Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 January 1962 — Page 16

Friday, January 26, 1962

The Notional Jewish POST and OPINION

Citrus Exports Down, But Israel Trade Up Israel’s exports showed a healthy climb last year. Interestingly, industrial exports grew while some agricultural exports shrank. According to the Jerusalem Post, the country exported $243.6m worth of goods in 1961 as compared to $216.6m in 1960. The figures are based on a report released by the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics and the Ministry of Commerce mid Industry. Industrial exports including diamonds rose from $152.5m to $181.4m in the year. Citrus exports dropped from $46.6m to $40.0m. Other agricultural exports increased by about $6.5m. The reports show that in December exports totalled $18.6m — the same as ja December 1960. Industrial exports, including diamonds. totalled $13.7m as against $13.4m a year ago and citrus exports dropped from $3m in December 1960 to $1.7m in December 1961.

Tiny Notion's Secret Service Owe of Most Efficient Revealed: Israeli Cloak-and-Daqqer

An Israeli Secret Service Organization, whose threads run throughout the Middle East, into the West and behind the Iron Curtain, functions on a scale that approximates the fabulous operations of the American FBI. This “spy ring” has raised a grim spectre before the harried eyes of Egypt’s Nasser who sees its web of espionage and intrigue threatening him in the strongest and most secret bastions of his realm. Four Frenchmen go on trial soon in Cairo on charges of espionage and what worries Nasser about their exploits is that

Refutes Stories Jews Didn't Resist Nazis

Did the Jews fight? Yes, emphatically says a critic of some of the newspaper accounts emanating from the Eichmann trial which depicted the Jews as supinely accepting Nazi tortures and persecutions. Writing in the Jewish Observer and Middle East Review of London, Dr. S. Levenberg. asserts that the Jews fought back valiantly and fearlessly against Nazi oppressive tactics and often accepted death rather than bow before the tormentors. Dr. Levenberg points out that the Jews took up arms against the mighty moloch of Nazism in the famous uprising at the Warsaw Ghetto, Jews also fought back in revolts at the death camps of Auschwitz, Treblinka and Sobibor, and m the ghettoes of Bialyfctok, Cracow, Vilna, Bedzin and Chcnstocbova. How about Jews in the armed forces of the nation’s facing the overwhelming hordes of Hitler’s Germany on the battlefroots? Dr. levenberg points out that there were 150,000 Jews in the Polish Army; 550,000 in the UJS. armed forces; 62,000 in the British forces; 25,000 in the fighting units from Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand and 26.000 men and women from Palestine who formed the famous Jewish Brigade. “The Jews,” writes Dr. Leven berg, “were no passive onlookers in the struggle against Hitlerism. They fought on all fronts. They fought bravely. Many laid down their lives, many received decorations for exceptional courage.” Dr. Levenberg declares that the “image” of Jews as helpless creatures was conveyed in thousands of news dispatches emanating from Jerusalem during the Eichinann trial. “In his massive opening state-

ment at the trial,” writes Levenberg, “the Israeli Attorney General briefly mentioned the Jewish struggle against the enemy but his reference to this aspect was overshadowed by the description of the long history of the Nazi murder campaign. "This is why Gideon Hausner said The Jews tried everywhere and at all times to stand firm. The SS forbade religious services but the Jews secretly organized prayer meetings in all maimer of places, even in the very death camps, on the threshold of the gas chambers. ” The Germans forbade all communal activities and mutual aid but the Jews set up hundreds of welfare instititions. The teaching of children was forbidden but the Jews found a way of teaching their children secretly.’ ” “ ‘Death was the punishment meted out by the Germans for listening to foreign radio stations but the Jews secretly published newspapers containing news from the Allied side. Tens of thousands of Jews joined the partisans and fought ag. inst the NaztGennans in combatant units.* **

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these exploits symbolize a "liaison” between the Israeli secret organization — the Shin Beth — and the top spies of other nations. What’s more, still closer ties between French intelligence activities and those of the omniscient Shin Beth loom as General Vivyan Herzog, head of the Israeli military intelligence, prepares to assume the duties of his new post as an Israeli military attache extraordinary in Paris. The London Sunday Telegraph in its Jan. 14 issue, details the operations of Shin Beth and the manifold implications its expanding activities have in the shifting Middle East and European situation. Western nations avidly record the flow of intelligence that comes from Shin Beth agents in the Soviet Union. Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, alert to the difficulties confronting h>s intelligence emissaries battling espionage agents of the Arabs and the Soviet bloc, has split the secret service into independent units. One — the Directorate of Military Intelligence under General Herzog — is principally engaged in the evaluation, interpretation and application of intelligence having a mUitary aspect. The other unit — the Shin Beth proper — is concerned with the job of spying out the secrets of Israel’s enemies and laying them bare. So effective has been the work of the Israeli FBI that its agents managed to snare a parcel of letters passing between two exNazi criminals — one in Egypt, the other in West Germany — and glean from them much information of value before passing the letters on to the addressees who never suspected the interception. The Egyptian end of this correspondence was the maniacal anti-Semite Dr. Joahnnes von Leers, a former agent of Dr. Goebbels’ ministry, now operating under the alias of Prof. Omar Ammin to aid the spread of Nasser’s anti-Semitic propaganda. The West German end was Karl Heinz Priestei , now producing in Wiesbaden a flood of books and pamphlets enunciating the racist theories of the Neo-Nazis of today. Sefton Delmer, London Sunday Telegraph correspondent, currently writing a series of articles for the Telegraph on the Israeli spy organization, asked one of the Shin Beth votaries bow the interception of these letters over a period of years had been accomplished. "You don’t seriously expect me

to tell you, do you?” queried his companion. Delmer theorizes the letters were passed to Israel by an intelligence officer of Zionist sympathies belonging to one of Germany’s NATO allies who, in the ordinary performance of his duties, had access to intercepts made by the German Security Service tapping mails and telephones in Germany. Delmer posed another question. "What,” he asked his Shin Beth informant, "can you tell me about the activities of the group of Nazi fanatics who escaped to the Middle East after Hitler’s collapse and are now, like von Leers, working for Nasser?” The Israeli agents promptly produced a file replete with details of Nazis now masquerad ing under Arab names in the von Leers pattern. These Nazis are helping Nasser instruct Egyptian bullies in the techniques of the Gestapo and the Abwehr. The involvement of the Shin Beth in the socalled Lavon affair is a fabulous chapter in itself. According to Delmer, the Israeli Secret Service organization hatched a scheme to “frame” Nasser by making it appear that he was party to an anti-Ameri-can plot. Shin Beth decided on this maneuver, according to Delmer, to thwart a growing intimacy looming between the Governments of Egypt and the United States. This was in 1954. The plan, Delmer wrote, was for two groups of Israeli agents working in Cairo and Alexandria

Lavon to blow up such symbols of American influence as the muted States Information Office in Aeee cities. The branch offices of a number of well known American firms in the two cities were afeo marked for special attention. Documents were fabricafedl according to Delmer, linking Egyptian authorities to these activities. They were to be M to emissaries of the American Central Intelligence Agency. Before the bombs could go off, the whole plan was bared to the Egyptians by an aide of SWin Beth’s Colonel Abraham Dai who had been selected fo direct the operation. This aide — ITans Frank — escaped to Vienna after collecting 4,000 Engfish pounds from Nasser for his betrayal. He was finally run to earth in the Austrian capital by Israeli agents in 1957. His disclosures at his subsequent trial in Israel caused the political scandal involving former Israeli Minister of Defense Pinhas Eavon. Repercussions of this affair still reverberate in Israel today. There will be a further article in this series depicting the activities of the Shin Beth in keeping an alert eye on the operations of spies sent into Israel by the Arabs and the Russians.

Protestants Set Up Town In Sympathy With Israel

Protestants are establishing a village in Israel to demonstrate their solidarity with Jews. The new community is located in Western Gallilee between Abu Sinan and Kafr Yasif. It is sponsored by the International Federation of Nes Ainmim Organizations, a Protestant group dedicated to the promotion of Jew-ish-Christian understanding. " Industry and agriculture will form the economic basis for the moshav. At present it will concentrate on truck farming and grain production. A number of Dutch industrialists are already showing an interest in the project and considering the establishment of factories there. The type of industries to be inaugurated will be

decided upon in consultation with the Israeli Government. Dutch Protestants will see t« the agricultural development of the moshav. Swiss Protestants will take care of the buiMhig of bouses and roads and the supply of water and electrcity. The Rev. R. Bakker of Rotterdam, chairman of the Dutch Nes Ammim Committee, sfiressee that the objective of the moshar is not a missionary one. The soli purpose, he added, is fo pro mote racial fellowship and ua derstanding. In Nes Ammim, he said, Eur opeans, Jews and Arabs will have a community where they can meet and work together frei of the alien pressures of prejudice and proselytization.

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