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VOLUME XXXI — No. 23 ..1*X=Ik. 27

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Vain Boasting

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Israel -Studying Retaliation
Against Britain's Oil Firms

Anti-Zionist Jews Labelled
More Anti Israel Then Arabs

Klutznick Spurs
Plans for Major
Israeli Seaport

By MILTON FRIEDMAN

(Copyright, 1957, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

WASHINGTON — An evaluation of the Arab propaganda
campaign in the United States published in Beirut gives anti-
Zionist Jews more credit for effective anti-Israel pressure than
it allocates to Americans of Arab descent.
The propaganda research project is entitled: - Who Speaks
for the Arabs?" It was prepared by Malcolm Kerr, specialist
on Middle East Affairs at the School of Advanced International
Studies, Johns Hopkins University. First published in Beirut by
"Middle East Forum—Al Kulliyah," it is now distributed by
the Egyptian propaganda apparatus.
The Kerr study credits the anti-Zionist "American Coun-
cil for Judaism" as a group which "speaks for the Arabs."
A major share of credit for anti-Israel activities is given the
ACJ by Kerr in the material which Egypt is now distributing
to its agents.
Work of the Arab Information Center in New York, Kerr
said, "is buttressed by the normal information services of the
Arab Embassies, of which the Egyptian is the most active. More
is probably accomplished, however, by several American or-
ganizations, notably the American Friends of the Middle East.
Describing itself as a non-partisan, non-political group con-
cerned with religious, cultural and social relations, AFME is
in fact . . steadfastly pro-Arab."
Kerr reported that AFME "includes among its members
the well-respected names of former diplomats and numerous
churchmen, businessmen, and educators. The national council
chairman is Dr. Edward L. R. Elson, President Eisenhower's
pastor in Washington."
Turning to what it considers another cog in the Arab propa-
ganda machine, the Kerr study described how the American
Council for Judaism "has an extensive public relations pro-
gram of its own, in which, it is felt, it has some advantages
over both AFME and the Arab Information Center. Elmer
Berger, ACJ executive director, is quoted as pointing out that
"precisely because we are Jews" the ACJ could take steps
against fellow Jews.
The anti-Israel propaganda evaluation reports on agitator
Alfred M. Lilienthal, identifying him as "an anti-Zionist Jew."
Lilienthal's book—"What Price Israel?"—has become the Arabs'
"standard text in the anti-Zionist fight." A new Arab front
group sparked by Lilienthal, the so-called "Committee for Se-
curity and Justice in the Middle East" will presumably furnish
valuable reinforcements," Kerr said.
But what of the 400,000 to 500,000 Americans of Arab
descent? It was found by Kerr that "on the whole it cannot
he said that they have showed the active interest in Middle
East politics that American Jews have, nor are they as ex-
tensively organized for any purpose, political or otherwise."
They are "loosely represented" by the National Association
of Federations of Syrian-Lebanese-American Clubs.
Kerr indicates a conclusion that even with overt and covert
aid from such elements as the "American Council for Judaism,"
the Lilienthal group, and other front organizations, Arab propa-
ganda in America still falls short of effectiveness.
Arab activities do not measure up "to the output of the
Zionist organizations: Israeli Embassy, Israeli Office of Infor-
mation in New York, American Zionist Council, Zionist Organ-
ization of America, United Jewish Appeal, and those American
Jewish organizations which are tacitly non-Zionist but fre-
quently support the Zionist cause."

Philip M. Klutznick

Plans to create a major
shipping outlet in Israel
as a supplement to the
one in Haifa, have been
announced by Philip M.
Klutznick, chairman of
the board of the Ameri-
can Community Builders
Corp., and Oved Ben-
Ami, founder and mayor
of the Israeli coastal re-
sort, Natanya.
According to the plans,
American and Israeli in-
dependent citizens will
finance a $500,000,000
seaport city on the ruins
of biblical Ashdod, on
the Mediterranean coast
south of Tel Aviv. With-
in 15 years, the new city
would accommodate a
population of 150,000.
The Israel government
has given promoters a
concession for 10,000
acres of sand dunes 20
miles south of Tel Aviv.
Klutznick said he had
negotiated with the Is-
raeli government for the
formation of an Ameri-
can investment corpora-
tion, which will raise
$30,000,000 in mortgage
funds. He added that the
corporation would seek
extensive funds from
U. S. insurance com-
panies and other private
sources.
The first major con-
struction operation is a
$20,000,000 rayon plant,
which is being estab-
lished by American in-
vestors.

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel is investigating the possi-
bilities of retaliation against the British oil companies for
their decision to withdraw from sales activities in the
Jewish State.
These sources expressed the view that the Israel gov-
ernment could legally take over ownership of the Haifa
refinery plants if the Shell company and the British Petro-
leum company ceased supplying oil to the Israel market
without first obtaining an acceptable successor firm. The
refinery is owned by the two British oil companies.
Resentment here against the British withdrawal deci-
sion is based not on economic grounds, it was reported. but
rather on the damage the action may cause politically
to Israel. Under present world market conditions, according
to Israeli experts, there would be no trouble in replacement
of the 750.000 tons, half of Israel's total annual petroleum
needs, now supplied by the British firms. The effect of the
withdrawal in stimulating the Arab anti-Israel boycott
and general pan-Arab intransigence, however, would be a itt
serious blow at efforts for Middle East pacification, they
said.
The withdrawal, they pointed out, inevitably would
be interpreted by Arab extremists as Britain's surrender to
the Arab League boycott. Israeli officials reject London's
claim that the British Government bears no responsibility
for the withdrawal decision of the oil companies. This claim
was made by the British Government last week in answer-
ing questions posed in the House of Commons by various
members of Parliament.
Serious discussion was underway among Israeli govern-
ment officials about the possibility of raising the issue of
the boycott in the United Nations.
Also considered, in addition to action in the UN, was
counter-pressure against Arab foreign trade and punitive
action against foreign firms which, like Shell, yield to Arab
squeezing.
Direct efforts to obtain the support of affected govern-
ments to win reversal of the Shell decision got nowhere.
The Dutch government rejected an Israeli request to inter-
vene with the Royal Dutch Shell group. A Dutch Foreign
Ministry spokesman said that the Dutch government is a
minority shareholder in the company and had little influ-
ence on Shell policies.
The decision continued to reverberate in the British
Parliament where government spokesmen were the target
of sharp questions. Under Secretary W. D. Ormsby-Gore
"explained" that even where the British government holds
a controlling interest in a private enterprise, it was a "long
established policy" not to interfere in "purely commercial''
deci\sions.
The possibility that a French oil company. which owns-
25 per cent of Shell Oil Company, Compagnie Francaise
des Petroles. might buy out Shell interests in Israel de 7
veloped this week.
A. P. DeBoer. Shell's local director, said no decision had
been reached on disposition of Shell interests in Israel, in-
cluding part ownership of the huge Haifa oil refineries. The
refineries popped up as an issue in Knesset when the Com-
munist party demanded nationalization of the properties, a
demand overwhelmingly rejected by the deputies.

Continued on Page 3

Komsomol Threatens Israelis With Expulsion from Moscow Youth Event

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News)

TEL AVIV — The head of the Soviet Komsomol,
Communist youth organization, threatened to expel
the Israeli delegation from the Moscow Youth Festi-
val unless it stopped distributing factual printed
material, Maariv's Moscow correspotiident reported

Tuesday.

The Israeli delegation, the paper said, was forced

to accept the warning and decided to discontinue its

distribution despite the fact that permission had been
granted for issuance of such non-factual matter as
calendars and song booklets.
Maariv reported that the non-Communist part
of the delegation had been handing out factual
material about Israeli youth printed in Russian and
English, in addition to calendars and songs. The
festival management banned the distribution of
the printed matter only, the paper said.

The head of the Komsomol, however. went further
and ruled that the Israeli delegation could not dis-
tribute anything and said his ruling cancelled pre-
vious permission by the management for the other
material as well, Moscow cable stated.
Israelis Draw Crowd of 3,000 Jews
During Moscow Synagogue Attendance
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Fifty young Israelis.
members of the Israel delegation to the World Youth
Festiyal which is no ,.• taking place in Moscow, at-
tended the Sabbath services in the Moscow syna-
gogue and were the center of attention of about
3,000 Jews who crowded the synagogue building
and streets outside the building.
This was the largest crowd ever seeking en-
trance into the synagogue. The Moscow Jews. at-
tracted by the presence of the Israeli youths,
flocked to the house of worship, despite "Soviet

official disapproval of Israel" and notwithstanding
the fact that "there were a good many persons in
plainclothes around to watch the proceedings,"
Daniel Schorr. Moscow correspondent of the Colum-
bia Broadcasting System, reported. He emphasized
that the Israeli youths were given in the synagogue
"a heart-felt and sometimes tearful reception."

The New York Times reported from Moscow
that "thousands of Soviet Jews have come to see
the Israeli delegation at the World Youth Festival
perform Israeli folk dances and songs." The Israeli
youngsters have tried to get together with delegates
from Arab nations but without - success thus far,
except for one round of fisticuffs. the Times re-
ported. The dispatch emphasized that the Israeli
delegation of about 200 youths consists of two
equally divided groups, one sympathetic to Com-
munism and the other non-Communist.

