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TEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1981 POSTORIAL PAGE 4
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Expertise Available
The Reagan Administration, which is concentrating
on domestic issues, should not overlook the expertise
that is available in the organized Jewish community.
This is especially true of the many American Jewish
organizations which deal with issues that concern not
only Jews alone but all Americans.
Organizations like the American Jewish Committee,
the American Jewish Congress, the Anti-Defamation
League of B’nai B’rith and the National Jewish
Community Relations Advisory Council, as well as
others too numerous to name, all deal with the entire
gamut of problems this country faces. Whether it is the
economy, the major concern now of the Administration;
social problems, energy, urban affairs, the separate
concerns of the aged and the young, crime, what have
you, the Jewish community can offer up some of the
most sage advice to be found in the United States.
Nor should the Jewish community be tapped for
advice alone. There are men and women who can make
important contributions to the new government. Here,
especially, women should be mentioned. The Reagan
Administration appears to be having trouble finding
women to name tc office. Perhaps this is because, like
the Carter Administration, which had a good record on
appointing women, it seems to restrict its search to the
business and professional world, academic and
government itself.
Yet, as we in the Jewish community know so well,
some of the most talented women are at work in the
voluntary organizations of the Jewish community. Too
often these organizations have been overlooked in the
search for talent. Jewish women have a long record of
administering — and administering well — some of the
largest organizations not only in the Jewish world but
in the United States itself. And these organizations
have long been concerned with the type of problems
that are on top of our national agenda._
MEDIA SPOTLIGHT
MONITOR
The Bear And The Nightingal
BY MOSHE DECTER
It’s a topsy-turvy world.
Alice would feel quite at
home in it.
Large, powerful states
wage devastating war
against their own citizens
and launch brutal aggression
against those of other
countries with impunity, at
most with a gentle slap on
the wrist, sometimes even
with the understanding and
approbation of world opin-
ion.
Small, weak states, culp-
able, if at all, of far lesser
derelictions, and quite inno-
cent of deliberate crimes,
are subjected to hysterical,
hateful criticism and to
pernicious, baleful pressure.
It is the law of the jungle,
and modern history is
replete with repellent ex-
amples of the triumph of the
ruthless. But is that any
reason for public opinion
complacently to accept this
gross moral imbalance, to
tolerate blithely the oppres-
sion of the innocent? Should
not our moral standards be
brought into the forefront as
the proper basis of political
judgment and policy?
No more glaring instance
of cynical discrepancy in
world affairs is available
than the case of the Soviet
Union and Israel.
The USSR is a lawless
society. Its people are not
citizens, but subjects and
victims. Arbitrariness pre-
vails in every vital aspect of
life. The whole range of
human rights and civil
liberties is outlawed as
criminal: free speech, free
press, free trade unions, free
opposition parties, free par-
liament.
Religion is prescribed.
Except for limited privileges
granted a complaisant Rus-
sian Orthodox Church, be-
lievers are harassed, reli-
gious groups are viciously
persecuted: Baptists, Evan-
gelicals, dissident Russian
Orthodox, Seventh Day Ad-
ventists, Jehovah’s Wit-
nesses. Muslim, Buddhist,
Roman Catholic practice is
rigorously restricted.
The USSR is a conglom-
erate of large and small
nationalities (of which the
Russians are only half)
acquired by the expansionist
Tsarist Empire and zealous-
ly retained by the “progres-
sive” Soviets. Against all —
Ukrainians, Bielorussians,
Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Kirghiz,
Turkmens, Tatars — some
numbering millions and
some thousands, in the
depths of the Russian
heartland and in Central
Asia and the Siberian Far
East, the Soviet regime has
practiced an inexorable
policy of cultural assimila-
tion and forced Russifica-
tion. And the USSR is of
course the fountainhead of
world anti-Semitism.
Despite its pious support
of the rights of national
self-determination and terri-
torial integrity, no other
modern state has preyed so
greedily on its neighbors.
Soon after the 1917 Bolshe-
vik coup, it gobbled up
Georgia and Armenia, two
nations with a proud history
of ancient culture, religion
and independence. After
World War II, the USSR
took Karelia from Finland,
northern Sakhalin from Ja-
pan, and annexed Lithuania,
Latvia, Estonia, Eastern
Poland and Moldavia. Soviet
tanks engineered the inva-
sions of Hungary in 1956,
Czechoslovakia in 1968, Af-
ghanistan in 1979. Poland in
1981?
The world swallows
this and takes it for grantj
Tiny Israel, beleaguered
by death-wishing enem®,
provides the fullest den
cratic freedoms, human
rights and civil liberties to
all its citizens, including the
Arabs of East Jerusalem,
regardless of religion, na-
tionality or political ideol-
ogy. And on the West Bz
and Gaza, alongside
quisite security arranj
ments, Israel has created
the most liberal “occupa-
tion” on record — a free
Arab press, religious free-
dom for Islam and Christian-
ity, unhindered Arab school-
ing, free Arab university
and cultural life.
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All this is taken for
granted by world opinion.
But Israel is damned, con-
demned, vilified, for exercis-
ing its rights of settlement
on its ancient land and for
measures necessary for
security and survival.
I
The ruthless Bear ram-
pages without hindrance.
The sweet-singing
nightingale is ringed about
by voracious predators, cag-
ed in by the world’s cyni
calculations, hypocritical
difference, mean hostility
cag-
lical
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Arabs Have Killed More Christians
And Blacks Than Jews
TEL AVTV [JTA] - Dr.
Christian Barnard, the pio-
neer heart transplant sur-
geon, said that he “would
not be surprised if Israel is
the country to make a
breakthrough in the prob-
lem of immunology, enabling
the safer transplantation of
human organs with lesser
risk of rejection.” Barnard,
who is in Israel attending a
South Africa-Israel seminar
on immunology at the
Weizmann Institute of Sci-
ence in Rehovot, said the
Institute was the world’s
leading research institute in
the study of immunology.
TEL AVIV [WNS] -
Jewelry and religious and
artistic objects valued at
$3-5 million were stolen from
the Haaretz Museum’s Eth-
nography and Folklore Pa-
villion. Some items were of
great historical value such
as the silver phylacteries
given to Theodbr Herzl’s son
on his Bar Mitzvah, and a
Bible donated by Tel Aviv’s
first mayor, Meir Dizengoff.
Also stolen were rare Bibles,
spice boxes and kiddush
cups.
BY EUGENE BLUM
Israeli and Egyptian lead-
ers continually slip virtually
unnoticed in and out of
Washington, receiving only
a smattering of press and
leaving unanswered the
critical question: How close
are they, and we, the
concerned others, to peace
in the Middle East?
Clearly there are many
problems remaining as the
struggle for peace continues.
There are problems about
which we debate and have a
fairly thorough knowledge,
and there are problems
below the surface never
spoken of, namely Arab
hostility toward Christians,
Jews, Blacks, Kurds and
even against the truly
moderate Arab — the one
who is willing to live in
peace with his or her
neighbor.
If agreements were
reached on all proposals put
forth by the White House
and contending parties — if
Israel did everything the
President asked, and gave
everything Egypt wanted —
there is still a great deal of
uncertainty whether at that
point there would be “peace”
in the Middle East.
As we move into the new
decade, it becomes clear that
what Egypt wants may
matter little to other Arab
states. If Israel and Egypt
reached some sort of peace,
regardless of concessions
made between these na-
tions, Arab oil money would
still bankroll Arafat, and
Arab fanatics would still
want other minorities out of
the Middle East picture.
Satisfying Egypt in no
way satisfies radical or
quasi-moderate nations that
have never, and unlikely will
never, live in peace while
other minorities exist in
their midst. Clealy, these
nations still intend, for these
groups — as well as the
Jews — “to throw them into
the sea.”
Is Israel the real problem,
or is there a deeper issue
that must be brought to
light?
One curious, but largely
ignored bit of information
about what is taking place in
the Middle East is that not
only aren’t the many Arab
nations about to make peace
with the Israelis, they aren’t
making peace with most of
their other neighbors either.
While Austria’s Chancellor
Bruno Kreisky, Third World
nations and some United
States leaders, and of course
the United Nations, attack
Israel at every turn with
such charges as being
“stubborn” or “intransigent”
or “inflexible,” what is
forgotten is that Christians
and Kurds and Blacks live in
that part of the world, also.
They aren’t stubborn or
intransigent or inflexible.
They’re also, by and large,
not as sophisticated militar-
ily as are the Israelis.
For this reason, many
thousands of Christians and
Blacks and Kurds are no
longer living. They were
killed in almost all Arab
lands — especially the
Blacks in the Sudan and the
Christians in Lebanon. Kill-
ed might be a mild word. A
better word might be
slaughtered.
The way things are going,
in a short time there very
likely won’t be many Chris-
tians, Blacks or Kurds left in
the Middle East. Why then
is everybody suddenly on
the Arab-PLO bandwagon?
Oil, of course, is the
answer. And pragmatism.
We’ve dropped morality
and ethics in world politics
and opted for the practical.
Practical people — leadew
all — are insisting they ail
concerned with rights arl
justice for all nations. But,
what about the rights of
Christians, Jews, Blacks and
Kurds?
The issue today in the
Middle East, is no longJ
right or wrong, life versil
death, ethics or moralit^
The shift is indeed from the
moral to the pragmatic, and
the great sin of our time is
that pragmatists in interna-
tional circles may be telling
the Big Lie in claiming to b^
moral and just and concerJ
ed with the rights of
Middle East nations.
Our questions must re-
main ethical and moral. We
must ask how justification
can be made for the endless
brutality. We must ask how
support can be given thl
brutal and indiscriminate
murders by Arafat and his
PLO splinter groups, and
how responsible leaders can
cry absolution and forgive-
ness on their behalf.
Our concern must b&|
threefold: I
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