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THE JEWISH NEWS
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Arabs Pour in Funds to Expand
War Against Israel, U. S. Zionism
Anti-Israel 'Inflation'
Growing Arab UN Bloc;
`Dead Men Who Eat'
By PAUL CARSON
JTA's UN Correspondent
(Copyright, 1955, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—Every effort is
being bent here on admission of new members
to the United Nations. On all sides, the desire to
enlarge the UN membership is applauded. The
last member added to -the UN roster, bringing
the total to 60, was Indonesia. Before Indonesia,
Israel had been given the status of United Nations
citizenship by being voted the 58th member.
Now that membership extension is on the agenda,
is Israel likely to be affected seriously?
A total of 18 nations have applied for mem-
bership. Of these, five are Soviet satellites—
Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania and Outer
Mongolia. Two others are members of the Arab
League—Jordan and Libya. Just how many of
the 18 will be admitted this year is still in doubt;
the Soviet Union wants the entire package or
none; Great Britain would "acquiesce" in the
admission of all, including Outer Mongolia; the
U.S. insists it will not tolerate the admission
of Outer Mongolia; Canaria, which leads even
India as the mediating state here, is trying hard
to arrange a compromise. Thus, the least that
might come out of all the jockeying is the addi-
tion of 16 new members—which would include
the four above-mentioned European Satellites of
the Soviet Union, plus Libya and Jordan. The
Arab bloc already has six members here; the
Soviet bloc consists of five members. Simple
arithmetic shows that the Soviet-Arab Axis,
already strong, is likely to grow to the large
total of 17 members. Thus every pro-Israel move
went to work.
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Do Dead M en Eat?
The Arab League delegates here are having
a hey-day. They have been waiting all this fall
for the annual debate on the work of the United
Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees. As soon as the debate got under way,
the Arab diplomats unlimbered their tongues and
went to work.
But there was one point none of the Arab
speakers could clarify. Abba Eban asked a ques-
tion on behalf of Israel on the first day of de-
bate. What happened, he wanted to know, to
the promise to clear the refugee rolls of fraud-
ulent. names? There are 70,000 such. fakes in
Jordan alone. Forty thousand of them are the
names of people who died. Americans old enough
to remember outdated voting precinct practices
are familiar, of course, with the dead who could
turn out on Election Day to cast ballots for
machine candidates. But Jordan has gone one
step further. Jordan has found 40,000 dead men
who not only cry to return to their "old homes"
in Israel. They also eat—at UN expense.
The Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith reports that the Arab League Information Center in
New York has been granted a special fund of $300,000 to expand its propaganda activities against
Israel and American Zionism. The Center has also been given a budget of $400,000, making a combined
total of $700,000 allotted to it for the coming year's operations. Toward the Center's special fund for
anti-Israeli, anti-Zionist propaganda, Egypt allocated $140,000, the Arab League $90,000, and Saudi
Arabia $70,000.
According to Arnold Forster, ADL civil rights director, Secretary General Abdel Khalek Has-
sauna of the Arab League - has urged the Arab Information Center in New York to make a major shift
in its propaganda emphasis and completely subordinate its program of selling the story of Arab culture
to an all-out campaign against Israel and Zionism.
The Secretary General, said the ADL, has advised the Arab propagandists that they must seize
the opportunity presented by the current crisis in the Middle East and sell the idea that Communist
gains or Russian penetration in that area is due to American Jews and their support of Israel. This
line, Hassouna emphasized, must be sold to the American people, not by the Arabs alone, but also by
those organizations in the United States and such various church, school and university groups that
are friendly to the Arab cause.
The first major, centrally organized Arab propaganda effort was set up in the United States al-
most a year ago with the establishment of the Arab League Information Center at 445 Park Ave.,
New York City. Its first year's operating budget was estimated at $400,000. Kamel Abdul Rahim, for-
mer Egyptian ambassador to the U.S., was named as director.
Rahim has been pressing persistently for a sizeable increase in his operating budget. He recently
tendered his resignation because of frustrations encountered in carrying out his program. But he later
withdrew his resignation at the request of the Arab League, received a new budget, and assumed the di-
rectorship for another year.
Washington Studies Israel's Arms List
WASHINGTON, (JTA) Israel's list of defensive arms which was submitted last week to the State
Department is now being studied by the Department of Defense and other United States agencies con-
cerned, it was announced by a State Department spokesman.
The spokesman, Lincoln White, refused to reveal the types and
Ford Grant Helps JDC
amounts of arms requested by Israel. Asked to comment on reports
that Israel's request included between 40 and 50 jet aircraft, he said
SponSor Paris Center
the
United States Government does not normally release details
PARIS, (JTA) — A community
of such military requests and was asked by Israel to refrain from
center for youth, sponsored orig-
doing so in this case.
inally by the Joint Distribution
The total value, at actual market prices, of Communist arms
Committee and aided by grants from
being supplied to Egypt is now estimated at one-fourth of a billion
the Ford Foundation, was opened
dollars, according to a reliable source. Fearful that arms of such
here and hailed as a "unique ex-
ample of cooperation between inter-
magnitude might produce an irresistible incentive for attack by
national social welfare agencies."
Egypt, Israel authorities are anxiously awaiting action by the U.S.
The building was purchased
Government on their arms list,
through a Ford Foundation contri-
The State Department also announced that the United States
bution, while furniture and equip-
will establish a "military and political liaison" with the nations of
ment were furnished by the JDC
the Baghdad Pact linking Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan and Britain.
and the Conference of Jewish Ma-
The announcement was regarded here as a preliminary step to
terial Claims Against Germany. Up-
United States adherence to the Baghdad pact.
keep of the Center has been taken
Israel views the Baghdad pact as unsound and unrealistic be-
over by SJU — the central Jewish
cause, through exclusion of Israel, it does not view the area as
welfare organization of France.
a whole. It is potentially dangerous to Israel because the pact
Conduct of the center will be pat-
provides for the free grant of Western munitions to Iraq, despite
terned after the best practices of
American institutions of this nature.
that country's refusal to conclude an armistice with Israel and a
Plans and the program for the cen-
continued anti-Jewish attitude. When Iraq and Turkey signed an
ter had been drawn up by Louis
accord which became the basis for the present pact, Turkey agreed
Kraft, JDC consultant on commu-
to an anti-Israel clause demanded by Iraq.
nity centers and director of the
World Federation of Young Men's
Hebrew Associations. Henri Nil-
stein, executive director of the Cen-
ter, spent a year in the United
States under a Ford Foundation
grant studying similar programs in
the United States.
U. S. Balks At Eden's Mid-East Proposal
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., (JTA)—Prime Minister Sir Anthony
Eden's proposal for mediation between Israel and the Arab states
on the basis of a "compromise" whereby Israel would be required
to make territorial concessions was "ill advised," Israel's Foreign
(Continued on Page 3)
Earlier Round-up of News on Israel Crisis on Page 7
Diabolic Alliance: Anti-Semites' Link With Anti-Israelis
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
(Copyright, 1955, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
WASHINGTON—While Western diplomats are urging Israel to surrender
territory for "peace in our time," Arab spokesmen in the United States are making
speeches reminiscent of Hitler Germany in the Munich era.
A member of the West German Embassy staff here, known for his anti-Nazi
views, recently revealed an ironic turn of events. He reported that German Am-
bassador Heinz Krekeler was visited by a former State Department Middle Eastern
affairs advisor now employed by the Arabs. The American sought to elicit Ger-
man support for the Arab cause. He suggested that the Germans, of course, recog-
nized "the Jewish menace." But the German Ambassador was reportedly em-
barrassed and replied with stony silence.
Syrian Ambassador Farid Zeineddine told a Washington audience that Amer-
ican Jews were not really Semites but were mostly "Russian Slays." Alleging
that Jews "pushed" Arabs "out of their homeland," he pointed out that New
York was to some extent Jewish and asked: "Why not let New York be a home-
land for the Jews?" Zionist philosophy, he said, entailed "using government by
hook or crook for Zionist purposes."
Advancing a theory of the "Diaspora," Zeineddine said "Jews, being exiles,
do not try to assimilate and their allegiance goes only to Zionism." He charged
that Jews try to disguise their "pressures" by claiming to be victims of persecution.
This authority on patriotism was arrested in Syria in 1941 by the allies as a
Nazi agent. He was imprisoned for three years because of his pro-Hitler plotting.
Today, however, Zeineddine is accorded honor and respect by the State
Department.
Another anti-Jewish speech was made in Detroit where Dr. Mohammed Fadhil
Jamali an Iraqi diplomat, addressed the Economic Club. Jamali, according to
an official British report in 1937, "visited Germany, where he was accorded an
official welcome and lavishly entertained. On his return, Dr. Jamali was prevailed
upon by the Germans to send Iraq delegates to the 1938 Nuremberg rally."
The Egyptian Foreign Office did not hesitate to declare a U. S. air attache
at the American Embassy in Cairo persona non grata. The American was forced
to return home because he said he thought Israel had beaten Egypt in an air
encounter in which two Egyptian jets were shot down over Israel territory. But
the State Department apparently ignores speeches by Arab diplomats who
intervene in internal American affairs by inciting public opinion against Amer-
icans of Jewish faith.
A more subtle approach is taken by American fellow-travelers of the Arabs.
Garland Evans Hopkins, executive vice-president of the so-called "American
Friends of the Middle East" sought to justify the Egyptian military deal with
the Soviet bloc. Attacking American Zionists, Hopkins said "the question might
be raised as to who was responsible for the loss of the Middle East." He said
"this is the kind of question that could produce a wave of anti-Semitism in this
country."
The Anti-Defamation League reported that Secretary General Abdel Has-
souna of the Arab League has advised Arab propagandists in the United States
to exploit the current Middle Eastern crisis by selling the idea that. Communist
gains on Russian penetration in that area are "due to American Jews and their
support of Israel." This line, Hassouna instructed, "must be sold to the American
people not by the Arabs alone, but also by those organizations in the United.
States and such various church, school and university groups that are friendly
to the Arab cause."
Aiming to create an anti-Jewish atmosphere, the Arabs are looking for allies
among the lunatic-fringe hate groups. The ADL said the Arabs were seeking
"the aid of the nation's well-known professional anti-Semites such as Gerald
L. K. Smtih, IVIerwin K. Hart, Joseph Kamp, Robert H. Williams, Frank Britton,
Allen Zoll, and others."
A warning to the American public of attempts by Arabs to create dissension
and disunity among the American people through injection of anti-Semitism was
issued by Rabbi Irving Miller, chairman of the American Zionist Council. He
said Egyptian Premier Nasser's use of the term "world Jewish conspiracy," is
"painfully reminiscent of Nazi propaganda against the Jewish people before and.
during the last war."