLO took control of that land, with the collab-
oration of the Syrians?
Let it be recorded in the interest of truth:
It is Israel that has led the way to assure
succor for the sufferers from the war in Leba-
non. The U.S. Congress has voted $20 million
for relief. While that was in the planning stage,
Israel acted, promptly, firmly, to create means
for relief for the needy who are suffering from
the ills of warfare.
Where is the compassion from Arab sources?
Only the distortion of truth seems to be echoing
at every turn. A Columbia University professor
floods the media with accusations that are so
unimaginative that Israel's defenders find it
either futile to keep replying to them, or too
fantastic to be recognized. Arab professors in
other universities have joined the cabal of
exaggerators. In the irritations they cause there
is a guilt in treating them. But facts are facts, ,
and here are some details of the assistance
given by Israel to the war sufferers:
• First priority was given, by the government
of Israel and the Israel Defense Forces, to the
immediate medical treatment of war victims
and the sick among the local population, even
while the fighting was continuing.
• Within a day or two of the capture of the
cities, the IDF distributed basic necessities such
as powdered milk, bread, tents and water con-
tainers to the population.
• The IDF has appointed "town officers" in the
cities of Lebanon. The first task of these officers
was to locate the local mayors for the purpose of
restoring order in the cities.
• The IDF has begun restoring the infrastruc-
ture of roads, electricity and water supply. IDF
forces are also engaged in rescuing people trap-
ped in damaged buildings and in burying the
dead.
There is something even more vital to the
issue, not to be ignored. The concerned
Lebanese in this country who treat truth as
truth and fact as fact have made their position
known and are appealing to the United States to
assist in establishing an honest government in
Lebanon, devoid of Syrian-PLO influence. The
American Lebanese League has placed truth
imbedded in honesty on the record with a plea
for an honorable pursuance of realism in the
Israeli successes of banishing the foreign ter-
rorist elements from Lebanon. In a resolution
adopted at a convention held in Washington last
week, at which Senator Carl Levin outlined the
concerned American position on the issue, the
American Lebanese League declared:
"The Lebanese problem must be considered in
a larger context, having suffered the degrada-
tion and dehumanization of over seven years of
brutal Syrian and PLO military occupation;
"It is in the vital and strategic interests of the
United States and Lebanon to have all foreign
forces withdrawn. A tragic error would be made
if Israeli forces were to withdraw leaving Syrian
and PLO forces in place. This would condemn
Lebanon to its continued agony and suffering.
"The present situation offers an opportunity
for the United States to solve the Lebanese
problem and to neutralize its territory as a
flashpoint for conflict by alien forces with im-
punity.
"It would be in the United States' national
and strategic interests and those of Lebanon,
that the present policy of containment and
passivism be reversed.
"Therefore, Be it Resolved that the United
States use all legitimate means to: Assist in the
creation of a strong central authority and army
in Lebanon that assure a free, independent,
pluralistic, sovereign state with territorial in-
tegrity."
A solemn duty confronts all honest people.
They must treat exaggerations with contempt.
They must acknowledge Israel's right to battle
for security and survival. They must cooperate
in the Lebanese aims to re-establish the sover-
eignty of their nation. All this must lead to a
recognition of the justice of Israel's battle for the
, pop,le's just rights..
Arbor House Volume
J.R. Moskin's 'Among Lions'
Defines Battle for Jerusalem
Historic records of Israel's battles for security, for independence
and in strengthening the nation's borders are limitless. Innumerable
volumes have appeared describing the Six-Day War of June 1967, and
the battle for Jerusalem. -
The newest work on the reunification of Jerusalem and the firm-
ness of the city's becoming the capital of Israel is so replete with
additional details that it emerges among the most valuable accounts
of the 1967 war.
"Among Lions" by J. Robert Moskin (Arbor House) has the
genuine claim to being "a definitive account" of the battle for
Jerusalem.
The crucial events in the Middle East were more seriously af-
fected by the defeat of Jordan, in the three-day period of June 5-7,
1967, then by any other events.
Moskin, former foreign editor of Look Magazine and a senior
editor of Collier's, covered the events which were marked by a warfare
unmatched in history, during which the divided Holy City was un-
ified.
Taking into account all elements in the struggle, Arabs and Jews,
the military and the civilian, Moskin has drawn a record into which
appear the views of all factions, the impressions of the most notable as.
well as the ordinary residents of Jerusalem and of Israel generally.
Not only the maps and the important photographs illustrating
the occurrences, but the people who were involved — all contribute to
a record of unusual significance.
There is an appendix listing perhaps 100 names of the eminent
'people of that era. Listing under the title, "The futures of people in
this book," it immediately provides the intriguing totality of in-
volvements. Israelis and Arabs, world personalities, spokesmen for
all contending factions, are grouped here to indicate what has hap-
pened to them, where they are now. The significance of it is the
revealing fact of the elements who combined to make this a story of
confrontations, the bitterness as well as the elations over the fruits of
conquests.
The scores of incidents recorded here are so enchanting that the
Moskin volume, "Among Lions," often reads like a novel. Yet it is
reality of the highest order.
There is, for example, the story of Jacobo Timerman who volun-
teered to leave Argentina to join the Israel Defense Forces. By the
time he was granted such a visa, the war was over.
In the animus toward Israel the author records the activities of
people like Archbishop Hilarion Capucci, who figured several years
later as carrier of deadly weapons for terrorists aiming at damaging
Israel.
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The Israelis quoted, their activities defined, is like a JE
Who's Who.
Moskin concludes with a note of concern:
"The 1967 battle between Jews and Arabs for the city of
Jerusalem was a sad milestone in the history of mankind. When the
fighting was over, the peoples from both sides mingled in the streets of
the reunited city with joy and relief.
"But the drum of history kept rolling to the war of October 1973,
to more acts of terrorism and and reprisal, to fears and tension. And
the question lingered in the minds of all peoples: Can modern
Jerusalem ever find tranquility, 'a sane union and understanding?'
Can Jerusalem — the place of David and Jesus and Mohammad —
ever truly become the symbol and the city of peace?"