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July 2017 Volume 21. No 9 Hashalom July 2017 Established 1923 Volume 21. No 9 March 2014 █ HASHALOM 1 Editorial 02 EDITORIAL Out of Perspective 03 Mishna Impossible 04 THE SIX-DAY WAR AT 50 YEARS Israel 05 Prof Antony Arkin The Kotel’s Symbolism 05 Staying in Africa 06 “In the beginning they destroyed Egypt’s air force on the ground and knocked 50 Years Later 07 out the planes of Jordan, Iraq and Syria. That was Monday. Then they broke Israel’s 1967 Victory is Something to Celebrate 08 Egypt’s massive defences in Sinai. That was Tuesday. Next they took the Old City of Jerusalem and prayed. That was Wednesday. Then they reached Gallery: Six-Day War 09 the Suez Canal. That was Thursday. They ascended the Golan Heights. That We will become a minority in Israel 10 was Friday. Then they took the peaks overlooking the plain of Damascus. In the evening the world declared a ceasefire. That was Saturday. And on the Jewish World 13 seventh day the soldiers of Israel rested.” (The Economist) The Secret Jewish Origins of Wonder Woman 13 Community News 14 The war was triggered by Egypt’s decision to expel the United Nations Bubkes 14 peacekeeping force from the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza and to close the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping. Throughout the Middle East Arab Past Tense 15 leaders echoed the Arab street calling for Israel’s destruction. Nineteen Beth Shalom 16 years after its establishment the Jewish world believed Israel faced Divote 17 another Holocaust. The Communist bloc was totally supportive of the Durban United Hebrew Congregation 18 Arabs. France, hitherto Israel’s ally, had imposed an arms embargo on Akiva College 19 it, and the American President Lyndon Johnson had failed to deliver on UJC 20 previous American assurances to break any Egyptian blockade of the Israeli port of Eilat. Young Israel Centre 21 Talmud Torah 21 After just six days of fighting, Israel controlled the Sinai Peninsula and Durban Progressive Jewish Congregation 22 Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and all of Jerusalem. Richard Mazaltov Martin Moshal 23 Haas argued in Project-Syndicate that the war put an end to the notion KwaZulu Natal Zionist Council 24 that Israel could be eliminated. He wrote that most Arab leaders came to Wotsup Wizo 25 shift their strategic goal from Israel’s disappearance to its return to the pre-1967 borders. Limmud 26 Union of Jewish Women 27 The Six -Day War did not, however, lead to peace, not even a partial one. Eden College 28 On June 19, 1967, nine days after the end of the war, the Israeli cabinet Durban Holocaust Centre 29 offered to return territories conquered from Egypt and Syria in exchange Project TEN 30 for peace, security and recognition. The Arab League categorically rejected Above Board 31 peace with Israel at its Khartoum summit later that year. In 1973, Egypt Cooking with Judy and Linda 31 and Syria unleashed a devastating surprise attack on Israel, puncturing the myth of Israel’s invulnerability. Social and Personal 32 Diary of Events 32 It took a decade after 1967 for the Egyptian government of Anwar Sadat to finally accept Israel’s legitimacy. When he did, he recovered every inch of Sinai. Syria remains unreconciled. It took another decade for Yasir Arafat’s The views expressed in the pages of Hashalom are not necessarily those of the Palestinian Liberation Organization to recognize Israel and formally Editorial Board or any other organisation or religious body unless otherwise forswear terrorism. This led to the Oslo Accords of 1993 and further Israeli withdrawals. In 2000 at Camp David, Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip. individual. Hamas seized control two years later, and used the territory to start three Hashalom Editorial Board: wars in seven years. In 2008 Prime Minister Olmert offered a Palestinian Editor: Prof Antony Arkin State in Gaza and 93 percent of the West Bank. The Palestinians rejected Sub Editor: Mr Colin Plen the proposal. Editorial Board: Mrs Mikki Norton, Mrs Michelle Campbell Commitee: Dr Issy Fisher, Ms Diane McColl, Mrs Lauren Shapiro Of course Israel has made mistakes. The most serious of these is the Production Manager: Mrs Robyn Bradley proliferation of West Bank settlements beyond those in historically recognized blocs. Yet as Bret Stephens writes in the New York Times it Notice to Organisations/Contributors: All material to be submitted by email to is important to note “There would have been no occupation, and no [email protected] settlements, if Egypt and its allies hadn’t recklessly provoked a war. Or DEADLINE FOR THE AUGUST ISSUE: 7 July 2017 if the “international community” hadn’t fecklessly abandoned Israel in its desperate hours. Or if Jordan hadn’t foolishly ignored Israel’s warnings Advertisements to stay out of it. Or if the Arab League hadn’t arrogantly rejected the Contact: Robyn Bradley P.O. Box 10797 Marine Parade 4056 possibility of peace.” Tel: (031) 335 4451 Fax: (031) 337 9600 Email: [email protected] Hashalom is issued under the auspices of the SAJBD KZN Council, A Palestinian state would most likely exist if the Palestinians had not adopted KwaZulu-Natal Zionist Council and the Durban Jewish Club. terrorism as the calling card of their aspirations and if the United Nations had not treated their attacks on Israel as a nuisance, but Israel’s self-defence as Typesetting Supplied. Designed by RBG Studios, email: [email protected] a crime against humanity. Fifty years after the Six-Day War, the absence of Printed by Fishwick Printers peace between Israel and the Palestinians is part of an imperfect status quo that many have come to accept and expect. Until Arabs accept the idea of Visit our website: www.hashalom.co.za Israel as the Jewish state, no peace initiative can succeed. 2 HASHALOM July 2017 OUT OF PERSPECTIVE THE SIX-DAY WAR AT 50 YEARS Farewell to arms... at Tzrifin Base David Arkin After a hiatus in 2016, I had a Milu’im (reservist) exercise for four the rescuer doesn’t want to inflict any further harm on the victims. days earlier in the year. For what can only be classified reasons, I One of the most challenging exercises is to lift a disposable plastic had been moved to a new battalion in the Home Front Command cup off the ground, without the bucket of the excavator making any (HFC), which is responsible for the area between Nesher and the marks into the soil. Krayot in the Haifa Bay area. My position remained as previously: a mechanical engineering equipment operator. Methinks the English Back at Tzrifin, I realised it is likely the last time I will be deployed translation glorifies the role as officially described in the army, as a at this base. It was originally set up by the British, established in yellow machine operator is perhaps more apt. Or, to be more direct, 1917, so this is in fact its centenary year. The high land value and a bulldozer or an excavator driver. The point is, the nature of the shortage of land in the centre has made it worthwhile for the IDF work remained the same. As with most battalions in the HFC, they to sell the base to private contractors and relocate. The base is are responsible for search and rescue work in disaster zones. These currently being decommissioned and evacuated, and its functions teams have brought a lot of credit to Israel in the past, amongst relocated to several new bases built in the south in the Negev. As others, on site at the US embassy Nairobi bombing, in Turkey and the land is on an area “without jurisdiction”, it has been allocated Haiti after massive earthquakes, in South East Asia in the aftermath to the bordering municipality of Rishon Lezion and local council of of the Boxing Day Tsunami, at the Versailles wedding hall collapse, Be’er Yaacov. If you haven’t heard of Be’er Yaacov yet, you most and more recently, at the parking lot collapse in Ramat Hachayal likely will in the near future, as it’s slated for massive housing and last year. commercial development. The base was recently under attack too… from foxes. I read in the press in May (with much disbelief) how two The exercise was held over four days. The start and finish was at rabid foxes were killed by the IDF, after biting sleeping soldiers in Tzrifin base, between Rishon Lezion and Be’er Ya’akov. This massive their tents at night. The attack was carried out at Bahad 16 (Training base is used mainly for logistics and training for communications, base 16) where the HFC is centred, and where our exercise has been medical professions, human resource planning, military law practice just a few weeks prior. I couldn’t ascertain from the report where and courts, as well as search and rescue units. The actual core exactly on the base it took place, but for my next milu’im I probably exercise time was 2 days, as it takes about a day for almost 200 won’t sleep near the tent entrance. soldiers to mobilise, and then another day to demobilise. Armies aren’t the most time-efficient organisations, and the IDF is no exception. In between Day 1 and Day 4, training took place on a Margo Botha custom man-made disaster site at Zikim base (on the Gaza border south of Ashkelon), and on a demolished building in Lod. Zikim was a blast from the past, as it was there that I completed my basic training, before the Disengagement from Gaza.
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