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Temple Emanu-EI Nursery School and
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On April 1, 1990 1 - 3 P.M.

Enjoy a Preschool Concert with Julie Auerbach
Performer • Songwriter • Author
and Workshop
MAKE A TOUCHABLE HAGADDAH
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For "Music for Infants"

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music in infant development and teach
Brunch for babies and their parents
songs in the process. Tapes of the
session will be available.
Babies are welcome.
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Appelman at 661-0600, or
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Diplomacy

Continued from Page 2

noted that "much of the
and shame of farcical
land now carrying orange
diplomacy in the following:
groves was sand dunes or
In the late 1880s, only
swamp and uncultivated
about 40,000 Jews lived in
when it was purchased:'
Palestine. Despite the ap-
Moreover, the Commission
parent desolation, the Arab
determined the shortage of
inhabitants objected to the
land was "due less to the
presence of Jewish set-
amount of land acquired by
tlements. The first formal
Jews than to the increase in
complaint, delivered to the
the Arab population.". . .
Turkish sultan in 1891, was
Since it was the very
to set a precedent for the
presence of any Jews in
next 57 years, during which
Palestine that upset the
the Arab opposition to
Arabs, British policy vir-
Zionist immigration would
tually guaranteed an in-
gradually become more
cesssant circle of violence.
vociferous.
Appeasement of Arab
As Jewish settlers began
critics of Soviet Jewish im-
to arrive in greater
migration today will be no
numbers, the inhabitants
more successful.
began to claim that Jewish
Is anything else needed to
immigrants displaced
remind the haters that Jews
Arabs. They believed im-
turned the neglected Holy
migration was a zero-sum
Land into blossoming areas,
game whereby every gain
benefitting Arabs as much as
for the Jews necessarily
Jews — and in the process the
meant a loss for the Arabs.
hate-mongers and anti-
History proved this was not
Zionists protested when even
the case, as the Arab
a single went on aliyah
population continued to
into the Land of Israel?
grow with that of the Jews.
Is anything else needed to
Eventually, the notion that
expose the sham and shame of
the land could not support
the campaign to harm the
the increase in population
rescue of Russian Jews who
was discredited.
are on the way to redemption
Even after the Jewish
in Israel?
population had more than
Let there be a continuing
doubled, visitors' accounts
emphasis on the suggested
described the area as near-
motto for the New Exodus:
ly barren. Today, visitors to
"Let the Soviet Jews go to
Israel and the territories,
Israel
now Let them fly direct-
which now support a
ly." 0
population of about six
million, are still struck by
the vast expanses of
Lesson
unsettled land. . . .
Continued from Page 2
The pattern of Arab
names of the victims, col-
violence, British inquiry,
lected through testimonies
and appeasement began
from relatives in Israel and
after a series of riots in May
abroad. An annual public
1921. After failing to protect
memorial ceremony,
the Jewish community
Holocaust Remembrance
from Arab mobs, the
Day, on 27 Nisan is held by
British appointed the
Yad Vashem. A central ar-
Haycraft Commission to in-
chive has been set up for
vestigate the cause of the
research purposes, and
riots. The commission con-
contains 25,000,000
cluded the Arabs had been
documentary pages on the
the aggressors, but ra-
Holocaust, millions of
tionalized: "the fundamen-
tal cause of the riots was a
feeling among the Arabs of
discontent with, and hostili-
ty to, the Jews, due to
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political and economic
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causes, and connected with
Jewish immigration, and
with their conception of
Zionist policy as derived
from Jewish exponents::. .
microfilms, museum ob-
In April 1936, a new out-
jects, films and records,
break of violence against
and a library which in 1969
Jewish settlements began
contained about 35,000
what was to become a
books and periodicals. A
three-year revolt. In May,
department was set up to
after 89 Jews had been kill-
record eye-witness ac-
ed, Lord Earl Peel arrived
counts, especially those of
to investigate. The Peel
survivors of the disaster,
Commission found Arab
partisans, fighters, and
complaints about Jewish
members of the ghetto
land acquisition were
revolts residing in Israel. LI
baseless. The commission