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viated translation of an article

by Joshua Gershman, editor of
the Canadian Jewish Weekly.

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We share the deep concern of
all Jews regarding the fate of
Israel, but we do not share in
advancing “solutions” based
more on military might than on
peace initiatives. We do not
share the deepening and sharp-
ening of hatred towards the
Arabs just as we are against
Arab hatred of Israel and we de-
clare that, in the interests of
Israel, and Jewish masses else-
where, the attacks on the Soviet-
Union must be stopped. We do
not share in the attacks against
everyone whose opinions differ
from that of the Government of
Israel, especially since the end
of the 1967 war.

Our basic aim, precisely be-
cause of our concern for the
security of Israel, is the achieve-
ment of peace and not the fruits
of military victory. Rabbi Reu-
ben Slonim, the only prominent
Jewish personality on the Amer-
ican continent who dared to
express his opinions, is correct
when he said in an article in the
Toronto Star of Oct. 12: “Un-
less’ the Jewish state and its
supporters spend as much time
and talent in finding accommod-
ation with the Arabs -as they
spend on building a war ma-
chine, the people of Israel are
doomed‘ to fighting a full-scale
war every six to 10 years.” He
is a thousand times right when
he concludes that “nothing can
save Israel and the Jews, but the
final end of the recurring of
Middle East War.”

Four wars in 25 years have
shown that Israel’s existence
could not and must not rely on
the sword — on war, That does
not mean that Israel is not en-
titled to be able to defend itself
in every respect or that the
heads of Arab Governments,
justified as they are in their de-
mands for a return of occupied
territories, will help the security
of their peoples by warlike talk.

The situation today cannot be
compared with that in the war
in 1967, when Shukeri, the bit-
ter enemy of Israel, preached
the throwing of Israel into the
sea, and when even Nasser re-
fused to recognize the right of
Israel to exist. The statement of
Sadat in the midst of flaming
war battles was different. When
he came out for a ceasefire on
the basis of Israel’s withdrawal
from the territories occupied in
1967 it was necessary to seize
on his statement that “that we
wish to tell the Israelis that we
do not call for their annihila-
tion, as has been claimed”
The argument ‘who can believe
the Arabs?’ can well be counter-
ed on the Arab side by “who
can believe Israel?”

The Israeli Government had six
years and four months to take
the road of peace initiatives.
This was urged by the peace
forces in Israel. Instead it con-
tented itself with plans of how
to spread and consolidate its
control over the territories oc-
cupied after the 1967 war. And
only a few weeks ago the Isra-
eli Government officially ap-

proved the Galilee plan calling

for the broadening of coloniza-
tion — ‘the settlement of Jews
on Arab territories.

It is naive to argue that the

Egyptian president Sadat

violation of the 1967 ceasefire
by Egypt and Syria came with-
out any provocation by Israel. Is
not the failure to assist in the
implementation of the UN Re-
solution 242 of 1967, the failure
to cooperate with UN Envoy
Gunnar Jahring, the building of
Jewish colonies oan~ occupied
Arab lands — are all these acts
not of a provocative nature?
Provocative and harmful to the

cause of peace are acts of indi- '

vidual terror, encouraged by
the most reactionary Arab cir-
cles, which brought death and
destruction to Israelis in and
out of Israel.

Among Israel’s ruling circles,
as well as among Jewish people
who are honest and sincere in
Israel, it is being asserted that
their concern for the fate of
the maintenance of occupation
was necessary since the battles
in the fourth war are being now
waged there and not on Israeli
territory. Is this an achievement
to boast about? The basic ques-
tion is: did the policy of the
Israeli Government and_ the

Peking undercuts Arab struggle

By G. KORNILOV

The Peking leaders have been
trying now for many years to
pose as the “main defenders” of
the interests of the Third World
countries, as leaders of the na-
tional-liberation. struggle. Bom-
bastic and alluring slogans stres-
sing this were also voiced from
the rostrum of the recent Tenth
Congress of the Communist
Party of China.

Six weeks after this Congress,
military action broke out_afresh
in the Middle East as a result of
Israel’s aggressive policy. The
question arose as to what con-
crete, practical help to give to
the Arab countries. What atti-
tude did Peking take?

Instead of rendering real sup-
port to the people of Egypt and
Syria, who are waging a strug-
gle against the aggressor, the
Peking leaders launched a fren-
zied campaign of slander against
Soviet-Arab friendship with the
object of undermining it. Chin-
ese propaganda publishes mate-
rials daily distorting the Soviet
Union’s stand in relation to the
Middle East, and endeavoring
to depreciate and discredit the
enormous aid being given by the
Soviet Union and other coun-
tries of the socialist community
to the Arab states.

In one of its latest issues, the
newspaper, Jenmin Jihpao, went
so far as to allege that the
blame for the aggression against
the Arab countries lies not with
Israel, who is encouraged by the
imperialists from outside, ‘but
with the policy of the “super-
powers’,, a term under which

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the Peking propagandists mean
the Soviet Union first of all.
The Soviet Union has been
coming out and continues to
come out consistently on the
side of the Arab peoples, who
are fighting for a just cause. As

was noted in a recent statement °

issued by the Soviet govern-
ment, the USSR condemns Isra-
el’s predatory policy, and firmly
supports the legitimate demands
of the Arab states on the libera-
tion of all Arab lands occupied
by Israel in 1967. The Arab
press, and not only they, are
saying these days that it was
precisely with the help of Soviet
weapons that Egyptian troops
smashed the Barlev Line on the
Suez Canal, which Tel Aviv had
proclaimed as “impregnable”,
while the Syrian troops were
successfully repulsing the attack
of Israeli forces in the area of
the Golan Heights.

Against this background, the
efforts by Peking to distort the
stand of the Soviet Union on the
events in the Middle East can
only be regarded as another at-
tempt to drive a .wedge into
Soviet-Arab friendship and dis-
rupt Soviet-Arab coo tion,
thereby weakening the Arabs in
face of the armed-to-teeth ag-
gressor. This is a stand hostile
to the Arab peoples, a stand
which objectively helps the ex-
pansionist schemes of the Israeli
aggressors and their imperialist
backers.

Attempts to undermine Soviet-
Arab friendship are being made
by Peking against. the back-
ground of a glamorous propa-

ganda campaign whose aim is to
depict Peking as a “true friend”
of the Arabs. But friendship is
not words, but deeds above all.
And the Chinese leaders, who
have been proclaiming from the.
rooftops their “loyalty” to the
ideals of the national-liberation
struggle, in reality do not give
practical assistance to the Arab
countries, limiting themselves
to verbal’ assurances and ap-
peals to the Arab peoples “to
overcome all the difficulties” and
“rely on their own strength.”
There is no need to say that
these kinds of demagogic calls

‘cannot help Egypt and Syria

wage their struggle for their just
cause.

The meeting of representa-
tives of the Communist and
Workers’ Parties of the Arab
countries, held ‘in September,
emphasized that the policy of
anti-Sovietism, in which the
Chinese leadership engages and
which expresses itself in includ-
ing the developing states to de-
part from their true ally and
defender of their independence
— the Soviet Union — and the
propaganda of the thesis about
the division of the world into
“big and small” ‘and “rich and
poor” states, render a service to
the imperialist. forces and do
enormous harm to-the world na-
tional-liberation movement and
the world revolutionary move-
ment as a whole.

The stand taken by Peking on
Middle East events once again
shows what an enormous gap
exists between the words of the
Maoists and their actions.

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Avoid recurrence of Arab-Israeli war

plans of the expansionist ad-
vance the prospects of peace or
moved them back? Does this
policy save the lives of Israel’s
sons and daughters, the sweat
and blood .of the Israeli people>
or does it’do the opposite?

The great responsibility of the
United Nations is to cool the
belligerence of the warring par-
ties in this critical conflict. The
understanding reached between
Moscow and Washington, and
the United Nations resolution
for a ceasefire, is a step in the
right direction.

Great harm is done by incite-
ment against the Soviet Union
in connection with its arms
deliveries to the Arab states,
especially since it is well known
that not only Hussein’s Jordan
but also other Arab states are in
possession of and use arms Sup-

plied by the United States and—
‘ Particularly
-when it is hidden from the

countries.

Jewish masses that the Soviet
Government withdrew its advis-
ers from Egypt and Syria just
before war broke out because it
did not succeed in convincing
the Arab leaders not to begin
another war.

World Detente is at Stake

We will return to the complic-
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