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TEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1984 POSTORIAL PAGE 4
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Between You and Me
W To Soviet Sponsored
Mideast Peace Confab
BY BORIS SMOLAR
[Editor-in-chief-emeritus, J.T.A.]
[Copyright 1984, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.]
technology and a pioneering spirit.
There have been many proposals put forth over the
years in search for an Arab-Israeli peace. But one of the
most poorly conceived ideas has received the support
and backing in recent weeks of the Soviet Union. The
Soviet media has been voicing strong support for an
international peace conference for the Middle East. The
prospects of such a conference as outlined even before
the parties get to the negotiating table, lead to the clear
conclusion that the United States should do their
utmost to ensure that this conference never gets off the
ground.
MEET YOUR LEADER: Robert H.
Arnow, the charming and efficacious
Jewish leader — who has now reached the
age of 60 — considers himself a blessed
man. He is a staunch advocate of the
principle of man’s humanity to man, and
adheres to the view of sharing in what one
believes is important. This is funda-
mental to him. “I would consider it a sin if
I were not sharing,” he says.
Affectionately called “Bob” by his
friends, Arnow is now completing three
years as president of the American
Associates of the Ben Gurion Univer-
sity which has grown under his leader-
ship as the University’s major over-
seas fund-raising operation. The American
Associates honored him on October 16 at a
dinner at the elegant Pierre Hotel in New
York.
The conference calls for the participation of all parties
in the Arab-Israeli conflict — the Soviets, U.S., Israel,
the Arab states, and the PLO — “on an equal footing.”
Russia seeks to solve the Palestinian issue with the
establishment of a Palestinian state on the West Bank
and Gaza Strip and to have East Jerusalem
incorporated into the Palestinian state. In addition to
these proposals, the conference calls for a return of all
Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967, and
giving up all Jewish settlements on the West Bank.
Whatever one thinks of the current conflict in the
Mideast, the Soviet position is a classic example of
non-starter proposals.
Being a Jew is important to Arnow.
Israel is important to him; also Jewish
welfare education and culture. These are
priorities to him in his various com-
munal activities.
One of his major involvements is the
Ben Gurion University of the Negev in
Beersheva. He considers this involve-
ment as “number one” because he believes
in the university’s potential to benefit
humanity. Arnow holds all of Israel’s
institutions important, but believes that
no other institution has a more crucial role
in transforming the desert into a
productive and comfortable environment
than the Ben Gurion University.
In Israel, he was elected last month as
chairman of the Board of Governors of the
Ben Gurion University, succeeding Baron
Nathaniel de Rothschild. This top position
will require even more of Arnow’s
time-giving for the university; it will take
him away from his family and business to
the Negev very often. He is a very busy
president of the prestigious and success-
ful Swig, Weiler and Arnow real estate
corporation.
The Soviets, if they really intend to act as a mediating
force in the Middle East dispute, suffer a disadvan-
tage because of their failure to maintain diplo-
matic relations with Israel, over the treatment of its
Jewish citizens, not to mention its refusal to allow Jews
to emigrate.
But the basic weakness in the proposed Middle East
conference, which would convene under UN auspices, is
that it provides little incentive for Israel to come to a
bargaining table at which all conclusions have been
arrived at even before the discussions have begun. That
probably better than anything else explains why the
soviet proposals have received support from, among
others, Jordan and Syria. They, and all the other Arab
states and the PLO, have nothing to lose!
To Arnow, the university is a unique
center of culture, education and re-
search which has pioneered new ways to
harness the energy of the sun and wind,
new irrigation and agricultural techno-
logies which produce lush fruits and
vegetables with salty waters, drought-
resistance plants and food, and fodder
crops which flourish in arid soil. The
desert covers more than half of Israel’s
land and is inextricably tied to Israel’s
future.
Arnow is happily married for 35 years
to Joan Weiler, the daughter of the
prominent philanthropist Jack D. Weiler,
his uncle Benjamin Swig’s real estate
partner. Arnow describes his wife as “the
most important person in my life.” They
have four children — three sons and one
daughter — three of whom are married,
and five grandsons. It is a happy, well-
knit family.
Joan is independently active for cer-
tain children’s projects in Israel. Of his
father-in-law, Arnow says with admira-
tion that he has influenced him greatly in
his devotion to Jewish causes in this
country and to Israel, and that he serves
as a model to him.
Arnow is strongly influenced by the
vision of the late Premier David Ben
Gurion who asserted that the desert, like
time, could work for or against Israel,
depending on how it is used. Like Ben
Gurion, Arnow believes that the wilder-
ness of the Negev could and would be
conquered with the aid of science.
A $1 MILLION SCHOLARSHIP
FUND: A Robert H. Arnow Scholar-
ship Endowment Fund, toward which the
family contributed $1 million, has now
been established. The contribution inaug-
urates the National Endowment Develop-
ment F und of the American Associates of
the Ben Gurion University. The fund will
See Between You and Me page T9
Search For Deliverance On PBS Mon.
As Europe awoke from
the darkness of the Middle
Ages and embarked on a
new enlightened age, Jewish
life took root and blossom-
ed. The Search for Deliver-
ance, the fifth episode of
Heritage: Civilization and
the Jews, airing Monday,
October 22 and 7 p.m., on
KERA public television,
tells the story of the Jewish
European experience from
the expulsion of Jews from
Spain in 1492 to the French
Revolution in 1789.
habits of all people. Such
scholars as Copernicus. Tv-
cho Brahe, Johanes Kepler
and Galileo began to ex-
amine the world around
them with new eyes.
traditional
trine.
Christian doc-
“The unity of Christian
faith in the West, although
often fragile, had lasted for
almost a thousand years.
Now in a little more than
two decades, it was rent
asunder forever,” explains
Eban.
The Jews of Western
Europe encountered difficul-
ties in the early years
following this Reformation.
Regarded as heretics and
allies of the religious dissen-
ters, they were forced to live
in isolated
“ghettos.”
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quarters or
Eban takes viewers
through the narrow alleys of
the Venetian ghetto, as he
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“It was a time of vast
upheaval in man’s under-
standing of himself and his
world,” says host Abba
Eban. “Medieval doctrines
that had been cherished and
preserved for centuries
were being threatened on all
sides.”
The Search for Deliver-
ance compares the Jewish
communities of Eastern and
Western Europe and their
interaction with the intellec-
tual, political and religious
currents during the Renais-
sance, Reformation and En-
lightenment.
doctrines of the
The program picks up the
thread of Jewish history as
the intellectual awakening of
the Renaissance began to
alter the attitudes and
The
Catho-
Catholic Church, too, came
under scrutiny. In Germany,
Martin Luther, angered by
what he saw as corruption
within the Church, launched
a crusade that would rock it
to its foundation. In 1537,
Henry VHI delcared the
Church of England indepen-
dent of Rome. Four years
later, John Calvin set up his
own church with beliefs that
differed dramatically from
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