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JEWISH WESTERN BULLETIN
Thursday^: December 6, 1951
EDITORlIl. TOMCS
AT the United Nations >^ssembly last week, the Jewish state, in ttib person of Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, sjpbke in iFavor of the Pakistan proposal that a subcommittee of the Big Four powers should giet together to discuss
disarmament. This proposal was adopted by the.Assembly and the subcommittee, comprising Dr. Phillip-C. Jessup, U.S. delegate, Andrei Y. Vishihsky, _ Soviet Foreign Minister, Selwyn Lloyd of Britain arid Jules Moch of France, are engaged in discussions on this question. They are working under a ten-day limit which ends next Monday. We know that all people everywhere Would greatly welcome some positive result from this special conference.
Israel is just as much interested in disarmament ds any other nation, and even more so because of her special position in the
Middle-Eqst. Jn a discussion on criteria for ^isarprjoivient, Mr.. Sharett; pointed but tjia
Israel Is a country sui-rbuhded by hoistlle nations. The Jewish state therefore has godc cause to seriously desire a general program o' disarmament.
If the pi-eseht NATO rearrnament policy is extended to the Middle East and. the Ard states, it rrieons thqj more arjns will be turriec over to the armies which still have their sights trained directly on Israel.
The successful introduction of a worlc disarmameni program will therefore do more than help *to ease general worjd tensions. 1 can also help to bring to an end the continuec military threats being directed at Israel by her Arab neighbors.
We therefore have very cogent reasons to hope for b fruitful outcome to the curren Big Four talks.
Lefs Go Out
NEXT Wednesday is civic election day in Vancouver and of the 138,966 people eligible to vote, election officials estimate that less than 70,000 will actually turn out at the polls because it is an "off-year." We hope they are wrong and we urge every readei* who is on the voters list to be sure to cast their ballot on election day.
For those of us who are storekeepers next Wednesdaymay be; g day of leisure and the iridpient will probably sgy: why disturb our rest to^o out arid vote? It isn't worth it. Arid qrhong those who are working all day, the Wfell-lnvolved-in-thergrind will probably say: Tirhe is money, voting isri't worth it Othei-s Will also say there's ri0body worth^vhile voting f6r, or no matter how you vote It always comes, out the saitie. ]■ , ;
We dbri't believe however that an "off-year" makes the (exercise of one's democratic right tb vote any less Iriiportaht. The issues at stake are yitbl to.thb We fare of our city. Who can deny the Impoi-tdncb ofyeconomic public trbrisportation (from q strictly business point of view it nrieans getting moife people to shopping distriicts more often)? Who can disclaim, the need;for: improving streets lik^ Oak and Mairi or for building d riew Marpole Bridge?
The city of Vancouver needs q by-law.against racial discrimination. "And;: fair^ qnd equal extension of park and playground facilities is also important.
This year the issue of extending the civic vote to all citizens over 21, will bis on the plebiscite ballot. The 42,000 people who would get the A-ote if this plebiscite Is approved and later mode law, includes teachers, nurses and social workers and many other sirigle persons, as well as heads of families, who are unable to vote because they are not property oWriers or tenants qccording to the city charter. They all deserve the right to vote and we should jielp them get it by casting our vote favorably next Wednesday.
This year, despite It being qn off-year there are a greater number of candidates in the running for all offices, offering a good selection from which to make our choice
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We shouldn't have tb Urge bur reqders tb get but arid vote. Everyone of us should know that when a Jew loses his right to vote he loses q lot more besides qnd his very life often becomes endangered. So When we do have a vote let's use it as'a means of defending arid extending the democratic rights and security which We enjoy.
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In an.address iivterspersed with Biblical quotations from the old and new testaments Rev. William Hull gave an audience ' in the Talmud Torah hall on December 3, a picture of ferae today through the eyesf of a Gentile. He likened th6 story of tiie
birth of the state to the, stpTy of David and Goliath, sajdng
"Many of the people reaHze that God was on their side." Rev. Hull bailed Theodore
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Herzl as a true prophet, and recalled his funeral in Israel after his remains were brought from Vienna; Th^n he told his audience of another funeral only two years ago when the streets of Jerusalem were lih'ed with people miqurning the death of the 6 million in Europe, represented by silver caskets
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BY AL G£LMON
At is this spectre of Chalutziut, whose very naine : ban disiiipt the councils of grown ineh and split united k^otips into cowering splinter factions versus fitauch protagonists?-
In reality there is nothing fear some about the chalptziut pro gram. What is disconcerting, to say the least,- is the viewpoint of a major segment of the American and Canadian Jewish communities which looks upon the projgram as being a blackdevil whispering words of indoctrination into the ear of a young child in order to lure him away from the warmi hearth of his home to the cold and hard life of the kibbutz.
Actually if is ignorance of the facts that has bred fear and opposition and it is in the hope of debunking these fears and emphasizing the importance of Chalutziut that this effort is written.
Most certainly the movement exists solely for the purpose'of educating young people . living in the Galut so that they will have at leastithe inclination; to settle h Israel and contribute to -the wholesdiileness of life ;thfete. But this education is presented iri such a way as to create a positive Jij^-jroach to thie problem and eiiiable he andividualitb properly idenii-:y : himself with his ;jpeople by making a choice; which can only be made through /kh exhaustive stii^y of all the facts; those wiiich wiii appeal to the romantic; na-Ure, and^moriB. important jStill— ;hose which Sxe a Jittle harder ;6 swallow. This education em-ihasizes; the importance of clialut-ziut /but Ijiys ah even 'greater amount of stress on tiie psycho-ogical prieparation of an individual, so that when dne is bid enough to make a choice, ;liiat choice can be made, against a background of all pertinent facts and to the greatest possible advantage of the choosei|. The worst )ossible person to have in Israel oday is one.who has gone there with a false impression fired only by the romanticism of a noble ideal.
COMMUNITY OUTLOOK
Editor's Note: Lou Zimmerman's column "Community Outlook" will now appear here on alternate weeks with Al Gelmon's column.
The; i auction is asked, "Why, with the^ii)ilUx of the hundreds of thousand^ into Israel, is it important fior American and Canadian; youth to settle th6r6?" This can best be answered by a bri^ glimpse into the background of present, dair jmiiniigrants. For- the most part they are products of the medaeval civilizations of Yemen and North Africa hsiVing great difficulty in determining }the use of ^modern pluml^thg' let alone being able to contribute to a highly modern and industrialized society. Their children will be a great'asset to our new state, but they theriiseives arei a long-term liability. It is no secret that these people by the himdreds are leaving the settlements for the cities because they could not adjust themselves to rural life. This inability to adjust can be traced directly to the lack of proper preparation, both p^chological and physical, previously pointed out.
Furthermore it personally pains me greatly to see tracts of wasteland which were made an integral part of the state by the sacri-iiee of the lives of many of my friends and hundreds of others, still lying waste and still being unproductive because of the lack of men and women who are willing to undergo the hardships necessary to bring about a transfer-, mation in the land. And it hurts even more to see -ehtire areas such as the overland route from Gaza to Hebron becoming a channel :or increased black mairketactjv-ties of Arabs who are making the most of Israeli food shortageis by smuggling. Th^se areas,.although within the geographical confines of Israel, may ;as; well be in bktu for aai4he igood us'and for the m^Msiure of c^ntroF ,. we have over it. The army cannot control unpopulated areas of and, but settlehients can, ^at is, settlements which are populated jy people with aiWiil and a purpose.:'"
Closer to borne some feel that is encumbent upon us to support the Chalutziut movement but not encourage it. This on the surface seems to be a fine distinction. " :t becomes clearer however if one asks the question of how to implement this support.. Moral support tq a movement such as this (Cctntihued. oh Pajge 7)
REV. WM. L. HULL
containing the ashes of 2,000 of them.
In contrast to these stories was the report of one Jew arriving in Israel every two minutes during the first half of this year. This meant about 128,000 immigrants in six months. Telling of the flow of immigrants which has; never been checked since the birth of the state, Rev, Hull put great stress on Israel as a "haven of refuge," saying that there, is a greater manifestation of true Christian principles there than in any Christian country. He spoke of the dire shortages (Continued on Page 7)
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