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Jewish Terrorism
Continued from Page 4
Jewish terrorists revealed a
prevalent decadence in Is.
raeli society, It suddenly be.
came clear to many Israelis
that our democratic system is
not immune to the malignant
diseases common to so many
other nations throughout the
world — nationalist
chauvinism, kahanism (the
Israeli version of fascism),
and Orthodox fundamen-
talism,
The rise of a Jewish ter•
rorist network, which in.
tended to put into deed the
declarations of "respectable"
right-wing politicians, and
expected to find legitimacy in
their manifesting the latent
wishes of their theoretical
mentors, uncovered a fissure
in the democratic foundations
of Israel,
was a bliiiiitbk,Tigt'vhde
ing symbol, of the spreading
disease which gnaws away at
us as the result of the ongo-
ing Arab-Israeli conflict, and
its expressions; ruling over
the Arab population of the
West Bank against its will;
the ill-conceived Lebanon
war; and our deepening no•
nomic crisis,
The Zionist movement
points with pride to its ardu-
ous efforts to drain the
malaria-ridden Hula Valley
and the transformation of
that valley into fertile farms,
The Jewish terrorists' trial
affirmed, more than the top
timony of a thousand wit•
nooses, the fact that the
swamp which nourishes the
malaria of terrorism has yet
to be dredged, This swamp
breeds a fanaticism which
will not be curtailed until
there is spade:41 wittlitos40
stances of the Middle East,
any erosion of the democratic
process is liable to jeapardize
Israel's own existence, There.
fore, the agitation and ter•
ment which seized the sane
elements of Israeli society
upon the revelation of a
Jewish terrorist underground
are understandable,
The handwriting of this
trial is on the well,
BOOKS
Jewish History
With A Message
Interpretative history writing
nearly always reveals the per.
senility of the historian who re,
cords the event* chosen for en
h
short history of Jewry which
appears in a 1800.psge paw
backed volume entitled ThIN
Immortal People (Pullet Press),
Emil Cohen (18814948) wrote
in German this interesting
summation of Jewish history up
to the Holocaust, llebbi Hayim
Goren Psrelmutter translated it
into the present English Own,
lion,
• Additionally impressive about
his short history is that its
translator wrote the prologue
and the epilogue to Cohen's in-
terpretative wait, Therefore, by
bringing it up to date, Rabbi
Perelmutter pot only expressed
admiration for the historian he
treated with greit respect in the
$nOiNh tot, but also brought it
up to date by Mounting the
tragedies in (lemony which had
not-been included in the orisinal
work,
The author's, aop, also on or,
dained rabblitrlarm ex
krone. 00 • P
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P oimutter,
(alien, WOW MO** if Plow
the problems of the West York
York, points 'flit Mutt bio
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, history
Bank and the Om Otrip, snd
lishesi in Oertasayin 0#0 as
to the overall problem of the part
of a saiiippap wig) ut,
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The status quo fertile soil was t heinly
PO'
for demagogues of both Ale.
who seize the opportunity W tht
t o *hey,
deepen hatred and *NO , soil rabbi,
clam, and to ancoursouthes. orornight
yarfi;
who would place timuniolvs
above the Jaw,
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tr pis .to his
The fact that all the tlefen, towlonotion
of
dents of tho Jewish terrorist
under round are residents of
the Moot ,bank Is further
donco that the price
patio') fs in doo4 high, it
become appoint that
West Bank setae
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