4—THE BULLETIN—Thursday, April 10, 1975
I OBITUARIES i
Sonio Bender, 59, buried in Seottle
SEATTLE —Mrs. Nathan Bender, a former resident of Vancouver, passed away here March 28 in her 59th year.
Mrs. Bender, the former Sonia Jaffe, was born in Lithuania and resided in Vancouver from 1933 to 1942, when she moved to Seattle and married there. From 1935 to 1942 she was a Hebrew teacher in Vancouver. She was affiliated with Hadassah in both Vancouver and Seattle.
Predeceased by her parents, she is survived by her husband, two sons. Dr. Arnold Bender of Vancouver and Martin Bender of Seattle; two brothers, Max Jaffe, Vancouver and David Jaffe, Seattle; a sister, Betty Jaffe, Seattle; and one grandchild.
Funeral services were held in Seattle on March 30.
ARAIS RESEARCH ISRAEL
TEL AVIV — General Yehoshafat Harkavy, regarded as one of Israel's foremost experts on the Arab world, advised that in the last few years a number of special institutes have been established in various Arab capitals to study the myriad problems of Israel from aspects of Israel's military strategy to the problem of women in Israel.
Meses H. Levine passes at 74
Moses H. Levine passed away in hospital on March 31. He was 74 years of age.
Mr. Levine is survived by his wife. Pearl; two sons, John and William; a brother, David; a sister, Rose; and five grandchildren.
Funeral services were held April 1 at Schara Tzedeck chapel with Rabbi W. Solomon and Cantor M. Nixon officiating. Interment followed at Beth Israel cemetery. Chevra Kadisha was in charge of arrangements.
U.S.-ISRAEL TAX ACCORD SHORTLY
BEN-GURION AIRPORT — An
accord eliminating double taxation will be signed between Israel and the U.S. during Finance Minister Yehohoshua Rabinowitz's forthcoming visit to Washington. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Moshe Neudorfer said on bis arrival here from the U.S.
Neudorfer said he had negotiated the accord with U.S. officials, and that most of its details had been worked out.
He noted that once it is signed, the accord will encourage U.S. citizens to invest in Israel and to enjoy tax exemption both here and at home.
(Jerusalem Post)
POLSKI
CARD OF THANKS
Our heartfelt thanks go out to our relatives and friends for their kindness and expressions of sympathy during the passing of our dear mother and grandmother
BELLA KARBUS
Special thanks to Rabbi W. Solomon, Cantor M. Nixon, Mr. David Rubin, Mr. John Eskin and Dr. Vickie Bern stein.
MRS. MADGE WOLAK and FAMILY
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ficient to influence their intentions.
At the conclusion of his interview Polski expressed the belief that if emigration from the Soviet Union increases substantially the percentage of those who will opt for countries other than Israel is bound to grow, unless the image of Israel will have radically changed and a different opinion will begin to prevail amongst Jews in the Soviet Union.
Relatives and Friends are advised that the
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Relatives and Friends are advised that the
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in loving memory of the late
will take place SUNDAY, APRIL 13th ot 12:45 p.m.
at the
Bef h Israel
Cemetery
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When Saudi Arabia began to distribute the slanderous "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" among foreign guests and journalists visiting the country, the fact was mentioned in the press, but everyone decided to shrug it off as a curiosity. Somehow Arab anti-Semitism was not considered to be the same thing as its European variety, the more so as the Arab country in the case did not even have any Jews among its own population.
Actually, none of it was so very terrible as long as the Arab World was far away, and backward, and exotic.
Today it isn't far away or backward or exotic any longer, but the attitude towards it hasn't changed: the precedents have been set.
Business interests come first, and these have attained enormous importance over the past year both to the businessmen themselves and to their governments. The Arabs are bleeding the Western economies and everyone is eager to soften the blow for himself by at least getting some of their money and investments. The Arabs buy land, shares, banks, hotels. They build holiday resorts and recreation spots. The credit they can forward or withhold can make or break giant enterprises.
And they hate Jews.
If you want to curry favor with them you need a good Aryan name, a certificate of baptism, and a nod of approval from the Arab Boycott Offices. If you don't employ Jews you stand a better chance that if yob do. It's as simple as that.
The Arabs owe nothing to no one. They go shopping with those who take their fancy and lend their money to those who accept their terms. Such things as honesty, fairness or moral integrity don't count with them. If it pleases anyone to keep faith with his principles he had better throw up his business, before it collapses and buries him under the ruins.
THAT IS HOW the canker infiltrates the economy, and how it spreads and multiplies and taints cell after cell. And bnce again people are beginning to thank their lucky stars for having been born good Catholics, devout Protestants, loyal Anglicans.
Like forty years ago, at the time of that other epidemic. With the same miserable cowardice with which then, too, they kept clear of anything that could lay them open to the suspicion of sympathy with the Jews.
In 1973, African countries could be bought with oil, cheaply, and quite openly. Khaddafi governed the market then in one-man rule. In 1974 it turned out that Europe was for sale as well even if the bargaining was more discreet and the prices higher. In exchange for oil-supply contracts, and later for investments and financial backing, the Arab rulers bought entire governments.
Traditional supporters of Israel grew cool, and in due course frankly hostile. European statesmen went on pilgrimage to the Arab capitals, just as their predecessors of file 'thirties' would travel to Berchtesgaden to call on Hitler.
Europe began to show real understanding for the Arabs'problems; suddenly their territorial claims seemed reasonable and justified. The Arab argument that Western Imperialism had exploited their oil resources foi> years, and that therefore they, the Arabs, ought to be compensated now, seemed to make a lot of sense. The fact, by the way.
that not a single Arab government ever invested a penny in prospecting for oil, sinking wells, laying pipelines, and constructing terminals, yet for years exacted royalties from those who did, lost all weight in view of the new power becoming concentrated in Arab hands.
This power was new, and it was stunning even to the Arabs themselves. In just a few months they discovered how feeble and vulnerable Europe was.
Something rather similar happened to Hitler when he tore up the Treaty of Versailles, declared military service compulsory, entered the Rhineland, and discovered that France kept silent, Russia made no move, and Britain took it in its stride. He was filled with great self-confidence and decided that the democratic and leftist regimes must be so far gone in decay as to be incapable of standing up to him.
One can't blame the Arabs for having reached the same conclusion in the year 1974. They turned off the oil-taps and Europe kept silent; they raised the prices again and again and nothing happened. On the contrary, the more they harassed the European countries, the more they sapped their vital resources, the more they were fawned upon.
So that at the beginning of 1975 they considered themselves strong enough to compel Europe to overcome the last vestige of its moral reservations and return to open anti-Semitism.
AN ARAB BID to use their new wealth for undermining Jewish economic power might have been expected. What seemed unthinkable was that it would prove so easy. What happened in the first weeks of this year should have appalled anyone who still had a spark of decency left to him.
It did not. When it appeared that the Arabs were willing to invest their petro-dollars in European business concerns only on condition that the Jewish bankers be blackmailed, most of the financiers involved showed themselves quite ready to abandon their Jewish colleagues. Perhaps they saw it as a neat chance to get rid of rivals; perhaps they realized that the Arabs could make them give in.
In a matter of weeks the Arab blackmail campaign achieved a new dimension; no longer pressure to obtain political support for Arab aspirations; no longer buying votes at the U.N. for Yasser Arafat and his gang; no longer the call to abandon Israel — which is only a small and unimportant country after all (like. Czechoslovakia in 1938) — but a deliberate attempt to harm anyone with a Jewish name, a Rothschild, a Warburg, a Lazard — anyone of Jewish descent, whether Zionist, non-Zionist, or anti-Zionist; anyone who in the early 'forties' of this century was made to wear the yellow Star of David on his breast.
to intervene. Brokers and bankers in various European capitals figured that their need for Arab oil-capital was urgent enough to make them bow to Arab demands. And a Lebanese banker threatened publicly in Paris that whoever sided with the Jews in the "furore" they were creating round the latest business deals, would havetotake the consequences.
Frenchmen with a good memory no doubt remember how, during the Nazi occupation, any Christian who dared voice his sympathy with the Jews or his protest against their mistreatment, would end up in a concentration camp himself.)
EVENTS ARE FOLLOWING
each other so fast that what may for the moment look like an isolated, meaningless instance may soon become the pattern. What has happened in the world of European finance is the first tentative shot in the Arab war against the Jews. Even if the scant and belated reactions that did come may briefly deter the Arabs; even if they do opt for compromise in the few specific cases that have come to the public's attention, they still won't give up their design of ousting the Jews from whatever position they can. And they can do a lot since the price of oil rose to $10 or $11 a barrel.
The Arab war against the Jews is, once again, only a stage.
The day must come when everybody in the so-called free world wUl reaUze that the object isn't to wqie out Israel or Asinherit the Jews; the object is to break the Western hegemony and exchange it for Arab dominance, to destroy the industrialized world in order to take over, and to exchange the traditional values of honor and justice for a new, evil and arbitrary set of laws.
Whoever is prepared to sell out the Jews today won't go scot-free himself when the time comes. Whoever swears to iq>hold his pacifist purity will also fight in the end. Whoever supplies the Arabs with armaments now in order to please and appease them will see his sons killed with the weapons he made and sold.
It is hard to stand alone in this war, as hard today as it was forty years ago. It is hard to be a seeing man in the land of the blind, a victim in a world of murderers, sober and clearheaded in a world feeding itself on illusions.
But this loneliness won't last. Over seven million jobless in the U.S., over three million in the Common Market countries — and all the millions of them yet to come — will see to that.
The free world is yet going to need this besieged bastion of Jews, on the day it gets up to fight for its own existence.
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