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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
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BEHIND UN SCENES by David Horowitz
U. N. Plays Numbers Game
STAN’S Radio TV Eleetroaie
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UNITED NATIONS (WUP) —
This world organization is in a
dilemma over what steps to take
next on the Middle East crisis.
For over two weeks now the
ten non-permanent members of
the Security Council have been
wrestling with the problem of de
vising a peace formula on which
the Council might convene. To
this date, they cannot agree on
any formula that might be ac
ceptable to Israel.
The “Ten,” as they are terror
ed here, were harnessed into
their thankless task in order to
sidestep’ the almost impossible
goal of securing an agreement
among the Big Powers. Moving
by stages, first with an agreed
text by the “Six” Latin-Afro-
Asian members, and with an al
ternate Danish watered down ver
sion of this text, the “Ten” final
ly designated “Three” — India,
Canada and Denmark — to see
what they could do to salvage at
least something out of the con
flicting plans presented. After
much bickering, these “Three”
also admitted failure.
The whole procedure gave the
semblance of a “Numbers Game.”
The plan of the “Six”—actual
ly based on an Indian draft —
contained what before thu June
war would have been a triumph
ant basis for unanimity. Arab ac
ceptance of non-belligerency, con
sent to Israel’s right to move
shipping through the Straits of
Tiran and the Suez Canal —all
this on the assumption that Is
rael withdraw her forces to the
pre-June 5 line.
Today Israel does not regard
this capitulation as something
she might so hastily grant. In
the first place, an immediate
withdrawal would not actually
deliver to Israel this threesome
concession. She would have to
negotiate for it in an endless
round of quibbles that could get
nowhere for years. In the second
place, Israel is not sure that the
ante-bellum lines oould give her
border security. The Golan
heights in Syria may once again
become a dagger painting at the
SILVER LINING
By DR. SAMUEL SILVER
(A Seven Arts Feature)
YIDDISH ON BROADWAY
Want to hear Yiddish on
Broadway?
Go to the^ Billy Rose Theater
end see the lavishly staged and
highly praised, “Mirele Efros,”
with a lively oast from Warsaw.
Star of the
production is the
magnificent Ida
Kaminska, who
scored in the
film, “The Shop
on Main Street,”
and does it again
as Mirele.
The play is a
classic. Written by one of the
giants of yesterday, Jacob Gor
din, the plot resembles King Lear
in that a parent, in this case Mir-
ele, yields her possessions to her
children.
In the play Mirele is an ex
ceedingly astute woman who
saves the business of her hus
band after his death. She is an
executive of the first water.
Her son falls in love with a
pretty girl whom Mirele does not
go for. But she arranges the wed
ding.
Sure enough the daughter-in-
law alienates her son from Mir
ele and begins to protest against
Mirele’e control.
Poor Mirede! Tom by a reali
zation that her son can’t handle
the business and a further reali
zation that her daughter-in-law
(played by Ida Kammaka’s real-
life daughter) doesn’t have much
character, she decides to step
aside.
She departs to another area and
gives her family toll control of
the business. It soon disintegrates.
In a happy ending, the now
chastened children beg Mirele to
oome back.
If you don’t know Yiddish you
can still enjoy the play, tor ear
phones with simultaneous trans
lations are available.
The play is a triumph far Yid
dish and, according to the soph
isticates on the Big White Way,
one of the finest offerings of the
current Broadway season.
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heart of Israeli villages in and
around Lake Kinneret. Moreover,
Israel questions Jordan’s legal
right to the Old City of Jerusa
lem, in fact, to the entire West
Bank.
The Israelis, therefore, are not
prepared to give a UN Mediator
a blank check on withdrawal on
this basis. Premier Eshkol made
it quite clear in his statement be
fore the Knesset last week that
until the Arabs are willing to
make a real peace—guaranteed
not by paper formulae but by
genuine commitments, Israel can
not sit by indefinitely and wait
upon their indecisions. Accord
ingly, he let the world know that
his Government will proceed to
consolidate the occupied terri
tories.
The Eshkol statement was in
terpreted by some observers here
as a brutal admission of annex
ation which the Arabs will un
doubtedly exploit in a “We-told-
you-so” argument. However, the
world is now facing an Israel
which is not prone politely to
bargain away the advantages she
now holds in what may be “a
onoe-in-a-lifetime” opportunity.
Her national security is more im
portant than polemics.
This is the situation the Arabs
—who might feel that they have
gone the limit of concessions —
have to face as a hard reality. If
they can go no further, they still
have some elbowroom for UN ac
tion. It is considered that the
Council might vote the Special
Representative on which they all
agree and give up clothing him
with a peace formula on which
they have failed to agree. The
Arabs can then return to
the General Assembly and try
to get that formula with a
recommendation to the Coun
cil—with all the force that such
a recommendation carries—or let
it stand as an Assembly recom
mendation, namely, as a “permis
sive” but not “mandatory” guide
line for the Mediator.
In the meantime, until the UN
meets again on the issue, there
Is much maneuvering behind the
scenes — in Washington, Cairo,
Jerusalem and in other capitals.
One thing is certain: the whole
world now knows what Israel
wants. Diplomats know that it is
not mere “recognition.” Israel
wants guarantees to her national
existence. Many here at the UN
have come to the conclusion that
Israel has every right to ponder
her future with no return to her
precarious past. The Arab dilem
ma now is that they have kept
Israel too long in that state of
precariousness to expect anything
else than a tough bargainer at
this stage.
And so long as the UN will
continue to appease and cater to
the real aggressors there’ll be no
breach in the current Mideast
Deadlock.
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