The Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 5, 1967 Page: 66 of 115
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My Heart Is In The East
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- upon the Jews.
The Government was a com-
plete and utter disappointment to
British Jews. After all the profes-
sions of friendship for Israel be-
fore Labor came to power, and
after the many Government state-
ments about Israel’s right to exist,
Harold Wilson and George
Brown advised her to commit
suicide by waiting for Nasser to
strike her down or by letting him
strangle her. Wilson invented the
maritime nations group that never
was and Brown suddenly discover-
ed that the Arabs also had a case,
while Nasser postured and strut-
ted and insulted the British. The
Foreign Office Arabists became
active again, like a latent disease,
this time under a Labor Govern-
ment.
Even the Poale Zion, who are
affiliated with the Labor Party,
could not stomach this third let-
down by Labor. They issued a
mention. It is marginal, as it were.
For the climacteric events of May
and June wrought a complete
change in British Jews. They
will never be the Same again.
The response of British Jews
to the crisis was as remarkable
as it was unexpected. The divid-
ing line between Zionists and non-
Zionists—anti-Zionists are as ex-
tinct as the dinosaur—suddenly
disappeared. Even more signifi-
cant, young people suddently felt
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TO OUR FRIENDS AND PATRONS
deeply committed to Israel and
personally responsible for the fate
of the Jewish State. The Zionist
Federation provided the frame-
work for the utilization of this
response but it was British Jews
as such who came forward.
From the day Nasser occupied
Sharm-el-Sheik—in those pre-his-
toric times—there were long and
anxious queues at Rex House, the
headquarters of the Z.F. and the
Joint Palestine Appeal. Thou-
sands of young Jewish boys and
girls left their work, their studies,
their dreams and—in some cases—
their idleness, and begged to be
shipped to Israel. They all wanted
to do battle, of course, and many
of them were quite capable of it;
but failing that they were ready
to do whatever was necessary:
help out in hospitals, deliver milk,
teach school, sweep roads—any-
thing. The war was too short,
mercifully, for all of them to get
to Israel in time to replace mobil-
ized men and women, let alone
_ fight. Only the lucky ones went
out and are in Israel now. Even
so, British Jews gave to Israel in
her hour of need and triumph
more volunteers than any other
Jewish community, not only in re-
lation to the number of Jews in
Britain—just under half-a-million
—but in absolute terms.
Perhaps much more important
is the fact that those who did not
go out to Israel remain commit-
ted, irrevocably tied up with the
fate of Israel, anxious over her
political struggles and proud of
her victories, worried over her
internal problems and elated over
her possession of the Old City of
Jerusalem. In fact, since the crisis,
it is no longer “she” and "we"—
it is “ourselves,” the Jewish peo-
ple. And let the Goyim say what
they like. This new Jewish pride
has brought in its wake a liberat-
ing feeling, a take-it-or-leave-it
attitude towards the non-Jews.
They took it, by and large. . .
This brings me to the reaction
of the non-Jews and its reflection
“My heart is in the East and
I am in the Far West.”
This stanza by Rabbi Yehuda
Halevi, our greatest poet of the
Golden Age exquisitely sums up
the mood and events in Anglo-
Jewry in the year 5727. Therein
lies the greatness of Yehuda
Halevi. He articulated the mood
of the Diaspora in all generations.
True, it applies only to the pe-
riod between the middle of May
and the end of the year, but every-
thing that happened before that
pales into insignificance and can
easily be disposed of by a mere
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