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TH* SOUTHBtN ISKAEUTi
Friday, Nov. 10, 1967
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Carl Alpert
The Mysterious Russians
HAIFA—One of the atill
solved mysteries which
panted the Six Day War deala
on the Syrian]
front. Officially!
the Israel Gov
eminent is silent
on the
Asked
about the Rus
sians only last
month, General
Yitzhak I tab
replied: “No Rus-|
sians participat
ed actively in Alpert
the fighting against us, and at
any rate no Soviet prisoners were
captured.”
That would appear to be the
last word, but speculation here
continues. Israel is a small coun
try, and the widely held belief
that Russians were involved on
the Golan Heights is based on
more than rumor.
Israelis who were at that front
make no secret of the fact that
short wave radio receivers on our
side of the lines did pick up con
versations in the Russian lang
uage between points on the Syr
ian communications system. To
be sure, that alone is not suffic
iently strong evidence. In like
manner the Syrians could “prove”
that there had been Anglo-
American collaboration on the
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un _ Israel aide of the lines by citing
the constant exchange of com
ments and information in English
on a wialky-talky system con
necting the two sides of Kibbutz
Kfar Hanassi. The explanation,
of course, is that this kibbutz is
settled for the, most part by mem
bers from Great Britain, who still
find it easier to converse with
each other in English than in
Hebrew.
Yet when the Golan Heights
were overrun, a search of the
Syrian bunkers is supposed to
have uncovered a supply of Rus
sian books which someone had
been reading to help pass the
time. Perhaps some Syrian sol
diers did know a little Russian
—‘but enough to enable them to
read Tolstoy in the original?
It is common knowledge in Is
rael that one of the Russians
taken into custody was a woman.
She had been wounded, and the
story was widely told that when
an Israeli doctor sought to treat
her she responded with curses.
Several of the Russians are re
ported to have been treated at
the Rambam Government hospital
here in Haifa.
Then why the official denials?
Perhaps General Rabin’s careful
words should be analyzed. He
said that no Russians “participat
ed actively” in the fighting
against us. This is doubtless true.
Any Russians on the Syrian front
wore there as consultants, as ad
visers or as technical experts, ra
ther than as combatants. This
sheds light on the second half of
Rabin's statement to the effect
that no Soviet prisoners were
captured. If the Russians were
not enemy combatants, then they
Higher Education
Makes Big Strides
At 3 Universities
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
swift growth of higher education
in Israel was dramatized last
week as three major universities
moved ahead with expansion
projects with the blessings of the
Prime Minister and members of
his cabinet.
Tel Aviv University laid the
cornerstone of its ten-story med
ical school budding and will lay
another cornerstone for its new
Peretz Naftali social and science
faculty building. Haifa University,
Israel’s youngest, dedicated its
first building ‘and Bar Ilan Uni
versity will dedicate its Gustav
Wurzweiler Library.
Prime Minister Levi Eshkol
and Minister of Education Zalman
Aranne attended the Haifa dedi
cation. At Tel Aviv, Health Min
ister Israel Barzilai said “it is un
fortunate that we meet to re
joice in such a ceremony while
the victims of the destroyer Elath
have been laid to their eternal
rest.”
Need Immigration
For *Greater Israel’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime
Minister Levi Eshkol warned an
audience of B’nai B’rith leaders
here that poor prospects of fur
ther immigration of Jews to Is
rael, particularly from Western
countries, could seriously hamper
Israel in any future negotiations
with the Arabs over boundaries
and an eventual peace settle
ment.
Addressing the opening session
of the B’nai B’rith Israel Com
mission, the Prime Minister re
ferred to a “greater Israel’' in
cluding the occupied parts of Jor
dan, Syria and Egypt, and to the
“new opportunities” that faced
his nation in the aftermath of its
victory in the Six-Day War last
June. He noted that “greater” Is
rael’s population today numbers
3.8 million, of which 64 percent
are Jews and 36 percent non-
Jews. “If you were to ask me
what is required to realize these
opportunities, I would answer in
one simple phrase: ‘We need
Jews’,” he said.
were taken into custody (not cap
tured) just as we would “rescue”
any other foreign citizens who
happened to be in the battle zone.
Following medioal treat ment
where necessary, the rescued
Russians were handed over to the
Soviet Embassy, which at once
took care of their repatriation.
It will be recalled that a special
Russian ship put in at Haifa to
evacuate Soviet Embassy person
nel following the severance of
diplomatic relations.
It is also worth noting that
Russia broke off diplomatic re
lations with Israel not after the
defeat of Egypt, not after- the
capture of Jerusalem, but only
when Israel’s troops undertook to
silence Syrian guns.
Why Israel refuses to confirm
known facts is difficult to ex
plain. The Russians know that we
know. There can certainly be no
desire to spare them embarrass
ment or humiliation, in view of
the Russian attacks against Is
rael at the UN. By keeping mum
we keep the Russians guessing.
Or is Israel simply trying to
play down Russian involvement,
so that it will be easier for the
Soviets to disengage from this
area later, should they so desire?
At any rate, if Israel continues
to maintain official silence il must
have good reasons. Perhaps some
day the truth will be told.
Anti-Semitic Slurs
All Seen Brewed
In Same Arab Pot
HOUSTON, Tex. (JTA) —Ben
jamin R. Epstein, national director
of the Anti-Defamation League
of B’nai B’rith, said that virulent
anti-Israel and anti-Jewish prop
aganda put out by the Palestine
Liberation Organization and the
Palestine Arab Delegation is dis
seminated in the USA by two
racist organizations, the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Commit
tee (SNCC) and the white su
premacist National States Rights
Party.
Speaking before the ADL’s na
tional executive committee, Mr.
Epstein displayed copies of the
SNCC’s newsletter and the states
right party organ, “Thunderbolt,”
which showed the same “word-
for-word” dependence on Arab
propaganda material against Jews,
Zionism and Israel, although the
white and Negro groups are
“polar opposites.’’
Mr. Epstein said that the
SNCC newsletter “parroted whole
sections of a 1966 Palestine Lib
eration Organization Diatribe
produced in Lebanon” while the
“Thunderbolt” reproduced whole
paragraphs from a Palestine Arab
Delegation polemic issued last
July 14. Both Arab oganizations
are registered with the U. S. Gov
ernment as agents for foreign
powers under regulations of the
Foreign Agents Registration Act.
City Block in N.Y.
Bought by Seminary
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
Jewish Theological Seminary of
America announced recently that
it has purchased from Columbia
’University an entire square
block of the upper West Side of
Manhattan, part of which is now
occupied by 1 the Seminary and
part of which will be used to ex
pand its facilities. The purchase
price was $2.3 million. The
property consists of apartment
buildings which will continue to
be used as dwelling under their
old management and rental poli
cies, the Seminary said.
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