Page 2-The Canadian Jewish News-Friday, August 20,1971
Israel's Jerusalem Claim
The Arab InformatipnCen-ter, headquartered in Ottawa has joined in a renewed world Wide attack on the status of Jerusalem design-, ed to organize Canadian religious, and political leadership to oppose Israeli control of the historic Jewish capital, unified in 1967.
The "Judaizatiotf' or "Zionization'' of Jerusalem has become the chief subject of a well co-ordinated propaganda barrage launched by the Arab countries. The campaign includes a plan to bring a resoluti^ before the United Nations - Security Council condemning Israel for continuing to regard East and West Jerusalem as one, unified city. The resolution . claims that Israel is thereby retaining territory seized by force in violation o the U.N. charter.
Arab Canada, news letter of the Arab Information Center, devotes its August issue to an effort to "focus attention on a unique and central problem in the Middle East question - the status of the city of Jerusalem." It includes the accusation that the goal of Zionism is toup-root civilization.
The Arab newsletter insinuates that Israel was responsible for the 1969 fire that damaged the Al Aksa Mosque, deemed by.Moslems as a holy shrine. The article suggests that the fire was "atragic event that must
be sieen as a direct result of Israeli military occupation of the city."
The article ignores the arrest and public trial of a mentally-ill Australian who confessed openly to setting fire to the mosque, the fact that Arab guards, rather than Israeli police may have been negligent and that Israel has contributed botii technical assistance and fUndis to restore the damaged shrine.
The Arab publication attacks Israel's claim to Jerusalem through several devices and claims-prior his--torical righs to Jerusalem by the Arabs. The newsletter states:
"It is true that Jerusalem's siffnificance in Judaism and Jewish history extends to times well before the birth of Islam or Christianity, but the city itself has not been under Jewish control for almost 2,000 years.''
It claims that Arab rule would provide greater tolerance for other religious groups.
"Two important principles characterize the more than 1,000 years of Arab rule in Jerusalem - the first is the principle of tolerance for non-Muslim§ and the second is the respect shown to all the Holy Places in the city."
It claims that the city should remain partitioned because the Jewish and Arab
portions are culturally, e-conomicaUy and religiously
incompatible.
"The social behaviour of the East Jerusalemi Arab repreisents a style of life appropriate to the sacred character of the Holy Places. Israeli modernization has brought irrevocable changes in the city's character. Neon lights, cabarets. Western _jnusic now intrude into the city of peace." <
It points-to the opposition of some Christian churqh men to Jewish control of Jerusalem. Arab Canada quotes the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Transjordan as calling on world opinion to "check Zionist plots to Judaize and monopolize the Holy City and to eti&ce its sacred character."
Considerable space is devoted to a statement issued on May 10 by the Pastors of the Christian Communities in the Arab World meeting in Damascus accusing Israel "of expelling the Christian and Muslim inhabitants and their replacement by Jews.
"For the goal of Zionism is to merge this human and spiritual heritage into a fanatical racist state and thereby destroy it.
"The farther goal of Zionism is even worse and much more serious: to uproot civilization. For Abraham was ■ not the founder of a race or state."
Need for U.S. Jewish community says Gahal Knesset member
Rehovoth, Israel - A member of Israel's Knesset told the American-Israel Dialogue last week that Jewish life could not center around Israel,alone but rather needed a vital and authentic Jewish community in the United States.
Zalman S. Abramov of the Gahal Party warned, however, that unless American Jews turned "inward" and abandoned their emphasis on " universalistic values such as civil rights and the peace movement," there was a greater chance that Jewish life in the U.S. would disappear than flourish. "&mei-30A\neric'ah Jewish aSlsr^Utell^ceu^l^lMk.. p^t in the four-day Dialogue, an annual event sponsored by the American Jewish Congress at the Weiz-mann Institute.
Earl Raab, sociologist and executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council ofSan Francisco, began the dialogue session by asserting that America was becoming a true cultural "melting pot" for the first time in its history.
This development, he said posed a threat to the maintenance of group identity in general ahd Jewish identity in particular, liot because of anti-semitism biit because of "an environment increasingly hostile to the assertion of separate ethnic identity." He described current efforts to revive ethnic minority iden-
tification in the U.S. as a "false pregnancy" that would bear no results.
Abramov added: Israel is also a shareholder in American Jewry. Because we have a stake in that community, many of us believe a radical and perhaps even painftd reorientation of American Jewish life is called for, one in which Jews wiU put greater emphasis on the particularistic rather than universalistic values of our faith. ♦     ♦ ■   * *
Hillel Kook, a former underground leader and ex-Knesset member, said Israel needed tough r minded i^^riticism from American '. Jfews;
Kook said his feUow -Israelis rejected serious discussion of such issues as church-state relations, the distinction between citizenship and nationality and the place of the Arab minority in Israeli life,
"Israel has too little dissent, too little discussion of vital issues, too little debate on fundamental questions," Kook declared, adding:
"Since we seem to be incapable of raising these issues ourselves, we need American Jews to come here and raise the issues for us and with us."
The Dialogue session was launched by Arthur A, Cohen of New York, author and religious philosopher, asserted that American Jews were "overcommitted" to Israel
psychologically. He said he was not suggesting that American Jews withdraw or diminish their support of Israel but rather that they "seek to define themselves as Jews not only by identifying with the Jewish state.
"The crisis of American Jewish life," he said, "is that every aspect of Jewish behavior must be measured and validated by its relationship to Israel. In &ct, there is greater opportunity outside Israel to create and maintain one's Jewish identity without public surveillance."
In reply. Professor David,. Landes of Harvard UniyerT s ity's' history department de-.. clared:
"The attachment of American Jews to Israel represents a healthy instinct. The founding of the Jewish state has been a watershed in American Jewish life, bringing about a change in the character of American Jewry and opening a new dimension in the nature of Diaspora life.
"Today it is a voluntary act to remain a Jew in the Diaspora, This act poses the most personal and pertinent of questions to each of us. And if, as in the days of Babylon, most Jews chobise to remain outside of Israel, the lihk l)etween Israel and the Jewish people must and will - as it did then-remain a powerful one;"
Newcomers to Israelstand near their new homes in Ofakim. a modern Israeli town m the northern Negev being developed with the aid of Israel Bond funds
Mass response promised for High Holy Day bond effort
Eight wounded, 67 arrested in Jerusalem religious riots
Jerusalem (JCNS) - Jerusalem has suffered its worst night of religious rioting for many years when ultra-Orthodox students and inhabitants of Mea Shearim quarter engaged in a flrenzy 01 stone throwing which resulted in the wounding of two women, two journalists, one of them a television cameraman, three policemen and one demonstrator.
Sixty-^seven of the demonstrators were arrested, some of them after police stormed yeshivot where missiles had been stored for the onslaught against Egged buses inaugurating the post-Sabbath service through the quarter on Aug. 9.
The two women, who were hurt inabuswhchwas stoned suffered facial injuries. The trouble started before the end of the Sablath when zealots gathered near the Egged bus station to ensure that no
buse^left before the Sabbath was over. They m^de threatening geshires and yelled "Shabbes, Shabbes". Asthey made their way back toward Mea^ Shearim they were confronted by ai gang of anti-Orthodox youth and a grim situation developed.
However, the police promptly placed themselves between the two sides and there was only a minor fracas,
KEROSENE SET ALIGHT
The real trouble came with the passage of the first bus through the quarter.. It was met with a hail of stones -as was every sul)sequent bus. The police stayed awayftom the affair until a representative of Egged said that either the police ensured freedom of passage for his company's vehicles or the service would be withdrawn. The police then
started calmly and in a controlled manner to move the demonstrators from the streets.
It was at this stage that some of them poured kerosene across the roadway and set it alight. The police called up reinforcements and a water cannon and the big l)attle of the night got underway.
Particularly noticeable a-mong the demonstrators were a large number of yesh-iva bachurim who spoke English with a distinct American accent They appeared to be among the ring-leaders. One yelled "Nazi" and "Gestae' at an Israeli police officer who bore the identification number of a former concentration camp inmate on his wrist.
Another of the American demonstrators yelled loudly for his right to see an American lawyer when he was
seized by the police.
"EXOTIC SPORT" Experienced observers who watched Saturday night's events in Mea Shearim agree that sheer hooliganism - "an exotic sport" as one put it -motivated many of the bearded youngsters with side-curls who dodged out of the side streets and yeshivot and syngaogues in their running battle with the police.
If events such as those of Saturday night are to continue, say observers, it seems only a matter of time before there is a fatal accident Only that extremity might put an end to this stage in what some cynics already regard as the first round in the "Jewish War" between those who would impose observance on the general populace by force, and those who increasingly will raUy to the forces which will resist it
Bond Sponsor Ciiairman named
Monroe Abbey
CJC official
is eiectM to world body
Monroe Abbey, national president of Canadian Jewish Congress was elected a vice chairman of the World Conference of Jewish Organizations (COJO) at its recent meetings held in Geneva.
' The COJO Plenary, attended by the leadersh^ of 11 major Jewish organizations-, was marked by a transfer of leadership. Nahum Gold-mann, who founded the organization 13 years ago, retired from the chairmanship to be succeeded by Dr, William Wexler, mternational president of B'naiB'rith, one of the COJO constituents. Louis A, Pmcus, chairman of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem, and Dr, Joachim Prmz of the World Jewish Congress were elected co-chairmen,
Sion Cohen lmach,inBue-nos Aires, and Micl^el Fid-ler, MP^president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, were also elected vice chairmen along with Abbey. Yehuda Hellman, of New York was elected secretary gen-erat
Mrs. Nathan Reiber has been named Sponsor Chairman of.the l^ii State of Israel Bon* I)riRe,nit vas^anr nounced this week by Dr. Ayala Zacks, Chairman of the Women's Division. Mrs. Reiber wiU head a special and intensified campaign effort during the coming weeks to stimulate record enrollments by women in the important Sponsor categories of Israel Bond purchase as pacesetters for the entire Women's Division, "Phase One'' oftheSppnsorprogram will be highlighted by the luncheon   taking place- on
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