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Friday, August 1, 1958
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Pago Three
BEHIND UN SCENES—by David Horowitz
Israel and the Summit
jut into Israel like a double-
edged sword from the Jordan
River. This area was annexed by
Jordan in the 1948 war. It might
be better for both Jordan and the
whole Middle East if this part
of Palestine was returned to its
UNITED NATIONS, (As the
heads of state prepare to gather
for the Summit Conference in
one of the most momentous meet
ings on the critical Middle East
problem, it now appears that the
basic, over-all issue of the core
problem of Palestine may final
ly be taken up along with that
of Lebanon and Jordan. Your
correspondent, however, fears
that whatever may ensue will
be at the expense of Israel.
Recognizing the Inherent dan
gers, Israeli diplomats in and
out of the UN are working fever
ishly to secure a showdown with
the Arabs on the pending ques
tions. Representation is being
made here through the Secretari
at and friendly delegrations. In
Paris, Foreign Minister Golda
Meir has been pressing the point
with the new French Govern
ment under General De Gaulle.
Whether all these efforts will
bear fruit is difficult to tell at
this juncture. One thing, how
ever, seems to evolve as the
E a s t-W e s t “Tug-of-War” ap
proaches the showdown—Israel is
being placed in the position of a
pawn wherewith to bargain. The
Summit meeting will be repre
sented by two major interests.
First, it is the “showdown” of
the Big Powers in their effort to
maintain a firm seat in the pre
carious saddle of the bucking
Arabs’ broncho. Second, it is a
“Bandung” attempt to build up
the Arab region without which
its Asia portion would be some
thing less than effective. From
the “Bandung” standpoint, as
represented by India’s Nehru, a
strong Arabia is an indispensable
beach-head to the rising crop of
new states mushrooming in Afri
ca.
Thus the Summit Conference
is not so much a solution for the
problems of the Middle East as
a public wooing of the Arab
states.
In such a conference, any at
tempt to protect the basic inter
ests of Israel in the clinches
would arouse only the worst re
actions among the Arabs who
may be represented by Nasser
himself. In the laws of expedi
ency and “realpolitik,” which
govern the brutal relations of
states in the ruthlessness of the
cold war, nations do not cross
the very interests they are court
ing merely to satisfy the require
ments of idealistic principles.
And here lies the peril for Is
rael.
For example, it is known that
the Soviet Union fully supports
the Arab demands for the im
plementation of the 1947 Parti
tion resolution and the Berna-
dotte proposals which would
dwarf the Jewish State into ab
solute nothingness—a sort of
“Vatican” enclave. The big ques
tion is: to what extent will the
U.S. accede to these demands at
the Summit? With Israel in the
very middle, Washington faces
a real dilemma and one wonders
whether, in the face of the over-
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all threats to Western interests
in the oil-rich crescent, the U.S.
will not fall prey to the Soviet-
Asian majority pressures and
compromise “somewhat” on the
Jewish State’s sovereignty. In
these unpredictable times one
never knows what fantastic
move will come next.
Summit or no Summit, Ike and
Dulles must not blind themselves
to the fact that Khrushchev and
Nasser have not abandoned their
“Master-Plan” for complete con
trol of the entire Middle Eastern
world and that the presence of
U.S. and British troops in the
area has somewhat upset that
plan, hasty withdrawal of U.S.-
British forces, therefore, might
prove as tragic for the free world
and democracy today as did the
withdrawal of the Franco-British
and Israeli forces from Egypt
and Sinai in 1956. No one denies
today that the U.S.-Soviet-UN
imposed withdrawal order of ’56
only served to give Nasser the
green light for further aggresion
and at the same time opened the
door for Soviet penetration. The
price? Iraq, a shaky Jordan and
a tottering Lebanon. Withdrawal
from Lebanon and Jordan with
out some absolute guarantee of
security for those states against
Nasserism may prove fatal for
the West and most dangerous
for Israel.
The main trouble in Jordan
comes from the Palestinians re
siding in the two bulges -which
motherland, Israel, thus solving
the almost insoluble problem of
the eastern frontier. Moreover,
Israeli forces along the banks of
the Jordan River would serve as
a bulwark for “Western” democ-
racy in the whole area.
FOOTNOTE FOR THE UNITED
KINGDOM: What a price you
are paying today for having ori
ginally partitioned “The IwW 1
Homeland” of Balfour under
standing and given the eastern
half to a puppet king.
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PUBLIC INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN
Atlanta Blood Bank Day, Sunday, Aug. 3
9 A. M. - 2 P. M. • 848 Peachtree, N. E.
Sponsored by Atlanta Post 112, Jewish War Veterans,
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Red Cross Headquarters in Atlanta Receive requests for 200 pints
Daily.
Blood is made available without charge among hospitals in an area
encompassing thirty counties . . . This goes to operation emergencies,
to wreck victims, burn patients, hemophaelic victims in every hospital
in this area, including men and women in the service at Warner Rob
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others in this area, the Atlanta Red Cross Blood Bank is one of two
among the 52 serving the entire nation which distributes this valuable
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Because of the magnanimity and loyalty of a growing number of
donors, Atlanta too is able to have available for those who need it the
extremely delicate and modern heart or lung machine operations with
out the expense and delay of going to Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Today
there are two heart and lung machines at St. Joseph’s Hospital and
Emory University Hospital where these rare operations—heart and open
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:and cross testings, sometimes as much as 25 pints for older persons and
less for children. This highly valuable life-saving technique is at the
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And it should be remembered that the Atlanta Jewish Community,
through the Jewish War Veterans, pioneered locally and in the nation
in creating the Blood Bank program itself.
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Harold Frank
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