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Truce Chief Blames Arabs for Huleh Attack

Israel Calls for UN Action
Against Syria in Preference
to 'Exhaustive' Retaliation

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA) — Israel Ambassador Abba
Eban Monday told the United Nations Security Council that the .Israel
government considers the bombardment last week of Israel villages
by Syrian artillery as "an act of war." He emphasized that a repetition
of military attacks by Syrians would lead to "drastic and exhaustive"
retaliation.
Eban pleaded with the Security Council to help avoid such a .
step. "The Government of Israel," he said, 'is ardently anxious to avoid
this contingency, if it can."
He spoke at the opening meeting of the urgent session of the
Security Council convoked to deal with Israel's complaint against
Syria's aggression in attacking Israeli villages in the Huleh area, pour-
ing some 800 artillery shells into them.
Revealing that during the attacks one UN observer was injured
by Syrian fire—in addition to one Israeli being killed and three others
wounded—Eban told the Security Council that the monetary damage .
_to the bombarded villages is estimated at one million Israeli pounds.
He pointed out that on all borders, except that dividing Israel from
the Syrian region of the United Arab Republic, tranquillity has pre-
vailed for about two years.
"The prolonged maintenance of quiet during 1957 and 1958
had proved conclusively that if Arab governments decide as a matter
of policy to let Israel live in peace, there will be peaceful. conditions
On the Arab-Israel frontiers," Eban declared. "The government of the
United Arab Republic has full capacity—if it also has the will—to
prevent the recurrence of situations such as that which Israel now
brings to the Security Council."
Eban related factually the events that occurred last week.. To

back up his report of extensive damage, he furnished to members
of the Security Council photographs taken after the Syrian attack on
the Israeli villages. He pointed out that the geography of the area
favors the Syrians, whose gunposts on heights overlook the Israeli
settlements in the valley. Then he continued:
"While I have described the advantages which topography
bestows upon Syrian forces, I do not mean to indicate that it was
beyond Israel's capacity, in the exercise of her inherent right to self-
defense, to silence Syrian artillery attack. But because of the special
conditions of terrain which I have described, military measures of self-
defense against attacking Syrian artillery would require a response
more drastic and exhaustive than the easy assault which the Syrian
forces organize from their points of geographical advantage. The
government of Israel is ardently anxious to avoid this contingency if
it can.
"We have therefore buried our .dead, tended our wounded,
begun the reconstruction of our shattered farms and homesteads and
have turned to the Security Council for peaceful redress, and still more
for vigorous deterrence."
The Israeli diplomat mentioned the UN Charter's recognition of
a state's need to defend its territory. This was interpreted by all at
the Security Council table as an obvious reference to Article 51 of the
United Nations. That clause permits a country to defend itself under
certain circumstances. Mr. Eban was understood to be pleading with
the Council to warn the UAR against further aggression and make it
unnecessary for Israel to invoke Article 51. He quoted the Cairo Radio
to show that the. UAR is not only boasting of last week's attack but

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Mistrial Declared in
Atlanta Bombing' Case

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News

ATLANTA, Ga.—Fulton County Superior
Court Wednesday declared a mistrial in the
case of George Bright, accused of bombing the
Atlanta Jewish Temple last Oct. 12.
The action was announced by Judge Dur-
wood Pye after the jury had been "hopelessly
deadlocked" and had deliberated for almost 24
hours, covering a four-day span. The jury fore-
man reported the division of the jury by 9 to
3 as unchanged and each member of the jury
individually told the court there was no pos-
sibility of a change in decision.
The accused, Bright, once boasted that
Jews would be "shot down in the streets." This
information came from an underground FBI
agent who testified in the state's case against
Bright.
Leslie E. Rogers, the undercover agent,
said he attended meetings early this year

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ill'elcome Ambassador
Tsur at Hanukah Fete

Declaration of Human Rights:

Ten years — on Dec. 10,
1948 — the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights. The entire world now observes this date as Human Rights Day, and President Eisen-
hower has proclaimed the week of Dec. 10-17 as Human Rights Week, in observance of the
1 Ot h anniversary of the Human Rights Declaration, which affirms that "recognition of the
inherent dignity and the inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the
foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world. The UN also has adopted a Con-
vention relating to the Status of Refugees, relating, like the young boy in the photo
insert, to those who have escaped persecution or discrimination and have found new
homes in other countries. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights reminds us of our
own Bill of Rights, which the United States adopted 167 years ago on Dec. 15.

Israel's Ambassador to France, Yaacov
Tsur, will be welcomed by Detroit Jewry at
the Hanukah celebration
this Saturday evening, at
the cabaret-style festival
at the Masonic Temple.
Sharing the pro gram
with the Ambassador will
be G e o r g e Jessel and
members of the Detroit
rabbinate, in addition to
several entertainers.

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