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10 Friday, July 2, 1962

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Lebanese Cheer Israel Aid

(Continued from Page 1)
Hadash Communist Party
resolution denouncing the
Lebanese operation without
qualificiation.
Given the ebullience of
Israeli politics, the Knesset
debate was restrained. Its
most significant develop-
ment was Begin's offer to
allow Palestine Liberation
Organization forces to leave
West Beirut with their per-
sonal weapons. This was an
unexpected departure from
the terms laid down by the

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Cabinet last Sunday which
demanded that the PLO
surrender its arms to the
Lebanese Army as a pre-
condition for their evacua-
tion of West Beirut and
Lebanon under a safe con-
duct guarantee by Israel.
The debate over the
war gave way to a discus-
sion of the state budget in
the Knesset Wednesday.
Shlomo Lorincz, chair-
man of the finance com-
mittee, estimated that the
three weeks of war in
Lebanon has cost Israel
65 billion shekels (about
$2 billion) to date.
Former Premier Yitzhak
Rabin, summed up Labor's
position on the war, pref-
aced his remarks with a call
for restraint of criticism
while Israeli soldiers were
still at the front facing the
possibility of renewed fight-
ing. But there must be no
cover-up of mistakes, he
warned. He said that all
wars fought to ensure Is-

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'Torn Country' Discusses '48 War

rael's security and defense
were just wars, but to con-
tinue fighting to achieve
political aims not directly
related to national security,
was a mistake.

He said he thought it
would be a serious mistake
to risk more lives in an at-
tempt to storm West Beirut
to destroy PLO headquar-
ters and the remnants of its
military capability. Even if
this succeeded, with heavy
losses, Rabin said he
doubted that the Lebanese
could overcome their inter-
nal differences to form a
strong central government.
He said Israel also should
not risk further casualties
in an attempt to drive Sy-
rian forces out of Lebanon.

(At his press conference,
Wednesday evening,
President Ronald JReagan
refuted reports that the U.S.
had encouraged Israel's op-
eration in Lebanon. He em-
phasized, however, the ac-
cumulated dangers con-
fronted by Israel as the
basis for the military ac-
tions and declared the need
for all foreign elements —
Israel's armed forces, the
Syrians and the PLO —
leaving Lebanon, thus
enabling the Lebanese to
re-establish a functioning
government.
(President Reagan denied
that Israel Prime Minister
Menahem Begin had
pledged not to enter West
Beirut. He said Begin had
expressed the hope such an
action would not be neces-
sary.)
Begin, appearing before
the Knesset's foreign affairs
and security committee, ex-
pressed hope that Secretary
of State-designate Shultz
would prove to be a friend of
Israel despite his connec-
tions with the Bechtel Corp.
The huge American con-
struction company of which
Shultz was president, has
billions of dollars worth of
contracts in the Arab world,
especially Saudi Arabia.

An inner idealism, the
Halutziut spirit, is account-
able for the triumph of a
limited number of defenders
of Jewish statehood which
gave Israel the power to
emerge from the dangers
confronted in the War of In-
dependence. Later, in the
current era, there developed
a materialism which re-
duced the patriotism. In the
main, it was the idealism of
survivors from Nazism and
the early settlers who built
the foundation of statehood
that succeeded.
Both elements are ac-
counted for in "Torn Coun-
try" by Lynne Reid Banks,
the story of the War of Inde-
pendence (Franklin Watts
Publishers). She is a non-
Jewess who has lived in Is-
rael for many years and is
now married to the sculptor
Chaim Stevenson and re-
sides in Jerusalem.
Ms. Banks deals with
many aspects of Israeli his-
tory, the war and the after-
math, all recorded in more
than 60 interviews. In-
cluded among the inter-
viewed is Sir John Glubb,
"Glubb Pasha," the general
who directed the Arab
Legion and was responsible
for the Old City of
Jerusalem remaining in
Jordanian hands for 18
years, until it was liberated
by Israeli forces in 1967.
Glubb denied that King
Abdullah of Jordan "had
any designs on
Jerusalem for his capi-
tal." The subsequent
events, of course, refute
it, and Abdullah's
grandson, King Hussein,
is among the major an-
tagonists of IsraeC
Ms. Banks interviewed
Glubb, who now is in his
80s.
Glubb comments on the
Egyptian - Israeli peace ac-
cord, treating it critically,
accusing Israel of aiming at
annexations of more Arab
land.
Glubb's statement is in-
teresting. It may not be to-
tally acceptable, but as a

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comment on current situa-
tions it merits considera-
tion. He told Ms. Banks, in
part:
"There were only two
countries really involved
in that war against Israel
— Egypt and Jordan.
And now Egypt has
negotiated a • peace
treaty, but only on condi-
tion that Israel gives au-
tonomy to the Arabs of
the occupied areas. But
meanwhile the Jews are
still annexing more and
more Arab land.
"There's no sign of au-
tonomy at all. This makes
people say, well, this is
merely a racket. The Is-
raelis simply wanted to get
the Egyptians off their
backs so that they could
annex a bit of Lebanon,
drive out the remaining
Arabs from Palestine, and
clean up generally. Far
from intending to give au-
tonomy to the Arabs, the
treaty with Egypt has
enabled them to seize more
and more of those Arab
areas, meanwhile bashing
Lebanon the whole time.
"I do have the deepest
sympathy with the Palesti-
nians, though not with what
they're doing now. I am op-
posed to terrorism and as-
sassination and so on — this
is no way to carry on public
affairs. They should place
the whole thing before the
United Nations, the world
at large . . . But you see
they're all ignorant peas-
ants.
"That's why it's all very
well to blame them, but .. .
Well, European colonialism
in Africa is denounced by
everyone as unfair. If you're
a one hundred percent up-
to-date Western nation, of
course it's unfair to set
yourself up against the
Congo, or Bonga - Bonga, or
Timbuktu, where the
wretched people don't know
how to behave and haven't
got a clue . . . And that was
so in Palestine.
"They were very simple
village people, who were
played upon by all the
lawyers and politicians,
such as the mufti. I didn't
admire the man, though I
suppose you have to
sympathize in a way —
his was the leading fam-
ily in Jerusalem before
the first world war.
"You know, I don't feel
I'm hated in Israel. I some-
times get letters from Is-
raelis on various subjects.
But the farther you get from
the place, the more fanati-
cal the Jews seem to get. By
golly, if you go to New
York—! My books on Arab
history were all published
by a Jewish firm there —
very friendly.
"But two years ago I pub-
lished a book about World
War I, which you'd think
was sufficiently removed
from the Arab - Israeli con-
flict. My literary agent sent
this over to get a publisher
and it was returned with a
letter saying, "You don't
think any publisher in New
York would publish a book,
on any subject whatever, by
Glubb Pasha!"

The Altalena tragedy is
well recorded in "Torn
Country." It is described as
a "disgusting episode."
There are contrasting
views. The Etzel and Begin
role meets with bitter criti-
cism.
Menahem Begin is
often under attack, and
the Old Guard, the
Socialist leadership, is
quoted with the expected
antagonism.
There are appalling ele-
ments in the Banks book,
especially the lengthy quo-
tations about the Deir
Yassin horror. Palmach
leaders accuse the Ir-
gunists; the latter defend
their position. In the main,
raping and barbarism is de-
nied, but there is no unity of
opinion. The anti-Irgunists
are accusing the Irgun with
venom.
Col. Meir Payil, a
member of the Sheli party
in the present Knesset, a
Hebrew University profes-
sor who is described as hav-
ing witnessed the Deir Yas-
sin "massacre," keeps con-
demning the Irgun, refuting
their defensive statements.
To say the least, the Deir
Yassin record as presented
in this book is most distres-
sing. Hopefully it will be
properly clarified.
There are scores of other
incidents and historic
events recorded in "Torn
Country." Even in the
rather negative pre-
sentations, the volume is
eminently worth reading
and studying. Whatever
misrepresentations by
those quoted may harass
the Zionist and Israeli
readers should be corrected.
But facts and views are
necessary for a total under-
standing of the Israeli posi-
tion.

Director Chosen
for New JTS
Foundation

RABBI DAVID GORDIS

NEW YORK — Rabbi
David Gordis has been
named executive director of
the newly established
Foundation for Conserva-
tive Judaism in Israel at the
Jewish Theological Semi-
nary of America.
Rabbi Morton Leifman,
has been chosen as execu-
tive secretary of the founda-
tion, which was formed as a
response to developments in
Israel.

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