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Friday, Feb. 21, 1969
PANORAMA
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Page Three
by DAVID SCHWARTZ
If Israel Had Lost The War
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What would have peen the fate
of Israel if she had lost the war?
Three members of the editorial
staff of Newsweek magazine,
who were in the Middle East at
the time of the Six-Day War
have thought about it. They tell
what would have happened m a
book called, // Israel Had Lost,
due for publication soon.
According to the writers, the
Jewish Museum and all the new
hotels would have been destroy
ed; Mayor Teddy Kollek of Jer
usalem killed. Moshe Dayan
would have been captured and
brought to public trial as a war
criminal and he would refuse to
testify beyond saying that he
denied the legality of their pro
cedure. Nasser would announce
gleefully that the wealth brought
by the Zionists would be divided
equally among the Arabs. Abba
Eban would fly to America to
ask the aid of Washington but
Russia would threaten if Amer
ica intervened, she would inter
vene in behalf of the Arabs. Ben
Gurion would fly to see De Gaulle
but De Gaulle would blame Israel
for having fired the first shot
and do nothing. Jews bom in Is
rael would be permitted to re
main, but those who had immi
grated to Israel, a majority,
would be given a month to leave.
Most of them would have no
place to go to. America would re
luctantly consent to accept about
15,000 of the refugee Jews.
The writers say they base their
visions on state&CTits made by
Arab leaders on the eve of the
war. There is just one point that
we would like to raise. Where
would Shukairy hold that great
dinner he planned to have when
the Egyptians took Tel Aviv if
the hotels are destroyed. Presum
ably they would have left one
hotel.
The moral of the story, ac
cording to the authors, is Israel
could not count on any foreign
salvation in case of an emergency.
She must rely solely on herself.
The hangings in Iraq give us
a less theoretical picture of what
would have happened had Israel
lost the war.
But the Iraqis are entitled to
some credit. It is due largely to
the persecution of the Jews by
the Iraqis in the nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries that
we owe the development of
Jewish centers in many parts of
India and the Far East: Bombay,
Calcutta, Singapore. Rangoon and
so on. Not only did many Jews
profit but non-Jews too. For in
stance, before the Sasoons fled
from Baghdad around 1832, Bom
bay had no port facilities. It was
the Sasoons who built the Bom
bay port. They also gave the town
its first public hospital and other
fadlities.
The Sasoons came to be known
as the Rothschilds of India. Later
thoj moved to England and be
came members of the British
aristocracy. One of the women
Sasoons, Fliora, was very religi
ous and aristocracy coming to her
social functions, whether Jew or
Gentile, wore yarmulkes. A lhter
member of the family, Siegfried
Sasoon, was a well known poet.
He served in the first World War,
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In the present persecution in
Iraq, the Jews are being used as
a political scapegoat by the reg
ime in power to save itself. In
an article in the Jerusalem Post,
I. Bar Moshe pointed out that
President “Al-Bakr decided to
turn the tables on his enemies
and take several hundred Jews
into custody on trumped up
charges that would justify his
statements to the effect that Is
raeli spies and imperialists were
behind what happened to the
Iraqi forces in Jordan.”
It was bad news. But there
was some good news. It is re
ported in the Israeli press that
a team of researchers at the
Weizmann Institute have found
that tumors sometimes regress. If
means can be found to stimulate
the process, this may of fee hope
for the cure of cancer.
And there Is another bit of
news that is cheerful. Israel is
showing that it is every bit as
democratic a country as • the
United States. The members of
the Knesset (Parliament) in Is
rael pay as little attention to the
speeches as the members of the
U. S. Congress.
The Hebrew daily, Maariv, tells
this story. Some young tourists
in Israel met with Golda Meir
and one of the young tourists
said he had visited the Knesset
and there were only some twen
ty members present and none of
them were listening to a speech
made by a fellow member. They
were all reading newspapers.
Golda Meir replied that she
once visited the U. S. Senate and
there were only half a dozen
members present and they were
all dozing while one Senator was
speaking and the Senator who
was speaking, spoke very low so
as not to wake them up.
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