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Israel Approves Arab Federations

Turkish-Greek-Israeli Merger
Urged in Ankara as Counter
Weight to Ara •, Slav Blocs

Liberatit;s; Effo•t Urged in J e rusalem

Alliance with Israel
Declared Imperative
by Turkish Statesman

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News

ANKARA.—A Federation of Turkey, Greece
Israel, as a counter-weight against the new Arab
blocs, was urged Tuesday by • Prof. Nihat Erim,
former Vice Premier of Turkey and inflential mem-
ber of the Republican Party.
Prof. Erim, an authority on international law,
told a Republican rally that geopolitical conditions
made such an alliance "imperative." He said "these
three countries could be a uniting counter-balance
to Arab and Slav blocs" in the Middle East.

Communist in Knesset
Again Incites Arabs

TEL AVIV, (JTA)—A call to the Arabs in
Israel "to be prepared" for a reunion with Pales-
tinian Arabs "from whom they have been separated
by imperialistic forces" was issued by the Arab
Communist leader in Israel, Emile Habibi, who is a
member of the Israel Parliament.
The call, published in the Arab-language Com-
munist newspaper Al Itichad, tells the Arabs in
Israel that "the train is approaching" and urges
them to pay attention to "the whistle of the train."
The same paper carries an article by another Arab
Communist leader, Fuad Houri, member of the
Nazareth Municipal Council, urging the Arabs in
Israel "to regain their rights by force." At the
same time, he calls upon the Israeli Arabs to boy-
cott Israel's 10th anniversary celebrations.

Israel Urges Arabs to Seek 'Genuine Freedom'

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JERUSALEM.—Qualified approval of the mergers of Egypt and Syria and of Jordan
and Iraq has been expressed in unofficial comments for Arab listeners on the Israel Arab
language radio, it was disclosed Tuesday.
The broadcasts have pointed out that Israel has always favored Arab liberation move-
ments as well as genuine unification moves, so that Arab nations could establish genuine
independence and freedom from foreign pressures in the true interests of their peoples.
Declaring that Israel's specific attitude will be determined by the actions of the leaders
of the new federations, the broacasts declare that Israel would welcome the unions if their
rulers use the opportunity to raise the Arab peoples' standards of living and improve the
health, education and economies of the federated states.
Some broadcasts have expressed the cautious hope that the Arab leaders, in working
for the real interests of their peoples, might be wise enough to make a genuine attempt at
a peaceful settlement of the Israel-Arab dispute for the benefits of Jews and Arabs alike.
The broacasts have also emphasized that if the new Arab rulers try to utilize the merged
states for aggression, Israel would have to take an entirely different position.
Opposition in Syria to the merger with Egypt has spread to include many key Syrian
army officers and leading government officials, it was reported from Damascus.
With the initial enthusiasm about the merger beginning to chill, Syria's top military
and government leaders are apparently beginning to wonder what their personal positions
will be when the merger reduces Damascus to a "provincial capital," Israel experts reported.
• These authorities said that a "popular referendum" due later in February, to elect a
president of the United Arab Republic, Would elect Gamal Abdel Nasser with the "usual
99 per cent of the vote." The vote will be watched closely in Israel nevertheless on the
theory that the degree of voter participation as well as the circumstances preceding and
accompanying the referendum will influence the pace of the actual merger.
Protests from Syria's -merchant class has already indicated that an actual economic
merger will not be implemented for some time, according to these Israel experts, who also
reported that the abolition of Syria's political parties and establishment of a single national
front party along the Egyptian lines has been postponed.

•

United Nations' World Health Organization Official Exposes Political
Callousness Which Causes Death of Many Arabs Who Lack Proper Care

By DAVI D HOROWITZ
NEW YORK (AJP)—An attack upon "politi-
eal callousness" and ignorance among Arab leaders,
which costs countless thousands of Arab lives each
year, has, been launched by Dr. Kalman J. Mann,
director-general of the Hadassah Medical Organiza-
tion in Israel and member of the Committee of
,
Specialists of the World Health Organization.
Dr. Mann, who arrived in the United States
recently to confer with heads of Hadassah, charged
that "the Arab leaders simply don't care whether
their respective peoples die unnecessarily or not
and refuse to work within the framework of the
Eastern Mediterranean Region of the World Health
Organization to eradicate diseases which takes a
heavy toll among the masses in the Middle East."
He urged the World Health Organization to deal
with the crucial problem of health in the Middle
East when this body meets in Minneapolis in May.
"Israel can make a constructive contribution
to the health and welfare of Middle Eastern peo-
pies, yet it is being prevented from doing so by
hostilities prevalent in that region," Dr. Mann
stated, scoring "the political media in which we

function in this part of the world and the UN's
half-hearted attempts at correcting this situation."
Dr. Mann said that the Eastern Mediterranean
Region of the World Health Organization has its
headquarters in Alexandria and includes Iran,
Pakistan, Ethiopia, Israel and the Arab countries.
Representatives of these nations are supposed to
meet annually to determine regional health policy
and budget. Yet, Dr. Mann pointed out, these joint
sessions are being boycotted by the Arab leaders
so effectively that for many years no meetings
have taken place.
"By 1954," he continued, "two sub-committees
had been set up on the assumption that the Arab
representatives would work in one group and the
non-Arab delegates in another. But under the politi-
cal pressure of the Arab countries, even this ar-
rangement failed."
"Disease knows no national boundaries. Surely
the Arab countries cannot permit themselves the
luxury of thinking that their health standards leave
nothing to be desired when diseases that can be
cured snuff out the lives of thousands upon thou-
sands of Arab people every year. Why, the health

conditions in the Arab countries are so terrible
that you can't ever get accurate statistics from -
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them.
"However," Dr. Mann added, "we do know
that thousands of mothers die in child-birth; thous-
ands of infants die in their first year of life;
thousands of adults perish from malaria, dysentery,
typhoid and other diseases. Arab leaders must be
held accountable for these unnecessary deaths.
These lives unquestionably could have been saved
by a proper regional health organization in which
Israel could act as a spearhead to advance health
standards."
Dr. Mann said that Israel is ready "to throw
open its doors" to train Arab nurses, medical, dental
and pharmacy students. He said that Israel is also
ready to send its experts to help Arab countries
establish proper health institutions, train Arab
specialists in all branches of medicine and surgery,
and provide these specialized services to the im-
poverished Arab populations. He said:
"There is no reason for Arab leaders to use
the lives of the Arab people as pawns in a political
game based on callousness and ignorance."

