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TEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18,1975 POSTORIAL PAGE 4
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POSTORIAL
Pacesetters Dinner
One of the most beautiful stories to be told is one that has
been going on for thousands of years.
It is the story of people, of a people, of Jews.
And it was once again demonstrated so visibly last
Sunday night at the Pacesetters Dinner of the Dallas
Jewish Welfare Federation’s 1976 campaign.
Sunday night’s meeting evoked responses from people
who are not only exemplary in their dedication and
devotion to their fellowmen but who are sincere,
compassionate and full of faith for L’Chaim, for Life. It has
to continue. It is by what we do and say that we can
perpetuate our heritage and our traditions, our ethics and
our contributions to the world.
First at the Pacesetters was Stanley Pearle’s stirring
reading of a personal letter from Premier Yitzhak Rabin to
community leader and humanitarian Jake Feldman. Rabin
told ^ Jake Feldman’s “lifetime of dedication to Jews
throughout the world...and in Israel as a living
tribute...you are a treasure to the Jewish people.”
Mike Jacobs, who recently returned from a special
mission to Israel, was moved to comment on the nature of
helping one’s brother. Mike, a former victim of Nazi
Germany’s tyranical reign and a concentration camp
inmate, said, “If we had a strong Israel before World War
II, our people would not have been victims of the
crematoria...we should not ask ourselves how much money
we have to give to help others in need but we should be
happy that we are free” in a land like America and give
willingly.
Sam Wolfson, another recent visitor to Israel and general
chairman of the 1976 campaign, was moved to say, “Yad
Vashem denoted six million reasons why whatever we do is
not enough...Israelis must live every day with an outbreak
of war facing them...now Jews have to face the new
anti-Semitism...30 years after the horrible death camps of
Hitler the old words of hate are heard again...but we will
win because we are one and Dallas will meet the challenge.
Stanley Pearle summed it. In viewing the community’s
response to the largest Pacesetters meeting Dallas has
< ever had, he said, “It seems that this says something about
our community. That we are not asleep...we know that an
attack against Jews in Israel is an attack against Jews all
over the world.,.we know that you want to support all our
activities of over 40 agencies” here and abroad. “We are
going to stand tall in Dallas and assume our share of the
most critical burden which faces our people in its history.”
These devoted men, and the dedicated Pacesetters have
joined to make certain that the positive values of
civilization, of man’s right to live in security as an
independent human being will not be violated.
We are still practicing our Jewish ethics. If Jews live in
peace in Israel and have a right to their independence,
people all over the world will have and should enjoy that
same right.
Like our American forefathers, like the framers of this
naton, they knew then as we know now that a people
cannot be held in chains, they cannot be imperiled, they
cannot be transgressed. They have to be courageous
enough to defend their independence.
Thus, the might of the Soviet Union, the multi billions of
Pan-Arabia, the collusions of regressive nations will not
deter us.
We are one.
We will march forward.
Our strength will come from our knowledge that this, too,
has happened before in our history.
We managed.
The current campaign is the answer to what Stanley
Pearle called the “critical burden.”
We should all set the pace.
The track is before us.
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Situation of Israeli Arabs
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BY GIL SEDAN
JERUSALEM, (JTA) -
Israeli Arab moderates who
profess loyalty to the State
are expressing serious con-
cern over what they see as a
new “hard line” by certain
members of the government
and the Knesset toward
Israel’s Arab citizens. They
have objected specifically to
veiled warnings by Labor
Minister Moshe Baram and
Housing Minister Avraham
Ofer that government assis-
tance to Nazareth, Israel’s
largest Arab town, would be
reduced if the Communist
candidate won in mayorality
election there. Israeli Arabs
are also bitter over the
speech in the Knesset by
Likud MK Amnon Lin
impugning their loyalty. Lin
claimed that Israeli Arabs
were plotting a revolt should
a Palestinian state be set up
on the West Bank and urged
harsh measures against any
Israeli Arabs suspected of
sympathies with the Pale-
stine Liberation Organiza-
tion. Mahmoud Abassi, as-
sistant advisor to the
Minister of Education and
Culture, told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency that he
was “shocked” by Lin’s
remarks. He praised Pre-
mier Yitzhak Rabin’s reply
to the Likud MK in which
the Premier expressed com-
plete confidence in the
loyalty of Israel’s Arab
population. The speeches by
Baram and Ofer have creat-
ed consternation among
many Jews as well as Arabs
who believe the ministers’
attempt to interfere in the
Nazareth elections played
into Communist hands.
Baram, a Labor Party
stalwart, was especially
vociferous in his warnings
against a Communist victory
in Nazareth. “It is only
natural that no people and
no country would tolerate a
city which is ruled by a
movement which is in effect
an agency of nationalists and
Communists, which is influ-
enced by the colonialism and
imperialism of the USSR
and the darkest sort of Arab
Nationalism,” Baram said on
a radio interview on the eve
of the Nazareth elections.
The Labor Minister declared
that “Israel should not
tolerate a mayor who could
be an agent of Arafat and
the terrorist organizations”
He was referring to Tewfik
Ziad, candidate of the
pro-Moscow Rakah Com-
munist faction, who happen-
ed to be a Knesset member
sworn to support the State.
He offered no evidence to
support his claim that Ziad
was associated with PLO
chieftain Yasir Arafat.
Lin, in his Knesset speech,
accused the government of
failing to support moderate
Arabs and being too soft on
extreme elements among
Israel’s Arab population. He
charged that the latter plan
to annex the so-called “Arab
triangle” -- Nablus-Tulkar-
em-Jenin -- to a Palestinian
state and force the return of
Arab refugees from the 1948
war to their former homes in
Israel. Lin contended that a
majority of Israeli Arabs
had come under the influ-
ence of the extremists
because of blundering gov-
ernment policies and that
those Arabs who believed in
Jewish-Arab co-existence
were afraid to speak out. He
demanded that “positive”
forces should be encouraged
but terrorist sympathizers
heavily penalized. He said
the latter should not be
permitted to study, teach or
lecture, and should be
barred from the civil ser-
vice. He demanded the
expulsion from the Hebrew
University of Arab students
who refuse to stand guard
duty in the dormitories with
Jewish students.
In his reply to Lin, Rabin
said Israeli Arabs would not
be taken in by PLO
propaganda. He praised the
generally cooperative atti-
tude of Israeli Arabs and
said he hoped it would
continue. Rabin also denied
press reports that Foreign
Minister Yigal Allon was
preparing to present the
government with a plan for a
Palestinian state on the
West Bank. The Premier
said the government policy
remains determined not to
permit a third state between
Israel and Jordan. Press
reports to that effect are
absolutely without founda-
tion, he said. Abassi told thtmr
JTA that there was nil
erosion of support among
Israeli Arabs. He said most
of them saw their fate linked
with that of Israel. He noted
that the increased popular-
ity of Communists in the
Arab community was duft|
mainly to the well organizecr
Communist Party machi-
nery. He said that if
non-Communist parties had
made similar efforts there
would be no cause to worry
over the outcome of elec^
tions. Abassi warned, how J
ever, that Jewish extremists
were attempting to incite
Israelis against their Arab
fellow citizens. Greater ef-
forts should be made to
encourage political expres-
sion by the “young, educated**'
and positive elements,” hfl
said. Meanwhile, Israelis
were pondering the signifi-
cance of unconfirmed re-
ports that armed PLO
terrorists were seen at a
Jordanian army ceremony in
Amman recently. If correct,
it would be the first time the
PLO has surfaced in Jordan
since King Hussein drive the
terrorists out of his countr)JP
in the bloody campaign of
September, 1970. The re-
ports, broadcast by Israel
Radio, quoted “West Bank”
sources as saying that
Hussein attended the cere-
mony at which the PLO men
were present.
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Morton
Continued from page /
month because his succes-
sor-designate, Elliot Ri-
chardson, has returned to
London to complete his
commitments as the U.S.
Ambassador there. Richard-
son expects to return to
Washington soon after Jan.
1 to work with Morton
before being sworn in as
Secretary at the end of
January
OBITUARY
SEYMOUR BERNSTEIN
Funeral services for Seymour
Bernstein, 69, of 3131 Maple, Dallas,
a pioneer in Dallas commercial
financing, were held on Dec. 11, in
Sparkman-Hillcrest Funeral Chapel.
Entombment was in Hillcrest Garden
Mausoleum. Bernstein, who had
been president of Midwest Finance
Conference for 14 yeors, and was a
17-year member and past director of
the executive committee of the
National Commercial Finance Con-
ference. died Dec. 8. He is survived
by his wife, Mrs. Margery Pruvin,
Bernstein, Dallas; sons, Richard
Bernstein, Dallas, Lawrence Bern-
stein, Greatneck, N.Y.; daughter,
Prisoner-of-month
program launched
LOS ANGELES (JTA) -
In an effort to focus public
attention on the plight of a
specific prisoner each
month, the Union of Councils
for Soviet Jews, has started
a prisoner of the month pro-
gram.
The program will serve to
acquaint the public with a
different Soviet Jewish pris-
oner each month, request
the public at large to write to
him and his relatives, to
exert pressure on his behalf,
and, ultimately gain better
conditions or even a release
for the prisoner.
Boris Penson, a 29-year-
old artist who is currently
serving a 10-year term in a
Soviet Concentration camp,
’was selected as the De-
cember prisoner of the
month. •
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