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Six-Day War

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of political Zionism had been correct
in their diagnosis that anti-Semitism
grew out of Jewish homelessness and
in their belief that once the Jews had
their own homeland like other
people, anti-Semitism would vanish
as a social and political phenomenon.
Tragically, the Six-Day War
proved them wrong. Israel, in those
six eventful days, cast off the image
of a tiny, defenseless state quailing
before powerful enemies and
emerged in the public eye a modern
Sparta, a state that, man for man,
had built probably the most efficient
and effective fighting machine of the
age.
No matter that the country had
to subordinate so many of its hopes
and aspirations to create the means
of ensuring its existence; the results
were there to be seen — a triumphant
state which had doubled its territory
in six days of combat against as-
tronomical odds and had made itself
the undisputed master of its corner of
the globe.
The relationship between the
Jews of the Diaspora and the Land of
Israel was altered overnight. No
longer was Israel a dependency of
Jewish philanthropy, a matter of
concern and worriment. A trium-
phant Israel became the centrality of
Jewish life with every expectation of
becoming the spiritual, religious and
cultual center of the Jewish world.
Jerusalem would, in fact as well as in
prayer, become the heart and soul of
a scattered people.
The state assumed an identity of
its own, no longer a creature of the
organized Jewish community but an
independent political and cultural
organism, a state, in the Zionist
vision, like all other states.
And the world's perception of the
Jewish state was drastically altered
by those six days in June. Israel was
no longer seen as a tiny nation stand-
ing up to a 100 million threatening
bayonets, the underdog and the
potential victim.
Whether by design of Arab prop-
agandists or the misreading of the
situation by the world press, the
focus was subtly but' effectively

shifted from the confrontation of 2.5
million Jews and 100 million Arabs
in a score of states to the confronta-
tion of a militarily powerful Jewish
state and the helpless Palestine
Arabs who had been driven into exile
or brought under constrictive Israeli
rule in the West Bank and Gaza
Strip.
In this shift of focus, the world
simply forgot what Israel never
dared overlook for a single moment;
despite the outcome of the Six-Day
War, the Arab world in its entirety
still refused to accept the existence of
a Jewish state in its midst and to
come to terms with the reality of Is-
rael.
From a Jewish David facing the
Goliath of the Arab world, Israel be-
came the Goliath confronted by the
Palestine Arab David. "Israel was
transformed from the victim of an
unparalleled hatred," wrote former
Foreign Minister Abba Eban, "into
the author of a great wrong."
The Israeli was no longer the
potential victim but the oppressor.
The world' media focussed on Israel's
treatment of the Palestine Arab. In
the process, history was overlooked.
Israel had become the bully and Is-
rael's ambitions threatened the
peace of the Middle East.
Ahad Ha'am, the great represen-
tative of cultural Zionism, believed
that to destroy anti-Semitism, "we
must become again a real nation pos-
sessed of all those essential attri-
butes of nationality by which one na-
tion is the equal of another."
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For a fleeting span in the long
history of the Jews — the years be-
tween 1948 and 1967 — the admira-
tion and even affection for the State
of Israel tended to prove the validity
of this fundamental Zionist tenet.
But that brief interlude ended with
the Six-Day War.
Naked anti-Semitism returned
in its old form, as pacticed in the
Soviet Union and Poland, and in a
new guise as well — as "anti-
Zionism" which camouflages the
mindless irrationality of traditional
anti-Semitism under a veneer of
political and humanitarian excuses.

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Tel Aviv (JTA) — Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir
said last week that the crisis
in relations between Herut
and the Liberals was a le-
gacy of the past.
He told newsmen after a
meeting of Herut leaders
Friday that they had dis-
cussed the future of the
Likud but without talking
about the crisis with the
Liberals, because all points
of difference had already
been settled.
The Liberal Party Cen-
tral Committee voted last'
Wednesday to continue
their 19-year-old alliance

with Herut. The balloting
was seen as a defeat for Lib-
eral Party chairman Yit-
zhak Modai who had op-
posed any changes in the
agreements entered into be-
tween the Liberals and
Herut in 1965.
Ariel Sharon, who re-
turned to Israel from the
U.S. this morning attended
the meeting and said he did
not plan to demand any spe-
cial task in the election
campaigning, but would
take part in it.
Sharon repeated his pro-
posal that Menachem Begin

be put at the head of the
Likud list.
Speaking to newsmen at
the airport upon his arrival
from New York this morn-
ing, Sharon denounced any-
one taking the law into his
own hand, but said all West
Bank settlers should not be
accused because of the acts
of some Gush Emunim
members. The former De-
fense Minister was refer-
ring to thb arrest of 25
Jewish terrorists from the
West Bank late last month
for attempting to blow up
six Arab buses in East
Jerusalem.

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