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Friday, Mar. 13, 1970
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Repetition of History Destroys Mystery
Some years ago it would have
all gone down under the head
ing "The Mysterious Orient"
But repetitiousness destroys
mystery and familiarity breeds
contempt. And so one of the two
“dramatic turns” in the Arab
world in mid-February evoked
much less impact than Cairo
would have liked and the other
created much less surprise thtar.
would have been to the pood of
Amman. ¥
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nouncement of
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tions fbr a “peaceful settlement
and reaped a bountiful harvest
of editorials welcoming H* rea
sonable attitude of C<v NaseerY
government But no sooner had
the reports of these stamen eats—
about the same time as fft*.
F»w?i himself—reached Cairo
than the K»vp«aa gcvarwment
frantkmlh denied Mr Taf«
ever said such unape^aoh
things and the whole thing was
bet scare wkLiosthu'enae ftaf
Ihwe enough the same show
wee repoased agaSt t&as tawa. Mr.
Ft SaysK never sard wh*« every
wnmoaknt heard h*te say «
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nlamed fbr him—wee that Mr.
noojKwal had some points
*vei ne<0 not be denounced out-
Tsght such ns the need to imple
ment the t’N Security Coun
cil rws^AUUon of Nov. 1967, of
course only if it is implemented
as Moscow and Cairo interpret
it and not Washington or Lon
don. In fact, nobody paid too
much attention to Cairo's denial
of its own official spokesman—
simply because by now the game
became too familiar: trying to
gain some sympathetic headlines
in the West Dy sounds of reason
ableness—and quickly abandon
ing them when somebody inside
the Arab world seemed to take
them seriously.
Not leas unusual—if somewhat
leas easily explicable was King
HUssein's latest exercise. Again,
as sevefal times in the past, ha
issued dramatic regulations aim
ed to curtail drastically the
power of the terrorist organisa
tions that have become a State
within the State of Jordan.
Again as in the past, when the
terrorists said "no" and dared
the King by resisting by force,
Hussein quickly backed down
and gave in to the terrorists.
The reasons for the King’s
initial action were clear enough.
Like the man who knows that
his disease may ultimately lead
him to the grave, the King tries
from time to time to get rid of
the cancer of terrorism in his
country—but backs down when
faced with the need for drastic
surgery. Moreover, the King was
probably well aware that he had
no chance to reap any tactical
benefits from U. S. Secretary of
State Rogers’ proposals as long
as he did not make any half-
credible effort to control the ter
rorists—whose unequivocal rejec
tion of any peaceful settlement
saves Israel the need to justify
her own conditions of the settle
ment
What was less clear were some
of the peculiar circumstances of
the King’s latest repeat-perform
ance. The regulations issued
war* broader than before: not
only waa bearing of arms and
explosive# in populated areas
forbidden but so was also any
political organization. The reg
ulations were announced right
after Hussein’s return from
Cairo, clearly Implying that his
action had Nasser’s approval.
This seemed confirmer! when
Cairo radio for 36 hours abstain
ed—in contrast with Damascus
and Baghdad Radio — from at
tacking the King’s regulations.
In addition, the whole thing was
done somewhat too nonchalantly:
the King was about to leave for
Pakistan, the Prime Minister to
other foreign countries — as if
the regulations to control the
terrorists were a minor matter.
Or, as others thought, as if he
expected a major blood-bath and
felt it more politic to be out of
the country, for history’s sake.
But when the terrorists re
fused to bow down and shooting
ensued in Amman, and the Egyp
tian controlled Fatah Radio m
Cairo opened up full blast
against Hussein, the King can
celled his trip abroad—and then
cancelled the controversial reg
ulations—much faster than the
actual scope of the clash would
have justified.
It looked strikingly as if Nas
ser, as often in the past, set up
guy-
pulled the rug from under him.
ght,
Copyright, 1970—JTA
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QUESTION: Why does the
public reader of the Torah begin
reading each portion with a loud
exclamation of “Amen”?
ANSWER: Before each read
ing, one of the worshippers is
called up to the Torah and he
recites a benediction before the
reading takes place. The offic
ial reader, like anyone else in
the congregation is obligated to
recite the refrain “Amen” upon
hearing a benediction. The rea
son for which the reader res
ponds with “Amen” in a loud
voice is so that the congrega
tion, whose attention may have
strayed in between the read
ings of the portions might be
alerted again and begin to pay
attention to the reading which
is about to commence. Some con
tend that this practice is ob
served to publicly display the
association between the reader
and the one who is called to the
Torah. Basically, everyone who
is called to the Torah should
read the portion himself. It was
only because fewer and fewer
people knew how to read the
Torah accurately that a public
reader was appointed in each
congregation. Still, in order to
show that the public reader is
only acting on behalf of the
worshipper who had been called
to the Torah, the reader responds
with a loud “Amen” to the ben
ediction of the worshipper join
ing the two in a united action.
QUESTION: Why Is the 29th
Psalm recited in the synagogue
when returning the scroll to the
ark on Saturday morning?
ANSWER: Some say that this
is done because the Psalm re
fers to the seven attributes of
the “voice of the Lord” which
supposedly corresponds to the
seven benedictions of the Mus-
aph service which immediately
follows the return of the scroll
to the ark (Pri M’gaddim, 284:2).
The Torah reading remind* us
of the “voice of the Lord” at
Sinai when the Torah was given.
For this reason it becomes an
additional tribute to the almighty
to offer this Psalm after the
Torah reading. The use of this
psalm is restricted to the Torah
reading on the Sabbath morning
because it was on a Sabbath
morning that the Torah was orig
inally given at Sinai. According
to some, reading the Torah is
like repeating the dramatic oc-
currance at Sinai and thus the
great attributes of the Al
mighty’s voice are referred to
by reciting the 29th Psalm.
Copyright, 1970—JTA
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