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Early in the spring ol this year Moscow announced the creation of the ' - Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public." This paper responded to that announcement editorially, recognizing that develophient as one that is pregnant with danger for Soviet Jewry and for Israel.
At the time there were some readesrs who thought the paper exaggerated the seriousness of Moscow' s announcement. Those doubting Thomases were dead wrong. If anything, the paper's evaluation of the founding of the Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public was, in my opinion, insufficiently alarming.
In a subsequent column I expressed the view that the formation of such a committee was an ill omen for Israel and world Jewry — a threat that we must expose and combat with every legitimate means at our disposal.
Everything that has happened since April, when the hxemlin launched its committee, confirms, onfortonately, the correctness of the measurement we took ot
J. B. Salsberg
that Idremlin move. Indeed, it is a much more sinister adventure than I, for one, anticipated it to be.
Two recent news items from Moscow should be recognized as smoke sirens that should alarm us to the dangerous fire that Moscow has started. '
The first dispatch told of the sudden death of Rabbi Jacob Fishman, the chief
rabbi of Moscow, of a heart attack. The second news item told of the publication of a book by one Lev A. Korneyey that bears the title, Class Essence of Zionism which, as reported in the Toronto Star of June 14, is being praised in the official press. "Soviet authorities," says the Star correspondent, "are promoting a strident new book that blames the rise of Hitler and the Jewish Holocaust during World War II partly on Jews themselves."
As for the sudden death of Rabbi Fishman in Moscow, it should be understood that a few days before his demise he made known in a radio interview that he has joined the notorious anti-Zionist committee and he mouthed some obviously dictated, pathetic reasons for doing so.
Did his heart give out because of what he was forced to do? We may never Imow the facts but Vm inclined to the belief that he was a victim of Moscow's enforced obedience to its latest anti-Jewish crusade. After all, there is only so much that a self-respecting person, and a rabbi in particular, can take.
With regards to Korneyev's book it seems, from all reports, to be a scurrilous, anti-semitic tract that was written to order for the present Soviet leadership as a ' * scientific'' j ustification for its current anti-Israel and anti-American policies in the Middle East. But that book seems to go beyond what the immediate Soviet policy wpiild require.
Korneyev provides anti-J ewish fabrications for anti-Semites around the world. Thafcpen bandit not only blames the Jews for the Holocaust but he also raises the charge of "dual loyalties'' and he spells out this charge by saying (again, according to the Toronto Star and the Los Angeles Times): "The concept of dual loyalty is Widely exploited by IsraeU special services," meaning espionage. .
Don't be surprised if this hireling of the kremlin will yet get the Lenin Order for this vulgar, a:nti-semitic concoction. That he will be translated and his slander made available around the world need not be doubted. In fact the Anti-Zionist Committee of the Sdviet Public recently announced, through one "Prof. Samuel Zivs," that the committee will seek to attract intellectuals, writers, journalists, etc. to create literary and publicistic works, films and theatrical spectacles to combat the "danger" of Zionism. That spokesman also stated that prizes for such "works" will be available from the central government and from the government of the republics of the USSR.
The whole project is truly mind-boggling. [But, then again, that is the nature of Soviet operations. Nothing there is, to use Stalin's favorite expression, fortuitously done. Once the general orientation of the top leaders has been reached the slavish apparatchildj in their eagerness to please their masters, know no bounds in their execution of the original policy.
With the exception of Lenin every subsequent leader was pictured by those pen slaves as a. demi-God and, in the fulness of time, as a monstrous devil. The same method was applied to most leaders of the socialist "sister republics."
Gromyko, who delivered an impressive speech at the UN favoring the establishment of the Jewish state did not hesitate, a few short years later, to deliver one of the most hostile speeches against Israel at the same UN after the Six Day War.
Now, Moscow's interests in the Middle East call for an anti-Israel crusade, to gain favor with the most reactionary Arab regimes in the Middle East area, and the apparatchiki will stoop to the use of the most obnoxious, anti-semitic hate propaganda under the guise of "anti-Zionism."
The Jewish world community will commit an inexcusable sin if it will fail to quickly mobilize all its resources and those of all its dependable friends to combat the alarmingly dangerous offensive that the kremlin has launched against us.
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panacea, since many Palestinian hit-and-run raids have occurred south of that river. In the market town of Naba-tiyeh, where the corpse of an Israeli helicopter pilot was publicly mutilated in the first days of last year's war, a watermelon bomb blew up near a group of Israelis.
No one was hurt, but soldiers were warned not to buy fruit, cigarettes and soft drinks in Lebanon.
As Israelis prepared for an official announcement of a partial pull-back, Lebanon's parliament, by a 65-2 margin, approved the withdrawal pact with Israel.
Seventy-one of the 91 living members of the 99-seat parliament were present as the Lebanese ^ defied Syria in voting for the U.S.-sponsored agreement.
Predictably, Syria lashed out at Lebanon.
A; commentary on Damascus radio charged that Lebanese legislators
had "sold their country to the devil." And Al Thawra, one of the leading Syrian newspapers, called on Lebanese opposed to the withdrawal pact to turn their guns against "those collaborators with Israel at all levels."
Al Thawra, which usually speaks for Syria's leadership, warned that Syria "will stop the implementation of the agreement irrespective of the consequences."
In the Bekaa Valley, where IsraeH and Syrian forces eye each other
warily, the two sides were said to have exchanged artillery fire, the Christian Phalange radio reported. How-ever, Israeli military spokesmen said they had not heard of any such fighting.
With the Syrians displaying fierce resistance to the withdrawal agreement, former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabhi blasted the Reagan administration for having believed that
Syria would eventually acquiesce to the accord.
According to Rabin, Secretary of State George Shultz relied on erroneous information when he insisted in his talks with Israel that Syria would relent and finally support the agreement.
The Syrians, Rabin said, should have been brought into the negotiations from the outset. Shultz, he related in an interview, relied on false information. "I nearly fell off my chair when I heard what American policy was based on and I am still worried by their conception."
• Elsewhere in Lebanon, Christians and Druze fighters battled in
the Shouf Mountains, and pro- and anti-Syrian factions fought in the northern city of Tripoli,
controlled by Syria's army.
• Yasser Arafat, chairman of the embattled PLO, declared that the revolt in his Fatah faction had died down, but this was wishful thinking on his part. Last Saturday, a battle erupted in the ' Bekaa Valley; leaving two dead and eight wounded. Later, one of Arafat's top aides was wounded by gunmen opposed to his administration. ■
Arafat, who has taken pains to minimize the seriousness of the mutiny since it broke out in early May, said that a
Libyan tank battalion had tried to intervene.
The rebels, he said, were "completely under the control of Muammar Qaddafi and other Arab intelligence forces," an obvious reference to Syria, which has assisted the mutineers.
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