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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, Oct. 20, 1967
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
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United Appeal Campaign
For Citizens Who Care And Share
On October Tenth, Atlanta opened its Ninth Annual Unit
ed Appeal Campaign with a goal set at $6,219,111. This is re
garded as the minimum required by the 45 Chest agencies and
die Red Cross to carry on their programs of service and help
in 1968. Once again, the citizens of Metropolitan Atlanta will
show that they care and will share their blessings of prosper
ity and well-being.
This campaign represents federated financing. It enables
Citizens to make one contribution in one campaign to cover
the needs of all the agencies in the United Appeal.
One campaign avoids a multiplicity of drives for funds.
It conserves volunteer manpower, and is an efficient, eco
nomical method of meeting the budgets of the agencies sup
ported by the United Appeal.
Although this is the ninth year of the combined appeal of
the Chest and the Red Cross in Atlanta, it is the forty-third
year of the Community Chest drive. The member organiza
tions receiving funds from the campaign represent a variety
of health, welfare and community needs of our local fellow
citizens in the five-county area of our growing metropolitan
city.
The emphasis in the programs of these agencies is on pre
vention of breakdown of family life, on the guidance of youth,
and on helping the elderly, and on counselling the mentally
and emotionally disturbed. Their basic aim remains always
to enable individuals and families to realize the potential of
their capacities and to live lives of usefulness in dignity and
self-respect.
The Jewish citizens of Atlanta have an added incentive
to see that the drive is a success. The Jewish Social Service
Federation has been a charter member of the Chest since 1924
when the latter was first established. It has continued to par
ticipate to thife day. The Federation includes the support of the
programs of the Jewish Family and Children’s Bureau, the
Ben Massell Dental Clinic and supplements the needs of the
Jewish Community Center. Hence our Atlanta readers have a
direct interest in the outcome of this drive.
The fulfillment of this civic responsibility is the impera
tive of Jewish people no matter in what community they live
since all face a similar imperative.
What we do will pay us dividends in human welfare and
magnify the good name of our community—no matter where
we live.
What The Press Is Saying
Hussein’s Double Game
So now King Hussein of Jordan has been
given the royal treatment in Russia. He who
cannot lead his troops in victory can always
visit a big ally in defeat. In Moscow, the tour
ing King received a sympathetic reception to
his words that Israel was a “hotbed of aggres
sion.” Yet, it is clear, Hussein is playing a
double game (and the Soviets are well aware
of it, WTJP editor). His hope is that our coun
try and other western powers will be fright
ened at a possible Soviet-Jordan alliance, and
come across with more supplies for his anti-
Israel adventurism. This would be a tragic
conclusion for us to draw. Jordan is a thin
reed indeed as nation or ally. For the Russians
he may be a strong puppet. Not so for anyone
interested in a realistic Mideast peace. All
Hussein’s running back and forth will never
substitute for his sitting down at the negoti-
ations-table with the country that defeated
him. Only with Israel can he work out his
problems. No trip to Moscow will lead to that
solution.
B’NAI B’RITH MESSENGER
Los Angeles
WHEN WHOLE WORLD
WILL KEEP SUKKOT
And it shall come to pass, that everyone
that is left of all the nations that came against
Jerusalem shall go up, from year to year, to
worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, and to
keep the Feast of Tabernacles. And it shall be,
that whoso of the families of the earth goeth
not up unto Jerusalem to worship the King,
the Lord of Hosts, upon them there shall be
no rain. And if the family of Egypt go not up.
they shall have no overflow. . . (Significantly,
Egypt is the only nation listed by name here
in this prophecy which speaks of a final con
flict with Jerusalem, note well, as the focal
point of struggle involving all the nations on
earth. Are we witnessing a ‘prelude’ to all
this right now here at the UN?
ZECHARIAH BEN BERECHIAH
ben Iddo, Chapter Fourteen
Israel Holds Tactical
Advantage Along Suez
A journey along the east side of the Suez
Canal these days shows how cheaply Israel
can occupy this area and whatYi clear tactical
advantage she has along it. From Qantara on
the north to the canal’s southern mouth here
at Port Taufiq, the cease-fire arranged by the
UN in June continues to be disrupted by peri
odic gun duels between the Israelis and the
Egyptians. But gunfire is ahout the only thing
that disturbs the mirages that glimmer above
the desert along the more than 80 miles that
Israel holds on the east bank. The trees, the
houses, and the people are all on the west
bank in the Egyptian-held territory. The east
bank is virtually devoid of human life. Qan
tara is a ghost city, with only the small Israeli
garrison and the headquarters of the military
observers of the UN showing among its dust-
covered streets. There are no other commun
ities, even deserted ones along the remainder
of the Israeli-held side. At Port Taufiq, the
Israeli-held sector consists only of a small col
lection of stucco houses, mostly destroyed, and
a long jetty sticking into the Gulf of Suez. . .
The only sign of activity in the sector comes
from the Israeli reservists who man the posi
tions and watch the Egyptians manning their
positions across 200 yards of bay ... As the
occupying power, Israel has few problems
with the economy of the Sinai Peninsula,and
her half of the Canal Zone. . . What gives the
Israelis their great tactical advantage along
the canal is that if the Egyptians open fire,
there is nothing for them to hit, except an
Israeli military position. . . But just to the
north of the Israeli sector of Port Taufiq lies
the city of Suez which is still in Egyptian
hands. Its two large refineries, which must
supply a considerable amount of gasoline for
Egyptian automobiles, were smoking in the
near distance within easy military range of
the Israelis. . . Asked about the closeness of
these targets, an Israeli major replied: <n fhey
know where we are and what we can do.
That’s why there hasn’t been more trouble
than there already has been with the Egyp
tians. .
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Israel Soccer Team
Defeats All-Stars
NEW YORK (JTA) — Israel’s
national soccer team, all of
whose members saw action in the
Six-Day War, routed the Ameri
can Soccer League all-star squad
by a score of 3 to 1 in an action-
packed game before 22,232 cheer
ing fans at Yankee Stadium here.
The Israeli team “attacked as
though borne by halftracks,” ac
cording to one observer of the
game, to chalk up their fifth vic
tory in a row since leaving
Israel. The game opened with the
singing of Hatikvah, the Israel
national anthem, and the Star
Spangled Banner.
Shalom Sails
Sans Passengers
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
25,300-ton S.S. Shalom, once
pride of Israel’s merchant ma
rine, bid a sad farewell to the
Port of New York when she
sailed from here, without pass
engers, on her last voyage under
the Israel flag. The $20 million
luxury liner, built for the Zim
Lines in 1964, was sold earlier
this year to the German Atlantic
Line of Hamburg, which report
edly paid $16 million for her.
JEWISH
CALENDAR
"SUKKOT
Oct. 19-20, Thurs.-Fri.
•HOSHANA RABBA
Oct. 25, Wednesday
‘SHEMINI ATZERET
Oct. 26, Thursday
•SIMHAT TORAH
Oct. 27, Friday
‘HANUKA
Dec. 27—Jan. 3
Wednesday—Wednesday
‘HOLIDAY BEGINS
SUNDOWN PREVIOUS DAY
Polish Writer Bets
Lines Won't Change
UNITED NATIONS (WUP)—
A well-known Polish correspon
dent here at the UN has made a
bet with a countryman, a high-
ranking diplomat, that, in the
face of the current stalemate, the
Six-Day War cease-fire will
stand unchanged a year from
now.
The Polish diplomat took up
the bet with the contention that
the Suez line will see a change
before the year comes to an end.
He held the view that both Israel
and the UAR will agree to a
token withdrawal of Israeli
forces, say, to a distance of some
ten miles, in return for which
Nasser will open the Canal to
all ships, including Israeli ves
sels.
The Polish correspondent was
not so optimistic. He did not be
lieve either side would agree to
such an arrangement.
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