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Friday, September 15, 1567
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As We Were Saying
By ROBERT E. SEGAL
(A Seven Arts Feature)
Letters-to-the-editor, penned
by a few Christian leaders and
dealing with the recent warfare
in the Holy Land, Indicate that
ecumenism is a flimsy commod
ity and some theologians’ under
standing of the history of perse
cution amazingly feeble.
Rev. Harold A. Bosley, Senior
Minister of Christ Church, New
York, a Methodist; Rev. Russell
J. Clinchy, a Princeton Congre-
gationalist; and Dr. Henry P.
Van Dusen, past president of
the Union Theological Seminary,
have all spoken up against Is
rael in The Times; and Dr. Wil
lard G. Oxtoby of Yale’s depart
ment of religious studies has
penned sharply critical lines in
the Christian Century under the
heading, “Outright Disagreement
With Israel’s Well Planned Con
quest of June 1967 Is Required
of Christians.”
The language is polite, much
more so than that of the Coptic
Christian community in Egypt
which cabled the World Council
of Churches asking that body “in
the name of Christ” to oppose
occupation of Jerusalem by “the
very people who crucified Christ
and deny His resurrection.” But
the message comes through clear
ly.
Thus Mr. Bosley has oonclud-
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ed that exponents of Israel's
claims and policies will not re
ceive general support from Chris
tian groups. He would have the
UN settle the matter alone. The
petitions of Arab representatives
in that body and the butting and
puffing of Soviet Russia’s em
barrassed spokesmen apparently
convinced Mr. Bosley that the
Arabs had never threatened Is-
. rael. He deplores the lack of “a
large contingent of voters of
Arab lineage” in the United
States.
Mr. Clinchy reminds the naive
that the Hebrews have had no
political rights in the Middle East
for the last 2523 years, not
making it clear when anybody’s
rights in that area were ever
bestowed peaceably and conven
iently forgetting that there was
no Arab nation on the soil known
as Palestine until the defeat of
the Turks in World War I. (Is
one too harsh to remind Mr.
Clinchy that our American fore
bears scarcely had political rights
in this land in the days of our
beginnings here?) Mr. Clinchy
neatly equates “provocations of
language and attitudes of bellig
erency” by Arabs and Jews.
Were the Israelis then provoca
tive in offering to send their
medics and engineers into neigh
boring Arab lands on missions of
mercy, education, and healing? Is
Mr. Clinchy really unaware of
cry upon repeated cry by leaders
of the Palestine Liberation Or
ganization, by President Nasser,
and by scores of other Arab
spokesmen, demanding—and con
tinuing now to demand—the total
destruction of Israel?
Like Mr. Clinchy, Dr. Van
Dusen draws a startling parallel
between Israel’s defensive action
in June and the aggressions of
America’s foes in World War II.
Mr. Clinchy confines his com
parison to the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor; Dr. Van Dusen in-
Latin-American
B’nai B’rith Meets
SAO PAULO (JTA) — More
than 600 persons, including dele
gates from 10 Latin American
countries, attended the opening
session of the fifth Latin Ameri
can convention of B’nai B’rith,
Jewish fraternal order. Federal,
state, municipal and religious
leaders, as well as the heads of
the local Jewish community,
were present at the opening ses
sion to welcome the delegates
and their guests.
BBYO Elects
STARLIGHT, Pa. (JTA)—The
B’nai B’rith Youth Organization,
at its international convention at
Camp B’nai B’rith elected Ed
ward Zelinsky, 18, of Omaha,
Neb., as president of the youth
organization for boys; and Randy
Glassman, 17, as president of the
B’nai B’rith Girls’ Organization.
Agree on Compensation
LONDON (JTA) — The West
German Government has agreed
to pay five million marks
($1,250,000) in compensation to
Greek Jews in Salonika for ma
terial losses suffered during the
Nazi occupation, Joseph Loving-
er, newly-elected president of
the Central Board of Jewish
Communities in Greece has re
vealed.
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LADIES’ and MEN’S HATS
slats that all persons seeking to
view the Middle Bast problem
objectively “stand aghast at Is
rael’s onslaught, the moat violent,
ruthless (and successful) aggres
sion since Hitler’s Blitzkrieg
across Western Europe in the
summer of 1940, aiming not at
victory but at annihilation.”
But none of the Christian
spokesmen have been as insen
sitive and heavy handed as Dr.
Oxtoby. For him, the issue is
sharply drawn: Christians favor
able to the Arabs haven’t spoken
up because they have been oow-
ed into silence: “ . . . outright
disagreement with Israel’s care
fully planned conquest ... is re
quired of us. Christians must
defy pressure on them to sit by
silently, muzzled by the fear of
being called anti-Semitic . . . Be
sides caring for the hundreds of
thousands of blamelessly suffer
ing Palestinian Arabs . . . the
churches must look towards the
preservation of free speech in our
nation in fact as well as in law
. . . For a time, virtually the only
place in North America where
the Arabs could be heard was the
UN.”
For all of this myopia, the re
buttal by Dr. A. Roy Eckhardt,
professor of religion at Lehigh
University is worth clipping and
carrying with you at all times:
“If the world Jewish commun
ity has been shocked and disillu
sioned by the new Christian si
lence before Israel’s plight, it
must be driven to the verge of
despair by the readiness of some
Christian leaders to call black
‘white’, to label as ‘aggressors’
the targets of aggression, to iden
tify as ‘annihiiationists’ those who
barely escaped being annihilated
by a foe pledged to turning them
into corpses (and who are never
theless prepared to deal righte
ously with their would- be-alay-
ers). There are elements of
perversity, even insanity, in their
identifications. Perhaps we will
next be told that the death camps
were actually protective meas
ures created by the nazis to keep
Germans from being exterminat
ed by Jews.”
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