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HE six-day war began on June 5. It T was, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban said after it was over, the only war Now the Battle of Words • • • in history "where the victors sued for peace and the vanquished demanded un­ themes: that the State of Israel is "illegal," The Action Committee on American­ conditional surrender." is founded on aggression, and that Israel, Arab Relations, headed by Mohammad Israel's victory proved, wrote Leo Ros­ ra:rh er th3n the Arabs, has been waging T. Mehdi, had what it called a "peace ten in Look magazine, "that God is liable a "criminal war of aggression" in the in arch" on W ashingron the same day to be on the side of people who fight for Middle East for the last 20 years; that Jewish groups, including ADL partici­ their freedom, their honor, their children Jews now living in Israel should be sent pants from across the country, held a and their lives-even if such people are back ro the countries from which they rally in the capitol. Some of the Mehdi pig-h~~ded enough ro fight entirely came; that American news media are group of about 200 marchers (not all alone. Zionist-controlled; that American Jews Arabs) , charged and protested a "Zionist The astounding victory of the Israeli have "dual loyalty" between the United conspiracy" ro take over the United States. military forces, the United N ations de­ States and Israel, an attitude which makes Mehdi himself, in newspaper srories, bares and the rheroric and invective them unworthy of the trust and confi- accused the Ami-Defamation League of stemming from them, have been reported trying to impose "thought control" by by the nation's news media. This issue moniroring radio broadcasts for anti­ of the ADL Bulletin provides a different Semitism. (The League's "monitoring" kind of information-attitudes and reac­ The miracle military vicrory consists of listening ro the radio-espe­ tions, both friendly and opposed, gathered is over. ADL examines vary­ cially ro talk shows which seem ro attract in depth by the Ami-Defamation League a quotient of misguided telephoners­ in order to interpret and counteract at­ ing attitudes and reactions not to censor but ro gauge public opinion tempts to stir up anti-Semitism and divide and to expose extremists.) the American people. in order to interpret and The American Friends of the Middle counteract attempts to stir East sent two telegrams to President Arab Propagandists in U. S. up anti-Semitism. Johnson-one demanding that the United Old Cries, New Slant States "support the Indian resolution in the U.N. asking for a return ro the THE MIDDLE EAST cns1s provided status ante bellum and srop Israeli aggres­ Arab propagandists and sympathizers in dence of their non-Jewish fellow-citizens, sion by any measures necessary"; the the United States with an unparalleled especially with respect to American policy other decrying alleged U.S. "inaction" opportunity-which they seized upon­ in the Middle East. and lack of clarification on the question to rouse American public feeling against The Palestine Arab Delegation and of territorial integrity. Failure to act on Zionism, the "criminal" existence of the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine, the issue, the second telegram said, would Israel, and the alleged influence of Jews through their representatives, Issa Nakh­ "irreparably damage U.S. credibility and on American opinion. The activities of leh and Omar Azouni, condemned the influence within ( the) Arab world." such groups as the Palestine Arab Dele­ [sraelis as "international Zionist thugs," Arab students here ( their role as "sol­ gation ( which despite its name has no attacked U.N. Ambassador Arthur Gold­ diers of the homeland stationed on Amer­ official standing at the United Nations), berg as an "accessory" to Israel's "crimes," ican college campuses" was reported in the Action Committee On American­ called upon President Johnson ro reject the December, 1966, issue of the ADL Arab Relations, the American Friends Of American support of territorial "con­ Bulletin) parrored the Arab line that The Middle East, and Arab students in quest" by the "international military Egypt was within irs legal rights in block­ the United States, offered no surprises ro gang in Tel Aviv," and charged that the ading the Gulf of Aqaba ro Israeli ship­ ADL which has countered their ami­ Israelis shot 3,000 Arabs in the Gaza ping; that the State of Israel was "illegal"; Israel, ami-Jewish, and ami-American Strip "in cold blood .. . looted homes, and that Israel was the aggressor. They comment time and time again. violated young women and assaulted and also criticized the American press for These were rhe.ir basic propaganda humiliated the population." "biased" and "distorted" reporting. A sampling of Arab srudent activity included the following: - At the University of Minnesota, Arab stu­ dents in a paid advertisement in the school's Minnesota Daily charged that the Israeli gov­ ernment was "an aggressive, imperialist re­ gime" and paradoxically argued that "the so­ called 'terrorist' attacks that Israel has used as justification for its raids into Syria and Jordan, are simply the manifestation of the will of the Comment: people who have been persecuted, deprived of the right of self-determination, massacred, and crushed." The audience at a meeting called by the Uni­ J WRITE this from Jerusalem, called Y em­ scene, left behind, too heavy for the Arabs versity's Arab-American Club, heard a Lebanese shaliem, Foundation of Peace. to wear. They ran off barefooted. student charge that the "very existence of Israel It is July and there is peace in Jerusalem, We are impressed by the peaceful inter­ was based on aggression" and an Iraqi student an uneasy and watchful peace, but A m mingling of Arab and Israeli in the Old claim that " only the United States says the Y israel Chai-the people of Israel live. Ciry of Jerusalem and the freedom of move­ Gulf (of Aqaba) is international waters." They speak with joy about "the miracle" ment everywhere. Arabs have fl ocked into According to the latter, "the U.S. will learn of winning the war, and with sad ness about the N ew City. Israelis and Arabs who it cannot dictate anymore, especially to Arabs." what war brings. There are no unknown haven't seen each other in 19 years meet - On the West Coast, the Organization of soldiers in Israel. The population is close­ like old, lost friends. Arab Students circulated a flye r prior to the knit. Every family has either suffered a In sharp contrast, Arab refugees in the outbreak of lighting which declared that the Joss or knows someone who did. Gaza Strip, held wi thin the territory as Arabs "can and will employ force to regain Arnold Forster and I are here to attend virtual prisoners by the Egyptians in c h ~ r ge, their rights. " the annual meeting of the W orld Confe r­ are hostile. All essential services-w: t~ r, - At the University of Red lands , Califo rnia, ence of Jewish Organizations (COJO ) and electricity, etc.-have been restored by the Arab students at an open meeting of the to observe the situation in Israel at firs t Israel is . In the city of Gaza, Israelis are school's Student U nion charged that the crisis hand. Arnold is meeting with and inter­ load ing buses full of Arab citizens who wish had been brought about by the international viewing Israeli army and government offi­ to visit thei r families in Jordan, It will be Zionist movement and co ntended that the si n­ cials. He is also interviewing Arabs. The the fi rst time since 1948 that they have gle solution to "the problem of Israel" wr s the seri es of taped interviews will be broadcast been allowed out of the area. dispersal of the Jews now in Israel to the coun­ over radio stations in the United States The problems created by the new situ­ tries from which they came and the restoration after our return. ati on are staggering. If Israel keeps some of ."expelled " Arabs to the land rightfully The COJO meeting, held fo r the fi rst of the territories, the Arabs will have to theirs. time in Jerusalem, has drawn the largest be incorporated into the economy. There Among students addressing the gathering attendance in its ten-year history. Under the will be labor problems. The Arabs can be was a brother of King Faisal. Attempting to co-chairmanship of N ahum Goldmann, pres­ abso rbed only into agriculture or as un­ dent of the W orld Jewish Congress , and skilled workers. Co ntinue d on p :~ g e 3 William A. W exler, pres ident of B'nai B'rith, representatives of Jewish commun­ WHILE H ERE we have visited with the ities throughout the world are gathered to group of ten ADL staff members attending discuss problems of mutual concern. a six-week B'nai B'rith seminar. We at­ tended and addressed the conve ntion of IT IS impossible to convey the spirit of 135 B'nai B'rith lodges in Israel. excitement and warmth that greets all visi­ At home, ADL's 28 regional offices, us­ tors to Israel this summer. The people are ing League reports, surveys and analyses, deeply appreciative of the fi nancial aid and are acting as information centers for Jews unified support that came from Jews- and and non-Jews in their areas. There are Gentiles-all · over the world, and are those reports on which this issue of the proud, so very proud of their own ac­ ADL Bulletin is based ; there are press complishments. surveys and fact sheets on the background They are proud of men like the taxi of the conflict and all aspects of it, includ­ A rnold Forste r, ADL g e neral counsel, and Benja min driver who took us from Tel Aviv to Jeru­ ing the plight of Jews in Arab lands and R. Epstein, national d irector, a t Gulf of Aqaba. salem. Over 50, and recently returned from that of the Arab refugees. The great wealth lighting, he explained why he had gone : of in-depth materi als prepared by the "Everybody did. I took my nxi and went League are not only invaluabl e to the com­ right to the fro nt." munity at large, but to the work of the This was truly a citizens' army. T he re­ agency itself in striving to improve inter­ sponse to the call-up was amaz ing. In some group relations, in keeping co nstant vigil­ cities, 107 percent and 11 2 percent reported ance against anti-Semitism. fo r duty-those over 50 years of age and not expected to serve went anyway. I AM an America n Jew in Israel fi lled W e are amazed at the magnitude of the with ad miration for what this tiny nation Israeli accomplishment as we look at Rus­ has accomplished , fi ll ed wi th emotion at sian-made tanks and military equipment the significance of Jewish peoplehood. Our along Jordanian roads, at hundreds of visi t to the Wailing W all was the emo­ bunkers, each large enough to conceal a tional experience of a life time. ta nk or truck, in the Syria n hills. We are We are a people. W hat happens to us Amo ng ADL lea ders at Washingto n Rally fo r Isra el: amazed, too, at the almost comic errors in any part of the world happens to all of Mrs. Florence R. Re izenstein, vi ce-chairma n, Pitts· made by the Arabs and their Soviet sup­ us everywhere. This is the lesson the harsh b urgh, Po ., a dvi sory boa rd; Louis J . Re ize nstei n. pliers. There are Russian boots dotting the facts of hisrory have taught.

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2 place rhe blame for Arab cooperation with the fighting began in the Middle East, ex­ delivering a speech in Minneapolis, Soviet Union on rhe U.S., he said Egypt ac­ pressed confidence rh ar Israel would nor Minn., recommended the pamphlet and cepted economic and military asisrance from Communist Russia because "the U.S. didn't give enrer a war unless she were given a com­ said : help" and added rhar rhe aim of the Arab mitment that American soldiers would "I look forward ro the srolen republic world is "ro free rhe U.S. from Zionist pres­ do the fighting for her. The Thunderbolt of Israel being rerurned ro the Arabs and su res rh ar coul d Je:d ro W orld War III." also announced that it was rushing ro the Israelis being driven into the sea." - An Arab stu dent ar rhe Uni versity of Ari­ zona, interviewed by rhe Tttscon Daily Citi­ press a pamphlet entitled j ewish Crimes James K. W arner, head of the blatantly zen, was quoted as say ing rhar rhe U.S. gov­ and Atrocities A gainst the Arab People. ami-Semitic Sons of Liberry, distributed ernment had "imperialisri cally" supported rhe The charge of Israeli-Soviet collabora­ copies of his Action Magazine at a W est­ "illegal" government of Israel, rhar rhe con­ tion was made roo by Gerald Smith, long­ ern From meeting in Los Angeles. The flier was "a war of liberation," and rhar "Ir is nor a matter of winning a barrie or losing a rime ami-Semitic propagandist. In a magazine's cover bore a picture of the war. Arabs have only ro wi n once. That's the lerrer ro his Christian Nationalist Crusade Grand Mufri with the headline: "Liberate end of ir. Our land will one day be ours again." followers dared June 17, he described the Jew-Occupied Palestine." - The president of rhe N ew York University alleged plot as "a secret agreement be­ The N ational States Rights Party's chapter of rhe Organization Of Arab Students criticized American news media fo r giving tween the Communists in Russia and the Personal Newsletter charged "U.S. Jews "very biased reporting of rhe news." Members Communists in Israel." Behind Israel's Crimes." Editor Edward of rhe group planned ro join rhe pro-Arab Smith also played upon the religious Fields, asserring that "Jews Murder "peace" marchers in Washington. dedication of his constituents. His news­ American Boys . . ." ; that the "super­ lerrer carried the following: rich American Jewry controls our gov­ "Crucifixion Begins . .. Jews Capture ernment, the State Department, C.I.A., Arab Sympathizers Jerusalem . . . Holy Shrines Desecrated FBI, politicians, wire services, TV, movies, ,:Hate Groups Jump In . . . God Save The Christian W orld." N ational Council of Churches, and _rax W estern Front, formed late in 1965 by free foundations ..."; that "the vicious, IN CONNECTICUT, an anti-Semitic individuals close ro Smith, was among sneering Jew Goldberg is Israel's man traer signed "Chairman, Danbury Chapter, distributors of the Palestine Arab Dele­ running the United Stares Government America n-Arabian Friendship Associa­ gation's pamphlet Zionist Leaders Con­ .. .," urged "all other right wing groups tion" was left on rhe windshields of hun­ spire to Railroad the United States . .. who may now live in fear of the Jews" to dreds of cars p1rked in shopping centers. Richard Corren, ami-Semitic KTYM join with the NSRP in a "new crusade" Ir warned "Christians in this country" ( Bakersfield, Cal. ) radio broadcaster, against "Jew domination." Fields appealed against "organized Jewry," called the Israeli government "an illegal dictator­ ship," and declared that "we have been going from one war ro anorher ar rh e Jews' demand." The traer was also mail ed ro members of the Fairfield Friends of Rhodesian Independence with a copy of a pamphlet, Zionist Leaders Conspire to Railroad the United States Into A Third World War, published by rhe Palestine Arab Delega tion in N ew York, the propaganda J ubilant soldiers gave thanks. voice for the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (See page 7). The Fairfield Friends of Rhodesian Independence, which advo­ cates apartheid, uses the sa me Fairfield Post Office box number as rwo Birch Society from groups-TACT (Truth About Civil Turmoil ) and Supporr Your Local Police. In Astoria, Queens, N .Y., mimeo­ graphed norices attached ro telephone poles urged "black people" ro "supporr your brothers and sisters of Egypt. Srop buying fr om srores run by Jews . . ." The Pri me Minister Levi Eshkol at Western Wall. Arab relatives, together a ga in after 20 yea rs. notices were signed "R.A.M.- The Black Guards." Leaders of the extremist N egro group were arrested several days later, accused of plorring the assassination of such N egro leaders as Roy Wilkens. The June issue of The Thunderbolt, organ of the ami-Semitic and racist N a­ tional Stares Rights Parry, sought ro prove rhar Israel and the Soviet Union had made a secret agreement ro lure the United Stares into fighting the Arabs in order ro expand Israel's boundaries and ro force the Arabs "into the hands of the Com­ munis ts." T he issue, published before the Arab Mayor of West Bank city greets Dayan.

3 European de monstrations of sym pathy fo r Israel: A rally in Pa ris (L. ). Sign says: " Cowardice. 200 In Mun ic h (R.): " Peace and Security for Isra el." " Th e people of Isra e l want to live in pea ce ." Fl ying free.

for increased funds and more meetings. this capsule war, as shown by their actual has been alienated. If Arab friendship and George Rockwell, head of the Ameri­ accomplishments already," include: oil has a substantial meaning ro rhr: can Nazi Party, tacked his evaluation of " ( 1) To divert the attention of the United States, we had better prepare for the situation co the end of his June American people ... from the horror of some major adjustments." Rockwell Report. Wrote Rockwell : the far bigger mess in Vietnam; ( 2) ro The Jewish Society of Americanists, " . . . watch the Jew-dominated United give the American people the transiently formed by Birchers early in 1966, (ADL's States Government clobber the Arabs if happy feeling that we had somehow come Report On The john Birch So ciety 1966 Israel is really in danger, even if we our on the victorious side of some en­ had charged the Society with contributing have co fight a third world war co save counter with the Communists; ( 3) to ro anti-Semitism) took a somewhat differ­ these trouble-making Jews ..." supply an excuse for the Soviet Premier, em position from that set forth by Welch Kosygin, ro come co this country and and the Birchite magazines. The J.S.A. engage in a tremendously publicized per­ strongly endorsed Israel's victory over Radical Right Exploits Situation formance of fraternizing with our Presi­ the Arabs and supported Israel's "stared New Peg For Criticizing U. S. and U. N. dent and being treated royally by our intention" ro maintain "the territOrial government-without any advance notice fruits of vicrory" until the Arabs agreed THE MIDDLE EAST conflict gave Radi­ or warning wh :ch would permit opposi­ to direct negotiations for a Middle Easr cal R!ght groups a new peg for attacking tion ro the visit ro be aroused; ( 4) ro serrlemenr. The group called Israel's vic­ favonte targets-the administration in further advance the most deceptive and wry a rebuff co Communism and as a Washingron, the State Department, U.S. dangerous fraud of our time, that there roken of its support, announced that ir foreign policy and the United Nations. is a real split between the Soviets anrl was purchasing an Israel Defense Bond. . Robert ,Welch, in the July issue of the the Red Chinese and that the Soviets are N on-Birch Radical Right spokesmen Birch SoCiety Bulletin, handled the sub­ 'good Communists' who would really like and organs, such as Dr. Fred Schwarz of ject cautiously, claiming that he didn't to be our friends; and ( 5) co enhance the Christian Ami-Communism Crusade, know what was going on in the Middle the prestige of, and get the American Dan Smoot, Ler Freedom Ring, and H. L. East and wished that he did. He never­ people ro pay more attention ro, the Hunt's Life Lines, also targeted their theless drew comparisons from recent United Nations, in preparation for its propaganda at U.S. foreign policy and hisrory and reached some conclusions. more viral and tyrannical role as a rhe U.N. Dan Smoot blamed President Recalling the Hungarian Revolt of 'peacemaker' in the years ahead." Eisenhower's promises co Israel in 1957 1956, which he described as being "delib­ Articles and analyses in two Birchite for bringing the U.S. co "rhe verge of erately planned and precipitated by Mos­ magazines, American Opinion and The war in the Middle Easr. " He added : co~·s agents" co lure the underground Review Of The News, were hostile in "Our foreign policy has us so trapped anti-Communist resistance into the open rone toward Israel itself and critical of and commirred that our enemies can and destroy it, Welch said it was at least rhe last 20 years of American policy in involve us in war, co be fought on their a year before some of the other important the area. American Opinion said Israel is terms, anywhere on earth ... When we Communist purposes in Hungary became 70 ro 80 percent under Communist influ­ have fully dissipated our strength in the entirely clear. ence and described Prime Minister Levi wars they arrange for us, their stooges in "This time, in the Middle East " he Eshkol as a "Russian-born Socialist'' the United States can take control." said, "we again have a Communist-piotted who had aided "Moscow's tactics" by A few Radical Rightists, Rev. Carl Mc­ and carefully stage-managed military attacking ami-Communist and pro-West­ Intire among them, saw Israel's vicrory as flare-up for at least some purposes which ern Jordan. While rhe Birchite organs a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. we may not be able co decipher and tended ro view some leading Arab states understand for another year or two . . . as Soviet puppets, they appeared ro feel Radical left For there never was an occupation in that the Arabs were driven into the arms which hindsight more emphatically sur­ of the Kremlin by U.S. policies. The Moscow Line passed foresight than in trying co separate Afrer Israel's military vicrory, the Re­ THE COMMUNIST PARTY 'S official line pretenses from realities in the maneuvers t-•iew Of The News declared: was given by Gus Hall, General Secre­ of the WashingtOn-Moscow axis." "If U.S. policy in the Middle East has tary, in a statement in The Worker: According co Welch, "the intentions been a failure in the pasr, it is catastro­ "The struggle is berween rhe people of of the Communists in bringing abcut phic at present. The entire Arab world rhe Arab countries fighting co control a

4 Israeli tanks. Dayan visits Church of the Holy Se pulchre in the Old City. Feeding Egyptian POW's.

natural resource that is theirs and the cation of the Jewish military and reliance cited the support expressed by the New York capitalist oil monopolies of the U.S.A., on might tO establish Jewish hegemony." Committee To End The War In Vietnam for Gapt. Howard Levy, the Army physician who Great Britain and France ... The gov­ According tO Beinin, Israel politics should refused to give med ical training to members of ernments of Great Britain and the U.S. have shifted tO the left and a "closer re­ the Green Berets: ". . . we wonder if they are direct representatives of the thieves, lationship of Jewish national aspirations would likewise admire such a refusal . . . and the present government of Israel is and those of the surrounding Arab na­ if U.S. forces were dispatched to the defense of Israel instead of South Vietnam." a willing accomplice and accessory . . . tions. Such a course would have implied - An article, "The Jewish Vote" by Alan The leaders of government and seaions an ami-imperialist, ami-colonialist thrust L. Otten, in The Wall St~eet ]ottmal: " ... of the ruling financial circles of Israel are in Israeli policy." the Jews have been among the most dovish very much responsible for the present about the war in Vietnam. Administration men have almost maliciously enjoyed the way the crisis in the Middle East; the king vulture Mideast crisis has dulled some of this Jewish is imperialism, but these circles in Israel "Doves" and "Hawks" dissenr... " have become the willing cools of imperial­ - Syndicated columnist Mary McGrory: " . . . ism . . . The CIA has headquarters, M1dd/e East Compared With Far East the new crisis has brought no better under­ standing of the old on the part of the Jewish schools, centers of its Middle East con­ EDITORIAL WRITERS and newspaper community, whose members, however much spiracy-on the soil of Israel ..." columnists drew comparisions between they might welcome a show of force in Israel, are ad'amant in their oppositi on to force in Following the Egyptian troop concen­ the Arab-Israeli conflict and the one in trations in the Sinai and the blockade of Vietnam." Vietnam. Some charged that the "doves" - Emmet John Hughes in Newsweek: "The the Gulf of Aqaba, The W Mker blamed on Vietnam had emerged as "hawks" on Administration apologists argued that any ci ti­ the ensuing crisis on Washingron's "im­ the Middle East. A substantial number of zen calling for U.S. action to support a poli­ perialist designs." It charged Israel was tical commitmenr in the Middle East had to edirorialisrs, however, rejected the "dove­ recognize the same obligations as binding in being used as a cool tO overthrow the hawk" analysis pointing out chat the rwo the Far East. But the historic natures of the "democratic" governments of Syria and conflicts could nor be compared. There­ two conflicts bear as much similarity, of the United Arab Republic. After fighting fore, they said, they saw no inconsiste?cy course, as sand and jungle . . ." broke our, The Worker said the war h1d - An editorial in the liberal magazine The on the part of citizens urging U.S. wHh­ Nation : "Nothing could be clearer than the been brought about by the "imperialist drawal from Vietnam and intervention, if unlikeness of the situations in the Middle East oil vultures" who were using Israel as necessary, in the Middle East. and Southeast Asia ... To run out on the their pawn. The war, it said, was brought While the question was far less im­ issues in Vietnam . . . as a quid p~o quo to about by Israeli aggression and must be" induce the Johnson Administration to take portant than some of the other issues stronger action in the Middle East, would be settled by Israel's withdrawal co her pre­ raised, it was significant for the Amer­ morally despicable and politically stupid. . ." war boundaries-and by the expulsion ican Jewish community because in some - Clayton Fritchey in his syndicated column : of the "only real alien force there--the of the published comments Jews were "Not all the critics of the Vietnam policy are oil vultures of the West." doves. Many have been against the U.S. in­ singled out as a group and described as tervention there for purely practical reasons Other Far Left statements included those being among chose caught up in the al­ . . . Hence there is nothing inconsistent in of Deirdre Griswold, a leader of the leged "dove-hawk" contradiction. these critics now appealing for a fi rm U.S. Youth Against War and Fascism and an Comments included these: stand in the Middle East crisis." Ad Hoc Conference Commi-ttee on the - Conservative publisher William Loeb, in a Middle East. The latter group sponsored signed editorial in the Manchester ( N .H .) a rally in New York tO "Organize Against Un:on L eade~: "Suddenly ... many of the The Christian Religious Community clergymen, professors, civil rights leaders, etc., U.S.-Israeli Agression in the Middle Ease." who were 'chickens' over the Vietnam war, Sympathy and Misunderstanding In her comments, Miss Griswold declared suddenly sounded like 'eagles' with their voci­ that "Israel is acting as a pawn of West­ ferous demands that the United States go to T HE CATHOLIC PRESS was generally ern interests. Our people, with their the defense of Israel . . . The question is sympathetic coward Israel but tended tO now, will these individuals continue as hy­ sympathies, are for the Arab revolution. phenated chickens-half eagle, half chicken­ treat the issues as being of purely inter­ Israel is artificial." or will they admit to their hypocrisy, do pen­ national concern and therefore unrelated The National Guardian, in an article ance and become all eagle?" co Catholic-Jewish relations in the United written by Irving Beinin, said Israel has - Syndicated columnist William F. Buck­ States. It was obvious that many edirors ley Jr. : "Who else but Israel could have turned always followed a policy of "escalation of our doviest doves inro tiger sharks?" did not comprehend either the import­ nationalist, ami-Arab sentiment, glorifi- An editorial in the Columbia (S.C. ) State ance of the situation in the Middle East

5 to the American Jewish community or its flict. There was a great deal of ambival­ The World and the Conflict expectations of spontaneous response ence and some outright hostility. The International Reactions Varied from Catholics. The Catholic religious Protestant stand, for the most part, was community tended to concentrate on the that their religious community has a uni­ THE BONN GOVERNMENT officially political aspect of the conflict and to shy versal concern for compassion, justice and confined itself to declarations of neutral­ away from taking sides. freedom and therefore could be neither ity, which writer Guenter Grass protested Comments included these: pro-Arab nor pro-Israe li . as being virtually a "declaration of sym­ - Commonweal : " . .. the long-term out­ The Christian Century, the outstanding pathy for the Arab nations." But most look for Israel is depressing . .. it calls in champion of the Protestant fight on anti­ Germans showed sympathy for Israel's doubt the wisdom of the Zionist solution for Semitism in America and protagonist of cause-in Munich, Berlin and elsewhere, the difficu lties of the Jewish people. H ow cmzens demonstrated for Israel. The much better it would have been if Britain and Christian-Jewish cooperation and under­ the United States had absorbed all of these standing, editorialized that "the color of Bonn government viewed the German re­ Jewish refugees after W orld War II . . . the truth about the crisis in the Middle sponse as an important indication of wan­ (.they ) would be safer living in Britain and East is gray-not black and white." ing anti-Semitism in West Germany. the United States than they are now ... German press reaction included : "For better or worse they ( the Jews ) have Protestants showed great difficulty in irrevocably opted for nationhood with all its understanding the bond that American - The Bonn General-Anzeiger: "The fi rst mysti cism, pain, glory, and terrible danger .. ." shot seems to have been fi red from the Israeli Jews have for Jews in Israel. They were side. But it would be just too co nvenient to - America: " . .. No one could have watched surprised at the American Jewish re­ and listened to the parade of speakers at the burden the slim shoulders of the Israelis with special session of the UN General Assembly sponse. Too, the missionary interests of guilt for the war . . . the Jews were cold­ in rece nt weeks and not realized that the plight 150 years of Protestant work and accom­ bloodedly maneuvered by the Arabs into a of the Midd le East's million refugees is at the plishment in the Middle East among pos ition which left the Israelis only two alter­ heart of the problem . . ." natives : to capitulate or to defend themselves." Christian and Moslem Arabs is a link - Frank{ttrter Rtmdschau: "T he Israeli sol­ On Jerusalem the publication said "given diers have not only protected their fatherland; the international character of Jerusalem, in­ with the Arab world which many Amer­ ican Christians did not want to endanger. they have simultaneously saved the United ternationalization is perhaps the mos t logical States from terrible blame, probably rescued solution to a problem that is of co ncern to so Comments included the following : the United Nations, and knocked the Arabian much of the world outside Israel's borders. card out of the hands of the. Soviets before they On the other hand, Israel's record over the - Christianity Today : " . .. Despite the pres­ ent hatred between Jew and Arab, the Scrip­ could really play it." last 20 years in p roviding free access to its - Rheininscher Merkur: " . .. The failure of Christian shrines has been commendable. If tures prophesy a time when both Egypt and the region known as Assyria in Old Testa­ the United Nations, and the feeling of the free access is the issue, then we ca nnot help United States of having been left in the lurch, wondering if the case for internationali zation ment times will turn in faith to the Jeho­ vah of the Old Testament Scriptures and be at will simultaneously lend fuel to the develop­ is as urgent as it appeared to be in 1947 ." ment of neutralism in Europe and to isolati on - Pilot : In an editorial entitled "So Much peace with each other. . ." To Lea rn," said : in the United States." - Dr. Edwin Espy, general secretary of the The publication, often considered pro­ "Several prominent American rabbis have Natio nal Council of Churches: " . . . our hearts French, sharply criticized General deGaulle. strongly criticized the Christian community in are fi lled with compass ion and concern for the It also compared Nasser with Hitler and the United States .. . They felt that there people of Israel and of all the Middle EJ~ st . pointed out that when Nasser threatened the should have been a stro nger express ion of Our identification is not exclusively with any Jewish people with annihilation he was solidarity from the churches supporting the one community, one belligerent, or one set of threatening people who were born in Germany. posmon of Israel, and that such action would national aspirations. We aspire to the identi­ "The existence of the State of Israel is have comforted the Jewish community in the fica tion of man wi th man, heart with heart . .. " directly bound up with the darkest period in United States. The points raised by the rabbis - Co ncern, the Methodist Social Action our history . .. the hearts and prayers of all are undoubtedly well taken . .. magazi ne, ran side-by-side articles-"Today's Germans who are ashamed of Hitler are with . "At the same time, there is some explan­ Jews H ave No Right To Palestine" by Moham­ the courageous band of Israelis ..." ation for the fact that so few Christian leaders med T. Mehdi; "Where Were The Christi ans" - The right-wing newspaper Deutsche Na­ fe lt that a public statement was required of by Rabbi Balfour Brickner. tional ttnd So/daten Zeitung likened Moshe them. The state of Israel has been accepted In a column of comment on the crisis, Co n­ Daya n to Hitler in a front page article head­ by th ~ world as _a. political fact, politically cern said : "Christi ans and Jews in the United lined "Israel's Auschwitz In The Desert- The recognized and politically assisted. Most Chris­ States have a very serious obligation to reject Mass Murder Of The Arabs-Dayan In Hit­ tians are only now beginning to understand the Biblical literalism that lies behind political ler's Tracks." The Civil Court of Munich how, for Jews everywhere, the calls of Nasser Z wmsm and to expect Israel to develop into ordered co nfiscation of the newspaper. ( An for the exterminati on of the citizens of Israel a secular state in which Jews, Moslems and article, "Echoes Of The Nazi Past," March, were reminiscent of the Nazi pogroms. ·. . Christians will have full religious liberty . . ." 1966, A DL Bulletin, described the Z eitung's What most people judged as idle boasting, - Christianity and Crisis: ". . . Christi ans fu lminations against Israel and Jews generally. Jews were . able to see as the beginning of a have no warrant for pomification to ei ther Several months after its publication, the new annihilation . . . We truly did not know Jews or Moslems about peace in the Middle Zeitung attacked the Ami-Defamation League well enough the fear that, quite understand­ &st. We must not repeat the solemn foolish­ in an article illustrated with the A DL Bul­ abl y, gripped Jews across the world . . . We ness of former UN Ambassador W arren Aus­ letin's from page.) have only begun during these last years to tin, who urged Israel and Egypt to settle their - Der Spiegel carried a seven-page cover know each other, Jews and Christians, only differences 'in a spirit of Christian charity' story on the Middle East under the headi ng begun the dialogue of friendship that can be new provisions must now be advanced for "Blitz Campaign," and an ed itorial entitled so productive .. ." international authority. Jerusalem is holy to "Israel Shall Live." - Rev. John B. Sheerin, CSP, editor, The Moslems and Christi ans as well as to Jews . . ." - Deutsche Nachrichten, official organ of the Catholtc W orld : The fa ilure of Christians to Neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (N .P.D .), support Israel when she was threatened by the demanded that the Bonn government remain Nasser regime points to the fact that " ...the neutral in the conflict because in a confro nta­ essential concept of Jewish peoplehood . . . tion of the world powers ( meaning the U.S. should be a primary iss ue on the agenda for and Soviet Russia ) which would result from dialogue . . . Maners such as anti-Semitism in an extension of the conflict, Germany would textbooks, Jewish fears of conversion, the become the victim. question of Jewish guilt for the Crucifixion­ The Communist countries, with the all these are important- but we m ust first know who the Jews are before we can dis­ exception of Rumania, supported the cuss with them those other topics." Arabs with a varying degree of vehem­ Protestant reaction generally recognized ence. There was, too, a significant deteri­ the legitimacy of Israel's existence, free­ oration of the position of Jews not only dom and integrity, but was not completely in Russia but also in Eastern Europe. behind Israel's position in the current con- Fa r left, Gus Hall; Fa r Right, Robert Welch. Continued on page 8

6 Egyptians into a declaration of war. And so strong was the pro-Nazi sentiment in Egypt that when Premier Ahmed Maher did declare war-on February 24, 1945- he was assassinated while reading the Royal Decree. Arab fighting during World War II was on the side of the Nazis. Several thousand Arab volunteers were mobilized into Nazi units by the Grand Mufti of The Grand Mufti Jerusalem, Hitler's man in the Middle Ease. The Mufti, (Haj Amin El-Hus­ and His Friends seini), who operated out of Berlin from 1941 co 1945, organized his pro-Nazi by Sid Goldberg Arabs into sabotage squads, espionage cells and a fighting unit called the Arab G rand Mufti. legion. The Mufti also helped organize the Moslems of Bosnia and other Balkan areas The irony of charging Israel with "Nazism" is revealed in the Arab into special SS Units called "The Black record before, during, and after World War II. legions." H e praised them as the "cream of Islam" and they were dispatched to the Eastern front in the Caucasus to stir N June 20 President Nureddin El­ contributed to the liberation of Europe Soviet Moslems into an anti-Communist O Atassi of Syria cold the United from Nazism and co the realization of crusade. Some 3,000 of these Mufti troops Nations General Assembly that "The allied victory." were held prisoners of war as late as 1946 Arab people is indeed being subjected in Camp Opelika, Alabama. roday tO an operation of extermination THE FACT is that Syria, Egypt, Saudi The Grand Mufti was among the most surpassing in dimensions what the N azis Arabia and lebanon did not declare war popular Arab leaders before, during and did." on Germany until February, 1945, when after the war. So effective was his hate­ The day before, Premier Aleksei N. the war was little more .than a mopping­ sputtering oratory that few if any Arab Kosygin of the Soviet Union cold the up operation by the allies. The Arab leaders dared oppose him. As spiritual same group that Israel's behavior "brings declarations of war were made in late and political leader of the Palestine Arabs co mind the heinous crimes perpetrated February because attendance at the forth­ he had learned to hate Jews in the '20's by the Fascists during World W ar II." coming San Francisco conference, setting and '30's as their numbers increased in Radio Cairo compared Israeli adminis­ up the United Nations, required a decla­ the land of Zion. tratOrs in Gaza tO "Nazi Gauleiters." ration of war on Germany no later than Now 71 and last reported-in March Other Arab and Soviet propaganda mills March 1. of this year-co be in Old Jerusalem, the referred tO the "Hitlerite death mer­ The only Arab state that played any Mufti had been Hitler's chief advisor on chants" of Israel, co "Moshe Dayan's storm military role in the war was Transjordan, Arab affairs and the friend and confi­ troopers," and co what they charged were which declared war on Germany as early dante of Adolf Eichmann. "Zionist plans for genocide." as 1939. Transjordan was totally depend­ Gideon Hausner, chief prosecutor at The irony, of course, is that thousands ent on British grants for its existence, and the Eichmann trial in Israel, established of Israelis are the sole survivors of fami­ its army, the Arab legion, was in effect that "the Mufti asked Gestapo chief lies that vanished in the Nazi furnaces. a part of the British Army, under British Heinrich Himmler co provide him, after But doubly ironic is the fact that the officers. the war, when he planned co enter Jeru­ Soviet and Arab accusers of Israel stand Iraq declared war on Germany in salem at the head of the axis troops, with guilty of their own charges. 1943 after it was clear the Nazis were a 'special adviser' from Eichmann's de­ It was Soviet Russia that signed a non­ losing. Before that, pro-Nazi sentiment partment to help him solve the Jewish question in the same way as it had been aggression pact with N azi Germany in was powerful in Baghdad, and a Nazi done in the axis countries. Eichmann 1939, a pact which was ultimately broken puppet government was installed there offered the job co his assistant, Dieter by Germany, not Russia. Some of the in 1941 under Rashid Ali, who went so Wisliceny." other communist countries which accused far as to declare war on Britain. Rashid Israel of "walking the Hitlerite path" Ali received congratulations from Arab The Grand Mufti spread his anti­ also know that route very well. Hungary, leaders in Egypt (including King Jewish venom throughout the war over Rumania, Bulgaria, Albania and Slovakia Farouk), lebanon, and Syria. The latter radio Berlin. He praised the Germans not only were allies of N azi Germany in permitted German bombers and trans­ for "knowing how to get rid of Jews." World War II but had native Nazi move­ ports tO land on its fields while the Nazi He urged his Arab listeners to "kill the ments that vied in viciousness with the regime lasted in Baghdad. Jews wherever you find them." He gave German. The whole temper of the Arab world the number of Jews "still to be dealt with" (in 1944) as 11 million, .repre­ What is Jess known is the record of before and during World War II was senting the Jewish populations of Amer­ the Arabs in World War II. President neutralist at best, pro-Nazi at worst. ica, Russia and other countries beyond El-Atassi cold the General Assembly, "the When Italian troops in August, 1940, Hitle~; ' s reach. Arabs fought in both world wars and invaded Egyptian territory, Egypt did not consider this a cause for war. The All this would signify no more than fighting was left to the British. Even the ravings of one madman-except that Mr. Gold berg is editor of the North Am erican General Erwin Rommel's invasion of the Mufti was returned to his role after Newspaper Allia nce, a maj'o r newspaper syndicate. Egypt, in May, 1941, couldn't nudge the the war as leader of the Palestine ques-

7 tion. He directed policy from a lavish and fortified home in Cairo and, as one of the Arab delegates to the United Na­ tions in 1947 said, "the Mufti is the irre­ futable leader of the Holy Land Arabs."

To THIS DAY none of the Arab leaders has repudiated the Grand Mufti, or his pro-Nazi assistants who worked with him ,....,~~~-W.:. in Berlin during the war. O ld City sy~ agogu e remains a fter Ara b occu pation. Ga lilee fa rmhouse she ll ed by Syria . N or is this tolerance of a N azi in their ISRAEL plained to the authorities about the at­ midst surprising. Egypt, the chief victim Conti nu ed from pa ge 6 tacks was subsequently bombed. An at­ of the "Hitlerite" Israelis, has given sanc­ tempt to run over a policeman guarding tuary to hundreds of former Nazis, among In Poland, Wladyslaw Gomulka, head of them up to 100 of Hitler's rocket and the Communist party, combined support a Jewish school was thwarted by a cruis­ missile experts. for the Soviet position with warnings ing police car. A pro-Arab demonstration to Polish Jews who were supporting the by righr-wing extremists in front of the Also in Egypt, according to the latest Israeli cause. In a speech at the opening Syrian Embassy was dispersed as fights information from the Anti-Defamation of the sixth congress of trade unions, he broke out. A leader of Tacuara volun­ League, are the following : said: "We do nor wish a fifth column to teered to fight for the Arabs and Tacuara -Colonel Naam Al-Nashar, formerly Leo­ be created in our country." Only in Ru­ distributed leaflets urging others to "fight pold Gleim, who was head of German security mania did the authorities show any under­ for the liberation of Palestine occupied in Poland. He arrived in Egypt in 1955 and by international Zionism." organized the Egyptian security service along standing for the inevitable sympathy of Nazi lines. Jews for the cause of Israel. On the other hand, an Argentine Com­ -Lt. Col. Ben Sala, formerly Bernard Ben­ One paradoxical result of the breaking mittee of Support for Beleagured Israel, der, a storm trooper still on the Polish list of off of diplomatic relations between the composed of Argentinian intellectuals, war criminals. He is head of the Jewish De­ Soviet Union and Israel was the resump­ priests and other distinguished personal­ partment of the Egyptian security service. ities, expressed solidarity with "Israel's - Hassan Soliman, formerly Heinrich Sell­ tion by Russia of broadcasts in Yiddish mann, wanted by West Germany for crimes and Hebrew, the first since 1949. The just fight" to the Israeli Ambassador. committed while he was Gestapo chief in Soviets began on June 17 a daily half­ As in Argentina, consulates and centers Ulm. He now holds a senior position in the hour broadcast in Yiddish containing of Jewish and Arab concentration in Secret Police in Cairo. Russian allegations of Israeli Nazi-like Brazil were heavily guarded. Offers to -Col. Ahim Fahumi, formerly Dr. Hein­ rich Willermann, wanted by West Germany arrociries. After realizing that most Is­ serve as volunteers received at the Israel for sterilization experiments he conducted in raelis do nor know Yiddish, the broadcasts Embassy grew to such an extent that the several Nazi co ncentration camps. He now became partly Yiddish and partly Hebrew. government warned against the loss of runs the Egyp_tian political prison at Samara, Brazilian citizenship. A touching appeal near Alexandna. Most of the Latin American countries declared themselves neutral, while the for peace in the Middle East bearing the - Louis Al-Haj, formerly Louis Heiden, di­ rector of a Nazi press agency in Berlin. H e is people and the press demonstrated sup­ signatures of more than 3,000 Arabs and now an adviser to Presid ent Nasser and it was port for Israel. In the General Assembly Jews, members of the Arab-Jewish he who prepared a pocket-sized Arabic trans­ of the U.N., however, the Larin Ameri­ Union of Sao Paulo, was submitted to lation of Mein Kampf fo r Egyptian officers. can bloc was supportive of Israel in insist­ President Costa y Silva with copies sent - !braham Mustafa, formerly Joachim ing that withdrawal of troops be linked to the governments of Israel and the Daemling, wa nted by West Germany for crimes committed in Dusseldorf while a ro an end of belligerence. UAR, and the United Nations. A similar storm trooper there. He is an adviser to the Seeking ro dispel his ami-Semitic im­ move was registered in both Parana and Cairo police on concentration camps. age, President Ongania of Argentina en­ Bela Horizonre. - Ali Mohammed, fo rmerly George Brun­ dorsed the U.S. position but declared his In Chile, the government declared it­ ner, one of Eichmann's assistants, in charge ott government's intention ro maintain "equi­ deportation of Jews from Greece. He now self "physically neutral but by no means works in the Egyptian propaganda industry. distant" neutrality because of the 450,000 ind:fferent." Three congressmen from the Jews and 700,000 Arabs living in the Government Party in Uruguay offered to The list goes on and on. The Arabs, by country. Israeli and Arab embassies and volunteer for Israel. In Guatemala, a June raising a "N azi issu e," convict only consulates were heavily guarded, as were 1 resolution by the Senate and the Con­ themselves. synagogues and Jewish schools. gress condemned the "illegitimate" block­ Only a few incidents were recorded. ade of the Tiran Strait as an act of ag­ IN WORLD WAR II, 1,300,000 Jews A synagogue and a bank in the Cordoba gression and a violation of human rights. were in uniform in the Allied Armies. In province were damaged by bombs planted The Presidents of Mexico and Costa Rica Palestine, 85,800 Jewish men and 50,400 by an extremist group called "Mazorca." jointly appealed to both sides to settle Jewish women volunteered for war serv­ The home of a Jewish leader who com- their problems by peaceful means. ice; 27,028 Palestine Jews served with the British forces in various Middle East, SUPPORT THE 1967 ADL APPEAL N orth African and European fronts, many in the most hazardous missions. What made a mockery of the United Nations "debate" was that the Commu­ nists and Arabs well know their respec­ tive roles in World War II. Their state­ ments in the General Assembly would · Jauow sso1J PUl so paJa+U3 have made Joseph Goebbels proud. Dr. 9100 1 ';1JO).. MaN '·aAv uo)DU !Xal s 1E Goebbels, incidentally, was royally wel­ comed in Cairo on the eve of the war. NIU11DB ]@W