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Israel-Arab Situation Rapidly Deteriorating

Murders of Israelis Multiply;
Arab Anti-Jewish Propaganda
Stirs British and U.S. Jewries

Jordanian attacks on Israelis, the murder of a young Israel mechanic
by an armed band from Jordan, six miles inside Israel's territory, and
increased tensions on two Israel frontiers — Jordan and Egypt—marked
a rapidly deteriorating situation that is making, United Nations Secre-
tary General Dag Hammarskjold's current visit in the Middle East the
more difficult.
The murder of Aryeh Greuback, 25, by Jordanian infiltrators, and
the abduction of a nurse, Helene Frak, 21, who accompanied him, was
the 100th incident of Jordanian attacks on Israel since Hammarskjold's
cease-fire agreement of April 26.
The new attacks were accompanied by charges and counter-charges,
by claims. that Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion had threatened im-
mediate reprisals and by Israel Ambassador Abba Eban's denial of such
threats.
Attacks upon American Jews by Arab propagandists in this country
added to the tensions created by the uncertain Middle Eastern situation.

Recall of Syrian Ambassador Urged by AJ Congress

Charging that the Syrian Ambassador to the United States, Dr.
Farid Zeineddine, has "grossly violated his obligations as a diplomatic
representative of a foreign nation," the American Jewish Congress urged
the State Department to demand the Syrian envoy's immediate recall.
In a letter to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, the president of
the American Jewish Congress, Dr. Israel Goldstein, declared that the
Syrian Ambassador's latest breach of diplomatic protocol was contained
in a speech made last June 26 at the Illinois State Normal University.
Dr. Zeineddine said: "The American Jew is not an American emotionally
or even ultimately. A Zionist cannot have real allegiance to the country
in which he lives." (See Commentary, Page 2)
"This outrageous statement was not an isolated indiscretion," Dr.
Goldstein stated. "It is but the latest in a series of outbursts by Ambas-
sador Zeineddine attacking the loyalty of American Jews and arousing
-antagonism toward them. '

Protest Jordan's Biased Action Against UNESCO Personnel

Among the numerous instances cited by Dr. Goldstein was a speech
made last November before the Women's National Democratic Club in
Washington, D.C., in which the Syrian diplomat characterized Jews

throughout the world as "mongrelized Russians" who can never claim
to be an integral part of the country in which they live.

The American Jewish Congress also called upon the U.S. National
Commission for UNESCO to urge the international agency to refuse
to submit to Jordan's demand that UNESCO personnel of the Jewish
faith be excluded from that Middle East Kingdom.
Judge Justine Wise Polier, chairman of the executive committee of
the American Jewish Congress, in a letter to Dr. Willard Givens, chair-
man of the commission, noted that UNESCO had reprinted Jordan's
demand in an official circular last May and that "apparently there has
been no protest or response to this decision by UNESCO or any UNESCO
spokesman." In her communication to the U.S. Commission, which is an
official government agency within the State Department, Judge Polier
noted that the restrictions imposed by Jordan apply to all persons of the
Jewish faith and are not limited to Israeli citizens.

McNamara Joins Fight on Arab Discrimination

Sen. Patrick McNamara, of Michigan, in a statement to the Flint
Jewish Community Council which called for support of Senate Reso-
lution 298, a bipartisan measure opposing discrimination against Amer-
ican citizens, said he will do "everything in my power" to wipe out vari-
ous shades of discrimination imposed by certain Arab states against Jew-
ish-American soldiers, employees and industrialists.
"As you point out in your telegram," McNamara wrote to the coun-
cil, "it is completely un-American, bigoted and medieval . . . I find it
extremely unfortunate that the State Department has succombed to such
discrimination against our fellow citizens of the Jewish faith."

Ike's Committee Mum on Exclusion of Jews from Service

Washington, (JTA) — The President's Committee on Government
Employment Policy refused to discuss the status of recent complaints
made to it against the government policy of excluding American Jews
from service in Arab countries. A committee spokesman said that as
a matter of policy, the committee never publicly reveals complaints
made against any agency.
Criticism of the Defense and State Department policies in Saudi
Arabia were recently made by American Jewish Committee representa-
tive Colonel Harold Reigelman. These views were told to a conference
on non-discrimination in the Federal Service, which included intergroup
relations organizations, Federal agencies and the President's Committee.
According to .summary notes on the conference on non-discrimina-

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U. S. Asked to Place USSR Anti - Semitism:
On UN Agenda; Rabbis' Express 'Shock' at
Findings; Soviet to Invite Knesset Delegation

United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., was urged by
the Jewish Labor Committee to place the subject of Soviet anti-Semetism on the UN agenda.
Ambassador Lodge was told in a letter from Adolph Held, national chairman of the Jewish
Labor Committee, and Nathan Chanin, chairman of its administrative committee, that the state-
ment made last Thursday by several American rabbis who had just returned from a visit to _the
USSR "confirms what the Jewish Labor Committee has been saying for the past eight years."
"There has been no marked letup in the anti-Semitic campaign engaged in by the Soviet
dictatorship," the Jewish labor leaders wrote Ambassador Lodge. "The Yiddish press, schools
and institutions have been obliterated. There exists, and admittedly so, a quota system for Jews
in government service. The ethnic affinities of Soviet citizens are carried prominently in their
identification papers, particularly aimed at Jews. There are other inequities perpetrated against
Jews in the Soviet Union." The American delegation indicated it would study the request.

Rabbis 'Shocked'; 'Melancholy Conclusion' Marks USSR Visit

Strong Man. Arrives:

Jo Liberaty,
professional wrestler who formerly held the title of
"strongest man in North Africa," on his arrival with his
family in New York, demonstrates a little of his strength
by holding four of his five children aloft. Mr. Liberaty,
who was aided in his immigration by United Hias Service,
the worldwide Jewish migration agency, carries Odette,
Gabriel, Sonia, and Daniel, while his wife, Fanny, and
another son, Ruben, join with him in acclaiming their
hew country. Jo Liberaty and his family, according to
United Hias records, immigrated here under the limited
Moroccan quota. In 1953 Mr. Liberaty accepted a posi-
tion with the United States Air Force, which he held
until he left Morocco. The family will live, temporarily,
with a brother, Joseph, in New York, until accommoda-
tions can be made ready for them. Mr. Liberaty hopes to
engage in professional wrestling in this country.

Rabbi Morris N. Kertzer, Rockville Center, New York, and Rabbi David I. Golovensky, New
Rochelle, N. upon return from a visit to the Soviet Union, issued this statement in New York:
"We are part of a delegation of Rabbis of the New York Board of Rabbis on a mission to
study Jewish life in the Soviet Union. Our colleagues are now completing the tour in Kiev
and Odessa; and. will also visit Jewish communities in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
"Rabbi Emanuel Rackman, president of the New York Board of Rabbis, was already in
Moscow when the delegation arrived and he joins in the statement.
"We have returned from visits to Moscow and Leningrad with a mass of revealing and illumi
nating impressions. These will have to be carefully reviewed and evaluated by our entire group
later this month. We can already offer some personal observations on Russian Jewish life based
upon talks with Soviet officials, religious leaders and many people in all walks of life.
"What we have seen and heard leads us to the melancholy conclusion that Judaism in Rus-
sia is seriously threatened with extinction. The core of devout Jews, despite heroic and sacri-
ficial efforts to preserve their faith, is waging a losing battle against Communism's fundamental
hostility to religion. While the Soviet regime speaks of religious freedom and has, in fact, some-
what relaxed some of its repressive measures, its policies continue to restrict and strangle Jew-
ish life. We were shocked to find that the major institutions of the Jewish religion and the
vehicles of expression of Jewish culture had all but vanished, leaving a Judaism that is anemic
and moribund. We had hoped to find in Moscow, synagogues adequate to serve its approximately
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