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Prophetical portion, Jeremiah 1:1-2:3. Candlelighting, Friday, July 1, 8:53 p.m. VOL. LXXXIII, No. 18 Page Four Friday, July 1, 1983 DIPLOMATIC ACROBATIC S A costly war and endless anxieties over an uncertain future make the entire civilized world accessories to situations that continue to be distantly removed from ,peace. Meanwhile, there is a lot of rhetoric and an abundance of pledges. Had it not been for the conflicting and the contradictory, there could be much comforting from the declarations so fre- quently heard. Major attention to the developing themes in the crises that affect the Middle East were drawn to Washington last week, to the 24th annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). It was to these sessions that President Ronald Reagan sent a message in which he paid honor to a lobbying group from whose ranks there often erupts severe criticisms of his Administration. It is to this movement that he sent the message, calling AIPAC "an articulate defender of Israeli and American interests." He said AIPAC was "a fine example of the great American tradition of citizen interest and action in foreign affairs." Interestingly, in this very message, the President referred again to proposals he made on Sept. 1, 1982, which were immediately re- jected by Israel Prime Minister Menahem Begin and have since been the subject for debate, scrutiny, division of opinions, the invitation to King Hussein of Jordan and an involvement of PLO chief Arafat. Apparently, President Reagan is deter- mined to pursue the Sept. 1, 1982, program, and judgment must be that while there is a diploma- tic love affair with AIPAC, it does not denote agreement. Therefore, the continuing confusions as well as differences of opinion. They receive some basis for dispute in a Periscope item in the cur- rent issue of Newsweek: "Now that Israel has agreed to remove its troops from Lebanon — if Syria does the same — the Reagan Administration has moved swiftly to repair U.S.-Israeli relations: The change grows out of new Soviet activity in the region and mounting concern over U.S. presidential politics. 'The word is out that the Republicans don't want trouble with the Jewish community,' says one Administration official, pointing toward the 1984 elections. Reagan's new friend- liness iss proceeding on several fronts: "Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, an outspoken critic of Israel in the past, has soothingly offered to reinstate an important plan for military cooperation between the two countries that was shelved after Israel officially annexed the Golan Heights in 1981. "Meir Rosenne, Israel's -new ambassador to the United States, has already met more than 30 times with State Department and White House officials, and the State Department took pains to announce a special 'get acquainted' ses-- sion between Rosenne and Secretary of State George Shultz. "Pentagon planners are hard at work devis- ing convincing ways to warn Syria and its ally, the Soviet Union, not to test Israeli mettle. Among the options being considered, U.S. offi- cials say, are deployment of a large U.S. carrier task force to the eastern Mediterranean, joint U.S.-Israeli naval exercises in the region and a mission by Air Force AWACS aerial surveil- lance planes to the area. \ "Meanwhile, Israel is trying to appear ac- commodating. Prime Minister Menahem Begin, who is due to meet with President Reagan July 27 at the White House, has instructed the chief planner of new Jewish settlements in the occu- pied territories to give his activities a low pro- file. The aim: to prevent irritating Americans." While there are affirmations and reaffirma- tions of a renewed and strengthened U.S.-Israel friendship, it is to be hoped that what is said now is not preparations for Presidential nominating conventions. There is much more to the disputed conditions than an approaching convention and the peace at stake must not be sacrificed to lip service. Israel is not immune from anxiety over the developments. The AIPAC policy conference also received a message from Prime Minister Begin who maintained that "in the past year's struggle against a terrorist enemy we achieved a difficult and costly victory." Is it already to be judged a victory? It is true, as he ascertained, the United States and Israel "share common values, common hopes and common interests." But Israel, meanwhile, is embroiled in a hor- rifying situation, amidst warring Christians and Moslems. Peacemaking has become too costly. How soon can the agony be ended? That's the pressing question. Meanwhile, diplomats are juggling prom- ises and accolades, at a time when "getting to- gether" is vital, when proposals for "shared rule" of debatable border territories in the Judea-Samaria regions could solve a big prob- lem but only one element in the dispute as much as listens to it. In the current battle-scarred situation af- fecting the United States on a par with Israel, decisions to be reached call for cautious plan- ning. The developing events compel patience, due to the internal strife in the terrorist ranks which, if Arafat should lose his struggle for power, may result in more extreme hatred than even the present PLO leadership could muster. There are already the voices urging an in- creased American military involvement as an assurance that the endangered Lebanese gov- ernment would be protected, and this would surely spread the tensions that stem from that embattled area. Now Israel is the major protec- tor of Lebanese sovereignty, its forces serving as a warning to those who may threaten Lebanese hegemony, and the urgency of additional sup- porting forces is apparent. It will take a lot of courage to solve the multiplying, rather than reducing, problems. Lip service and pious pronouncements are not the cures. As the pleasantries are being expressed at public functions, they should be noted and should serve as reminders to those uttering pledges, with a demand that they be adhered to. , - amJ774 Stsee..8La•• ■ Schocken Holocaust Library Expands Memory Retention So devastating is the entire experience, so deeply moving each story that recalls the horrors of an age marked by extremism in inhumanities, that the Holocaust story is never completely told. That is why the Schocken Holocaust Library is of such vast importance. = It is not the only collection of books relating to the era of terror. Other publishers have to their credit important books dealing with that period in history. Schocken's is perhaps the most impressive. This is a library managed by survivors and the memory of the martyrs is thus preserved in eyewitness accounts. "Its purpose is to offer . . . authentic material, not readily avail- able, and to preserve the memory of our martyrs and heroes untainted by arbitrary and inadvertent distortions," the publishers state. This becomes evident in several of the new Schocken titles. Impressive among the new ones is "The Pit and the Trap — a Chronicle of Survival" by Leyb Rochman. Born in 1918 in Minsk- Mazowiecki , on the outskirts of Warsaw, he was a follower of Hasidism and he was on the staff of the Warsaw Yiddish Press. The Germans occupied Minsk on Sept. 13, 1939, and established a ghetto there. Richman was married in the ghetto. It was while he was in hiding that Richman began to keep a record of his experiences and his deed was like a pursuance of admonitions never to forget, to keep the account straight for the generations to know of what had occurred. His recorded experiences were completed in Switzerland soon after the war and were published in Paris under the title "And in Your Blood Shall You Live" — a translation of what is decided at a circum- cision, at a Bris, "b'doyikh khayo." The book won an award from the World Congress for Jewish Culture. Thus, actual occurrences are recorded in this Schocken-published text. Rochman's daughter, Rivka Miriam, is a noted artist and He- brew poet in Israel. His son, Yehoshua, is a concert violinist. Much is yet to be said about this chronicled story that is inerasa- ble in Holocaust literature. Another new Holocaust book issued by Schocken is "The Witch Doctor — Memoirs of a Partisan" by Dr. Michael Temchin. Dr. Temchin was among the few partisans who survived the war. He was determined to survive and therefore lived to tell this tale after undergoing many narrow escapes. He was drafted into the Polish army and was a prisoner of war. Managing to join an underground partisan unit, he became known among partisans and Polish villagers not only as a resistance hero but also as a miracle worker, hence his underground name, "Znachor — Witch Doctor." "The Witch Doctor" thus is a recorded personal reminiscence about the years of terror and battles for life. This, too, is a volume that will merit much discussion, in the pursuance of the aim not to forget, for the world to have the record of horrors and the evidence of heroism in the struggle for survival. Vital to an understanding of the surviving elements who are able to relate their experiences is the extent of the resistance. Surviving is in itself resistance, and the accounts now given by those who live to tell the story of the multiple horrors markedly reflects the courage of resisting forces and the determined will to live. These are the facts related in the additions to the Holocaust Library. Photos always add importance to historical data and this is true also of the numerous illustrations in "The Witch Doctor — Memoirs of a Partisan," wherein are shown many of the heroes of the survival.