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Amlndance awaits wounded.
Israelis ready for action.
The Southern
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Vol. XLIII
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, March 29, 1968
No. 13
Eshkol Says Thrust on Bases Somc Fwish Backlash
Thwarted Widespread Terror As Re>uU a/yVe * TO Rh
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime
Minister Levi EShkol has told the
Israel Cabinet that information,
obtained as a result of the re
cent thrust into terrorist bases in
Jordan had made it more obvious
than ever that the El Fatah com
mando group had been planning
widespread terrorism against Is
rael and that these plans had
boen disrupted by the destruction
of the bases.
Officials meanwhile reported a
two-hour artillery and small arms
fire duel touched off by Jordan
ian shelling of a tractor in the
northern Bedsan Valley at ttoe
Neveh Or settlement. 3he Jan*,
dan lan guns were silenced with
out Israeli casualties. A tractor
driver was seriously hurt when
his vehicle hit a mine in the Oil-
boa area near tile Jordan River.
The reports came while funeral
services were being held in ten
cities and villages for the 23 sol
diers killed in the previous action.
Foreign Minister Abba Eban
reported at the Cabinet meeting
that he had sent notes to the For
eign Ministers of many countries,
explaining the reasons for the ac
tion. Mr. Eshkol and Mr. Eban
spoke after the Cabinet received
a detailed report from Chief of
Staff Gen. Chaim Bar-Lev and
from the Army Chief of Intelli
gence Brig. A. Yariv on the find
ings* of arms, and on information
on El Fatah plans obtained from
Jordanian prisoners captured in
the operations.
The Foreign Minister, speaking
before leaving for a curtailed visit
to European countries, assailed
Soviet “indulgence” for Arab
terrorist aggression. He said Is
rael would respect and give at
tention only to statements end
resolutions which respected Is
rael’s inherent right to life and
security and which placed central
emphasis on' the causes and not
the results of regional tension.
Australian Shul
Marks 90, Years
SYDNEY (JTA) — The oldest
active Jewish congregation in
Australia marked its 90th anni
versary here with thanksgiving
services at the Great Synagogue
and at a banquet at which former'
Prime Minister Sir Robert Men-
zies and Dame Pattie Menzies
were the guests of honor.
More than 1,000 worshippers
heard Rabbi Israel Porush, the
Great Synagogue’s Jerusalem-
born Chief Rabbi, recall the saga
of the first Jewish pioneers to
settle in Australia 180 yearn ago.
They also heard an address by
Lord Casey, Governor-General,
who recalled his participation in
the military campaign that lib
erated Palestine from Turkish
rule In 1W4-18 w«TT —
The list of Israeli war dead in
cluded one captain, three lieuten
ants, several sergeants and other
non-commissioned officers as well
as privates. Among the latter was
20-year-old Benzion Netter of
Deganya, whose father was kill
ed in Israel’s war for independ
ence in 1948, the year young Net
ter was born.
The sorrow of most Israelis re
portedly was compounded by un-
■ certainty as to whether the strike
Israeli officials reported thctt did indeed improve Israel's se-
about 1,000 terrorists rwere based curity position, whether the toil
at Karameh, which Jordan in- paid was too high tor the results
sisted was a refugee oamp but achieved end how the fundaman-
where huge quantities of anus, tal issue of peace in the Middle
ammunition and high explosives East would be effected by the
IN PICTURES ABOVE . . .
An ambulance of Magen David
Adorn awaits, with open doors,
for Israeli wounded being brought
in by the helicopter now hover
ing above. In <t the other photo,
troops of Israel are seen is the
streets of Karameh — main target
in the surprise raid on intrenched
forces of the El Fatah terrorists.
were found. Karameh and the
surrounding area encompassed
nine raider bases, two headquar
ters, a training center, equipment
stores and a barracks.
More than 80 of the prisoners
taken there were identified as El
Fatah members. Two of them
were brought to Ted Aviv for
questioning by newsmen. The ter
rorists revealed under interroga
tion that their operations against
Israel and Israel-held territory
were regularly supported by the
Jordanian arjpy which laid down
covering artillery barrages.
episode. Israeli newspapers "gen
erally supported the Govern
ment’s decision to" send the Army
into Jordan to destroy terrorist
Israelis were also concerned by
repercussions abroad and within
Jordan which many considered
the Arab state most amenable
to a peace settlement with Israel.
Reports from Amman indicated
that King Hussein was not so
much determined not to take ac
tion against terrorists using Jor
dan as a staging area as he was
helpless to do so.
Oppose 'Selective Objection'
To Vietnam Service by Rabbis
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
executive committee of the As
sociation of Jewish Chaplains of
the Armed Forces has been dll-
closed to have taken a stand Of
strong opposition to refusal by
any rabbi to serve as a military
Chaplain in the Vietnam war on
grounds of “selective conscienti
ous objection.” That stand was
revealed by Rabbi Bertram W.
Korn, a Naval Reserve chaplain
and association president, in a
letter to “present or future” col
leagues.
Rabbi Korn said the statement
was sent to association members,
to presidents of the cooperating
Jewish seminaries, to heads of
their student groups, and to the
presidents of the rabbinic organi
zations.' • '* v
Yeshiva University . reported
recently that it had dropped its
participation in the military
chaplaincy draft, as of last Janu
ary, and was permitting its gra
duating student rabbis-to volun
teer in a one-year experiment.
The Jewish Theological Seminary
disclosed recently that it had es
tablished last year the category
of conscientious objector in its,
participation in the draft pro
gram. . . T3JTUO JJMUlOl
Rabbi Korn declared, in his
letter, that the association had
been informed that “at some of
NEW YORK (JTA) — Re
sponses by Jewish Community
Relations Councils to a recent
survey “indicate a definite and
substantial withdrawal of rank
alii file Jewish support” in cities
hit by Npiro rioting last summer
“for the objectives of the Jewish
community relations field” to
civil rights and related issues,
according to the National Com
munity Relations Advisory
Council.
The NCRAC, which is coordi
nating agency for the councils,
said the responses were made in
answers tor a mail questionnaire
distributed last August on the
impact of the riots on Jewish
enterprises to toe Negro ghettoes
and on Jewish attitudes toward
the. Negro civil rights struggle.
Responses were received from
36 communities, including 19
where riots or lesser disturbances
took place one or more times in
the preceding three years.
Except" for Des Moines, the
NCRAC reported every city ex
periencing one or more riots “re=-
ported some Jewish backlash.
. , .
This varied to intensity
difference’ (presumably . __
/mg a more active omcern)\about
civil rights and related
to resentment and hostilit
ward Negro demands” ami
Jews In those cities.
In areas where continued
ing was found among Jews
special governmental and
actidn for improving the condii
ticms of Negroes', “it often was\
attributed to a grudging recogni
tion that such improvements
might pacify Negro frustrations
and resentments and thus deflect
them from-violende.”
The NCRAC:
tween the
moet<
took place toat
Jewish attitudes
and were reflected
spOrtses by the counc
the anti-Zionist, anti-
anti-Semitic statement
the Student Non-\
nating Committee and
was the espousal of
at the New Politics
that, be
at tbs
affected
Negroes
the
re-
One was
el and
ed by
Coordi-
other
view
tion.
the seminaries and in some of
the national rabbinic organiza
tions, there are those who feel
that a rabbi who is opposed to
our present military involvement
in Vietnam should refuse to serve
as a military chaplain in the
ground of ‘selective conscientious
objection.’"
He t added that the Jewish mili
tary’ chaplains, attending a re
cent meeting of the executive
and representing all three
branches of Judaism, had agreed
that because many soldiers might
be fighting in Vietnam for a
cause which they either did not
understand or opposed, the mili
tary, chaplain was particularly
needed.
Asserting that the chaplains
the meeting constituted a group
which, “militarily, knows where
of it speaks,” he reported also
that they had agreed that “any
clergyman who uses ‘selective
conscientious objection’ as a rea
son for avoiding service as
military chaplain does not under
stand toe essential nature of the
m i 1 i La r y chaplaincy* which j*
that the military» chaplain's task
is to give spiritual solace and
religious guidance to ' troubled
human beings,, not to act as a
special pleader for any particular
ideology or course of political
action."
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