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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry
Vol XU
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1966
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NO. 48
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UNITED NATIONS (WUP)—
Copies of the November issue of
“The Thunderbolt,’’ a 12-page
tabloid filled with hate propa
ganda against Jews, Negroes,
Communists and the United Na
tions, has made its way into the
press area here.
Published by the National
States Rights Party, national
headquarters, Augusta, Georgia,
the issue carries front page photos
of U Thant and Ambassador Ar
thur Goldberg terming them
“Arch enemies of U.S. scheme to
destroy most civilized country in
all Africa.’’ The reference is to
South Africa on issue of apar
theid.
Among the several announce
ments in the hate-sheet is one
about a book entitled “The Jew
Refugee Invasion of America”
listing these sub-titles:
“History of Jewish Acts Against
Christians: Jewish Dream of
World Domination; Jewish Con
trol of Finance and Press; How
Jews Cause Wars and Revolu
tions; Jews Behind Communism,
and "How to Stop Mass Jew
Immigration Into America.”
The paper also contains an ad
inserted by the Southern Infor
mation Service of Birmingham,
Alabama, for the sale of “high-
powered military rifles.”
Page 4 carries photos of the
two Jewish Nobel Prize Win
ners, Agnon and Nelly Sachs,
along with an article denouncing
the Nobel Committee for its
choice.
Because the maiden npme of
Senator Robert Kennedy’s wife
is Ethel Shakel, the publication
urges its readers to investigate
the "racial background of her
family” in the possibility that it
may be Jewish.
Other publications advertised
in The Thunderbolt are “The
Protocols of the Elders of Zion,”
and the “International Jew” by
Henry Ford.
Leadership Listed For
Chattanooga Bonds
New leadership has taken over
guidance of Chattanooga's 1966-
67 campaign for Israel Bonds.
Sparking the Chattanooga com
mittee are Dr. Samuel Binder as
general chairman, Philip Lam-
pert, co-chairman for solicitations,
and Louis Tepper, co-chairman
for reservations.
The three men are setting a
new pace of participation for the
Chattanooga Jewish community,
to be climaxed on December 13
with a special concert by singing
artists Jan and Lillian Bart.
The singing couple-team will
appear in a special “Fiddler on
the Roof” program at the Chat
tanooga Jewish Community Cen
ter, presenting the nostalgic
numbers for this popular; Broad
way hit in Yiddish.
“We hope to involve more Chat-
tanoogans than ever before,
through the purchase of bonds,
with Israel’s economic develop
ment,” Dr. Binder noted.
He added “With the State of
Israel besieged this year by hos-
Contlnued on page 4
llanuka Begins December 7
Atlanta resident Arons Zelman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Zelman of Atlanta, a freshman at Yeshiva University’s Stern Col
lege for Women In New York City, helps Illuminate one of Juda
ism’s most Joyous holidays by lighting the Menorah candies in
observance of Hanuka. Referred to as “The Festival of Lights,”
Hanuka begins at sundown, Wednesday, December 7, and Is oele-
brated through Thursday, December 15. The holiday marks the
victory of the Jews In ancient Palestine over their Syrian oppres
sors In 165 B.C.E. The Menorah and its nine candles symbolise
a miracle that occurred during the lighting.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel
continues to watch developments
in Jordan with a feeling that
King Hussein seems to have en
trenched himself there after a
few days of unrest during which
extremists held demonstrations
demanding his resignation and
open war against Israel.
It was felt here that the situa
tion in Jordan is nearing some
kind of a climax, as troops from
Saudi Arabia were reported to
have arrived in Jordan to
strengthen the position of King
Hussein against the growing rest
lessness in the country.
A spokesman for the U. S.
Sixth Fleet, which is stationed in
the Mediterranean, was also re
ported to state that the fleet Is
keeping an eye on the explosive
situation in the Middle East and
is ready to intervene, should
Washington give the command.
The spokesman for the 50-ship
fleet refused to state whether the
fleet has already been placed on
the alert.
The anti-government demon
strations in Jordanian towns
along the Israeli border were
firmly checked by the military
authorities, especially in Nablus
and Hebron. The curfew was
eased in the Jordanian part of
Jerusalem. The situation was
peaceful on the Jordanian-Israeli
frontier but not so on the Syrian-
Israeli border where the Syrians
fired from their positions on cars
moving along the road in the Hu-
leh area. No casualties were re
ported.
Several hundred followers of
Ahmed Shukairy, the leader of
the Palestine Liberation Organi
zation—who instigated the anti-
government and anti-Israel de
monstrations in Jordan from his
residence in Egypt—were arrest
ed in Jordan following an order
issued by the King of Jordan.
They included a number of
known terrorists, some of whom
have boasted that they succeeded
in infiltrating into Israel and in
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Subscription
Increase
Because of skyrocketing pro
duction cost, The Southern Israe
lite subscription cost as of Jan
uary 1, 1967, will be $7.50 a year,
it was announced this week.
Editor and Publisher Adolph
Rosenberg stated, “Postage for
second-class mail, costs of labor,
editorial workers, costs of making
engravings, costs for paper —
everything but everything has
headed skywards.
“We fought against any in
crease until our backs were
breaking. Now, we can no longer
hold off and are making the first
jump in cost dn more than a dec
ade.”
“Bear in mind,” he added, “that
the subscription includes fifty-
two issues of the weekly news
paper and our prize-winning lit
erary magazine supplement.
“We have striven hard to in
crease the size of our weekly
newspaper and will continue to
provide our readers with as large
a publication as possible in order
to encompass the increased tem
po of events affecting Jewry the
world over.
“Since our last subscription in
crease was made, we have con
sistently set before our leaders a
weekly newspaper fifty percent
and often one hundred percent
larger. We want very much to
continue these gains.”
returning back to Jordan.
Under King Hussein’s order,
Jordanian security forces closed
the quarters of the Palestine Lib
eration Organization of the Old
City of Jerusalem, in Hebron, in
Nablus and in other centers. The
offices were sealed and all doc
uments confisc a t e d . Armed
guards were posted in front of
the buildings. The roundup con
tinued.
Meanwhile, the Israel Ministry
announced that Israel had with
drawn its complaint lodged with
the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armis
tice Commission over the mining
incident in the Hebron area of
November 12 in which three Is
raeli soldiers were killed and six
were wounded. The step was
taken in protest against the "le
galistic” attitude taken by the
MAC chairman when dealing
with such incidents.
In the case of an earlier inci
dent Involving the derailment of
a train on the outskirts of Jer
usalem, the MAC chairman had
fixed the blame on Jordan be
cause of a technical point The
Foreign Ministry said that Israel
had withdrawn the complaint
claiming that any MAC inquiry
under the clrcustanoee would be
“pointless.” The Ministry spokes
man said that the Commission
chairman had systematically re
fused to blame Jordan for such
terrorist activities.
SPECIAL DISPATCHES
ESHKOL CHIDES SECURITY COUNCIL
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Premier Levi Eahkal, addressteg the
Israel Cabinet, forcefully criticised the resolution of censare recently
adopted by the United Nations SeenrRy <“omnril airalnst Israel far the
retaliatory raid on a Jordanian village November 12.
The Premier expressed regret that the Connell majority Ignored
the cause which provoked the raid and that It dealt with one Incident
only, without consideration of many others. He reaffirmed Israel’s
right to defend herself if the Security Connell docs net take measures
to halt the aggressors—and said the one-sided resolution does not
serve to maintain stability and peace In the Middle Bast.
COMAY: “BASIC CAUSES OVERLOOKED*
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA)—Aa United Nations circles eyed
developments in Jordan and Israel, Michael 8. Comay, Israel's per
manent UN delegate, said the recent Seenrlty Coonefl resolution
censuring Israel did not treat the basic causes of can filet at all. Ho
noted that Holla ad, New Zealand and Ug
tee draft rtoatettan ter Ms tetters to i
Arab guerrilla raids lute Israel- as a haste atsussutf sf tea total situ
ation.
DAYAN OPPOSES UN BUFFER TROOPS
NEW YORK (JTA)—General Maahe Dayan, termer oammander-
ln-chief of Israel defense forces, spoke up here agates! prepmsd sta
tioning of United Nations troops as a buffer between Israel and the
Arab states. “We should aim towards normalisation of relations with
neighbors,” he said, “the buffer of foreign troops merely creates a
fiction in neighbor relations, and thereby defers the peace.”
Gen. Dayan’s statement was made at the annual dinner of the
Zionist Organisation of America, attended by over 1,0*0 in commemo
ration of the 19th anniversary of the UN resolution for the establish
ment of IsraeL
28,000 Students Strike
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Some 28,-
stitutions of higher learning went
000 students in all of Israel’s in-
out on strike over a decision by
the Government to raise the uni
form nationwide tuition fees from
600 pounds ($200) to 700 pounds
($233) annually.
The walkout was viewed with
surprise here in view of the fact
that the students had already
agreed to an increase of 60
pounds ($20), only 40 pounds
($13) short of the Government
figure In Jerusalem, most He
brew University students were
out on strike, but a group of stu
dents there organized a demon
stration against the strike.
Arabs Boycott
Nobel Ceremony
STOCKHOLM (JTA) — Two
Arab countries, Egypt and Al
geria, have informed the Nobel
Institute they will not send
representatives to the Nobel
awards ceremony here on De
cember 10 at which the Nobel
Prize for literature will be pre
sented to two Jewish writers, the
first such award in the history
of Nobel prizes.
The award winners are S.Y.
Agnon, one of Israel’s leading
Hebrew writers, and Nelly
Sachs of Sweden. The Algerian
representative reportedly said
that the award to the two Jewish
writers was “political” rather
than purely literary.
Israeli Ship Docked
In Miami for Debts
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel
Treasury officials have decided
to keep the “Nili,” biggest ship
in the debt-ridden Somerfin ship
ping company, in Miami until it
is auctioned to meet some of the
debts against Somerfin which
have been guaranteed by the Is
rael Treasury.
The decision to bar the Nil!,
now docked in Miami with 300
passengers, from a scheduled
Caribbean cruise, was taken after
Treasury officials heard a report
from the Treasury’s legal advisef,
Elhanan Landau, who went to
Miami to investigate the situa
tion.
Israel Protects
Border Railway
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israeli
officials have disclosed that sec
tions of the Tel Aviv to Jerusa
lem railway line near the Jor
danian border will be sealed off
by a high barbed wire fence in
a program to devise barriers
against Arab guerrilla infiltra
tors.
The new security fence will
first be erected near the Batir
village, the site of the most re
cent guerrilla attack on the
railway. On that occasion a train
was partly derailed when it hit
explosives planted on the tracks.
Jhe fence will be built on both
•ides of the line in vulnerable
areas. Other precautionary meas
ures also will be taken.