bruce m. weiss
Y
UNORGANIZED.
Jewelers
26325 Twelve Mile Rd.
Southeast corner Northwestern
Behind Gabe's Fruits
In The Mayfair Shops
douins into a highly mechanized
army.
\-,
Larry Collins and Dominique
Lapierre, in their dramatic
book, 0 Jerusalem, point out
that Glubb learned the hard
/ way that "there was no future
for Arabs in throwing their
population into conflict with the
Jewish state."
In A Soldier With The Arabs,
/ -
one of Glubb's several literary
gems, he cites serious misjudg-
ments made by Arabs in their
determination to kill the Jewish
state aborning:
"Early in January (1948), the
first detachment of the Arab
Liberation Army began to infil-
trate into Palestine from Am-
man. They were in reality to
strike the first blow in the ruin
of the Arabs of Palestine. The
) (Arab) Liberation Army at-
tempted an attack on a Jewish
\_.. colony in the Jordan Valley
/-
(Feb. 15) ... a frontal attack
N _
/--- which ended in fiasco."
/-
Wise in military foresight,
Glubb secretly dispatched Col-
onel Desmond Goldie to a ses-
sion with Jewish foes in an ef-
fort to keep the Arab Legion out
of the approaching war. The col-
onel's assignment was to try to
find out whether the Jews in-
tended to stay within the boun-
daries marked off for the new
Jewish State or to move beyond
them. Glubb's emissary even
proposed not just a peaceful di-
vision of Palestine but an
agreement for both sides to stay
out of Jerusalem.
Why that mission failed is ob-
vious.
In Anthony Nutting's The
Arabs, we find another glimpse
of Glubb's wishful thinking.
First Nutting notes that nothing
could have been more foolish or
more daring than the sustained
refusal of the Arabs to con-
template any compromise in the
era of the British mandate for
Palestine. Then he recalls
Glubb's conclusion of Arab fail-
ure to vanquish the Jews: "To
forgive and forget past injustices
is sometimes not only virtuous
but wise."
Glubb was later to compare
the valor of the Jews of 1948
with that of the Maccabees who
fought and won the right of
religious freedom some 2,000
years before Glubb's time. Alas
for the Arabs who dashed
Glubb's expressed hope that
they would avoid further war
with a vibrant, emerging Israel.
They haven't to this day.
When the little British gen-
eral who loved the Bedouins al-
most more than he adored
England died in March, the Jor-
danian Embassy commented
that his passing was recorded
"with great sadness and sor-
row."
It was Jordan's King Abdul-
lah, Hussein's grandfather, de-
stined to be felled by Arab as-
sassins, who gave Glubb the co-
veted title, "Pasha."
It was Hussein who fired
Glubb in 1955. Perhaps now
Hussein wishes he hadn't.
WE CAN HELP!
Mon.-Sat. 10-5:30
Thurs. 10-8:30
• functional storage centers
353-1424
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
•
•
•
•
•
•
o t o
r0 OZIrrer0
• 29119 Northwestern Hwy. • Southfield • •
• Franklin Shopping Plaza • 358-2333 •
•
•
Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 9-7
Fri. 9-6, Sat. 9-5
•
• effective space planning
• custom organization for
home or office
• attractive, durable laminate
surface
• free standing systems for
closets, walls-take it
with you when you move!
• 17
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
• •
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
• •
•
•
I •
I •
IS
•
•
•
\
• postersize enlargements
ex: bar/bat mitzvahs, offices
• same day service - color
developing & printing
• black & white developing
& enlarging
• we use KODAK paper
• old photos copied
• reprints done overnight
• film, cameras & accessories
• camera repair
• slides overnight
• commercial accts. welcome!
•25% SAVINGS
• •
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
THROUGHOUT
THE STORE
FREE
IN HOME MEASURE
AND DESIGN SERVICE
CONCEPT • DESIGN • CONSTRUCTION
4930 Rochester Rd.
Troy, MI 48098
689-9710
THE HOME
ORGANIZER
I
• SUNSET STRIP •
29512 Northwestern
Southfield, MI 48075
"YOUR STORE MORE AT HOME STORE"
350-2430
• • • • • • • • • • • • • •
A WOMAN OF CONSTANCY
BY MAURICE CROLL, M.D.
Where will I find this woman?
With such a constant mind
if such there be.
The years advance upon me
So rapidly I cannot count.
At times I wonder and I
fully doubt
That I shall ever find this woman
of a constant state.
Alas - my days will never know
this one I seek.
A woman of inconstancy
Is a frail and dependant creature
Whose monthly upsets distrust
her every ways
And since these hormonal thrusts
Shake her from stem to stern
She has no way of knowing
If the morrow will be hers
To guide according to her
basic needs.
Do not be deceived dear
unsuspecting man -
Forsoothe, fraility may be hers
And easily to be seen and measured
but
By chance if you tread upon this
trait that shows so openly
—yours—
Your very future
May suddenly become
your very very present
You will shake in violent
jeopardy
Beyond all known human limits
that you have ever known
You will then to preserve yourself
to seek cover
To re-assemble what remains
of your battered sensibilities.
In some remote ancestral cave
Should you ever venture forth
again.
To seek out a woman of constancy
If in time wisdom might stumble
upon you
You are a foolish fool who has
no power to learn
That you should indeed
always make
A very "large quiet"
And immediately go your way
in quick concern
And never - but never
look back
For inconstancy is indeed
An exciting and wondrous
attribute
That women tend to flourish in
without a brakg
For if all women were quite
equal
In all their constancy
How bleak and uninspiring our
world would be.
For every day would be the same
Each woman from another view
Are a sweet and sensuous
anticipated exploration
That makes each new day a bonus
to anticipate
•
And for our sake (males - remmants)
I pray
That it be and stay so
For exploration and inconstancy
Is indeed a most welcome and
wondrous delight
For each day from its early beginning
Would have a heavenly delicious
different taste.
"But all sang Annie Laurie."
ADDENDUM
John Donne, the great English poet
(1572-1631) wrote some of the. most
romantic poetry of all time. He was
appointed dean of St. Paul's Nov. 19,
1621 and died in London March 31,
1631. His religious poetry must be
studied page by page and reviewed
again and again. He inspired me to
write my version of the "Lamenta-
tions of Jeremiah." His full, mean-
ingful depth may never be able to be
measured, even with all our modern
electrical equipment.
He preached 50 sermons. We know
of the first one, "A Woman of Incon-
stancy."
No one questions that his religious
poetry has never been equalled.
Each time I read any of his work, it
is like a new, fresh delight.
Very often the king and queen and
the nobility attended his lectures at
St. Paul's Cathedral.
Copyright WNSfieven Arts.
31