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DALTON SUPPLY CO., INC.
P.O. Box 1246 • Phone 278-1264
207 West Cuyler Street
Dalton, Georgia 30720
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS FOR . . .
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING &
INDUSTRIAL SUPPLIES
Dalton Federal
Savings & Loan Association
DALTON, GEORGIA
Liberal Dividends on
INSURED SAVINGS
COMPLETE HOME FINANCING
101 N. Hamilton St. DALTON, GA. Phone 278-1690
Manufacturers — Latex Automatic Spray — Folding
Machines — Latex Dryers — Roll-up Machines
Rolla-Cota Equipment — Dyebecks
Dalton Sheel Metal Co. Inc.
C. FRANK HAWKINS Phone 278-1656 - 278-6143
439 South Hamilton Street Dalton, Ga.
DALTON
BOTTLING CO.
V .DALTON, GEORGIA
DECORATING SUPPLY, Inc.
Suppliers of
RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL
FLOORCOVERINGS • PAINTS • DRAPERIES
401 E. Morris St. Dalton, Ga.
tives of archaeological, geo
graphical, historical, sociolog
ical and linguistic studies, an
unusual on-the-spot study and
observation post and forum
for the exchange of perspec
tives in all the areas of mis
givings and lack of objectivity
noted above.
Our long and close observa
tion in Israel has brought us
to certain understandings of
the Jewish people here and
their intentions as well as
their acts, and of the prob
lems causing une a s i n e s s
abroad.
Therp can be no doubt about
the deeply religious character
of the average Israeli and in
particular the young, the
sabras. Their religiosity may
not be expressed as we in
America are accustomed to
seeing expressions of religion,
nor obviously is the content
of their faith the same as ours.
It is Jewish, not Christian, and
consequently there are differ
ences. The impact of the Bible
from Genesis to Malachi is
everywhere evident, in person
and place names, in quotations
by statesmen, in names of
products and ideas, in Bible
contests and study, in books
and articles and in many other
ways.
The Biblical records as well
as uninterrupted Jewish tra
dition have created the Israeli
feeling of deep roots in the
land of the Bible and its his
tory. These roots they justifi
ably see as eternal since the
Prophets from Moses to Jer
emiah and Ezekiel reiterate it:
“I have given thee this land
as an eternal possession.” To
state that modern Zionism
(the hope of their own Gov
ernment in the land God
promised them) is opposed to
Judaism is completely to fail
to grasp Jewish self-under
standing and tradition and to
twist Biblical statements. To
take the promises made by
God to Judah and Israel and
apply them to the Church is
an error of hermeneutics of
long standing in some
churches. The New Testament
declares that “the building of
the tabernacle of David” is
after “the calling out of the
Gentiles a people for God’s
name’s and not that they are
the same things (Acts 15) and
thus makes it clear that the
Church cannot absorb to itself
the good statements of God to
Judah and Israel. God’s prom
ises to Israel must and do
stand yet.
The oft-repeated attempts to
be anti-Zionist without being
anti-Jewish (anti-Semitic in
that sense) were shown to be
erroneous by the complete sol
idarity of all the Jews of the
world in June 1967. To say
one is not anti-Jewish but only
anti-Zionist is meaningless,
since that June showed a sol
idarity unimagined before and
demonstrates that there is no
real distinction between these
terms for the vast major
ity of Jews. This is a dan
gerous distinction to try to
make in this age when anti-
Semitism is frowned upon,
certainly in theory, every
where.
Religious and B i b lically-
oriented people should not al
low themselves to be moved
to apprehensions by such al
legations as irreligiosity or
non-Bibleness among Israelis,
not even by the use (misuse)
of Zionist charges.
Books and multitudes of
articles have been written on
the “Palestine Refugee” We
have found, contrary to many
of the conclusions reached in
these books and articles, a
great empathy between the
Israeli and these people since
so many, at least one-half of
all Israelis, have been refugees
themselves, many from Arab
countries. To speak of “a great
deal of pressure and not a
little force to ‘encourage’ the
Arabs to leave” Israeli areas
is sheer fabrication, vicious,
and bound to contribute
to feelings of uneasiness.
The Israeli policy has al
ways been, as she has done
with all who chose refuge
here, that they should be
host countries, in line with the
settlement of similar refugee
problems in many other areas
of the world, and that refugees
should not be used as tools to
raise international political
sympathies. It is ironical that
this issue, maintained by
Arabs, should be used by
friends of Arabs to cause an
tipathy against a people who
have demonstrated so much
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