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• • • The Way To Mid-East
jess jawm Peace. tiate!
Ever since the June, 1967 Breakfast War, or Six Days War, this
newspaper and this column has been voicing the opinions that if the
Arabs continued their constant sabotage and mauraudings of the truce
lines mutually agreed upon we would see a prelude to round four of
the War of Hate and Extermination which the Arab Nations have
pledged against Israel. We recited the background and quoted inci-
dents and facts which backed this opinion. Moreover, if one examines
the history of the area, one can easily come to the conclusion that
Nasser as a symbol must keep the fires of hate burning in order
to maintain his position of leadership. This, of course, plays into the
Soviet Union’s grand plan of a year round warm water port which has
been a dream of many Russian governments, Czaristic and communistic.
Now, with the Soviet Union’s warships plying the Mediterranean
at will and using Egyptian and other (Arab) bases, this dream is com-
ing into greater fruition than anticipated.
The only item that would stop a clear domination of the Mediter-
ranen is the possibility of a confrontation with the United States
whose Sixth Fleet is also concerned with the Freedom and protection
of that great Sea.
This writer has mentioned here and elsewhere (even in the Soviet
Union) that the only guarantee of a lasting peace in the Middle East
would be an enforceable agreement between the United States and
the Soviet Union to guarantee tranquility in the area.
The Soviet Union has developed its Arab Client States to position
itself as an overseer of the Mediterranean. The United States has
always had a vital interest in the area through trade and treaty.
The only drawback insofar as Israel is concerned will be that the
two superpowers will agree to a settlement that will only provide
fuel for future friction.
It is very simple to have peace in the Middle East. Insist that the
countries involved negotiate with each other and define their problems
and compromise their differences.
Israel has been asking for a face-to-face conference with the Arab
countries for over two decades. The Arabs continuously dig their
heads in the desert sands and insist that Israel does not exist. Yet
their ambassadors and spokesmen call Israel by name and direct all
their propaganda against her. How one can do that against a non-
entity is hard to fathom.
It is high time that the Arab leadership woke up to the problem
confronting them: Israel will not be a partner in her own decimation
or dismemberment, She is here to stay and is building a nation that
most of the world is proud to recognize as an independent democracy.
It is about time the Arabs realized this.
It would be much wiser than to continue the preparations for round
number four.
Round number four could prove disatrous for all the nations of the
world.
And one thing is certain: Israel would prefer to avoid it, if possible.
Black Militants
'new YORK (JTA)—A Jew-
ish community leader has
warned of rising political anti-
Semitism among Black Power
militants who, he suggested,
might eventually muster the
support of the white establish-
ment to the detriment of Jews.
The opinion was expressed by
Earl Raab, executive director of
the Jewish Community Rela-
tions Council of San Francisco
in an articIeTn the January edi-
tion of Commentary magazine,
titled “The Black Revolution
and the Jewish Question.”
Mr. Raab, a former sociology
professor at the University of
California and San Francisco
Staje College, said that while a
majority of Negroes may be
opposed to the anti-Semitic be-
havior of the militants, few are
willing to do anything about it
lest they seem to be attacking
the militant movement itself.
“This reaction throws another
light on the ability of a move-
ment to be anti-Semitic without
a corps of anti-Semites,” Mr.
Raab wrote, .....
He termed “obsolete” the
Jewish belief that anti-Semit-
ism is obsolescent as a cultural
form in America and that the
general American population
was unwilling to engage in it.
He claimed that black militants
could find potential allies
among politicians willing to
pacify extremists at the ex-
pense of the Jewish community.
The writer contended that some
see “the edge of this possibility
. . . actually peeking out in
New York.”
In what appeared to be a re-
ply to Jewish leaders who see
black anti-Semitism as being
confined to only a small radical
fringe, Mr. Raab wrote “such
questions ignore the fact that
this movement has already sue-
Called Danger
ceeded in reintroducing politi-
cal anti-Semitism as a fashion-
able item in the American pub-
lic arena — with what conse-
quences no one can yet tell.”
Mezzuzahs First
Request of Jewish
Seamen on Pueblo
SAN DIEGO, Calif.. (JTA)—1The
first request ofhhe two Jewish
crewmen of the U.S.S. Pueblo,
on their return to the United
States from North Korean cap-
tivity, was for mezzuzahs, it was
learned. Chaplain Garson Good-
man conducted a special prayer
of deliverance and portions of
the Chanukah service for the
two men and their families in
the San Diego naval chapel. He
noted that the men crossed the
“Bridge of No Return” to free-
dom on the last day of Chanu-
kah, stressing the symbolism of
their liberation.
The Jewish sailors were Ste-
ven Jay Robins, 22, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Sidney Robin of Silver
Spring, Md., a communications
technician, and Steven Paul El-
lis, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben-
jamin Ellis of Los Angeles, a
seaman. The Jewish sailors
were reported to have been fear-
ful during their year of captivity
that their Communist captors
might take notice of their reli-
gion and seek to link them with
Zionism or Israel but they were
never asked about religion dur-
ing interrogations.
Navy Chaplain Goodman said
the religious fervor of the two
men and their ' families was
“every emotional and deeply
moving.” They sang Chanukah
songs at the chapel while the
Christian members took part in
Christmas devotions at other
chapels.
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Department was reliably
reported to be so displeased
by Israel’s reprisal raid on the
Beirut Airport that an effort is
being made to block plans .Jo
deliver 5 0 Phantom jet
fighter-bombers to Israel.
Sources here said that the
Beirut raid, occurring within a
single day of the announcement
of final agreement on the
Phantom transaction, ignored the
latest United States advice and
undermined pro-Western Arab
governments.
Later, however, State
Department officials refused to
say whether the proposed sale
of the Phantom jets, on which
final agreement was announced
Friday, would be affected by
the Beirut raid. The report that
the Phantom transaction might
be blocked emerged after the
United States made an official
protest in the “strongest
terms” deploring the Beirut
raid.
Assistant Secretary of State
Parker Hart, on personal
instructions from Secretary of
State Dean Rusk, summoned
Israel diplomats to the State
Department. Senior Israeli
diplomats. Counselor Moshe Raviv
and First Secretary Yosef Aharon
responded.
The State Department then
announced publicly that a
strong official protest had been
made to them and that the
American Ambassador in
Israel, Waiv/orth Barbour, had
been instructed to call
personally on either Premier
Levi Eshkol or Foreign
Minister Abba Eban to
emphasize the gravity of
United States reaction to the
Beirut raid.
A White House adviser said th^t
President Johnson considered the1
Israeli raid “serious and unwise.”
Speaking on a nationwide
television program. Waif W.
Rostow noted that Israel regarded
the attack on the Lebanese airport
as a justified response to the Arab
guerrilla attack on an El A1
airliner at the Athens Airport
Thursday in which an Israeli
passenger was killed and two
stewardesses wounded.
However, Rostow said, the
Beirut raid “is a move which in
our judgment does not take us
closer to a stable peace in the
Middle East.” He expressed the
view that “beneath the surface
, ' in the Arab world and Israel,”
there was “perhaps more
flexibility than we have seen,
more realization that at the
end of the road a stable peace
is the only answer.”
The State Department's advice
to Israel had been to refrain from
reprisal actions because they
might unify the growing Arab
commando movement, destroy
United Nations peace efforts and
worsen the position of Arab
governments responsive to
American influence.
The diplomats here said that
j the airoort attack had made it
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Leadership Conference
In Dallas This Weekend
Dallas will be the host city for the South-Southwest Regional
Leadership Conference to be held this weekend, January 11-12 at
the Statler-Hilton Hotel. Leading Dallasites will combine with profes-
sionals to bring first hand reports to delegates expected from the entire
region.
Featured on the program will be David Schoenbrun, internation-
ally known television and radio news analyst and commentator who
will speak at the luncheon meeting Saturday. Schoenbrun, an author
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DAVID SCHOENBRUN
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MRS. BERNARD SCHAENEN
RABBI HERBERT FRIEDMAN JACOB FELDMAN
and lecturer, is an expert in International reporting. His stories have
won him coveted awards from the Overseas Press Club in radio and
television. He was chief Washington correspondent for CBS in 1961.
iwo years later he assumed the post of chief European correspon-
dent for that network. Presently he is a syndicated commentator for
Metromedia network.
Two seminars will follow the luncheon meeting. Samuel Haber
executive director of the Joint Distribution Committee, will chair
one on Europe and North Africa and Gottlieb Hammer, executive
vice-chairman of the United Israel Appeal, will conduct a session on
Israel in Crisis.
A Banquet Saturday evening will feature Rabbi Herbert Friedman,
executive director of the United Jewish Appeal. On the program will
be Mrs. Bernard Schaenen, National Chairman of the Women's Div-
ision of the United Jewish Appeal; Shabati Rosenne, Israel's per-
manent Deputy to the United Nations and Gordon Zacks, national
chairman of the Young Leadership Cabinet. Rivka Raz, prominent
singing star of Israel's version of "My Fair Lady" will entertain.
* Seminars on Sunday, following a breakfast meeting, will include
discussions on a Campaign Clinic, Women's Division and Young
Leadership Division. Later in the morning, David Steine nf» Nashville,
Tenn., will discuss the "Economic Outlook for 1969" and Irving
Blum, of Baltimore, Md., will summarize the Leadership Conferen-
ce's activities for the assembled delegates.
Jacob Feldman, of Dallas, and Nathan Lipson, of Atlanta, are
co-chairmen of the meeting.
Amman Reports Dayan Ambush Try
The Jordanian newspaper
Al-Destour reported that Israel
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan
“escaped miraculously” an
ambush laid by Arab resistance
fighters on the Israel-occupied
West Bank.
The paper said the car in which
Dayan had been riding arrived on
the scene five minutes late and
that another military car had been
ambushed. Its three occupants
were wounded, the paper added.
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