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viet Russia Supports Arabs in
Israel Hydroelectric Issue at UN
Satanic Tactics!
Arabs Pit Jesus Against Israel
in Attack at United Nations
By DAVID HOROWITZ
Special Jewish News Correspondent at UN
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—It never fails. Ever since
1947 when the UN was seized by the Palestine question,
with the deliberations dragging into the pre-Christmas
season, as they have this year, Arab delegates, inspirited
with satanic glee, keep on reminding their fellow-delegates
all -about the story of Golgatha. In past years, former UN
delegate Faris El-Khoury became an expert in this particu-
lar type of rabble-rousing. "How can we trust the people
who were responsible for the crucifixion of the Savior of
Christendom," he would tell the assembled representatives
in effect.
This pre-Christmas week in the Security Council El-
Khoury's "Holy" job was taken over by Charles Malik of
Lebanon, the Arab anti-Israel spokesman in that 11-mem-
ber body which had already disposed of Kibya and is now
winding up its debate on the Canal Project. Malik not only
tauntingly pitted Jesus against present-day Israel, he also
brought in Spinoza and a host of others in his insidious anti-
Jewish tirade.
During the 49th Security Council meeting, Thursday after-
noon, Dec. 17, Ambassador Abba Eban, presenting his govern-
ment's views on the three-power draft resolution relative to
the Canal Project (which, by the way, called upon General
Vagh Bennike "to effect a reconciliation" and report back in 90
days and which, as a whole, came as a great blow to the Arabs)
concluded his statement with a blast against Malik. "What •
offended us in this (Malik's) speech was its reference to our
religious conscience," Mr. Eban stated resolutely. "If the rep-
resentative of Lebanon wishes to prove that the hydro-electric
project of Bnot Yaacob is inconsistent with the philosophy
and thought of Spinoza, Locke, Berkeley, Hegel, Kant, Pascal
and Euber, then, of course, he is welcome to the exercise—but
he should not invoke the Divine Name or the prophets and
patriarchs of the Hebrew faith for the sake of a political at-
tack in a political context. Such statements as 'Has Israel out-
grown the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob?" are entirely
out of place in this or in any decent discussion. And I would
have forgiven the Lebanese representative's inaccuracies or
differences of opinion about water if only he could at least
have spared us this irreverence."
The . late Thomas Sugrue, a Catholic, in the Introduction to
Malcolm Hay's book, "The Foot of Pride: the Pressure of Christen-
dom on the Peoples of Israel for 1900 years (The Beacon Press;
1950)," fearlessly declared: "Nothing can be done about anti-
Semitism until something is done about Christianity. The fact
that a Christian is able to feel that anti-Semitism is not a sin,
and indeed may be a virtue, a participation in the divine chas-
tisement of a race of God-killers, is the evil which spreads and
maintains and strengthens this Christian violation of the iaw
of love."
In his book, Malcolm Hay, also a Catholic living in Scotland,
shows that the Gospel of St. John constitutes one of the most
anti-Semitic works on record. Referring to the "Christ idea."
Mr. Hay says: "The inoculation of the poison began long ago in
the nurseries of Christendom."
And so declared an honest Catholic.
But Charles Malek and his friends would love to see the an-
cient, stereotyped and fallacious "Christ Story" against the Jews
revived, and have therefore found it necessary and expedient to
use the United Nations as a forum for the dissemination of
these old lies and calumnies. But they undoubtedly underesti-
mate the strength of the millions of Hays and Sugrues within
the Christian world.
Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—The Soviet Union allied itself in the Security Council
Monday with Nationalist China, Pakistan and the Lebanon in an effort to torpedo an
amended draft resolution introduced by the United States, Britain and France, seeking
settlement of the Israeli-Syrian dispute over the Israeli hydroelectric development at
Bnot Yaakov in the demilitarized zone.
The Soviet delegate, after violently criticizing the Three Power resolution as be-
ing "irrelevant to the issue" and for introducing broad new issues of economic develop-
ment, formally called for indefinite postponement of a vote on the resolution to give
time, he said, for negotiations between the two parties concerned and for further study
of the implications of the economic development indicated in the eleventh paragraph of
the draft resolution.
Syria officially declared the Big Three draft resolution unacceptable to the Syrian
government. The Syrian spokesman, Farid Zennadine, told the Security Council when it
resumed debate Tuesday morning that the resolution does not constitute a verdict on the
Syrian complaint and merely invited the Council to refrain from acting on complaint of
a nation member of the UN.
The Syrian accused drafters of the Big Three resolution of deliberately employing
vague terms in order to cloak the real meaning of the resolution which he said speeches
by the three sponsors failed to reveal.
He charged the resolution was drafted in fear that Israel would flout commands of
unfavorable resolution, and asserted that Israelis had guided the hand that had penned
the draft.
Zennadine virtually charged a cabal of Big Three and Israel to give Israel a free
hand in the Middle East, asserting, "Israel minus the three powers, equals zero. Israel
plus the three powers is a formidable force." He asserted that in this as in past cases the
three powers secretly are conniving to give Israel its way. He condemned the extension
of financial, military and moral aid to Israel by the three powers. He charged that Zion-
ism was the tool of certain powers interested in the Middle East and warned that the
Soviet Union and important Asian elements do not favor the Zionist movement.
Zennadine moved in his speech to secu re continued stoppage of Israel work at Bnot
Yaakov by having the question kept under continuing Council study. He urged con-
tinued effort to find a settlement of the question. In this he was presumably motivated
by the fact Israel agreed to halt work as long as the council is urgently considering the
question.
The Security Council adjourned on We dnesday, until next Tuesday, without action
(See Earlier Story on Page 20)
on the resolution.
Open First Modern. Paper Mill in Near East
HADERA, Israel, (JTA)—The first modern paper mill in the Middle East was officially
opened by Acting Prime Minister Moshe Sharett. Costing $40,000,000, the American-Israel Paper
Mills, Ltd., plant is located on a 22-acre site midway between Tel Aviv and Haifa and can meet
all of Israel's paper requirements except for some specialized papers.
The mill was put up by Joseph M. Mazer, treasurer of the Hudson Pulp and Paper Corpo-
ration of New York; the Palestine Economic Corporation of New York and other American,
foreign and Israeli investors.
It will produce approximately 15,000 tons of newsprint annually, writing and kraft papers.
The mill is expected to save Israel $1,000,000 annually in foreign currency.
Israel Protests to UN Egyptian
Seizure of Meat ID estined for Israel
The Israel government lodged a formal complaint with
the Security Council against the confiscation by Egypt of
140 tons of meat being carried to Israel in an Italian ship
from East Africa. The ship, the S. S. Franca Maria, of
Italian registry, bound from Massawa in Eritrea to Haifa
in Israel, was intercepted at Port Said Dec. 14 and was
later permitted to continue on its voyage after the cargo
of meat was confiscated.
In his letter to the President of the Security Council, Am-
bassador Abba Eban, pointed out that this intercepti6n and con-
fiscation was in flagrant violation of Security Council and UN
resolutions.
The Council called upon Egypt at that time to terminate the
restrictions on the passage of shipping and goods through the
Suez Canal wherever bound and to cease all interference with
such shipping. "Despite this clear injunction of the Security
Council and its rejection of the Egyptian claim to belligerent
rights against Israel, the government of Egypt has persisted in
its interference with shipping trade with Israeli ports through
the Suez Canal," Ambassador Eban wrote,
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`Supreme lEffort for
UJA national leadership re-elected to
office shows, left to right (top) , MORRIS W. BERINSTEIN, national campaign chairman.
EDWARD M. M. WARBURG, general chairman; JOSEPH HOLTZMAN, of Detroit, SOL
LUCKMAN of Cincinnati and WILLIAM ROSENWALD of New York, national campaign •
chairmen. They were among top leaders re-elected at the UJA's national conference at the
Waldorf-Astoria, New York, Dec. 1 1 13, where more than 1,200 communal representatives
from all parts of the nation set a 1954 goal c lose to $120,000,000. Lower left: Mrs. EL.
EANOR ROOSEVELT and Mr. WARBURG. Lower right: Governor JOHN S. FINE of Penn-
sylvania and UJA national chairman RUDOL F G. SONNEBORN. The delegates called for a
supreme effort in behalf of UJA's 1954 campaign to speed Israel's economic freedom and
to finance urgent refugee aid programs in 20 other countries, through the United Israel Ap-
pal, Joint Distribution Committee and United Service for New Americans. , UJA consituent
agencies,
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