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Vol. XLII
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry - Established 1925
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, September 29, 1967
UN Told Israel Will Stand Firm
for direct talks, no withdrawal
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
(JTA)— Foreign Minister Abba
S. Eban of Israel politely but
firmly told the United Nations
General Assembly here that Is
rael will stand firm on the pres
ent cease-fire lines until the
cease-fire agreements that end
ed the June war are replaced
‘by treaties of peace which will
ensure the security of all Middle
Eastern states and establish con
ditions of stable co-existence.”
Speaking in the Assembly’s
general debate, Mr. Eban prom
ised that “in negotiations with
Arab governments, we shall make
viable and equitable proposals
compatible with the national hon
or and legitimate interests of all
states. We shall also make sug
gestions for effective regional co
operation and for the regional
and international solution of pop
ulation problems created by the
wars and belligerence policies of
Judge Says Services
‘Never a Nuisance’
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Jewish re
ligious services can never be con
sidered a nuisance in a Jewish
city, District Court Judge Joseph
Lam told a group of tenants, in
dismissing their request for an
order to forbid the opening of a
synagogue in their apartment
building. Judge Lam’s action
was taken in connection with a
suit Jjfftught to his court by the
tenants who claimed Stud a flat
in theit building, Which was
being converted into a synagogue,
might become noisy and a nui
sance to other residents of the
apartment house.
'LIGHTNING OUT
OF ISRAEL’
It’s i handsoms, hard caver, pro
fusely llltistratcd book on the
six-day war between Israel and
the Arab stalls, and it's being
prepared for yen by a task force
of Tko Associated Press, world's
largest news gathering organi
zation. It will tell you what hap-
psaad net oaly in terms of mili
tary movements bat af the
common people and leaders in
volved. Scores of nows pictures
and maps In color and black and
whfta will help make this a
memorable volume that yen will
wait ta read and kMp.
(See Pag* 12)
the past two decades. We shall, of
course, give consideration and
make reply to whatever sugges
tions the other negotiating parties
decide to submit.”
Mr. Eban told the Assembly
that “there . is no other choice”
than the Israeli policy of seeking
transition from the cease-fire to
a negotiated peace and declared
that that policy “deserves inter
national endorsement and res
pect.” To return to the pre-June
5th situation would be to return
to ‘‘political anarchy and stra
tegic vulnerability,” he said,
noting that “national suicide is
not an international obligation.”
Mr. Eban served notice that
“no external declarations or gua
rantees, no general affirmations
of Charter principles, no recom
mendations or statements by in
ternational bodies, however, un
exceptionable, can replace the
sovereign responsibility of the
governments concerned." Peace in
the Middle East, he 9aid, must
spring from the Middle East. He
told the Assembly that the most
constructive course it could take
would be to tell the Middle Eas
tern states to negotiate the con
ditions of their future coexistence.
He said that Israel’s insistence on
direct negotiations was not a mat
ter of procedure tout an issue “of
principle and substance.”
The Israeli Foreign Minister
charged that there had been a
propaganda campaign about the
west bank residents who “moved
without concern across the Jor
dan as a result of Hussein’s wan
ton war.” These people were free
and thousands have returned, he
noted, “but there is relative si
lence about the Jewish commun
ities, especially in Egypt, whose
members are not free to move be
cause they are held in conditions
of cruelty in concentration camps
for no reason or purpose except
of sheer malice.”
Mr. Eban commented on the
new attack made by Soviet For
eign Minister Andrei A. Gro
myko in the general debate and
pointed out that the General As
sembly and the Security Council
had previously rejected all Mr.
Gromyko’s assertions. He then
charged that “the tension which
exploded in the Middle East last
June was largely of Soviet man
ufacture,” listing the Soviet arms
shipments to the Arabs, the So
viet policy in the Security Coun
cil of blocking criticism of Arab
aggression, and finally, the charge
that a false Soviet report of Is
raeli troop concentrations on the
Syrian frontier had influenced
Nasser of Egypt to the actions
that led to the outbreak of hos
tilities.
President Johnson':
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Johnsqn issued the
following statement of greetings on Rosh Hashana:
“As my fellow Americans of the Jewish faith observe the
coming of a New Year, I am happy to extend to each of you
my warmest wishes for health ana happiness.
“The High Holy Days exhort your people to sanctification
through meditation, prayer, penitence, and love of God and
neighbor. This mission lends inspiration to all men of goodwill.
“We are in the midst of a trying and troubled timers
time that tests the bedrock beliefs of our fathers and the
founders of this land. No citizens are better equipped than you
to meet the challenge before us.
“For those who have sought the way of justice and mercy
the road has always been a thorny one. For every friend of
freedom, the history of man records at least one foe. But in
every comer darkened by despair, there has always been the
sterner duty of hope. For every convenient compromise to
principle, there has been a human conscience to bear the bur
den of its own inequity.
“Adversity and distress have been the constant companions
of your people. But valor and endurance have been your stead
fast friends—and our own pathfinders in need.
“So as you gather in these penitenial days under the fath
erhood of God, the brtherfhood of man is enriched by a well-
remembered past and a resurgent'hope for that which is to
come. I
“And all of us are humbled—and heartened—by the sus
taining faith of Judaism in our midst.”
* LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Patrols to Protect
English Synagogues
LONDON (JTA) — Jewish
patrols are being organized to
protect synagogues, following a
fire of mysterious origin which
damaged the Kingsbury Syna
gogue in suburban Middlesex,
Victor Mishcon, chairman of the
Jewish Defense Committee of
the Board of Deputies of British
Jews, disclosed. There were sus
picions that the fire had been set
by two unidentified men seen by
a neighbor running from the
site just after the conflagration
broke out this week. ‘to &
Mr. Mishcon said the members
of his committee had met with
representatives of the Association
of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and
Women “to decide upon certain
steps, including the installation
of patrols."
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L'SHANA TOVA TIKOSEVU -
TO ALL OUR FRIENDS
from the Staff of
THE SOUTHERH ISRAELITE
Adolph Rosenberg, Editor and Publisher
Kathleen Neaee, Joseph Redlioh, Vida Ooldgar,
Harry Rose, Betty Meyer, Kathy Wood,
Gertrude Burnham, Esther Piper,
Buddie Parver, Paul Warwick,
Joan Dinerman, Pearl Rxelbirt
Schary Sees American Negro
Less Anti-Semitic than Whites
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A
leading American Jewish civil
rights worker said that, .Jews
were reducing their contributions
to such “nihilistic causes” as that
espoused by H. Rap Brown,
chairman of the Student Nori’-
violent Coordinating Committee,
but he pointed out that the anti-
Semitic positions taken by SNCC
reflected the extreme leftwing
position assumed by that group.
Dore Schary, chairman of the
Anti-Defamation League of B*uai
B’rith, said in e press conference
here that he did not see the
American Negro community as
anti-Semitic. He characterised
Negroes as less prejudiced against
Jews than were'white non-Jews.
Urging continuation of pro
grams to implement equal rights
ot. Ji V.„
for Negroes, be stressed that
Negroes bad the right to provide
their own leadership. He- aahad,
however, that they “at least not
shove us away” in striving to
combat prejudice end pwlect the
American society.
Mr. Schary criticised the United
States Government for fariBnf 1ft
release the Douglas Skyhawk jet
bombers purchased by Israel
year and said the United Statee
had “an obligation to i
(Me ‘Maud ofif
Middle East” He
the ADL hod asked the State
partment, and the Red,
investigate the treatment of ;
in Moslem and Communist
tries. He said their plight had
worsened since the Arab-Israeli
Wsr last June. '7
Egyptian Tales of Atrocities
Found Untrue by UN Emissary
Shah Cedes Israel
‘Right to Exist*
NEW vr>RK (JTA)—Shah Mo
hammed Riza Pahlevi of Iran has
said publicly for the first time
that be felt Israel had the right
to exist “naturally, like any other
member of the United Nations.”
He made the statement in a wide-
ranging interview with the New
York Times in his palace in
Shimran, a surburb of Teheran.
While affirming Israel’s right
to national existence, the 47-
year-old king said he was op
posed to tbt use of miltary force
in general and specifically to the
sixrday June Israeli-Arab war.
He , repeated previous criticism of
Israel’s conquests, declaring that
Ira* was against “the annexation
of fi nybody's territory by sheer
brifttft" tout!’*” 1 ’* -naalttw.
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
(JTA)—Nils-Gorn Gussing, Sec
retary-General U Thant's spec
ial representative on the welfare
of Arab inhabitants, reported to
the General Assembly that be
had found little evidence to sup
port Arab charges of atrocities
by Israeli troops.
Mr. Gussing was sent by the
states and Israel in conformity
with a June 14 Security Council
resolution calling on Israel to in
sure the safety, welfare and se
curity of inhabitants of the oc
cupied areas.
The UN emissary reported he
spent from July 11 to Septem
ber 1 visiting every area relevant
to his study, including the cap
itals of Israel, Jordan, Syria and
Lebanon, and the areas occu
pied by Israel. He said he had
received, “excellent cooperation
at all levels" in the countries he
visited, and the facilities, includ
ing transport, required. |
He implied dissatisfaction, how
ever, over the fact that, in the
areas occupied by Israel, he could
talk to, displaced persons, ci
vilians and prisoners of was- only
in the company of representatives
of the Israel Government. “Par
ticularly in the occupied areas,”
he reported,:“i1( would have been
of great psychological importance
and would have provided for
franker exchanges for the Spec-
Representative and for the
In area after area, the report
showed, the atrocity charges
made by the Arabs against Israel
proved without foundation. Here
and then*, Mr. Gussing noted, as
in Syria, the. government con
cerned bad deliberately frighten
ed 'people into leaving their home
afeas. In some cases, some local
Israeli commanders, he reported
may have contributed to the un
easiness of the Arab inhabitants.
But charges that Israel demolish
ed villages were not borne out of
the facts, except in instances
where destruction was the result
of military activity during the
war. ' .
The report went into details of
population movements in all the
areas visited by Mr. Gussing. Butt
he pointed out that, for instance
in the Jordan River area, these
were nC specific data about Is*
rael forcing Arabs to cross- over
into the Jordanian-held east bank
region. On the other hand, be rt*
ported that Arabs were told by
Israeli loudspeakers mounted on
automobiles “that they might be
better off on the east bank.” Jor
danian charges of Israeli looting
were discounted largely by the
report ,‘r 4
people to whom he spoke if he
had had the opportunity tp meet
and talk without witnesses to
whomever he wished. This view
was conveyed to Israel CRwsrn-
ment representatives, but without
reenltn*. -
U. S. IN TCI AVIV RAM
TEL AVIV (JTA) —
American Embassy announced
here that the United Statee
would participate in the Levant
bp held at the Tel Avtv
in grounds in' 19M.
Embassy reserved an area of
UNO . equara meftagj for ft*
American exhibits.
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