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'Months in Israel: Personal View BdHtr'f Nate: HM ioUowtag WM writtan by StmiMi Ua, • Yato Unhfvnttjr Miilnt tram DM MoioH «te ipnt BHvttMkibnML tttoanpiMttUDodmaaKyaiidpM^ InlWTimiiiialiUlnli—iMtbraadraadwHHp. BjrflMK^Upnuui Having been aialgned to "write up" seven montlw spent In Israel. I find It (Ufficuit to form any sort of colwnnt theme or pattern. Rather, my mind to a Jumtiie of rememtiered faces, conversations, sounds and smeila, and eoMUaaa - and what appears on gkper to Just the fk>w of these memories as they return to me. I think back to the plane trip over, i was glad to be on my way at last, but sou apprehensive, a lltUe frightened. I had absolutely no Idea of what to expect. I bad bean told that any imprtariou I ral^ have rceetved on my brief visit two years baton would now be outdated, that an inflaUaiHlddan, pMstridHB, poat-Yom Klppur Israel would be wy dUfareuttram the laraal o( my summer vacattan, that people would not be trkaOf, prieaa would be outrageoua, travel difficult, and the They were right - about the weather, at least. Jerusalem (hiring a snowstorm to not my Idea of the ideal vacation iqwt. Neither to Tel Aviv In «Mlegree winds and consUnI rain. So. aOer laavbig my relatives In Tel Aviv, I pushed and shaved and piMded my way to the Slnal. Re-reading my letters now, I wonder what it was that kept me through that first honible week. Poaaibly It was the feeling that things Just had to get better because they couldn't get much wotM, or that I was Just too tired to run around and make my way back again. Whatever the reason, I was at Nevlot, a young settlement on the Red Sea next to the oasto Nuwelba, about W kilometers south of EUat. Sitting here now I can still smell the salty sea air, feel the hard, cold sunshine against my face, and the warmth of the sand against my bare feet. I had vent my flnt dqr cndag fhMB eitauitlaa, looaUiMaa and andaly. Tbt asoood dagr was spent dining Ina hoopa out o( a OKHnbar fleid and the thM day was aapol flat out OB my bad. Bythatttoie,IwaaJmttooaartiaiiatartiomwraflrtallL "" On the finh day I went to the beach and noticed that of the 25 volunteers from Denmark, Holland, Switzerland, England, rrance. New Zealand, Australia. North Africa, the United SlatM and Canada, all were over (feet UU. except for one girl .who was B feet 10 Inches. Thto may seem like a trivial ot>servation. but bebig one who can barely clear S feet If I stand up straight and stretch my neck, tlito made for a rather odd. AllceIn-Wonderland atmosphere - Just anotiwr of Uie special thln^i ahoutNeviot So how do I begin to deadribe It? It was awakening In the morning to watch the sunrise over tlte sea - and sitting in the small coffeehouse on ttie beach to watch the sunaet reflected over the mountains of Saudi Arabia acroaa the ocean, bicredlbly beautiful and different every day. We UMd to gather there before dinner to drink hot chocolate and watch tlie sunset. It was like a favorite letevtoion tkom. We were a smaO group - a few young Israeli cot4>leB, soMers, and volunteers, and all vary doae. Ufe there had a different flavor — like the hard hugi and "ahaloms" of the soldiers who came tramping In one Friday night lor Uie special Shabbat meal, , smelling of Arabic coffee, Bedoutai campf Ires and the sea. nan was a facial Mg^ to wofldiv, to tittiag reaUy dirty aad than raaHjr daia, to bainc really bungry and than oaUng a good mart. It waiwhflarat>n,lil»amaUm<iqil»ala. The afternoons q>enl playing dieu on the beach with the : aoUHan, tba oold starry nights, the desert winds on the beach \ batwoen raountalna ani^ fw aea, I remember it all so well. Thto was Uie Sinai during the winter, a haven for me, that I left only to go north for an ulpan to learn Hebrew. L. I already knew some Hebrew so I was placed In the advancod daai In the ulpaii $1 Ma'ayan Txvl, a kibbutz on a mountain next to the Mediterranean Saa batwoan Haifa and Tel Aviv. UnlU the middle of AprU It rained almoat every day. but in ; Urn ewoing, just before sunset, the rain stopped and a double ' rainbow atretdted from the mountains to the sea. It was so vivid that once a friend from Brazil said in wonder. "Surely It was ;• Upon a sight such as thto that God established a covenant." A Ubbutx eatabllilied by German immigrants around 1>3S, ' Ma'ayan Tt*l was laqga (MO people) and Ito residenU en; oompaaaad every age group. As my parenta were surprised and t amuaad to hear, I learned a lot more than Hebrew. h At oM point aataraaHMand who waa trying to paranada ma (Jo atcy aat I* a aeanteard, "Yalta vs. laraaU." llBtii« aU the MHi I hnd pickad i^an IMnti tbal eould not bo loamad at the af my dHloa; planth« woodtag. irrigating, and picking CMfumbars. aagar baata, cotton, banaaaa, yspaftuK [ Hoara and MMs (on a aeala of m, raoararl) (Mvtng a tractor, shooting an automatic riflo, acnMIng ^.pota (moat memorably from • am until s p.m. on my blilhday, (waarii« In Arabic. SwahlU. Dutch, Plnniah, and (ConUnuadonPagtl)
'Arabs Seek to Rule World' By Raphael Rupptn The Aratn would have tiie rest of the world believe that they are out to gat Israel, and once tlito to acMavod, oil prices will subskle, pnsparity will return, and the world will come out of Ito present cristo. These, tactics correspond to Hitler's effort In the Thirties to make the wm-ld belelve that If the "wrongs and shame" of the Versailles Treaty would be corrected. Germany would settle down to a peaceful co-
existence with the rest of the world. Hitler's efforts were successful for a Ume, and thto helped preciplUte World War II with Its horrendous bloodbatlis and sufferings. The ulltmate aim of the Arabs to not Israel, but world domination. Thto to to be achieved through much more sophisticated means than Hitler's brute force. HW moans to thto end are at their diapoaal: oil - the moat aouroo of <
huge and aecttmulating people. They number more financial roaeureoa; than 100.000.000 who speak the rangth; and the same language and are heira ofttoUNandaU to a great culture. They exother Intornational ceed In numbers any o( the traditkmally great European Some people wUI consider powers except Kussia. They thto allegation to be ludicrous. control a huge land area They would question both the stretching across two conmotives, as well as the tinento from the Persian Gulf capability of the Araba to to the Atlantic. This area has achieve world dombiatkm. great strategic Importance But let us kmk at the facto. and to endowed with great The Arabs consider resources, particulariy oil. themselves to be a great They are the authors of Islam, a religion professed by more than 600 million people. Islam is more than a rell^on, it is a way of life, and has farreaching political purpose. The Arabs are the keepere of Islam's shrines; and by virtue of ttieir special standing In Islam, have assumed political as well as religious leadership, enabling them to enlist all good Muslims to their cause. Ilie Araba, an extremely SERVING 0E8 MOINES,. aCOUNCIL BLUFFS LINCOLN, OMAHA proud people, have been bdlttled and downtrodden for VotUVNo.12 Omaha, Neb.. Fri.. January 3,197B centuriea. They bave lost their independence; they have been colonised and ruled by lorelgiiaro, even Infldpls. They have been among the earth's pooreot people, they fM they have been cruelly espMted. misuaed and humiliated by tho Westam powers. These are' the aort of feelings that motivated the German people after the bmnillatkw of tba Vanaillea Treaty to embrace Nazlam and seek world domination. Arab pride is second to none. Their frustration and feeling of humiliation and abuse to much deeper than that of the Ormans between the two World Wars. Why shouldn't they wish to get back CsrviifH) tt7S, Jcwith T*lt«rtplilc AsMcy, Inc. at those whom they consider their exploiters and tormentors, now that Allah the Just has delivered tiiem Into MAJDAL ZOUN, Lebanon - A Labaneoa bave boon uaed by iemriaU. The laraelto took their hands? faaUy aurvsys the ndaa of thetar homo in tbs two priaonera for taitamgatlaQ on auspidon of As to capabilities — these villaga of Matdal Zoia altar beUooptarborae coOaboratkm with Arab guerriUaa. Several were not primarily military, laraall troopo atagtd a raki on the border boura after the raid in Lebanon, Arab though the combined Arab vmaga, blowing 19 riibouaao that ware said to guanUlaa attacked a border hamlet hi larad. armies are not to be belittled. However, it is possible today to achieve domination of one nation over another by other than military means. The economy of Weotem ByBanOaUob politics as policy-makers and Soviet Jewry." Europe, Japan and most of tba fund-raisers "Is probably American Jews have been Maatow expresaed concern devetoplng oountriea In AaU aixMit the rate of mixed higher Uian that of any other described as facing the and Africa to totally depen' marrige among Jews, which racial, religious or ethnic coming years "confident dtnt on MkkDe Eaotem oil he said was currently group." pertiapa over-confklenl" — •uppUes. If ttaeae auppUaa are He predicted that Jewtoh estimated at alMut 32 percent, about Uie future of the batted, the aoonomy In most of Identification with candidates and about the "weakening" of American Jewish commimlty. tbeoe coititrlae wiU pind to a Jewish religious Identity regarded aa "liberalwith optimism that the InbaK, or at toast suffer terribly, which he saM he felt produced internationalist" would stltutkms and organizatkms reoulting to a severe reductloa the high rate of mixed probably continue but there they have created "are ta tbo ONP and maaslvo will be "heightened emmarriages. adequate to cope with iBieniptoynient. Ho dsdwad that Jowa have phaato" on candidates' views whatever problems lie ahead The U.S. alone among tiie at home and abroad." a nia in tba political Ufa of on American support for major Western powers, That evaluathM wu made tbia country "whoae Israel and Soviet Jewry, though an Important buyer of Data on social charac-. by Will Maalow. general sljJflranw far tranacands Middle Eastern oil, has counael of the American tboir proportioo of the teristlcs of American Jews alternative energy resurces, Jewish Congress. In a 46-paga indicate that Jews are and could achieve sulfstudy. "The Structure and For one thing, "becauae "perhapa the best-educated suf f Iclency. if pressed to do so, Functioning of the American Uiey are ooncentrated In the 12 ethnic group" In thto country, within a relatively short Jewish Community," largeat atataa, Jewtoh voters with M p««ent of all Jews 25 period. publtohed by the AJCongreas in a cloae Presidential election and older having had some Unless there to a significant and the American Section of could swing the election from college training. American technological breakthrough the World Jewtoh Congnas. one candidate to the other." In Jews "have an Income level making available an alte^ addition, the percentage of that to probably higher than Mastow added that American native source of energy, or a Jews who regtoter and vote, that of any other ethnic Jews "are worried about the major oil find In a Western safety of Israel and deterparticularly In primary group" but 10 percent of all country large enough to break electiana, a|id who take part In mined to straggle In behalf of (Continuedfrom Page!) (ContlhuedonPageS)
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