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Beirut Report: Russia Equipping
Arab Palestine Liberation Army'
Anti-Egypt Feelings Mounting
in Capital Over Nasser Insults
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WASHINGTON (JTA)—Anti-Egyptian feelings continued
to • mount here among members of Congress following the
statement made recently at a public meeting in Port Said by
Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser that the United
States "can jump in the lake."
"This insulting statement was coupled with a rejection
by Egyptian Deputy Premier Mahmoud Fawzi of an Ameri-
can protest by U.S. Ambassador Lucius Battle pertaining to
the shooting down of an American civilian plane.
Various Jewish and non-Jewish organizations have in
the meantime • tu-ged the State Department to withhold its
aid to Egypt until assured by Nasser that he will not use
this aid for military adventures.
In his anti-American speech, Nasser said that he is send-
ing arms to Congo- and will continue to send arms to the Con-
golese rebels, despite President Johnson's appeal to him not
to do so. He also made aggressive remarks' against Israel
and referred to Iran as an American colony subjected to
American and Zionist influences."
A State Department spokesman said that the depart-
ment did not anticipate immediate response to Nasser's,
denunciation of the United States. The bulk of American
aid to Egypt is in the form of surplus food shipments under,
a three-year agreement signed in 1962 that ends next fall.
Nasser said in his abusive speech that he has already re-
ceived from the United States $115,000,000 in such aid. He
insists on getting an extra $35,000,000. •
(The New York Times said in an editorial that the insults
to the United. States voiced by Nasser in his speech are less
important than his blatant assertion to resolve to help equip
forces of pillage, murder and dissension in their effort to
overthrow the legal government of the Congo."
(The editorial pointed out that the Nasser declaration
makes it impossible for the United States to escape a recog-
nition that the millions of dollars in surplus food this country
sends to Egypt operates—by freeing Egyptian funds—as an
indirect subsidy in helping it carry out its policy of interna-
tional disruption.")
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LONDON (JTA)—Soviet arms are being used to equip the "Palestine Libera-
tion Army," authorized recently by the 13 Arab League states, the Daily Telegraph
reported from Beirut.
Quoted were sources in the "A rab Liberation Organization," formed by the 13
states.
The Beirut report stated that most of the arms being allocated to the Liberation
Army are being withdrawn from stockpiles of Soviet arms in Egypt and Iraq, which
Moscow has promised to replace with more modern military equipment.
Another Beirut dispatch reported that Egypt and Iraq have named their joint
military command, which is to pre pare for the military union of the two countries.
Each of the governments has named 25 men to this joint command, headed on the
Egyptian side by President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and on the Iraqi side by President
Abdel Salzan Arif.
The Palestine Liberation Army, authorized after last September's Arab sum-
mit meeting at Alexamiria—where a resolution was adopted unanimously for the
initiation of a drive to "liberate" the portion of Palestine held by Israel—has
already established training camps for Arab refugees in the Sinai Peninsula, the
Gaza Strip and Syria. the dispatch reported.
Military instructors are chiefly Egyptians. Iraqis and Syrians. In addition, Al-
geria has reportedly offered arms supplies as well as instructors, and is willing also
to help train some of the refugees on Algerian soil.
Under the plans of the Arab Liberation Organization, headed by Ahmad Shu-
kairy, former Saudi Arabian representative to the United Nations, all able-bodied
refugees in the Arab states—with the possible exception of those in Lebanon— will
be liable to conscription.
Plans are under way to start a recruiting drive in all 4 refugee camps next
March, with six hours of radio broadcasts beamed to those camps daily from Radio
Cairo. •
Shukairy was quoted in the Beirut dispatch as having said that the Arab states
have mapped "a studied plan for this all-Palestinian army and for action to recover
Palestine.
"There is no hope," Shukairy was quoted as iaying, that the Palestine issue will
ever be solved through the United Nations. The liberation of Palestine will be realiz-
ed only on Palestine territory and with Palestinia n hands."
Meanwhile, at the United Nations, it was learned that the principal activity of
the Arab delegations at the General Assembly will be a drive to win United Na-
tions recognition of the Arab Liberation Organization.
Israeli sources believe it appears unlikely that the Arab delegations in the UN
will be able to win widespread support for a proposal which is in effect a plan to
cripple and dismember a member state of the United Nations.
Such a project, it was pointed out, is counter to the UN Charter, to the basis of the
Mixed Armistice Commissions and the UN commitment to the preservation of national
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Welt Congress Attacks 'Cultural Void'
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
JERUSALEM—An international Jewish effort against an alleged
"formlessness," a "void" in the cultural life of Jewry—the "tohu to-
vohu" of knowledgeability—has become the major aspiration of world
Jewish leadership.
A common need to create a knowledgeable Jewry links the repre-
sentatives of all Jewish communities throughout the world, except those
from behind the Iron Curtain and from Moslem countries which have
been deprived of the right to attend the sessions of the World Zionist
Congress in progress here.
Concern is being expressed for the status of American Jewry as the
world's largest Jewish community, and Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president
of the world movement, has gone so far as to assert that most Jewish
children in the U.S. are receiving a Jewish education that is limited
to two hours of studies a week. This is being challenged by some dele-
gates. Nevertheless, his call for greater effort to assure survival in
Jewry, and Dr. Emanuel Neumann's call for resistance to the break-
down in Jewish traditions are receiving support.
In the effort to assure the "hard and desperate" battle to bolster
Jewish loyalties, the major emphasis of the WJ Congress sessions
is on the strengthening of Zionism as a dominant force to revitalize
the striving for increased cultural and educational values.
Sharing in the concern over the cultural status of Jewry is the
growing anxiety over the reports of increased anti-Semitism in many
areas of the world, including Latin American countries. These trends,
spokesmen for communities in many lands stated, are in evidence due
to the aid given to anti-Semitic movements by Arab countries.
Similarly, there is concern over the spread of the Arab boycott as
a danger not to Israel alone, but to world Jewry.
Revealing facts about the tensions that effect Jewish communities
have served to inspire a search for greater action not only in defense
of Israel but especially in drastic steps to multiply educational activi-
ties for overcoming Arab infiltntion.s. The Zionist movement thus is
seen as the major force for cultural revival and for the relaying of
Jewish forces everywhere in tasks to assure Jewish survival.
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