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1 Editorial 3 George Steiner A View irom Without 6 Peretz Merchaw Co-existence or Conflict 7 Maurice Orbach, M P. Mosley's Apolol(ia 10 Gerald Cromer The Student Movement's Challenge U Arnost Lustig The Forest 011 the Hill 19 Alfred Werner Mordecai Ardon's Triumph 22 Josef Herman My Mexican Pictures 24 Philip Hobsbaum. Two Poems by Isaac Rosenberg 28 Leon I. Yudkin The Poetry of Nathan Zach 30 Yehuda Halevy For the sake of God's House 31 Nathan Zach An.l!,lo-]ewi:.h Poetry 33 Arthur C. Jacobs A Russian-jewish Poet 34 Letters to the Editor 39 Renee Winegarten The Problem of Agnon 4Z Moses Aberbach Herod--Hero or Traitor? 44 jacob Sonntag Deutscher's Dilemma 46 Book Reviews (Chain Bermant, Gerda Charles, Judith Maro, Steven Schonberg) Art Reproductions: Ardon, Herman All communications to: THE JEWISH QUARTERLY 68 Worcester Crescent, London, N.W.7 Telephone: 01-959 2268 Single copy: 4s. ($1.00; 1£ 1.50) Annual Subscription: 16s. U.S.A. & Canada: $4.00 LETS FACE FACTS! THE YEAR 1968 WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS THE YEAR of shattered hopes, of a great promise unfulfilled, and of a tragedy both profound and far-reaching. The hope that, at last, peace would come to the Middle East as a result of relaxation of international tension, proved to be premature. If anything, the tension has increased, following the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. And that single act of brutal aggression by a Great Power put the clock back not only for the new society painfully emerging in that unfortunate country but also for its immediate neighbours and the Soviet Union itself. whose leaders were terrified at the prospect of the Czech example finding a responsive echo among the peoples of their vast empire. The concern shown by liberals and socialists in the West with the fate of Czechoslovakia was not, as Soviet propaganda will have it, determined by their expectation of seeing capitalism restored there in the wake of a counter-revolution, but, on the contrary, of a bloodless revolution emerging victorious which would do away with the worst evils of capitalism as well as of the excesses of dictatorship and oppression. The clamping down on the upsurge of freedom and of new ideas in Czechoslovakia, whatever else its consequences may be, is bound to have the opposite effect of what the Russian leaders hoped to achieve even from the point of view of their own narrow interests. Equally, the continuing state of war in the Middle East, by maintaining tension and the facade of unity, prevents the Arab countries from progressing on the path of real freedom and social development which they need in order to raise the living standards of the impoverished masses. Their mobilisation for a renewed war against Israel-a war which would be as senseless and wasteful as were the previous wars-can only have the effect of halting progress. Nor will thereby the national aspirations of the Palestine Arabs be advanced to any degree, if in fact this struggle were at the root of the conflict. On the other hand, these aspirations, which should be recognised as genuine, can only be fulfilled by constructive co-operation between Arabs and Jews, and by a co-ordinated effort by the governments of Israel and the Arab states, with ) international support. Complex as the problem is, it will not be solved either by war or terror.

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1 Editorial 3 George Steiner

A View irom Without 6 Peretz Merchaw

Co-existence or Conflict 7 Maurice Orbach, M P.

Mosley's Apolol(ia 10 Gerald Cromer

The Student Movement's Challenge U Arnost Lustig

The Forest 011 the Hill 19 Alfred Werner

Mordecai Ardon's Triumph 22 Josef Herman

My Mexican Pictures 24 Philip Hobsbaum.

Two Poems by Isaac Rosenberg 28 Leon I. Yudkin

The Poetry of Nathan Zach 30 Yehuda Halevy

For the sake of God's House 31 Nathan Zach

An.l!,lo-]ewi:.h Poetry 33 Arthur C. Jacobs

A Russian-jewish Poet 34 Letters to the Editor 39 Renee Winegarten

The Problem of Agnon 4Z Moses Aberbach

Herod--Hero or Traitor? 44 jacob Sonntag

Deutscher's Dilemma 46 Book Reviews (Chain Bermant,

Gerda Charles, Judith Maro, Steven Schonberg) Art Reproductions: Ardon, Herman

All communications to: THE JEWISH QUARTERLY 68 Worcester Crescent, London, N.W.7 Telephone: 01-959 2268

Single copy: 4s. ($1.00; 1£ 1.50) Annual Subscription: 16s. U.S.A. & Canada: $4.00

LETS FACE FACTS!

THE YEAR 1968 WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS THE YEAR of shattered hopes, of a great promise unfulfilled, and of a tragedy both profound and far-reaching. The hope that, at last, peace would come to the Middle East as a result of relaxation of international tension, proved to be premature. If anything, the tension has increased, following the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. And that single act of brutal aggression by a Great Power put the clock back not only for the new society painfully emerging in that unfortunate country but also for its immediate neighbours and the Soviet Union itself. whose leaders were terrified at the prospect of the Czech example finding a responsive echo among the peoples of their vast empire.

The concern shown by liberals and socialists in the West with the fate of Czechoslovakia was not, as Soviet propaganda will have it, determined by their expectation of seeing capitalism restored there in the wake of a counter-revolution, but, on the contrary, of a bloodless revolution emerging victorious which would do away with the worst evils of capitalism as well as of the excesses of dictatorship and oppression. The clamping down on the upsurge of freedom and of new ideas in Czechoslovakia, whatever else its consequences may be, is bound to have the opposite effect of what the Russian leaders hoped to achieve even from the point of view of their own narrow interests.

Equally, the continuing state of war in the Middle East, by maintaining tension and the facade of unity, prevents the Arab countries from progressing on the path of real freedom and social development which they need in order to raise the living standards of the impoverished masses. Their mobilisation for a renewed war against Israel-a war which would be as senseless and wasteful as were the previous wars-can only have the effect of halting progress. Nor will thereby the national aspirations of the Palestine Arabs be advanced to any degree, if in fact this struggle were at the root of the conflict. On the other hand, these aspirations, which should be recognised as genuine, can only be fulfilled by constructive co-operation between Arabs and Jews, and by a co-ordinated effort by the governments of Israel and the Arab states, with ) international support. Complex as the problem is, it will not be solved either by war or terror.

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