HffiRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lincoln, Nebraska
JOfl 7 1968 80SB9
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«ient ;;f Unitrd f'.lat,'.:; aniii. ineluding tank:: and m i l i t a r y planes, to Jordan, while Kl Fatab terrorists based on .)i>:d;:iiian soil'raid Israel territory and shell Israeli village:;. Hep. .Seymour Ilaljjern. Hepublican, .said he would raise a question in Congress about, tin; iinancin/; oi the arms by American taxpayers for terrorist collaborators abroad. The State Department confirmeii tin.' arms shipment. Tlify said it was part of a "packa;;e deal" reached with Jordan last Marcli, not related to nny iminediate military situation hut inlended to maintain the security anil stability, of Kin;; Hu.;sein's regime. Officials refused to divulge
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Other nations drive out thousands, even millions, of people and then1 is no refugee problem. Russia did il; Poland and ('zechoslovakia did it; Turkey drove oul a million Greeks, and Algeria a million frenchmen;' Indonesia threw oul heaven knows how many Chinese—and no one says a word about refugee's. But in the ease of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become' denial refugees. Kveryone insists that Israel musl take back'every single Arab. Arnold To.vnbce calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by I he Nazis. Peace Terms Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. lint when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace. Kveryone expects the .lews lo be the only real Christians in this world, Other nations when they are defeated survive and recover. But. should Israel be defeated it would bo destroyed. Had Nasser triumphed last June lie would have wiped Israel off the map, and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews.
ian port of 1Aqaba. mid antilank weapon. ;, inortars, artillery, ammunition and anti aircraft equipment, part ol which is being rushed to Jordan by U. S. (jloberna.;ter transport planes. In addition. 12 F-101 Starlighter jet fighlini; jilane:; have b(;en "consigned" lo Jordan for air defense. Their delivery was described as "in process." Halpeni said "it would appear that King Hussein's reward for refusal to (.'liter peace negotijilions and his obvious collaboration with terrorist cuerrillas is the supply of American arms financed by U.S. taxpayers." The Congressman added, "tin:; policy .is absurd."
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N! J e w s DBB;Areab United Nation:;, N.V. (JTA)-Discrimination and persecution of Jews is contitiuini! in the Arab .stater., especially'in Syria, Egypt and Iraq, I.sruel Ambassador V'o.'jef Tekoah reportc-cl in a letter to Secretary General U Thant. '•Recent r e p o r t s," declared Mr. Tekoah, '•indicate that a particularly serious aricniv.'itiou lia.s occurred in the situation ol the Jewish community of Iraq." Noting that after Israel attained its independence in HMii, :;ome 121).000 Iraqi Jews "had fled to Israel. Mr. Tekoah stated that 'the Jews who remained in Iraq have been subjected to e v e r greater" restrictions and deprivations. : These have ju.sumed alarmingly grave proportions since the hostilities of June, 1907. The Iraqi Government has passed laws denying Jews their civil liberties, their freedom of movement, and the possibility of employment. The Jews of Iraq are under constant fear for their lives. The Iraqi authorities, and particularly the secret police, threaten tiioin even with murder." According to Mr. Tekoah, the Iraqi actions are the first sinco
the Nazi anti-Jewish laws during the Hitler regime in which "the oppression of J e w s has been formally promulgated'' through legislation. Persecution Mr. Tekoah ciltid specific actions taken against the Iraqi Jews incliulin/; a legislative provision which orders "all Government and private offices and basineuse.'i not to pay out any The Johnson Administration sums 'due to the Jews' but to was accused ttiis week of misnotify the M i n i s t e r instead.'' leading the American public on The only exception to this con- the facts of the accidental Isfiscatory rule, according to Mr. raeli attack on the USS Liberty Tckoi'ih, is one exempting sal- d u r i n g the Six-Day War. The aries tip to !()(} dinars <$l:iO) per charges were contained in a month which is approximately book, "Anything Bui'The Truth," the salary now paid in Iraq to offered as an expose of "The a beginning clerk "and does not C r e d i b i l i t y Gap," by White suffice to support a family." Hon.se correspondents William Mr. Tekoah noted in his let- McGaffin and Erwin Knoll. ter that "the Nazi-like persecuA c c o r d i n g to the writers, tion of the Jews of Iraq consti- "When Congressmen, respondtutes a wanton violation by the ing to letters from relatives of Iraqi Government of the char- the dead sailors, demanding to ter of the United Nations, of know why the ship had been so fundamental human rights and d o s e to the Israeli shore, the of resolutions adopted by the Pentagon offered an explanation General Assembly and the Se- . . . nothing short of ludicrous. curity Council." Mr. Tekoah It said the position was required stated that "an end must be put so that the Liberty could use the to this revival o( Hitlerite prac- moon as a passive reflect for its tices which requires immediate communications .One Defense international attention." Department official, who winced
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No commitmeiif to the Jews by any government, including our own, is worth the paper it is written on. There is a cry of outrage all over the world when people die in Vietnam or when 1wo Negroes are executed in Rhodesia. Iiu!: when Hitler slaughtered Jews no one remonstrated with him. The Swedes, who are ready to break off diplomatic relations with America because of what, we do in Vietnam, did not let out a peep when Hitler was slaughtering Jews. They .sent. Hitler choice iron ore, and ball bearings, and serviced his troop trains to Norway. The Jews arc alone in the world. If Israel survives it will be solely because of Jewish efforts. And Jewish resources. Israel Must, Live Yet at this moment. Israel is our only reliable and unconditional ally. We eaii •rely more on Israel than Israel can rely on us. And one has onl/ to imagine what would have happened last summer had the Arabs and their Russian backers won the war to realize how vital the survival of Israel is lo America and Hie West in general. 1 have a,premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it RO with all of us. Should Israel perish the holocaust will be upon us. Israel must live! (Reprinted from the J(-wi!.h Herald Voice, courtesy of the Motion Post.)
at his Department's claim, quipped that the Liberty — to keep up with the changing position of the moon — would have had to sail right a c r o s s the sands of Sinai." Israel Pays McGaffin and Knoll said ''Untruth, which l e a k e d out soon enough, was that the ship was a spy vessel, equipped with elabo r a t e electronic surveillance gear and assigned by the National Security Agency, which specializes in breaking the military codes of other nations. Presumably, the Liberty was monitoring Israeli and Arab battlefield communications." I s r a e l paid the U.S. $3,323,500 in com-
pensation this week to the families of 34 Americans killed on the L i b e r t y last June 8. The Liberty was hit by jets and torpedo boats while in international waters 15,5 nautical miles off the Sinai c o a s t . Israel explained later that the attack resulted from the mistaken belief that the ship was Egyptian. The book asserted that when the c r i s i s grew w o r s e last spring, "President Johnson issued a flat directive to all members of his Administration to discuss no aspect of the situation with the press . . . Americans were left in the d a r k on the President's t h i n k i n g and the Government's plans."
Tel Aviv—Eleven outbreaks of violence occurred last weekend in Israel. Claiming the life of one Jewish soldier and wounding two others. Following is the timetable of incidents: Saturday, 3:15 a.m.—Three Arab terrorists carrying five land mines and other weapons and explosives were killed in a clash with an Israeli border patrol 10 kilometers north of the AUenby Bridge. Israeli sergeant Nissim Makmel, 20, of Kibbutz Manara was killed in the exchange of fire; another Israeli soldier Was wounded. Saturday, 11 a.m.—Jordanian forces opened fire on men and equipment trying to extinguish a fire in the fields of Kibbutz Neve Or. Saturday, 8:40 p.m.—Jordanian forces opened fire in the area surrounding Kibbutz Tirat Zvi. Sunday, 9:30 a.m.—Artillery units dueled for two hours across the Jordan Hiver north of the Damya Bridge. Sunday noon—Group of young boys discovered automatic bazooka weapons aimed at the town of Bet Shean and timed to go off in one hour. Weapons were dismantled without casualty. Sunday, 7 p.m.—Two Israeli soldiers wounded when command car traveling in Um Zutz area near the Jordan River struck a terrorist land mine. Sunday, 7 p.m.—Israeli armored car attacked by Lebanese rifle fire near Kfar Rosenwald. Same vehicle atlaiked again at 10:45 p.m. Sunday, 8:30 p.m.—One Fatah saboteur captured in clash with Israeli patrol south of Kibbutz Ashdid Yaakov, Other terrorists escaped under covering fire from across the Jordan River. Sunday, 9 p.m.—Jordanian machine gua? opened fire on Israeli settlements in the Jordan Valley. Israeli forces returned the fire in an hour-long exchange. Sunday, 11:20 p.m.—A terrorist bomb exploded in a gasoline station near the Jerusalem railroad station. Fire quickly extinguished. • Sunday midnight—Jordanian artillery units fired 16 shells at Kibbutz Gesher witliin a half hour, causing settlers to. take cover ia bomb shelters. Israeli forces returned the lire.