Or* 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 INSTANT COLOR PASSPORTS ID. & VISA PHOTOS PROFESSIONAL PORTRAIT LIGHTING 352.70301 LEO KNIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY 26511 W. 12 Mile Rd. Corner Northwestern Hwy. 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- THE SMART CHARTER TO LAS VEGAS H.M.H. & F. 557-5145 $ipt e ars' Mano r u ! vacaudn F n Activities for teens and children—they're entertained while you play • 3 meals daily • attractive rooms • 18 hole golf course • floor shows and nightly dancing • horseback riding • swimming pool • water skiing • 5 Tennis Courts AUGUST VACATION SPECIAL THIRD PERSON WILL BE ONLY $24! Fri. July 30 to Sun. Aug. 29—third person in room only S24 - 3 meals daily AUGUST GOLF SPECIAL! FREE GOLF Sun. Aug. 29 to Fri. 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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 LEASE A NEW BUICK SHELDON METZ, SALES MGR. CALL ME TODAY 600 S. MAIN, ROYAL OAK OPEN MON. & THURS. TM 9 P.M. 548 3600 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. Dirt is not dirt, but only something in the wrong place. —Lord Palmerston