The CoRodron Jawtih Newt, Friday, November 9, 1962 — Page S
Zioilii
Th«»e art txcepH from Mr. Diefcn-boker'i addrcu to th* Zlonbt Con-vantion:
The Zionist Organization of Canada has had sixty years of devotion in the life of the Jewish community of Canada.
In these years of more lhaii two generations, mankind has lived through tremendous events, including two glob-- al wars, and in that time Canadians ~ have experienced the pride of national development. Man was concerned with this planet alone sixty years ago; new the problems of limitless space have added a. new share of difficulties for mankind.
As Jews you have had other and special experience, too, since the turn of the century. The call of the generations past to re-establish a homeland found expression throughout the years, but not till Theodore Herzl's genius crystallized thought and action did the pattern of statebuilding have its beginnings.
In these sixty years has been witnessed the historic and dramatic support of Britain in the Balfour Declaration of 1917; the establishment of the British mandate at the end of World War I; the tragedies- which made even more urgent the finding of many havens and the discovery that one haven was more important than most others; the ghastly memories of World War II; the vigorous demands that the gar tes of Palestine be open to all who would come.
Finally, after the partition debate in the United Nations when the Assembly voted favourably with a majority of one — statehood thereafter came into being on May 14th, 1948. And since that day you have shared the long road of a Palestine transformed into Israel, climbing toward security and social achievement.
You have shared in these things. To few in history has it been given to see a dream come true, to have a hand in the handiwork of destiny, to know that an effort now made is being rewarded today, not at some distant time when the giver cannot share in the fruits.
The Zionist movement in its sixty years in Canada has been a partnership ^mong Jews,, and a fellowship with history.
It must be^ajcei3Lgreat source^of pride to you as Canadians to know that your beginnings as part of that great movement which restored so much of the Jewish homeland to the Jewish people antedated the first International Zionist Congress in Basle, Switzerland, by five years.
Indeed, by what is perhaps a strange coincidence, it is close to the 100th Anniversary of the first recorded expression of the Zionist homeland sentiment in this country. Perhaps some of the historians of Zionism in Canada have found earlier references, but I do know that just 100 years ago, in 1863, that sentiment was clearly expressed in a poem entitled "To the Memory of Lady Monte-tiore" in a volume of verse, "Voices from the Hearth" by the first Canadian Jewish poet, Isidore Gordon Ascher of Mont^ real: .
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"The mighty hopes Judah's destinies Not to erect a toppling dynasty,
Nor empire in dread, reeking ways of blood, Instead, to give the out? cast Jew a home, And scatter bounty, as God scatters winds In spring, to swell the quickened biids with life." -
On this ocGasidn> your thoughts travel across the miles of land. and ^ ocean to that little land at the head of the Mediterranean to whose borders. Abraham brought his small tribe almost at the dawn of civilization as we know it. One of the great privileges that has come to my wife and myself has been the opportunity to
travel there as many here have done, to sense the full miracle and meaning of Israel.
The material achievements of these fourteen years are there for all to see — perhaps the most amazing transformaition of any part of the surface of the earth in a similar period. But it is the spiritual achievement of the
people of Israel — diverse in so many ways yet so passionately united in others—- that most impresses one such as myself who, although always sympathetic to the ideals of Zionism, had never thought it possible that the nation of Israel would in my lifetime ever become the vibrant, national, cultural, and spiritual
force that It is today.
One of the most impressive of its achievements is the African programme, a model of effective states-hanship, whereby scholarships in Israel and technical assistance abroad are provided. \
Small states everywhere, poor in resources but rich in spirit, can learn much from the Jewish
Soviets Encoorage Arab Exlremiistis
by the Hon. I^ester B. Pearson deader of the Opposition
TlicM an •kceptt from Mr. Peor-tofi'i oddreu to the Ziotilil Convention:
I am convinced that the refugee problem must be associated in its settlement with the acceptance of Israel as a living constructive force in the life of the Middle East. Unless that bridge of acceptance is crossed there can be little hope for a settlement that does justice, both to the claims of the refugees and to Israel's security.
At the saftfe'time other aspects of Arab-Israeli relations press upon all of us for answers and for
understandings. We may be near a moment of crisis in the relations of Israel and Jordan on the question of an equitable sharing of the waters of the Jordan in the present Israel plans for utilizing those waters to help irrigate the Negev. Mr. Eric Johnston's efforts Of the past several years have fallen afoul of the refusal of some of the parties to negotiate with Israel. We, in Canada, are peculiarly experienced in the sharing of transboun-dary and boundary rivers and we can perhaps look with sympathy where there
is disagreement by those who share a river system as to this optimum use.
Then we come to those disturbances in the Arab world which have marked the revolutionary changes for these past several years in regimes and leaders; in Iraq, in Egypt, in Syria, and now in the Yemen. Here a new balance must be observed in the entrance of Algeria. Tunisia and Morocco into the scheme of Arab and Islamic revival and the weight these states may cast in favour or against an improved
Diefenbaker—iSjmbol of Is^rael - Canada Fri endship
_ by YaacoT Herzog
Israeli Ambassodor to Conodo
TlicM or* excepts from Ambosjador Heraog't oddreu to the Zionist Convention:
We are assembled here tonight in November 1962 — in the fifteenth year of the third commonwealth of Is-'■ael — now ..a permanent part of the Middle East,, its credentials past, present and future acknowledged on the contemporar>' world scene, Its onward progress sustained despite all difficulty, its faith undimmed, its destiny vindicated. Your memory or imagination doubtless flashes back to the origins .uid native idealism of the movement which over many decades has formed a central theme of Canadian Je\vish life. The records of the movement enshrine the dedication of countless thousands of men and women who never wavered in their service to an ideal, whose ultimate fulfilment in face of what seemed insuperable difficulties must in the early unfolding phases have appeared a remote dream indeed. Here was an unremitting determination to construct a bridge to an ideal, a bridge with something in reality as yet intangible, yet canc:ble indeed in the soul of the movement and in that of every individual participant. And precisely for that reason the fulfilment of the idea] has not meant the consummation of the effort, but rather the ceaseless cement-mg of the bridge. The movement was a vital part of a world-wide effort which carried the ideal to implementation. The organization belongs to a process which while part of contemporary history is such only in the sense that history is the momentum of continuity.
Fulfilment proceeds. If measured since the time of the last convention in 1960 — on the complex picture 'he areas of difficulty and danger have by no . means disappeared but those of onward progress and of hope are constantly enlarged. In these two years Israel has proved capable of honouring i*s. commitment to. itself and to history by keeping its gates open, wide open, to a vast upsurge of immi-
gration of brethren fleeing from oppression and insecurity. It has attained the highroad leading to economic independence. Peace is tragically not yet with us but during this time the comparative quiet on the frontiers has been maintained. Moreover, revolutionary changes have taken place and are takitig place on the map of the Middle East. The historian will ultimately register this period as one in which a nascent sense of regional destiny has begun to find expression coupled with acknowledgement,—frustrated aid ambivalent, halting and encumbered in'initial expression though it be of the mtegrity and independence of all peoples of the Middle Hast bv all peoples of the Middle East.
Any study of the course of internal friction within the area over the past decade must lead to the conclusion that a .relaxation in the general global tension would have an immediate and beneficial effect on the Middle East, enhancing the prospect of the settlement of internal difficulties. Let us never forget that objectively speaking there is no outstanding problem between Israel and her neighbours which will not yield to settlement by dire:ct negotiations —with passion assuaged, with external pressures relaxed. Moreover, mankind in the past few weeks which has felt the slippery slope beyond the brink—from this awesome experience surely, in the words of the Prime Minister, mankind will find a new momentum for peace everywhere.
The vitality of the Organization negates barren dialogue and controversy. It is an index of the commitment of partnership in the new epoch—that of renaissance and revival i of an ideal, once bridged, itself corlstrueting the bridge . across which Isriael and the Diaspora link handis in a new path of historical destiny. Czmadian Zionism is rooted.not only
in the depths of tradition and in the contemporary Jewish experience. With its specific tone of kinship it harmonizes with the general pattern of sympathy and goodwill consistently evinced by all segments of the Canadian people to the rise to life of the small land 6n the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, a land hallowed in human annals, repository of religion, with people gathered,, , . „ . from all corners of the | ^ho^gh the United
relationship between Is- mitments, and their reite-rael arid her neighbours. But the immediate problem today is the challenge of a growing military buildup on one side, and the inevitable response on the other. There is no long-term good that can come from a middle-eastern arms race and it should be the task of all men of goodwill to seek a framework that makes such a race less desirable, indeed intolerable, in the eyes of the contestants.
Here it is only fair to say that, looking over the years since 1948, the Israelis have understood this and ; have never stopped asking I for peace, and for the j chance to be left to live in j harmony with all peoples on their frontiers.
This brings me to the second point: the role of the Great Powers. It is fair to say that although the Soviet Union helped to establish Israel by its partition vote in 1947 and by its early recognition of the State in 1948, it has done more since to make unsettled the present framework of Arab-Israeli relations than any of the other powers concerned. For al-
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globe to water its parched and the United Kmgdom soil and to revive their soul. France have since 1950 After over two years of diplo- ^een almost formally com-
matic service in Canada I can testify to the depth of this friendship which Israel reciprocates in gratitude and goodwill. It is symbolized by the presence here tonight of the Prime Minister of Canada, a statesman of international repute, one toiling ceaselessly in the vineyards of humanity and peace, one whose understanding of Israel's spiritual motive sets him among those whose names are engraved for all time on the tablets of Israel reborn.
It is then a privilege to convey not only the greetings but the sincere friendship of my Government and the people of Israel to the Prime Minister of Canada.
mitted to protect the integrity of Israel, the need 'or such formidable com-
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Appointed for Bond Drive
TTwoppointm^^ Horry J. Hqiperin, B. Gomm-, as Acting Monqger of Toronto was announced by p. Lou Harris, Notional Chqirman of the State of Icroel Bond Organization: of Cqriadq. A veteran staff rriem-ber of the Bond orjganizotion since its/inception in Conqdq in 1953, Mr; Hqiperin is responsible for: conducting campaigns in. Eastern and. North-em Ontario, ports of Quebec qnd the Moritimes, as well as in Ottqwq. On^his present oo-signment in .Toronto,^Mr. Hqiperin, will be in chai-ge of the intensive phase of the Bond Drive which culitilnotes with the. ' "Ambossqdor's.BqH" on Jonuory 24th.
Born qnd educq'ted in Mont-reol, Horry Hqiperin is q grqduote of McGill University, dnd , studied dt one of the Montreol Yeshivoth. ; Before joining the State of Isroiel Bond Office, he .was iSAanaging Editor of the Gonqdian Jewish Ghro-niclej qnd was also engqged in icommunity and recreotionql octivifies for the YMHA, Young Judoieq, and- B'nol B'rith Youth Orgqnixqtlori.
Mr. Holperin visitecl Isrqel during the summer of 1,9.61, in chorge of , this Canadian Delegation to, the Nationol Conference, of State of Isrqel "tndj. .
ration, would be far less if the Soviet Union had not embarked on a policy to weaken that integrity.
The Soviet Union has encouraged Arab extremists and has stimulated thoughts of revenge for 1948 and 1956. It is only natural that the Arab world would resent the success of Israeli arms in 1948. In 1956, the Israeli effort in Suez and Sinai, though a profoundly disturbing event, was in large part, a response to an increasingly unbearable environment, the disturbances created by this situation were to a great extent due to help from the Soviet bloc to the point where corresponding military aid had to be sought and given from the Western side.
What a sad commentary all of this is on the role of great powers as guardians of the world's peace? Surely, the time has come when among the .settlements that I hop*^ will emerge from the resolution of the present Cuban crisis will be an understanding that neither the Soviets nor the West have anything to gain by underwriting an arms-race in the Israeli-Arab setting; a race that can only explode into regional hostilities which could so easily deteriorate into something worse.
people who undaunted have brought into being a state politically strong, socially helpful to the needy and economicatUy ever stronger.
I have read somewhere that a visitor to Israel who enquired what the secret of it was was told an old rabbinical story about the man who claimed that he could recite the whole of the Tor^h while standing on one leg. And when challenged he quoted the^Torah itself in these words: "Love of one's neighbour is the begirming and end of the Law." That is a message which mankind needs today and in every generation. It is natural that I should speak of the international situation. The attention of all Canadians has been
focussed in recent days on the critical crisis in Cuba. It would not be too extreme to say that the world has been at the brink of war.
The events of recent days have shown that the security of the free world depends on its preparedness and willingness to react firmly to threats, but there can be no long-term, security in a balance which can be quickly and menacingly upset. A ftmd-amental conclusion which must be drawn from the Soviet actions which precipitated this crisis is that if the future of mankind is to be preserved then the uneasy equilibrium of armed force which now prevails must be replaced by international settlements which will give reasonable assurance of a stable peace.
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