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INFORMATION ISSUED by the Assocujm of XWISH RERKEB HI CREAT Olitattl Volume XXIX No. 7 July, 1974 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE ASSOCUJm Of XWISH RERKEB HI CREAT OlITAttl Robert Weltsch In fact, one should have realised that the whole problem cannot be treated in purely military terms, important though they are in the short run, but that the time has come to reconsider the question in its entirety under ISRAEL AT THE CROSSROADS the aspect of the completely changed circum­ stances of the 1970s, and against the inter­ national background of the era of detente. This During the last few months the Jewish just one hundred years ago, in his Unzeit- is not a military but a political problem, and if World watched with anxious tension the gemdsse Betrachtungen, that "a great victory there were omissions and blunders, they have events in Israel, which to the outside observer is also a great danger; human nature endures been committed in the political, the psycho­ must have appeared curious. A government it worse than a defeat". logical and, if you like, in the ideological field, which had been overthrown had to carry on Embedded in a victorious mood, nobody in where on the Zionist side all ideas and con­ under most difficult circumstances, while the Israel seems to have seriously noticed, or at cepts were frozen during the last years or political parties were unable to form a new least cared about, the fundamental changes. actually decades. It has sometimes been stable government. It is almost an irony that These especially comprised the effects of the pointed out that the preconceived ideas which just in this position far-reaching decisions had active pro-Arab policy of the Soviet Union originated in the late Tsarist Russian Empire to be taken, thanks to the unprecedented in­ and gradually also of other powers, as well have been preserved nowhere in the world defatigable efforts of Dr. Kissinger; anyhow, as other far-reaching events on the inter­ except in the Zionist orbit where the same it has to be noted with satisfaction that the national scene including Israel's complete type of people remained dominant for de­ so-called disengagement of forces between isolation as long as it was considered an cades. That the real omissions which led to Israel and Syria was finally agreed upon, an occupying power. Therefore, nobody could the present malaise, not so easily noticeable outstanding achievement of the caretaker accept, or was allowed to accept, that the but in the long run more harmful, were poli­ government, although this is only an overture initial failure of October had deeper causes. tical, was repeatedly stressed by prominent to potential peace and not peace itself. Generally it was assumed that it could have contemporary Zionist thinkers, among them Yet, apart from these—albeit important— happened only through negligence, omissions, Nahum Goldmann and Walter Laqueur*. developments which made the resumption of mechdalim, for which the guilty persons would the Geneva Conference possible, what is have to be called to account. A Committee The Palestinians—Do They Exist? bound to worry Jewish opinion is the hazy of Inquiry under the chairmanship of a judge internal situation. The procrastrinated nego­ of the Supreme Court, Mr. Agranat, has Mostly one regards the time after the 1967 tiations about a coalition government and all already given its partial finding. war as the critical period in which these omis­ the sad manifestations of personal ambitions To the disappointment of those who had sions occurred, and that is correct as far as it and animosities, including the campaign of hoped that this would be the starting point goes. The absence of political instinct, lack of denigration against the Premier designate, of a thorough rethinking of the Israel policy, feeling of reality and pure smugness during "while Rome is buming", were not edifying, this report confined itself to purely military this time are striking. But seen from an his­ to say the least. This was not the turning technical questions. It led to the dismissal torical point of view, the decisive moment for away from the customary petty behaviour nor of a number of high-ranking commanders and re-thinking, albeit under quite different con­ from the old deep-rooted way of thinking military dignitaries, but it left the funda­ ditions, had arrived much earlier, perhaps in which is the inheritance of the Zionist con­ mental question untouched, thus only con­ 1917, more evidently in 1920, when the new gress. Also the outcome was disappointing: firming the delusive view that nothing else shape of the then post-war world and new as the London Times correctly observed, the is at stake than better military leadership. political ideas began to reveal themselves. It official programme of the new government is known to the serious student of Zionist appeared almost as a carbon copy of that of history that at that time a group of Zionists its predecessor. started a campaign for convincing the move­ After the deep shock of October, 1973, a The Association of Jewish Refugees in ment that the main factor in Palestine reality new Hebrew word came into fashion, from Great Britain were the Palestinian Arabs. In the Berlin "Jiidische Rundschau", then the most promi­ then onwards used ad nauseam, the word reminds its members and friends that it "mechdal", which means omission, tantamount will hold its nent Zionist joumal in Europe, the documents to failure or blunder. This word was applied of this endeavour can be found from 1920 to the initial military disaster on October 6th GENERAL MEETING onwards. This group tried to get a say at the (Yom Kippur), when the Bar Lev Line on the first post-war Zionist Congress in 1921, where Suez front and also the first line of defence on on Thursday, July 11, at 7.45 p.m. Martin Buber appeared as its spokesman. But the Golan were overrun, and Israel suffered at Hannah Karminski House, at that Congress, to Dr. Weizmann's distress, colossal casualties. 9 Adamson Road, Swiss Cottage, N.W.S the chaos, the thoughtless chauvinism and How could that happen? The inferiority of illusionism and also the struggle of parties all the Arab armies had been a basic dogma and personalities prevailed, which from that of Israeli thinking after the three victories Report on AJR Activities time on dominated all Zionist congresses and Treasurer's Report established that model which determined the of 1948, 1956 and 1967—all of them achieved inner structure of the organisation and later Under special circumstances and with at least Election of Executive and Board indirect help of mighty allies (1967 the of the State of Israel. Of this process we have (The list of candidates submitted by the Executive just experienced a particularly repulsive French and their Mirages). Israel's invinci­ v/as published in the June issue.) bility and superiority became the absolute example. belief of the Israeli public which was in­ II So it seems at this moment that the chance doctrinated in this direction by its leadership, Mrs. Ruth Winston-Fox, J.P., B.Sc, of starting rethinking has been squandered. from Ben-Gurion onwards through Dayan and will speak on finally Golda Meir, all of them revered idols. * The warning that the overstress of rT\ilitary points is ANGLO-JEWRY AND ITS SOCIAL misleading and that the real mechdalim are not military It created the state of mind which was the but political, is strongly emphasised by Walter Laqueur Source of many pronouncements appearing to PROBLEMS in his latest book Confrontation (Wildwood House, Abacus). Even addilional victories would not extricate Israel from its be hybrid or arrogant, and it inspired the Non-members are not entitled to vote, impasse; the remedy has to be sought in the political field. Practical poUcy. Often one was reminded of but are welcome as guests at the meeting. Nietzsche's provocative paradoxical saying. Continued on page 2, colamn 1 ^ra ^ Page 2 AJR INFORMATION July, 1974 been many dissensions and/or rivalries be­ ISRAEL AT THE CROSSROADS tween Rabin and other party leaders, especi­ ally when he was Ambassador in Washington; Continued from page 1 otherwise it would be difficult to explain the amount of hostility piled up against him in the Establishment. On the other hand, this fact perhaps contributed to his popularity Perhaps—God forbid—one has to wait for avoided. Top Israeli declarations that "there among the younger generation who wanted to still deeper shocks and heavier blows before are no Palestinians" were not only odd but get rid of the old leadership. the consciousness of change will enter the downright harmful, because the existence of In the Premier's statement (whose full text minds of the majority of the Israeli and other Palestinians, not of one kind, but of several arrived in maU-stricken London just when Jewish public. kinds, has always been the central fact of the these lines were written) it is not easy to Yom Kippur 1973 was perhaps the most Middle Eastern conflict, even though Israeli discern, whether the repetition of good inten­ shattering experience which Zionism had to leaders, relying on military power, preferred tions and maximal Utopias were only the go through since its very beginning. For the to ignore it in the expectation that by some ideological shield for the very existence of the first time there emerged in Israel an actual miracle it would disappear one day. Government and a profession of faith to movement both of protest and of spontaneous On the whole, the new Cabinet has been ideological principles, or whether it can be call for new leadership, outside the frame of stigmatised in Israel as too "dovish" (let me practical politics in the absence of a thorough the fossilised parties which had monopolised say that I thoroughly dislike the now gener­ process of re-education of a partly misin­ political life for at least five decades without ally adopted concepts of "doves" and formed and partly over-emotional public.
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