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Friday, June 9, 1967.
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In All Walks of Life,
Israelis Rise to the Occasion
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Much is being written about
the Israel Defence Forces and
their battles. Those left in civil
ian life in Israel have risen to
the occasion In many ways also.
Some interesting sidelights, direct
from Jerusalem, show the mood
of the people there.
* * » * *
Rabbi Avraham Heller, who
was chairman of the Civil Autyi-
arity in 1948 and is 73 today, has
asked Haga for any job it could
offer him.
\ » * ♦ *
The Rabbi of Meron, Mardechai 1
Stem, and his pupils went out on
Saturday after morning prayers
to dig trenches. In his sermon,
he quoted the High ' Priest
“Hearken, Israel, today you go
into the field against your en
emies.” That, he said, made it a
mitzva (great deed) to prepare
for defense on a Sabbath.
. * * * *
Women of all walks of Rfe
baked hundreds of cakes for the
soldiers, and one who could not
bake any herself, sent the Sol
diers Welfare Committee 100 Is
raeli pounds for that purpose.
• * • *
A group of Arab stevedores at
Ashdod Port wrote their staff
committee that in view of the
fact that they were not being
called up, they wanted their es
sential work in the port to be
considered “voluntary reserve
service.”
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♦ ♦ * *
The Tiberias hot-springs offers
free baths to soldiers at all hours
of the day.
* * * *
The noted conductor Antal
Dorati went to the Israel Embas
sy in London and said he was
ready to “fly to Israel immedi
ately and conduct the Israel Phil
harmonic wherever and whenever .
required,” according to a cable
received by the I.P.O. in Tel
Aviv.
* * * *
The proprietor of a sweet shop
in Beit Hakerem brought a col
umn of reserves passing through
the Jerusalem suburb to a dead
halt while shd distributed 300 ice
cream popsicles among the sol
diers. As the officer bringing up
the rear offered her a smart sa
lute, he said: “Lady you don’t
know what you have done for
morale.”
* * * *
With the nation continuing on
a near-war footing, cash dona
tions by individual citizens, re
ported for the first time recently,
are rapidly gaining momentum.
Stories continue to pour in.
One man walked into the Tel
Aviv branch of the Bank of Is
rael, placed a stack of U.S. Bank
notes on the counter, saying,
“Here’s $2,000. I want to give it
as a loan without interest, re
payable one year after the war.”
When the clerk said that an of
ficial permit would have to be
obtained for foreign currency ob
ligations, the man said: “In that
case, I’m donating the money,”
and walked off.
The same branch was visited
by many persons who insisted
that their donations of various
items of jewelry be accepted. In
the end, the jewelry was accept
ed against a receipt—pending a
decision as to what would be done
with it.
* * • *
Beersheba registered in the
country’s first announced case of
price reduction. La Srul Espresso
Bar began to charge 40 instead
of 50 ag. for a cup of coffee. Two
brothers who Qwn the establish
ment were mobilized from the
beginning. Their wives now op
erate the place and they said:
“Now’s not the time to make
money.”
“Our Voices Must Be Raised”
Half a world away Arab armies, equipped with Soviet-
supplied weapons of destruction and inflamed by the fanatical
ravings of the power'-crazed Colonel Nasser, stand poised to
deliver a mortal blow to the beleaguered State of Israel. For
more than a week now we have been watching with bated
breath as the grim drama unfolds—the massive mobilization
of troops on both sides, the saber-rattling declarations of Arab
leaders, the frenzied diplomatic efforts to preserve peace. How
many times during this crisis, as we pondered the fate of our
brethren in Israel— survivors of the Nazi holocaust and those
ingathered from the four corners of the earth—have we asked
ourselves the agonizing question—what can I do to help?
About arms and defense, nothing. But, from our sheltered
perch oi* the sidelines, we have a commitment to speak and
to act. Our voices must be raised to the highest authorities of
our nation. We must obtain and secure the moral support and
monetary, backing of the entire community—for our cause is
one of justice. Finally, and this is most vital, we must be pre;
pared to underwrite the economic stability of Israel whatever
the cost. In concrete terms, herein what you can do to help:
Wire President Johnson, our Senators, and your Congressman.
Urge them to reaffirm America’s commitments to Israel and
to the preservation of peace and stability in the Middle East.
As Americans and as Jews, we can take heart at President
Johnson’s recent statement regarding the free passage of ship
ping through the Straits of Tiran. Our Government must now
be prepared to fulfill this commitment, in cooperation with
other maritime powers if posribto, on its own if necessary...
—THE JEWISH ADVOCATE. BOSTON
Noted'Historian Urges
U. S. To Act at Once
UNRWA Views
Gaza Strip '
UNITED NATIONS. (WUP)—
The current issue of the UN Re
lief and Works Agency for Pal
estine Refugees’ (UNRWA)
Newsletter—devoted entirely to
the problems relating to the
430,000 Arabs, 70 per cent of
whom are refugees, residing in
the Gaza Strip—declares that this
Strip “had always been econo
mically integrated with the rest
of Palestine and through it,
with the rest of the world.”.
The Newsletter further notes
that the area, which was con
quered and held by Israel dur
ing the 1956 Sinai campaign,
“was never independently viable,
even with its smaller, pre-1948
population numbering 80,000.”
The Strip, which was occupied
by Egypt when the Egyptian-
Israeli Armistice was signed in
1949 and later, in 1957, reoccu
pied by the UAR when the
United Nations compelled Israel’s
withdrawal, “is the only part of
Palestine,” the Newsletter goes
on to say, “still retaining a
separate identity” and which is
“governed basically in accord
ance with the laws that were
enacted during the British man
date:”
Despite UNRWA aid and UAR
control, the Newsletter stresses,
“the Strip, after 19 years, is still
UNITED NATIONS (WUP)—
Barbara Tuchman, noted author
of ‘The Guns of August” and
other books, has called upon
President Johnson to act immedi
ately in offsetting Nasser’s block
ade of the Gulf of Aqaba.
In a letter published in the
New York Times last week, Mrs.
Tuchman declared that the
“crisis in the Middle East ... is
an American, not a Jewish, issue.
It is the American reputation
that is at stake. If the United
States in this crisis fails to sup
port its stated .position, because
of an involvement in Vietnam,
then the uneasy rationale—call
ed ‘resistance to aggression’—of
our battle over there collapses
hollowly and publicly. While we
claim to fight for it in the Far
East, ^t is nullified in the Middle
East, closer to home.”
Declaring that “in this crisis
in the Middle East we have
come to a moment of truth for
this country and for the com
munity of Western democracies,”
very evidently a disaster area.”
The narrow finger of land,
which juts into Israel like a
threatening sword, is 25 miles
long and between four and six
miles wide, making less than 140
square miles in all.
Mrs. Tuchman notes that “Aqaba
is the crux.” She then turns to
the White House with this state
ment:
“If the President of the United
States can state as a principle
that the Gulf of Aqaba is an
international waterway and that
a blockade of Israeli shipping is
illegal, and thereafter not only
do nothing to implement the
principle' but stand by while it
is violated, then we have indeed
reached the ultimate paralysis
of power.”
Mrs. Tuchman goes on to say:
“Israel represents the land and
the nation which were the source
of the Judaeo-Christian tradi
tion to which we and the other
Western nations belong and
which, presumably, we uphold.
As such it seems to me obvious
that its integrity and security,
not to say its survival, is a closer
concern of ours than that of
South Vietnam.
“Yet the crisis could be our
opportunity—if we met it with
the nerve and firmness of intent
that served us in the Quban
missile crisis. It could be "itsed
to restore the prestige we Jrave
lost, not by futile fiddling in the
UN, but by straight forward in
dependent action, the only kind
that can be effective.”
JEWISH
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