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A story you may find hard to believe comes from East Jerusalem
*nd will be featured in Hadassah Magazine's October issue.
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It concerns Raya Rinott, one of the first Jews to move to tha Eastern
part of the Holy City following the Cease Fire of the Six Days War.
Raya started to check around and discovered a startling fact: Many
Arab refugees are not "refugees” at all. Some of them indeed are
wealthy landowners and pose in dual capacity to dupe the U. N. and
others.
Let Miss Rinott tell it: "My Arab landlord, Abu Achmed, is a
businessman who spends most of his time collecting his rental fees
and dealing in other matters connected with the management of
extensive properties in Jerusalem; yet the Abu Achmeds are bonafide
refugees with a proper U. N. certificate to prove it.
"The fact is that the Abu Achmed family never resided in the
Israeli sector of Jerusalem. In 1948 they owned an uninhabitable two-
room house in the Ethiopian quarter. The loss of this house, duly
registered, made the Abu Achmeds, their nine children and even their
innumerable grandchildren refugees for all time and entitled to all the
priveleges thereof.”
Now, Here's The Payoff: Once a month Abu Achmed and his wife
conceal their usual fine clothing and dress in rags. Why? Because this
is the day the UNRWA man comes around with the monthly rations.
Raya says, "Abu Achmed knows he is playacting, as does the Arab
gentleman who doles out the rations. The important thing is to play
out one's role dutifully.
"My landlord, "(she has disguised his name because she doesn't
want to evicted), feels Miss Rinott is, "a personal representative to his
household of the Israeli Government and of World Jewry. Sometimes,
following an intense evening of watching Nasser on television, he
descends upon me with wild tirades against the State and jews in
general.
"One morning, with Cairo Radio screaming the news of the El
Aksa Mosque fire, Abu Achmed was so gleeful you would have thought
it was the Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv that had burned and not a
Moslem shrine.
Continued on Page 4_
Paul Lewis, Dallas Humanitarian
To Be Honored by Zesmer Zionists
PAUL LEWIS
...To Be Honored*
Paul Lewis, Dallas businessman
and communal leader, will be honor-
ed by the Zesmer Dallas District
of the Zionist Organization of
America at a banquet at the Fair-
mont Hotel, Sunday, Oct. 19. M. B.
Goldfarb and Arthur Goldberg head,
a list of prominent Dallasites who
have been appointed to a com-
mittee of arrangements by Louis
Kreditor, President of the Dallas
district.
A lifelong Zionist who helped
to create the first American Colony
in Palestine, winner of the^Amudin’
Award presented by the National
Society of Hebrew Day Schools,
honored by Senator Jacob Javits
and other congressional leaders in
Washington, D. C. in 1963 as well
as in major cities of the U. S.
including New York, Chicago, and
Los Angeles for his memorials to
the 6 million victims of the holo-
caust, Paul Lewis was also honored
by the then Pres. Shazar of Israel
in 1968 for his personal support and
aid to Israel. On this occasion in
Dallas, a number of scholarships
RABBI ISAIAH ZELDIN
...Guest Speaker
for worthy teen-agers will be endow-
for the Kfar Silver Academy in
Israel in his honro.
Rabbi Isaiah Zeldin, spiritual
leader of Stephen Wise Temple,
Beverly Hills, Calif., will be guest
speaker. Rabbi Zeldin, a noted au-
thor and lecturer received his master
and Rabbinic Degree from the Cin-
cinnati School of the Hebrew Union
College - Jewish Institute of Reli-
gion. He is past president of the
Southern California Association of
Liberal Rabbis and Western Associa-
tion of Reform Rabbis and also
served as chairman of the American
Zionist Council and President of
the Beverly Hills Zionist District.
1 Miss Sarah Rubine, outstanding
Israeli star of musical comedy will
entertain at the dinner. Jose Singer’s
Artist Trio will provide dinner music
Tickets are $10 per person. Reser-
vations for the kosher dinner may
be made by calling 368-2037. There
will be no solicitation of funds.
JTA-Jewish Telegraph Agency AJP- American Jewish Press SAF-Seven Arts Features
WNS- World News Service JCNS-Jewish Chronicle News Service
Zexas flewisk
DEDICATED TO TRUTH, LIBERTY AND JUSTICE
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VOLUME XXIII NO. 42 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1969 16 PAGES 15^ PER COPY
Israel Interprets Cairo's Rejection
of Negotiations Proposal As Final
Jerusalem, (JTA)-Egypt's rejection of any negotiations with Israel, direct or indirect,
is considered in Israeli circles to represent the final and authoritative word on that subject
by the Cairo Government. The semi-official Cairo newspaper Al Ahram, which is known
to speak for President Gamal Abdel Nasser, stated unequivocally Friday that "Egypt does
not believe there is any possibility of holding direct or indirect negotiations with Israel—
not through the Rhodes formula or any other formula."
The Al Ahram statement sharply contradicted Egypt's official spokesman, Dr. Esmet
Abdel Meguid, who said last Wednesday that Egypt would not object to participating in
indirect negotiations with Israel along the lines of the Rhodes armistice talks in 1949
"provided this is not construed as direct negotiations." Israeli and Egyptian delegates met
face-to-face during the final stages of the Rhodes talks under the aegis of the then acting
UN mediator. Dr. Ralph J. Bunche. Egypt denies that there were any direct contacts at
Rhodes.
But the argument was rendered academic, according to Israeli sources, by the Al Ahram
statement that undercut Dr. Meguid's offer. A similar reported hint by Egyptian Foreign
Minister Mahmoud Riad in New York Sept. 24 that Egypt might participate in so-called
Rhodes formula talks was described by Al Ahram as "deliberate gross distortion aimed at
undermining the position of the United Arab Republic."
The Al Ahram statement also downgraded the mission of United Nations peace envoy,
Gunnar V. Jarring, who was mentioned as the person most likely to bring Israelis and Arabs
to a neutral site for Rhodes-style talks. According to Al Ahram, Dr. Jarring's mission is
confined to working out a time table for implementation of the Security Council's
Nov. 22, 1967 resolution calling for Israel's withdrawal from occupied Arab territory and
Arab recognition of Israel's right to exist within secure, recognized boundaries, among
other things. The Arabs have insisted that Israeli withdrawal is a precondition to im-
plementing other elements of the resolution.
The newspaper Haaretz said that Israeli circles viewed the seemingly flexible statements
by Mr. Riad and Dr. Meguid as no more than an Egyptian attempt to torpedo Israel's
stand in the United States during and after Premier Golda Meir's meeting with American
leaders. These meetings are over now, the statements have served their purpose, and
Egypt is reverting to its basic intransigent stand, Haaretz said.
Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel's Premier, told Israel on a radio broadcast that the Govern-
ment would be willing to open "Rhodes - style" negotiations but indicated that Israel
would regard them as direct talks.
Hadassah President Deplores 'New Conservatism;
Speakers Call for Benefits for 'All Mankind'
New Orleans (Special to the Texas Jewish Post)-Mrs. Max Schenk, national president of
Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, in a wide-ranging address at the
opening plenary session of the organization's 55th Annual Convention, meeting at the
Roosevelt Hotel, deplored the "new conservatism rearing its head" in the United States.
Speaking to 2,000 delegates, Mrs. Schenk referred to the use of "delaying tactics" by
officials in government concerning segregated school districts and saw in these tactics "a
frightening return to segregation in the south."
She also deplored the low priority accorded by the government to anti-poverty pro-
grams, education, and foreign and domestic aid to medical research.
We look with some concern, she said, upon this tendency to "turn back the clock."
Milton Himmelfarb, director of the information and research services of the American
Jewish Committee, a public affairs agency, said at a plenary session on Jewish Education
that the intellectual "by definition is alienated to the dominat culture," and that his-
torically there is "nothing new" in his predicament.
"As recently as the 1930's, what intellectual worth his salt would trouble himself with
parochial concerns such as the Jewish question? The intellectual had to be a universalist
involved in the problems of social and economic justice for all. He rejected particularism."
Mr. Himmelfarb defined universalism as involvement in the struggle for justice for all
men, and particularism, as the struggle for justice in a limited cause.
The Vice President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the national or-
ganization of reformed rabbis, said Wednesday the failure of "a single prominent voice
in church or government circles" to "denounce the libelous incitement against the Jewish
people" regarding the Al Aksa Mosque fire. Rabbi David Polish said that "the whole
world knows that the Jewish people is guiltless of the fire."
Dr. Polish, spiritual leader of Temple Beth Emet the Free Synagogue in Evanston, III.,
addressing the closing luncheon of the convention being held at the Roosevelt Hotel,
lashed out at a "corrupt" Security Council, the "radical left," the "Establishment,"
and "the fallacy that the only ideal worthy of the Jew was to be found in universalism,"
the fight for causes that would benefit all mankind.
"If the price of my involvement in the fellowship of man is my own people's existence
then it is sinister fellowship, bent not on community but on crushing the human spirit.
It is totalitarian. It is dictatorial."
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