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Arab States, East Germany,
Launch - Attacks on Israel
Migration, Indemnification
'American Friends' Omit Israel
Pro-Arab Machine Exposed
By DAVID HOROWITZ
Editor, American Jewish Press
UNITED NATIONS, (AJP)—Critics of alleged Zionist
propaganda in the United States would do well to read the
annual report of the "American Friends of the Middle East"—
widely circulated here at the UN among delegates and the
press—and learn of a vast Pro-Arab machine, highly developed
and backed by a half-million dollar budget. which now runs
through the U. S. like an intricate communications network.
The report, issued and signed by the President of the
organization. Harold B. Minor, a former U. S. Ambassador to
Lebanon. shows that the organization has acquired a virtual
indoctrination monopoly of Middle East students now getting
their schooling in American universities and colleges.
The organization describes its objectives as one which uses
"selected data" to inspire "the pursuit of peace through the
nurturing of amicable relations with the nations of the Middle
East." This, of course, does not include Israel. since it now
has offices in all Arab States and even in Iran and as far
ati Pakistan, but none in Israel.
As a matter of fact, the report—while avoiding the all-out
open Israel antipathy of the days of Dorothy Thompson's presi-
dency when the so-called "dual loyalty" of American Jews was
challenged—makes it clear that Israeli-Arab peace is one thing
that should be kept in the freezer. It quotes President Eisen-
hower's minister. the Rev. Edward L. R. Elson, chairman of its
board of directors. as follows: In the light of recent events.
it is probably more important to keep the Arabs and Israel
apart than to try to bring them together in direct negotiations."
This the man with whom Eisenhower worships. Of course, the
minister has no objection to having the UN make "a new"
study of boundaries, waterways resources and other factors.
That is. to redraw the map that would shrink Israel down to
one-third or half of her present size — The Arab demand.
Counterpart of the Regional offices in the Arab States —
where the "Friends" screen U. S.-bound students — is a net-
work of offices in the U. S.. in the Midwest, on the East and
West Coasts, with headquarters moving from New York to
Washington, D. C.. in order to step up a membership drive.
An accountant's certified financial statement in the report
shows that the organization spent 5547.398.44 for giving junkets
to the heads of American Women's Clubs to go to the Middle
East and for Arab leaders to come and lecture in the U. S.
Tight hold of AFME on Arab students begins from screen-
ing abroad and continues with seminars in the States. on the
campii. in discussion groups, etc.. through travel and expense
accounts to students, subsidies of all kinds and even loans in
cases of temporary financial difficulties, fellowships and schol-
arships. A placement bureau channels graduate students to good
jobs with oil and other U. S. companies in the Arab States.
Its hold on the whole student exchange traffic between
the U. S. and the Arab States is a virtual monopoly and in Iran
the Ministry of Education this year ruled that no student will
be given a passport without a letter from AFME vouching for
his qualifications.
AFME is not only far removed from Israel. it is also running
askew of the U. S. Foreign Policy vis-a-vis the Arabs. For
example, it sponsors the unity of the Arab States to save it
from Communism, while Western policy battles to keep such
a union from emerging via Nasser "under whose alert leader-
ship" the organization's Cairo director thinks progress can be
made. One of its board of directors, Earl Butning. former presi-
dent of the National Chamber of Commerce, thinks that "invest-
ment of American capital in the Middle East will hasten stabi-
lity." Other big businessmen who participated in the organi-
zation's campaign or serve on its board of directors with con-
tributions are the president of the Union Tank Car Company.
the chairman of the board of General Mills; executives from
the Oil Consortium of Iran and the International Division of
the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company; a Chicago
investment banker, a former executive of DuPont and an
executive of Aramco.
There is, of course, every reason in the world why friend-
ship and better understanding should be developed between
the American and Middle Eastern peoples — but certainly
not at the expense of Israel by submission to Arab policies.
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The Stat 2 Department on Monday received re-
ports that a proposal has been made in Cairo to send delegations of Arab diplo-
mats to Washington and Moscow to seek the personal intervention of President
Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Krusch ev against the movement of Jews from
Iron Curtain areas to Israel.
According to information received here. the Arab governments in the last few-days dis-
cussed joint action to frustrate what they term Israeli plans to accommodate an estimated
3,000,000 new Jewish immigrants.
State Department sources said the Department had received information and views from
both Israel and the Arab states on the Jewish immigration to Israel now under way from Ro-
mania. They said the Department was inclined to regard seriously the Arab fear of Israeli "ex-
pansionism," and was conscious of the absorptive limitations of the Jewish State. On the other
hand, the Department was described as, at the same time, anxious to see any refugees from
Communism, Jewish or non-Jewish, afforded a haven in the free world. One source said it was
a "dilemma" at this juncture. because American-Arab relations seemed to him to be improving.
The whole question is being studied by the State Department. An inclination existed
among some officials to urge Israel to adopt a "more realistic" attitude on immigration. But
sources said the Department had not yet formally communicated such views.
It became apparent Monday that Arab diplomatic circles in this country have set in
motion an audacious new propaganda scheme to exploit for their own purposes the release of
Jewish emigrants from Communist countries.
The aim of the Arab propagandists is to convince the United States Government and its
people that the release of the Jewish emigrants by the Communist authorities is evidence of a
deterioration of relations between the Arabs and the Soviet Union. and an indication of an
alleged new Soviet-Israeli rapprochement.
The Arab propagandists are telling Government officials. diplomats and the press that
the Communist bloc is releasing Jews to Israel as a calculated and deliberate pressure device
against the United Arab Republic, which they try to depict as increasingly hostile to the Soviet
Union. Arab diplomats have sought to document this contention in talks with State Department
officials. and one Arab official asserted that many were "receptive" to this new line.
Arab propagandists. in talks with State Department officials and influential personalities
in the capital. are taking the line that the time is propitious to introduce a new chapter in
Arab-American affairs. They suggest an invitation to President Nasser of the UAR and other
Arab leaders to an Arab-American "summit" conference in Washington.
They are seeking to pursuade the State Department that it should link limitation of the
new wave of immigration into Israel to American economic aid to Israel for the new fiscal year.
To lend attractiveness to the idea of an American-Arab "summit meeting," the Arab pro-
pagandists advance the possibility of an Arab-Israeli understanding to be achieved through
President Eisenhower's mediation. Such an understanding, they stress. would encourage the
Arab nationalists to resist Communism.
An elaborate plan advanced here would have President Eisenhower invite not only Nasser
and other Arab bosses for "summit" talks, but also Premier David Ben-Gurion of Israel for sep-
arate talks. Then, if the Israeli Premier "accepted" the Arab conditions. the two sides could be
brought face to face.
The Arab conditions for an understanding. as disclosed here by a leading Arab spokes-
man. are nothing but the 1947 partition proposals restated in a new guise. but just as unac-
ceptable to Israel. The formula used by the Arabs in talks with American officials speak of
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American Jewry Asked by 19 Jewish
Organizations to Rise Up to 'Historic
Opportunity' of Momentous Emigration
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Four hundred Jewish leaders. representing 19 major national
Jewish organizations, joined Sunday in an urgent call to the American Jewish community to
rise to the "historic opportunity" afforded by the "great emigration of Jews from Eastern
Europe" and make it "one of the momentous developments in contemporary Jewish history."
The delegates adopted a declaration calling upon the constituencies and memberships
of their organizations to give maximum support" to the 1959 campaign of the United Jewish
Appeal which is seeking to raise a special S100,000.000 emergency fund, over and above its
regular campaign of more than $105.000,000 to finance the transport and resettlement of an
expected 100,000 East European immigrants in Israel this year.
The delegates set up an ad hoc committee consisting of the presidents of the participat-
ing organizations to serve with the UJA in connection with this drive. Authorities. throughout
the day-long session. had presented detailed reports on all aspects of the situation. the reac-
tions to it, its impact on Israel and its significance to the American Jewish community.
Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman. executive vice-chairman of the United Jewish Appeal,
warned the conference that, while 100,000 Jews were expected to arrive in Israel this year,
this figure could prove to be an "under-estimate of the reality."
He reminded his hearers that "we cannot give these East European Jews what they need
unless we provide the necessary facilities in Israel. What will happen in this land which is
struggling with the problems of absorption and consolidation of the earlier immigrants, which
is still desperately short of housing. schools. facilities of every kind, if the people of Israel
are called on to take in 100,000 or more newcomers—without our all-out aid?"
In a plea for "top priority giving" to meet the vast needs created by the new immigra-
tion the UJA executive declared: "If there is doubt in anyone's mind as to the extent of these
needs, I need only remind you of the simple but devastating arithmetic of the situation—that
the costs of transporting the immigrants and getting them settled in Israel amount to a stagger-
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ing twelve-to-fiftten-million dollars a month."