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Robert Segal
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IW o • •
•? Oodles of people are giving ad-
. vice to Israel and her friends
these days. The flow of sugges
tions is fascinating.
Some writers of letters to news
papers are explaining that the
trouble would be settled soon if
the American pres3 would shake
off its Jewish influence and start
to present “the Arab side.” They
forget that correspondents of Wes
tern newspapers were, in some in
stances, boated out of Arab na
tions during the June unpleasant
ness. Nor do the letter writers
evidence any realistic understand
ing of the conception of a free
press. Indeed, some are disingenu
ous enough to reveal they have
been missionaries in Arab lands
and are just plain irritated by
the insertion- of a pro-Western
democratic, asylum for Nazi war
victims in the rich oil lands that
ring Israel.
Again, there are the cables by
leaders of Moslem and Christian
churches to UN Secretary-Gen
eral u Thant and other key per
sonages complaining that Israel
is violating holy places in Jerus
alem. Pictorial proof of Jordan’s
earlier . , desecration of Jewish
shrines and graveyards seem
never to have hit the light of
exposure. Nor is there any visible
evidence, now of violations by the
Israelis with the possible excep
tions of scars that may have been
inflicted in the heat of a war to
defend a little nation against the
avowed intention of the United
Arab Republic and the Palestine
Liberation Organization to wipe
that sovereign state off the map.
Then there are the assertions
that Israelis have been committ
ing atrocities against Arabs
trapped by the outoome of the
Six Day War. U Thant’s special
representative on the welfare of
Arabs (Nils -Goran -Gussing)
quickly dispelled that rumor.
But by far the most ironic crit
icisms come from England. Here
is Bertrand Russell, for example,
with a charge by his seven-mem
ber mission digging into the Mid
dle East for what Russell calls
"war criminals,” asserting that
evidence has now been found to
prove that the Israelis used “in
human weapons” against the
Arabs.
There was once a British For
eign Minister by the name of Er
nest Bevin who did use an “in
human weapon” in the Middle
East. The gadget was anti-Sem
itism. Bevin displayed it by sug-
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gesting that the Jews of New
York had undue Influence over
Washington (this at the time Hit
ler wa^iding high in his determ
ination tVkill all Jews in Eur
ope). AndTthe Hon,. Ernest Bevin
implemented his hatred of Jews
by using every trick in his tool
box to keep them from the sanc
tuary, Israel.
Another British voice giving
advice to Israel is a most dis
tinguished newspaper, The Man
chester Guardian. Says The
Guardian: Israel must use mod
eration with the Arabs or else
it will fall into the deepest trap
of all.
Query: wha is moderation in
the Middle East?
Is it the exuberant acceptance
of more than a billion dollars
worth of sophisticated armaments
from the USSR by Arabs public
ly boasting of their sacred pledge
to annihilate Israel? Is it the
massing of planes, tanks, and
other engines of war on the bor
ders of that beleaguered slate?
Is it instance after instance of
broadcast threat and the dispatch
murderous border raiders to
incite battle? Is it a stiff-necked
refusal to accommodate Arab vic
tims of an Arab-initiated war of
1947-48? Is this moderation?
Or rather is it the hundred
times repeated offers of the gov
ernment of Israel to discuss and
negotiate a peace in which ter
ritorial acquisitions, the plight of
the uprooted, the guarantees of
frontier safety and, above all,
mutual economic and social de
velopment of a historic abundant
area and of the earth may be
hopefully advanced?
Abba Eban, the Foreign Min
ister of a nation from which even
the distinguished Manchester
Guardian might learn a little
these days, expressed the true
spirit of moderation before the
UN General Assembly in the dra
matic session of June 19 when
he said:
“We could not concern our
selves exclusively with the tor
rent of hatred pouring in upon
us from Arab governments. In
the era of modem communica
tions a nation is not entirely de
pendent upon its regional con-
Golda Meir Asks
More Immigration
NEW YORK (JTA)—Mrs. Gol--
da Meir, former Foreign Mini
ster of Israel, declared at a Bal
four Day celebration here that,
if there had been 1.5 million Jews
in Palestine in 1947, instead of
600,000, the hostilities of 1948,
1956 and 1967 might have been
avoided. She called on American
Jewry “to fill the vast space
which exists between Israeli set
tlements with Jews of all ages,
in order that the recurrent crises
which exist primarily because of
Israel’s small population may be
averted.”
Mrs. Meir, secretary-general of
the dominant Mapai Party in Is
rael, addressed a celebration of
the- 50th anniversary of the Bal
four Declaration sponsored by
the American Zionist Council and
the Theodor Herzl Institute. She
said Israel now had the oppor
tunity to live in security and
avoid future bloodshed “If Jews
from America will come in large
numbers, an opportunity not to be
missed.”
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text. The wide,world la open to
the voice of friendship. Arab boa-
tility towards' Israel became in
creasingly isolated, while our
position in the international
family became more deeply en
trenched. Many in the world .drew
confidence from the 'fact that a
very small nation could, by Us
exertion and example, rise to res
pected levels, in social progress,
scientific research and the hu
mane arts. And so our policy
was , . . to withstand Arab vio
lence without being obsessed by
it; and even to search patiently
here and there for ahy glimmer
of moderation ... in the Arab
mind.”
That search persists.
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