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A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Vol. XLIV Atlanta, Georgia, March 21, 1969
No. 12
CAPITOL SPOTLIGHT by Milton Friedman
China Casting Monkey-Wrenches
Into Mid-East Tension Cauldron
Nixon's Mid-East Policy No Erosion,
Eban Tells National TV Audience
China’s Chairman Mao has in
cited and aided the Arab terror
ist movement to such an extent
that Washington officials are
now newly assessing the Chinese
role in the Middle East.
The Chairman wants much
more than the liquidation of Is
rael. He hopes to embroil the
United States and the Soviet
Union in a fatal confrontation
over the “Palestine Liberation”
issue.
Chairman Mao’s new line, as
voiced by Radio Peking, is that
Washington and Moscow, by dis
cussing Middle East solutions,
have actually entered a "a crim
inal intrigue to establish Amer
ican-Soviet hegemony in the Mid
dle East by way of liquidating
the Palestine question, stamping
out the Palestinian (Arab) peo
ples’ armed struggle, and forcing
the Arab nations to compromise
with and surrender to the Israeli
aggressors.”
Aiming to perpetuate blood
shed between Israel and the
Arabs, Chairman Mao has term
ed any pursuit of peace by Arab
regimes or Washington as “coun
ter-revolutionary political bar
gaining with the Soviet revision
ists.” Any political solution is
rejected. The struggle must go on,
until Israel is wiped out, he
maintains.
The Chairman’s thinking is
that endless violence in the Mid
dle East can be exploited by
Peking. Moscow can be accused
of “revisionism” and treachery if
any accommodation is made with
Israel. It is hoped this will force
the Russians to identify with the
terrorism and the rage Peking
seeks to foment among the Arab
masses. Such identification with
Arab extremism may bring the
Russians into an armed confron
tation with Israel and the United
States, he believes.
Peking’s merging line coincides
with the disclosure that Com
munist China in arming, training,
Continued on page 5
WASHINGTON (JTA)— For
eign Minister Abba Eban said on
the nationally televised “Meet the
Press” program that he saw “no
erosion” in President Richard M.
Nixon’s Mideast position and re
iterated Israel’s firm position
that there would be no with
drawal from occupied territories
before there is peace with its
Arab neighbors. Mr. Eban also
voiced strong opposition to any
solution “imposed” on the region
by the Big Four powers which,
ISRAEL SUN Photos
(top of page)
Egyptian MIG 21 shot down
over Israel-held territory
and a view of the burning
Suez refinery during one of
heaviest exchanges of fire
during which the Egyptian
Chief of Staff was killed. It
occurred during the fourth
time the UN observers re
ported Egypt had started the
firing.
Hillel Help For Draft Dodgers?
Confrontation Parley Advises It
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The national commis
sion of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation may try
to work out ways to implement a proposal to sup
port young men who refuse to be drafted for
military service in Vietnam. That proposal was
one of several that emerged in resolutions adopted
at a three day conference which brought together
60 Jewish student leaders representing 34 college
campuses around the country and the represent
atives of 27 major American Jewish organisations.
The conference was described as the first signifi
cant confrontation between American Jewish youui
and the leaders of the Jewish “Establishment.” It
ended with agreement by the Hillel Foundation,
which sponsored the gathering, to student demands
for an active campus voice in its policy-making
ranks.
The Vietnam proposals were the most startling,
observers said. The resolution adopted by the stu
dents and their elders said, “We support the
young men who have chosen jail or exile by
refusing the draft and those GIs who refuse
service in Vietnam. We regard the jailing of those
young men and many of their supporters as pol
itical Incarceration and urge that they be granted
amnesty.” The resolution called on the Hillel
office to “provide program material to local chap
ters regarding draft resistance, specifically on the
historical, cultural and Hatachic Jewish back
ground for conscientious objection and resistance
to war"—if a majority of Hillel chapters adopt
the same or similar resolutions.
Other resolutions assailed Negro anti-Semitism
as a “ploy” by interested parties to deflect the
Negroes’ struggle for equal rights; demanded an
inorease over the current 80 departments of Jew
ish studies in colleges across the country; demand
ed improvements in the content of elementary
Jewish education; urged Jewish institutions to sup
port Israel and the idea of Jewish volun
tary service to that country; and called on Jewish
organizations to provide service to that country;
and called on Jewish organizations to provide “ip-
formation” for Jewish students to counteract Arab
propaganda on American campuses. The resolu
tion pertaining to the establishment of additional
department of Jewish studies noted pointedly that
“sit-ins,” demonstrations and all ways of bringing
public pressure to bear on university administra
tors might be needed.
The conference heard frank and sometimes
angry criticism by the student leaders of what
they considered to be rigid and self-serving aspects
of organized Jewish life in this country. The
youngsters who represented members of tradition-
oriented Jewish campus groups as well as activists
of the New Left charged specifically that the
Jewish “Establishment” neglected ethical issues
such as the Vietnam war, poverty and the Negro
struggle, and were preoccupied with budgets and
institutionalized rituals.
Dean Marver H. Bernstein, of the Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
at Princeton University, who was elected chair
man of the Hillel Commission, said the students
would have “a partnership role” in the planning
of future conferences. He urged that the college
generation be given its “rightful say” in determ
ining priorities in the allocation of community
funds. “Students have demonstrated that they
evaluate Jewish institutions in terms of their con
tribution to the improvement of Jewish education,
to the development and financing of programs to
improve the quality of Jewish life and to the sup
port of the democratic growth of Israel,” Dean
Bernstein said. Using these criteria, they have the
courage that many of their elders lack in high
lighting the inadequacies and self-serving interests
of organized life.”
he contended, would “globalize”
what is now a local conflict and
thus increase the danger of a nu
clear confrontation.
Mr. Eban conferred with Pres
ident Nixon in the White House
for 45 minutes Friday, met with
Rogers on four other occasions
over the weekend, and spent 75
minutes at the United Nations
with Secretary-General U Thant.
Prior to his meeting with the
President, the Israeli diplomat, ap
pearing before the National Press
Club, stressed what he consider
ed to be the “complexity and
peril” of big-power guarantees
for a Mideast settlement. Mr.
Eban said that his meetings with
Mr. Nixon and other officials
had convinced him that “the
basic principles of U. S. policy
In the Mid-east over the past two
years are still intact.’’
On the “Meet the Press” tele
cast, Mr. Eban said Israel would
not be bound by any Big Four
decision and insisted that there
was a gap between the Anglo-
American and Franco-Soviet pos
itions on the Arab-Israel conflict.
He made it clear that Israel
would not accept the return of
UN emergency forces as a basis
for its withdrawal. He recalled
that the removal of the UN
forces at President Nasser’s re
quest in May, 1967 helped pre
cipitate the Six-Day War.
The Foreign Minister declared
that in any peace settlement*
“the agreement of the parties”
to the conflict must come first.
He said a “new peace map”
would emerge if the Arabs oome
to terms but it would not rep
resent a return to the 1949 arm
istice lines. He voiced the belief
that a new war is “neither im
minent nor inevitable.” He
charged that Arab terrorists were
the “tools and instruments of the
Arab governments” and said Is
rael held those governments fully
accountable for terrorist action*.
He charged that Western inHor-
gi*tk»n modi* had
the terrorists who
meant civilians in a
and aboard an El A1 airliner.
Mr. Eban denied, in response to
a question, that he had met se
cretly with King Hussein of Jor
dan in London last October. He
said he was willing to meet Hus
sein or any other Arab leader
in talking peace.
According to White House
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Principals at NSW Parley
Mrs, Edward Rubinoff
(at right)
Mrs, Bernard Cohen
(at left)
Story On Page 14
Bible Quiz Televised
First Time in Israel
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Israel’s most popular quiz show was
televised for the first time this week and held an estimated quarter
of the population spellbound in front of TV screens and radios. The
show was the fourth annual international world Bible quiz held in
the Jerusalem Convention Hall which was packed to the rafters. The
new Champion, 42-year-old Israel Homri, a Netanya factory worker,
scored 37 out of a possible 39 points, beating contestants from 18
countries. The only other Jewish contestant was 20-year-old Judith
Appleton, a history student from Barnard College in New York.
Mr. Homri, who was lagging at first but soared ahead on points
with the final question, brought the Bible championship home to
Israel. Last year’s winner, Graham Mitchell, of Australia, served
as an adviser to the panel of judges. Runners-up were Mrs. Helen
Joan Brown, an Auckland, New Zealand housewife and Sunday
school teacher, and Pastor Johannes Boertjens of the Netherlands.
Both scored 28 points.