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Golda Meir Tells National Press Club
Friday, December 14, 1956 — THE DETROIT JEWISH NEW
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Nations in connection with the
emergency international force."
She said Israel was executing
its obligation. But she stressed
that implementation of this UN
request must ensure peace for
the future period. She said "if
the United Nations will merely
clear the -way for Nasser to re-
turn to Sinai and Gaza with
new fury, new resources and
vastly greater outside aid, if it
will attempt to. restore the re-
sumption of the blockade in the
Suez Canal and the Gulf of
Aqaba to Israel ships and 'the
shipping of other nations trad-
ing with Israel, then the setting
will merely have been created
for a conflagration far graver
than the last period."
Mrs. Meir served notice that
Israel "will never be a passive
victim." She told the National
Press Club: "I would remind
you here that in the long his-
tory of the Jewish people from
the days of antiquity until Hit-
ler, we have found ourselves
too often the . object of physical
holocaust and thereafter the
subject of- moral eulogies. Nov,
having been entrusted by our
people with responsibility for
the integrity of the State and
the security of its people, we
are determined that our State
should live and decided to act
for our survival today, not wait
and provide a subject for a post-
mortem tomorrow."
She said "it was a source of
deep distress to us that in the
face of the mounting crisis so
much apathy and so many facile
assessments and delusions about
the real issues of the Middle
East continued to exist in the
free world."
Nasser, she said, "became the
vehicle by which Soviet power
entered the Middle East." -
She said Israel solved the
Jewish refugee problem and the
Arab refugees continue to suf-
fer because of the Arab govern-
ment. "It is because we wanted
to solve the Jewish refugee
problem and the Arab leaders
do not want to solve the Arab
refugee problem," she added.
whether the status of the Gaza
strip was discussed she said no.
Asked whether reports of Egyp-
tian deportation of Jews came
up, she also said no. But she
added that she was sure there
are no differences of opinion
on that subject.
A warning of the danger pre-
sented by Egyptian President
Nasser to the free world was
voiced by Mrs. Meir at an AFL-
CIO luncheon tendered here in
her honor. George Meany, na-
tional president of the organ-
ized American labor movement,
speaking at the gathering, paid
tribute to Israel's courage, and
renewed assurances that Israel
"would not stand alone." He
insisted that United Nations
forces should be stationed in
Egypt until an Israel-Egyptian
peace settlement is negotiated
and the Suez Canal issue set-
tled to insure passage of ships
of all nations, including Israel.
Israel Ready for Peace
With Arabs in 24 Hours,
Golda Meir Says on TV
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.,
(JTA) — Israel is ready to con-
clude peace with the neighbor-
ing Arab countries "within 24
hours, or less," Mrs. Golda Meir,
Israel's Foreign Minister, de-
clared in a coast-to-coast tele-
vision interview. She empha-
sized that she had "no doubt
whatever that, given a peace
treaty, normal relations can ex-
ist between Egypt and Israel."
Asked how peace negotiations
can start "when Israel's neigh-
bors won't even admit that
Israel exists," Mrs. Meir replied:
"That is something to which the
United Nations should not ac-
quiesce. We are a member of
the UN and so are the Arab
states. It seems to me that the
United Nations should demand
that the Arab States should
negotiate peace with us."
Asked about Israel's stand re-
garding the Arab refugees, she
declared: "In the first place, we
are prepared to plan the re-
settlement of the Arab refugees.
In the second place, we have
always said that, within a peace
settlement, we naturally would
be prepared to pay for ,the
property that was left behind
them by the Arabs who fled
from the country and are now
among the refugees."
Mrs. Meir exchanged views
on the Middle East situation
with Under Secretary of State
Herbert Hoover, Jr., and As-
sistant Secretary of State for
Near Eastern Affairs William
The Israel Foreign Minister
Rountree. She was accompanied stated it was her position that
by Israel Ambassador Abba Eb- the United Nations Emergency
an and Minister Reuven Shiloah. Force should not only be sta-
Mrs. Meir refused to elabo- tioned in the Sinai peninsula,
rate on the talks. When asked but should remain there until
a peace settlement has been
achieved between Egypt and
Israel. In any event, she de-
clared, the United Nations must
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With Prayers for Egyptian Jewry
NEW YORK—In response to
the main issue is What will a request from the United States
happen if and when Israeli Committee for the United Na-
tions, the Synagogue Council of
troops withdraw?"
America has joined with the
"Let me take for example the National Council of the
Aqaba Strait," she pointed out. Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.,
"Israeli troops are there now. and the National Catholic Wel-
But these islands were never fare Conference in calling upon
populated. All they had on them their respective Memberships to
were Egyptian gun positions. "offer prayers for Divine Guid-
There were also Egyptian gun ance for the United Nations"
positions at the Southern-most this Saturday and Sunday.
tip of the Sinai Peninsula over-
The Synagogue Council, in a
looking this strait. The guns
were there for one purpose, an nationwide call to 2,200 Ortho-
illgeal purpose — the illegal dox, Conservative and Reform
purpose of blockading the pass- rabbis, urged that sermons be
age of Israeli shipping. Is it con- preached Saturday on " t h e
ceivable that the United Nations tragic situation in which our
should restore gun positions in co-religionists in Egypt find
order to restore a blockade that themselves.", Dr. Abraham J.
Feldman of Hartford, Conn.,
has now been eliminated?"
president of the Synagogue
Israel agreed to withdraw its Council, in an emergency bul-
troops from the Sinai peninsula, letin to the American rabbinate,
Mrs. Meir said, to show that it
requested them and their con-
complies with UN resolutions—
gregants "to impress on the
even those with which Israel
proper authorities the gravity
does' not agree. Additionally,
she stated, "we went in there of this -humanitarian problem
and the massive concern of our
merely to clear the Sinai desert
from the imminent danger to religious leaders that effective
Israel and as long as' we and appropriate action be taken
drove the Egyptian army out, at once to salvage one of the
and took the tanks and guns oldest religious Jewish com-
that were there, we saw no rea- munities from annihilation."
In connection with the UN
son why we should not with-
draw and have the United Na- observance, a prayer card on
which is printed suggested pray-
tions force come in."
ers by Catholic, Protestant and
U. S. Informs Egypt of
Jewish leaders is being made
Its Concern Over the
Deportation of Jews
WASHINGTON, (JTA)--The
State Department officially an-
nounced it had informed Egypt
of U. S. concern about reports
that large numbers of Egyptian
Jews face deportation from
Egypt.
Confusion about whether the
U. S. had or had not taken
action over reports of Egyptian
mistreatment of Jews resulted
when State Department press
spokesmen denied that any U.S.
move had been made toward
Egypt, while sources within the
Department indicated that they
had.
Egypt has denied any official
mistreatment of Jews as a re-
ligious group. According to
U. S. officials, Egypt told U. S.
diplomats that if there were
any excesses, they were commit-
ted by overzealous minor of-
ficials. The State Department
is inclined to believe that if
there were any Egyptian mis-
treatment of Jews it was not
ordered by top Egyptian offi-
bials. The Department believes
further that the situation has
improved within the last few
days.
Rep. Isidore Dollinger, who
had protested the reported
Egyptian deportation of Jews,
received a letter from Assistant
Secretary of State Robert C.
Hill; who told Rep. Dollinger
that President Eisenhower and
Secretary of State Dulles shared
Rep. Dollinger's concern over
reports of "the expulsion of
large numbers of persons from
Egypt." Rep. Dollinger had
asked that a program be set
up to admit Egyptian deportees
into this country. Mr. Hill did
not reply to this suggestion in
his letter.
The American Veterans Com-
mittee asked President Eisen-
hower to take the leadership for
United Nations' action to inves-
tigate the persecution of Jews,
British and French national. in
Egypt. The AVC said it has re-
ceived information that Jewish
citizens of Egypt and British
and French nationals in that
country were being subjected to
a campaign of terror.
The veterans organization
suggested that UN observers be
sent to Egypt to investigate
Egypt's reported mistreatment
of British, French and Jews.
It said its information was that
the heads of hundreds of Jew-
ish families were being sub-
jected to Egyptian police pres-
sure to leave the country. The
veterans organization charged
that this action was being taken
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governmental proclamation.
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