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An Israeli soldier guards several hundred Egyptians taken prisoner In the El Arish
battle near Gaza in the Sinai dessert. The Egyptians were later transferred to a
prison camp where they had the same field “Kosher K” rations as the Jewish
fighters.
The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry - Established 1925
Vol. XLII ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1967 - NO. 24
Prime Minister Eshkol and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan arrive with the two
Israeli chief rabbis bearing a Torah and a Shofar for the moving and triumphant
service at the Wailing Wall, legendary remnant of King Solomon’s Temple, in the
newly captured Old City of Jerusalem.
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No Pre-War Conditions,
Eshkol Tells Knesset
JERUSALEM — Premier Levi Eshkol told Parliament, as a
cease-fire prevailed on all Israeli' fronts, that Israel would never re
turn to the conditions which existed before the third Arab-Israei
war erupted on June 5. The Prime Minister called on the defeated
Arabs to make peace. He said a new situation had been created by
Israel’s victories which could lead to direct negotiations between
Israel and the Arab states.
Declaring that Israel had the right to defend itself and would
no longer permit exposure to Arab sabotage and murder, the Pre
mier stressed that “for the sake of history," when Israel had fought
again for its life, only its sons had waged the war. No other nation,
he declared, had fought on Israel’s behalf.
Before the Premier spoke, it was indicated that Israel would not
consider any withdrawals from occupied territory on the Sinai Penin
sula, the Gaza Strip, Jordan and Syria except through direct bilateral
talks with- each individual Arab country in connection with efforts
for final peace settlements. On this basis, informed sources said, Israel
was ready to discuss all territorial issues,* with the exception of Old
Jerualem and the Sharm-El-Sheikh positions at the lower end of the
Sinai Peninsula which dominate the Strait of Tiran.
Yoelis Leave for
Israel on News
Of Brother's Death
Oded and Naomi Yoeli left
for Israel Tuesday on ac
count of the death of his
brother in last week’s fight
ing.
Yoeli, a student at Georgia
Tech, has been teaching at
Hebrew Academy and Ahav-
ath Achim. His wife, a stu
dent at Georgia State, also
teaches Hebrew classes.
Yoeli’s brother lost his life
in the fighting at Jerusalem.
Eisenhower Likens
Israeli Fighting
To Valley Forge
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (WUP) —
General Dwight David Eisenhow
er, President of the U. S. during
Israel’s successful Sinai campaign
in 1956, has compared Israeli
soldiers who won this second
victory over the Arabs and
Egyptians in the same terrain
to George Washington’s “patriots
who stuck it out through the
winter at Valley Forge.”
The former President also hail
ed the Jewish Brigade which had
fought with the Allies during
World War II as “great fighters.’’
General Eisenhower made
these comments in his office on
the campus at Gettysburg College
where he had invited a group of
correspondents to discuss his new
book of memoirs. “At Ease:
Stories I Tell To My Friends,”
published by Doubleday & Co.
AJC Protests
Libyan Acts
Of Violence
NEW YORK — Morris B.
Abram, president of the Amer
ican Jewish Committee, has re
vealed that his ageney had
urged the U. S. State Departr
ment to protest reported acts of
violence against members of the
Jewish commmunity of Libya,
estimated to number more than
, 3,000.
According to information re
ceived from its European head
quarters in Paris, Mr. Abram told
the State Department, many
Jewish shops in Tripoli were
looted, at least two Jews have
been killed, and Libyan Jews
who sought to leave the country
have been refused permission
to do so.
In a telegram to the State
Department, Mr. Abram said:
"We urge you to lodge an im
mediate and vigorous protest to
the Libyan Government against
these outrages in violation of
fundamental human rights. We
further urge that the United
States use' its good offices with
the Libyan authorities to pro
vide prompt and adequate com
pensation to the innocent vic
tims of these outrages, who ap
parently have been singled out
for mistreatment solely on the
basis of their religion, and that
those Jews who wish to leave
the country be permitted to do
so without delay."
Atlanta Editor Views War
This on-the-spot Recount, penned
in Israel while the war still
raged, has already appeared in
the June 11 issue of the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution and through
the Associated Press in some of
the nation’s other periodicals.
The editor considered the imper
ative of presenting the material
for the general public was of
greater importance under the
circumstances than having it ap
pear a week later in this publi
cation. In this way, he scooped
his own newspaper.
*****
By ADOLPH ROSENBERG
Middle-age is a bit late to be
come an active war correspond
ent. But I did.
I am a bit too old to skip
through the streets of Jerusalem
dodging bullets. But I had to.
The mid-fifties is a time for
comfort and not for spending a
rugged, sleepless night in a shel
ter to escape falling bombs. But
it was necessary.
With the insouciance of a
World War II veteran who al
ways had foxholes on such
dimly remembered island names
as Guadalcanal and Saipan and
never once used them, I had
expected to pass up the shelter.
I went to bed at 8 p.m. in a
blacked-out hotel. The few oth
er guests retired to the base
ment shelter.
Neighbors on both sides of the
border were making too much
noise for sleep to come.
WHEN THE wall outside my
hotel room in Jerusalem took a
direct mortar hit, I knew some
body up there liked me. I de
cided to heed the advice of May
or Kolleck’s municipal civil de
fense. I fumbled in the pitch
black and retreated to the shel
ter for 11 hours.
I am a bit old for pushing a
charoot (bus) through the mine-
studded and fluid desert sands
near Gaza and El Arish with 37
other journalists. But I did my
share and trudged with them for
a quarter mile until the terrain
was firm enough for a heavily
loaded bus.
I am a bit too old to stumble
around in a blackedout city of
Tel Aviv, even if the shelter
warning is not on. But there is
no other way to get to sources
of press information at night.
But no American ever is too
old to feel his heart breaking
over the sight of a thousand
children in their school shelters,
courageously keeping up their
spirit while outside explode the
fearful bombs and mortars from
Jordanian fighters and reci
procal Israeli positions.
NO JEW OR non-Jew in
America is ever too old to fail
the sense bitterly the feeling of
needless war terror of a civilian
population he sees scurrying
through the dangerous street fire
reach home and the security
of family and make-shift shel
ters.
I was marooned in Jerusalem
the day war broke out. The
Jewish newspaper convention I
had come to Israel to preside
over was finished. All the dele
gates except myself had gone
home. I had unfinished business.
I wanted to leave behind a pint
of blood as a gesture of solidarity
although I prayed it would never
be needed.
Breakfast in the all but de
serted hotel where I had stayed
overnight was interrupted by a
strange sounding air shelter
warning. It sounded more like a
stuck horn. The manager hustled
us into the shelter and then
rounded up four wide-eyed kids
passing on the sidewalks on the
way to school. This was the first
shelter warning and lasted only
a few minutes. Just a test, the
manager said. Later, it was
learned the all-clear had been
sounded through error at first
instead of the banshee wailing
call.
In a half hour I heard the
radio announcement “We are
n^p fighting.”
MY VISIT TO Jerusalem now
took on an entirely different
term.from the sight-seeing I had
wanted to achieve.
A writer finds himself under
such conditions editorializing
and the exhilarating Jerusalem
air is a help and the historicity
of this Holy City with biblical
significance in every cranny for
the three major faiths of my own
country.
And you have to be outraged
that the people of Israel who
went through the persecutions of
the Nazis now should have to be
subjected to this. They know the
consequences.
Only now they were united in
a land of their own with fellow
Jews in a fantastic saga of re
ligiosity such as the world has
never seen.
And now they could fight to
gether in self-preservation.
I SAW THEM fight for self-
preservation in the streets of
Jerusalem — in the dimness of
night and the fullness of day.
I saw where civilian and mili
tary blood had been shed. I saw
the damage to buildings.
As a souvenir, I picked up a
, Russian bullet that did not have
any name on it Wednesday
morning as I wandered around
the rubble. Overhead a squad
ron of planes was dive bombing
over the Jordanian part of
Jerusalem to silence gun em
placements.
In the several hour calm that
followed I returned to Tel Aviv
because this is the press center
of Israel and here is where the
chiefs of Staff and government
sit in emergency sessions at
times like this.
On Wednesday I accompanied
two bus-loads of journalists to
El Arish and Gaza where a de
cisive battle had raged a few
hours earlier. I saw a part of the
mopping-up action.
I SAW THE prisoners, the
captured Egyptian and Russian
tanks, some scarred by explo
sion and Israeli tanks, too, that
had taken direct hits.
I saw dozens of bodies at
Egyptian soldiers strewn over
the sand dunes where they had
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