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...Watergate drama in Washington could not, of course, completely obscure the principal actors elsewhere on the world stage. Three were particularly notable for their roles during 1973. Egypt's President Anwar Sadat skillfully courted alliances among Arab leaders, then launched the coordinated Yom Kippur attack by his armies and those of Syria on Israeli-occupied territories. Although the strike was ultimately unsuccessful, the fact that the invading armies were not instantly crushed by the Israelis restored a measure of Arab pride that may help make a Middle East settlement possible. Saudi Arabia's King Feisal responded to the urgings...
...casualties of the Yom Kippur War was the growing ecumenical spirit between Christians and Jews. In fact, like the 1967 war before it, the war this autumn shocked Christians into sometimes sharp reappraisals of Israel, and shook Jews with the fear of antiSemitism. One Protestant ecumenical expert in Israel, indeed, lamented that Jewish-Christian relations "have never been more seriously threatened...
Most U.S. Christians do not share Berrigan's acerbic views on Israel. During the Yom Kippur War a nun arrived at the Syrian consulate in Manhattan to offer herself in exchange for an Israeli P.O.W. The First Baptist Church of Dallas took a half-page newspaper ad asking Texans to "support Israel." And hundreds of other church leaders and groups, according to a report by Rabbi...
Balfour Brickner, spoke up in outrage against the attack by Egypt and Syria and the profanation of Yom Kippur...
Roman Catholics and evangelical Protestants seem to sympathize more with the intense Jewish concern for Israel than do liberal Protestants. Pope Paul VI, of course, can still be critical of Israel. Just two days before the Yom Kippur War, when he received a new Syrian ambassador to the Holy See, the Pope complained that "The Palestinian people, living miserably, plead that their right to self-determination be recognized." Last week Paul also expressed concern over the fate of Jerusalem's holy places-a thorny political and religious issue that will involve intra-Christian negotiations as well as talks between...