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Page 4 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE April 25, 1975
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Scant Hope In Lebanon •
Someone once attributed a so-called discernible trend in
Judaism to the impact of Balkan and Russian thought. He was
speaking of the multi-partied political system in Israel and the
multi-organizational nature of Jewish communal life in America.
We will not engage in the semantics of whether this is true or
not. But the hint that such splinterization is a Jewish trait sudden
ly finds valid contradiction in the recent skirmishing in Lebanon
between the Palestinians and the Christian Phalangist Party.
Imagine political parties with strong-arm, private armies,
anyways.
But somehow this is what the picture shows in Lebanon, accor
ding to an interpretation of the fighting in another section of this
issue. You’d think the Christian parties would have rallied to the
aid of the Christian Phalangists,-But no. They did not. After all, it
was no skin off their teeth — or knuckles, or bombs in their own
homes. Why should they have joined in defense of co-religionists.
Were they not all “one” in a common resolve against Israel?
The situation reminds us of a quote we’ve often used from an
Emory University professor of WPA forum days. When you br
ing up the subject of Christians to some people, he noted, they
“shinny up the cross.” And when this takes place, whatever point
you try to make is automatically off base because it is mis
construed as “anti-Christ.”
We’re not sure how Arab countries and people of that neck of
the globe shinny up the terrorists’ banner. But this is precisely
what takes place. What competent leader can be opposed to the
PLO? To do so for them would be a negation of the new ideal in
Moslemland — elimination of Israel from the scene.
Scant solace, this demonstration of divisiveness in Lebanon.
Somehow Lebanon, almost alone of the Israel neighbors, has
been particularly friendly to America and its goals in the middle
East. That it must undergo pergatory in the hands of the PLO
does not bring us any satisfaction.
Were the whole matter to have a part in the education of the
Arabs to the world of realpolitik, we could take cheer. But what
has taken place in those countries has been a separation between
truth and bedlam far more impenetrable than any Iron Curtain.
The only favorable sign visible to us on the Mid-East horizon is
the fact that armed hostility has not already broken out. And that
does not cheer us
one bit.
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Background to ZOA Parley
by ROBERT M.TRAVIS
The Southeastern Zionist
Region, inspired by the heroic ex
ample of Russian Zionists and
conscious of the decisive need to
mobilize maximum political ac
tion on behalf of Israel and Rus
sian Jewry, voted to hold the an
nual regional convention in Atlan
ta on April 27.
The Atlanta Zionist District, in
vigorated by a score of young
members, outstanding among
them Arthur Gcduldig, named
conference chairman; Neal Busch,
co-chairman; Nat Katz,
membership chairman; Milton
Travis, Eddie Ullman, Joe Cohen,
,Chas Ehrenreich, Fred Katz,
Charles Lowenstein, and others
accepted the responsibility for the
conference.
Aided by regional consultant
Harry Branton and Ed Krick, ad
visor, they have created a program
designed to maximize interest and
intensify the activities of both the
region and the Atlanta district.
The recently opened
Washington office of the ZOA has
already established itself as an im
portant arm in the hoped for,
many-pronged public relations
campaign on behalf of Israel. This
is a most welcome addition to the
prodigious efforts of AIPAC,
American Israel Political Actions
Committee. While scrupulously
eschewing lobbying, it never-the-
less, makes known to congressmen
the views of an important and im
pressive number of Americans of
every pdlitical and religious per
suasion vis-a-vis Israel.
The detailing of this vital, if not
crucial activity will be included in
an address by the young and
dynamic Rabbi, Dr. Joseph P.
Sternstein, president of the ZOA,
at a luncheon meeting, Sunday,
Apr. 27, at the Clairmont
Rodeway Inn. His presence un
derscores the confidence of the
national Zionist leaders in, and the
importance attached to, this first
regional conference held in Atlan
ta in many years.
Underscoring this factor, the
ZOA has assigned one of its
foremost leaders and orators, the
Hon. Judge Alfred H. Kleiman of
New York, chairman of the
National Committee on Soviet
Jewry, to address the closing ses
sion on Sunday evening, Apr. 27,
at the Jewish Community Center,
at 8 o’clock.
The Southeastern Zionist
Region wrote a glorious chapter in
Zionist history during the decade
of 1939-1949. Led by stalwart,
devoted and dedicated leaders such
as the late Jake Felt of Memphis,
its first president; the late Mor
timer May of Nashville, its third
president, later to become national
president; Abe Berkowitz of Bir
mingham, Sol Benamy, of Atlan
ta, Shepard Broad of Miami, the
incomparable former director,
Adelbert Freedman of Atlanta,
and many, many more, the region
made a major contribution to the
creation of the Jewish State on
May 14, 1948.
The region’s political action
during this exciting and prolific
decade included the procurement
of small arms; the recruiting of ex
perienced military personnel to
serve in the Israel Defense Forces
(one of whom was an Atlanta
military technician who became a
favorite of Haim Laskov, later
Israel Chief of Staff), and the rais
ing of large sums of cash,
transmitted to the heroic defenders
of the new-born state through the
secret Sonnenbom Committee.
The writer, and Shepard Broad
of Miami were among the 23 who
met with David Ben Gurion in
Sonnenborn’s apartment in New
York. In 1951 Prime Minister
David Ben Gurion called the group
together, again in Sonnenborn’s
apartment, for the purpose of ex
pressing on his own behalf and on
the behalf of the government of
Israel gratitutde to the men he
credited with founding the small
arms industry of Israel.
In his book, "Israel, A Personal
History,” the late Ben Gurion
devotes some space to this historic
chapter in American Zionist
history and graciously lists the
names of the activists.
Time and events have combined
to create today, a situation as
fraught with danger to Israel as the
one described so briefly above. The
opportunity (and importunity) to
render decisive service to Israel
and the Jewish People is as great
and as crucial today as it was then,
or indeed, as any period in Jewish
history. The evil forces of this
world conspire to destroy, not
alone Israel, but democracy itself,
in fact all of Western civilization.
“To fight for Israel’s survival, to
combat the sinister forces now
seeking world domination is the
great imperative that confronts the
movement In this larger effort,
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