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The Canadian Jewish News, Thursday, October 25, 1984-Page 7
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DAVID BIRKAN
Exactly 40 years today, on Oct. 25, 1944, the Jewish Agency's Inner Zionist Council announced its intention to supress anti-British retaliatory actions by the Jewish underground. The Season, as the fratricidal operation was dubbed, nearly plunged the yishuv (pre-statehood community) into civil war.
A variety of political considerations, eloquent pereuasion, some sympathy, and gratitude to Chaim Weizmann for his scientific efforts on their behalf compelled the British to promise a Jewish national homeland in Palestine. The 1917 Bsdfour Declaration and its impUcatibhs were the justification for the British receiving a mandate over the area in the peace talks following World War I.
Once installed, they secured their tenure with an iron web of soldiers^ and police. Central to British interests in Egypt, the Mediterranean, Iraq and India, Palestuie's location made it too valuable an asset to leave to others.
In 1922, the strategically least valuable area under British control, the Transjordan, was ceded to Abdullah, a migrant sheik from Arabia. He agreed to accept Britishdirectionand administration. Jewish settlement was forbidden there by law!
West of the Jordan, Jewish political rights were restricted, Arab objections heeiied, and Jewish immigration increasingly curtiailed.
Efforts by Weizmann, as head of the Zionist oranizatioii, to negotiate a British withdrawal yielded hopefiil but vague promises. The Jewish Agency, Zionism's proto-govemment of the yishuv, continued to pursue a diplomatic course with the British.
Switched foeus to British
Two other groups did not. The Irgun Tzevai Leumi, founded by militant Revisionist Zionists in 1937 to retaliate in kind againist Arab terrorism, switched its focus to the British, particularly after the Whitb Paper of 1939. The latter, a study submitted by the British colbnial secretary, advocated a severe curtailment of Jewish immigration at a time when Hitler's policies were creating hundreds of thousands of Jewish refiigees.
The Lohamei Herut Israel (fighters for the freedom of Israel), called the Stem Gang by opponents, after its founder Avraham Stem, was started in 1940 by Irgun members who refused to comply with the lirgun's military truce against Britain during the early years of World War II.
Small but bloody duels between the Lohamei and the British police went oh continuously. The Irgun, under Menachem Begin, resumed its offensive in 1944; a series of raids on Yom Kippur forced the British to yield in their refusal to ajlow the shofar to be blown at the Western Wall on that day for the first tiine in 14 years.
Signs of increased support for Zionism in London, particularly by the Labor opposition, and in both the Democratic and Republican platforms in the U.S., made the underground painfully embarrassing to die Jewish Agency. The British pressured Agency members to co-operate in its suppression.
In mid-Octoberj the Haganah, the Agency's clande^e kibbutz-based defensive arrar^be^ trainmg 170 men for The Season. A last minute effort by Haganah chief Eliahu Golomb failed to convince Begin of new British sfaicerity.*'We shall step in and flhish you," Golomb warned.
Irgutt men kidnapped
Financial backers of the Irgun were isolated. Irgun members were frozen out of school and government jobs. Safe houses were prepared in various kibbutzim to where Irgun men were kidnapped and intimidated in an effort to make them cease their operations. Cigarette bums, fingers broken in doorways and beatings were routine.
The Lohamei were exempted from attack, even though their Nov. 6 assassination of British minister of state in Cairo, Lord Moyne, fanned die flames of The Season and initially sparked Haganah cries for punishment. According to the Haganah, they were let off after promising to refrain from operations for six montfis. Lohamei leader Nathan Yellin-Mor, ho\yever, threatened Golomb with direct retaliation against the Haganah leadership^
The policy of haylagah,-self-restraint, practiced by the Haganah in reaction to British provocation and Arab terrorism, was imposed on the Irgun by Begin in reaction to The Season. His determination prevented the mutual destruction of Jewish forces, as the increasingly unpalatable season drew to a close with the end of World War H. ^
Subsequent British intransigence drew the Hagiaiiah into some joint operations with the Irguri.
. -By ; MOURA WOLPERT
HAMILTON -
Do your best to be born at home, die at home and in between, try not to take dmgs. Aboye all, stay away from doctors.
This, in a nutshell, was the advice a medical nian who spends much of his time dispensing the truth about modern medicine had for a sell-out luncheon crowd at die YWCA here.
For Hamihpn's barely 2-yeai:-old revived Pioneer Women Na'amat, getting selfrstyled medical heretic Dr. Robert iS. Mendelsohn to give his only annual freie lecture for their first celebrity audior's luncheon resulted in a smashing success far beyond the "sweetest dreams" of president Trish Tolkin-Eppel and covenor Shifra Alleson.
And seeing the 260 women — and a handful of men — munching oh box lunches provided by Pioneer Women as he spoke, Dr. Mendelsohn expressed surprise and delight. He
had expected, he confessed, about 20 people with whom to "sit around and ishmoos for a while.'*
Discussing his latest book. How To Raise A Healthy ChUd . . In Spite Of Your Doctor, he was pleaised to see so many mothers nureing their infants but cautioned them "not to tell their doctors if they nurse for a prolonged period because doctors regard prolonged breast feedbg as a minor form of sexual deviation!"
Mothers are not told that the incidence of sudden iiifant death is 20 times as high in bottle fed babies as ui breast fed babies, nor are they told that uifant formula is "deficient in every enzyme necessary for optimum development of the
human brain."
He advised women the medical profession refers to as geriatric mothers — pregnant women of 35 and over — to tell dieir doctors they are 25 and said there's no such thing as a "stale egg syndrome." If the in-
Dr. Robert Mendelsohn is flanked by Trish Tolkm-Eppel, left, president of Hamilton Pioneer Women and author Shifra Alleson. [Joe Boschler photo]
WASHINGTON (JTA)-
The Senate is expected to be bound morally, if not legally, to ratify the United Nations Convention against genocide when the new Congress; die 99th, convenes in January.
Just before adjourning recenUy, the Senate accepted by an 87-2 vote a resolution expressing the Senate's support for the "principles" of die 35-year treaty and asserting that it "declares its intention to act expeditiouisly" to ratify the Convention next year. Senators John East and Steven Symms voted against the resolution,
Sen. Charles Percy, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said his committee would move expeditiously next year to get die resolution on the Senate floor again.
The res(riution was suggested by Senate majority leader Howard Baker when it became apparent during the debate that Sen. Jesse Helmsi and other oppprients of ratification could prevent it by offering numerous amendments.
Sen. Christopher Dodd, who agreed to die resolution in a conference widi Baker and Helms, said diat while he would have preferred immediate ratification, he realized it was not going to happen and saw the resolution as a "significant step forward."
The Convention on die Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was signed by President Tmman on Dec. 11, 1948.
Although supported by every president since Tru-maii, except Eisenhower, it has failed ratification in die Senate because of conservative opposition.
New life was given die treaty this year on Sept. 5 when President Reagan who had been silent on die issue, announced his support of it on the eve of a speech to B'nai B'rith International.
Helms and others op-iiosed to nitificatron want amendments to prevent the treaty from superceding the U.S. Constitutk>n.
In the debate. Helms called the treaty just a
noble gesture."
cidence of Down's Syndrome babies is higher in older mothers, it's most likely because.they've had greater exposure to X-rays thaii younger women, he added.
His genial humor and snappy one-liners elicited much appreciative laughter but beneath die humor, he said later, he was * 'deadly serious.'' He became a comedian only, he explained, when he found diat nobody would listen to him when he spoke seriously. Now, however, others are beginning to share his views and he's been "joined by a whole bunch of other medical heretics who are also telling people the tmth."
Dr; Mendelsohn told his audience he became a heretic when he saw patients coming back with diseases "I was responsible for creating," such as women treated with DES during pregnancy which resulted in' 'a generation of daughters with cancer of the Vagina and sons with tumors of the testes."
He warned against birth control pills, tubal litigation, vasectomies, hysterectomies and the Pap smear, because "if you've not been exposed to the pill or the lUD and been faidi-ful to your husband, you
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stand a greater risk of being damaged by an error in die Pap smear." ^
And citing a cancer study linking diagnostic ultra-. sound "to an excess production of leukemia in children,'' he declared that "we haven't even begun to see the carnage that I and others are predicting will come from die use of diagnostic ultrasound, during pregnancy.".
He warned that certain tranquilizers are known to cause cataracts and that all of the best selling drugs have about 30 or 40 side effects, many of them sexual, causing impotence and loss of sexual vigor.
High blood pressure is
best controlled with nutrition but modern medicine "believes in better living from chemistry" and he deplored diat doctors are
not taught about nutrition.
The best part of American medicine, said Dr. . Mendelsohn, "is emergency care —. the care of shock, trauma, hemorrhage, broken bones — that's when you see the benefits of American medicine and avoid die risks." Otherwise, turn to members of your family widi lots of experience in living and raising children.
And, oh yes," *'one grandmother is worth two pediatricians!' * declared the grandfather of five, who was visitmg his daughter in Toronto.
Those who would like to know more about drugs and their side effects and Other informiation can send for Dr. Mendelsohn's newsletter at PG Box 792, Evanston, 111., 60204.
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