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Richard Tucker said on “The
Eternal Light” that he’ll sing
Beethoven's Ninth with the
Israel Philharmonic at this sum
mer’s Cesaria Festival. He re
called that when he received
an honorary doctorate at Notre
Dame, a Dutch Cardinal sur
prised him by reciting the
motzi. "When, God Willing, I
come to Holland,” the thankful
Tucker said, "I .went to sing a
benefit concert for any of your
charities.” The Cardinal replied:
“Mr. Tucker, please, you don’t
really -have to do that' — but
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CAP
rican Troops Xo Tsrael:
In the critical days Which lie
ahead for Israel a dormant ques
tion will have to be faced
squarely 1)y both Washington
and Jerusalem: Does the secur
ity of the Jewish state now de
pend on more than American
willingness to supply arms? Does
it in fact now depend on Amer
ican readiness to intervene di
rectly on Israel’s behalf with
United States forces?
At the time of the 1967 Six-
Day War, Gen. Moshe Dayan
made it clear that Israel did not
want “American boys to spill
their blood for Israel.” Since the
war, Israel’s consistent policy
has been to reject any sugges
tions of direct American military
aid and to insist only on the
right to purchase desperately
needed planes and sophisticated
weaponry, which she can get
only from the United States.
Officially this is still Israel’s
For NuMB
position. And in the recent
White House briefings given to
underline the seriousness of the
Middle East confrontation sen
ior American advisors emphasiz
ed that they did not see the
need for an American military
presence on Israel’s side at this
stage to counter-balance the
Russian involvement in Egypt.
But the emphasis must be on
the phrase “at this stage.” Al
ready the question of American
involvement has been raised in
Israeli newspapers and, unoffic
ially, Israeli leaders acknow
ledge that however efficient
their forces might be, they can
not contend with Soviet power
if Moscow decides to escalate. /
There is a grim recognition
among the Israelis these days
of what they are up against.
Opinion polls taken in recent
$
AMERICAN SCENE .... By George Friedman
‘Galilis Of The Field,’ Or
‘Dayan of the Thousand Days’
Any lingering doubts about
Israel’s coming of age should be
dispelled by the “R” rating given
by the Motion Picture Associa
tion of America to a newly im
ported Israeli film, “The Dream
er.” An “R” rating bars persons
under a certain age, usually 16
or 17, unless accompanied by
an adult The distributors and
producer Ami Artzi unsuccess
fully sought a “GP” rating—ad
mission to all, with parental
guidance advised for niJh<Jf£ '"**
“The Dreamer,” Israel's entry
at the recent 1970 Cannes Film
Festival, is said to contain a
love scene, photographed in sil
houette, in which a young se
ductress places a boy’s hand on
her breast
Perhaps Artzi and associates
should consider themselves for
tunate after .all. Imagine what
would have happened if Cecil
B. DeMille had made the movie.
He would have called it “Sex
in the Sinai” and it would have
gotten an “X.”
Concurrently, the Israeli Cen
sorship Board, run by the Na
tional Religious Party’s Interior
Ministry, has banned the hit
American film “M*A*S*H” be
cause of its irreverence toward
war. A week earlier, it had ex
punged the brief nude scene
from the first act of the hippie
musical “Hair.”
Curiously, the decisions come
at a time when the success of
the new television system is
ruining theatre business in Is
rael. Ticket taxes are being
lowered to help out. And the
Knesset is about to pass, if it
hasn’t already, a law requiring
foreign ! film distributors to
Spend 40 percent of their Is
raeli earnings there, a practice
followed in a number of other
small nations.
A better solution might be the
production of more films about
Mideast and related current
events and personalities, especi
ally if the rights to appropriate
but already used titles can be
obtained. Consider the possibil
ities:
Gamal Abdel Nasser in “Good
Neighbor Sam”;
King Hussein in “Here Comes
Mr. Jordan”;
Golda Meir in “The Lady
Fights Back”;
Nahum Goldinann in “Boy,
Did I Get a Wrong Number”;
David Ben-Gurion in ‘Tile
Lion in Winter”;
— William P. - Rogers in “The
Juggler”;
Richard Nixon and Spiro Ag-
new in "Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid”;
The UN in “House of Cards”;
The Big Four Ambassadors in
“A Hard Day’s Night”; ;
The Big our Deputies in
“Help”;
U Thant in “Man in the Mid
dle”;
The Lebanese Government and
the Lebanese terrorists in “The
Arrangement”;
The Security Council in “Gen
tleman’s Agreement”;
Yosef Tekoah in “Inadmissible
Evidence”;
Helen Ziedmann in “Tbe Se
cret Life of an American Wife”;
Barbra Streisand in “A House
Is Not a Home”;
The Israelis and the Arabs in •
“The Good Guys ‘and the Bad
Guys”;
U. S. Phantoms and Sky-
hawks in “The More the Mer
rier”;
Georges Pompidou in “Change
at Mind”;
Joseph Sisco in “The Errand
Boy”;
Gunner, Jarring in “The Long
Wait”; \
Nasser & Hussein & Al-Attasi
& Helou in “Bob & Carol &
Ted & Alice”;
The Mideast Cease-fire in “Let
It Be”;
The Mid east Peace Treaty in
“The Happy Ending.”
fill ,
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weeks reveal the dilemmas they
face. According to,the poll taken
by the Public Opinion Research
of Israel, 62 percent of the total
adult population opposes the
suggestion that American pilots
should participate actively in
the Arab-Israeli conflict, 32 per
cent favor it and the remaining
i 6 percent expressed no opinion.
' In another poll 52 percent said
they believed that the United
States might reach agreement
with Russia at Israel’s expense,
a further 30 percent said that it
was "impossible” for such a
thing to happen and 17 percent
expressed no opinion.
The interesting aspect of these
polls is the Israeli ambivalence
towards the United States. Op
the one. hand they want and
need American support, but on
the other they are suspicious
about being negotiated away as
a pawn in the Big Power game.
On the one hand they want the
United States to force the So
viet missies and pilots out of
Egypt, but on the other they
are not ready to accept direct
American support in the form
of pilots.
If American public opinion
polls can be taken oe any guide
there is a much more definite
view in the United States about
direct military aid for Israel—
and that view is a negative one.
A Gallup Poll taken in Feb-
1 firiwi ei tiro Auumktm pub
Uc favoring sending JJ* SL_ troops
to aid Israal and jMiffqjkt say
ing the United SlaVea should
American Troops To rv/fae. *1.
stay out of the con|Mgt. Loais
Harris poll in 1969 sJtowMkT t$at
while 44 perceht of Americans
sympathized with Israel and
believed the United States
should come to its aid if threat
ened with destruction, only 9
percent advocated the use of
American troops
Now, even if we allow for
inaccuracies in the polls it
seems fairly clear that after the
Vietnam experience the Amer
ican public would not support
the despatch or use of American
forces in the Arab-Israeli con
flict, even if the Soviets were
directly backing the Arabs—as
of course they already are. This
must be a critical factor in Mos
cow’s planning. For despite the
tough talk which has come from
President Nixon and his advisers
in recent weeks it is the military
clout behind the talk which
Moscow is weighing. The real
reason why there can be no
valid comparison with Cuba is
not that the Russians have rriore
missiles today than they had
in 1962. It is because the Rus
sians suspect there is much less .
likelihood that President Nixon
would feel free to act in an
emergency as a result of the
American public mood of war
weariness.
That certainly is a grim pic
ture—but not yet a totally des
pairing one for Israel. Ques
tions of direct American support
must be faced, but they are still
in the future. If the United
Auaa at all . „
For the present, despitd losses,
the Israeli Air Force co: ittitatr
to maintain its superiority.
There is no panic among‘the
political or military tafcleflrtiip
and they make clear distinc
tions between being serious -and
being gloomy. Since the direct
Soviet involvement in Egypt’s
air defense was discovered on
April 18, Israel has destroyed
19 Egyptian and eight Syrian
planes for the loes of three air
craft.
The confirmed , reports that
Egypt is preparing for attempts
to trass the Suez Canal in force
under the shield of the Russian
manned missiles are disturbing
because they could force an all-
out war. But again the military
moves of Cairo will be dictated
by the pressures from Moscow.
That is where we are at nowt
a sizing up in Washington of
how far the American public is
prepared to back tough res
ponses to Moscow; an assess
ment iij Moscow of how far it
can push its hostility to Israel
before forcing President Nixon
to retaliate.
The tragedy of our times
would be that having at last ex- ,
pressed the realities of the
Arab-Israeli conflict, President
Nixon would allow the policy of ;
drift to take over to the point
where he has no choice but to:,
allow Israel to be destroyed or
to send in the troops. There are
still some alternatives left. They
depend on an unambiguous
series of moves to , help Israel
help herself—while there is still
time. ’ t
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