U. S., Israel Vow Large Sums to Aid Arab Refugees

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA)
—Total pledges of $26,270,340 were
Made by 33 governments in the
General Assembly toward a re-
quested 1968 budget of $47,500,000
for the United Nations Relief and
Works Agency for Palestine refu-
gees. The pledges includes a $22,-
200,000 grant from the United
States, the same as last year,
which is subject to approval by
Congress, and a one million
pound ($285,000) contribution by
Israel whose representative, Am-
bassador Michael Comay, said that
his government was considering
an additional grant for the educa-
tion and training of refugee chil-
dren.
The contributors represented
less than one third of the 122 mem-
ber nations of the world organi-
zation. They announced their
grants at the General Assembly's
annual pledging conference which
was addressed by Laurence Mi-
chelmore, commissioner - general
of UNRWA. It was noted that, at
this time last year, pledges to-
taled $30,000,000, including the U.S.

Arab Refugees,
Jews in Arab Land
in Same Plight

grant. Michelmore had urged the
member states to contribute at
least $41,600,000 toward the pro-
posed over-all budget.
Michelmore declared that 1967
had been a crisis year for his
agency and its charges "whose,
emergency needs are not ebbing."
He said that the "hopes enter-
tained last summer for the return
of substantial numbers of- those
who fled from areas occupied by
Israeli forces have not been ful-

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filled" and added that, in fact,
"there is still a steady flow cross-
ing the Jordan River from West
to East at the rate of about 1,000
per month."
(In Rome, the World Food Plan,
an affiliate of the United Nations
Food and Agricultural Organiza-
tion, announced it would spend an
estimated $1,264,000 in the next
three months to feed 135,000 refu-
gees and displaced persons in Jor-
dan, Syria and Egypt.)

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BRUSSELS — A corelation

be-
tween the condition of Arab re-
fugees and that of Jews in Arab
Countries "who are not much bet-
ter off," was seen in a report
submitted Wednesday to the Bel-
gian League of Human Rights by
Pierre Mertens, research attache
of the Institute of Sociology here.
According to Mertens, last June's
war did not affect the condition
of Arabs in Israel, especially in
the occupied in West Bank area
and in the Gaza camps, if viewed
on a strictly material basis. But
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straits, lacking shelter and suffi-
cient food. Mertens attributes this
to the underdevelopment of the
two countries rather than to any
deliberate policy.
The situation of Jews in Arab
countries, with the exception of
Lebanon, he said, is not much bet-
ter. In Syria, Jews are forced to
live in ghettos under permanent
police control. In Egypt and Iraq,
heads of families have been ar-
rested and interned and their
money and property confiscated.
Mertens was refused a visa to
Visit Libya.
The report deplored the shut-

down of schools in the West
Bank, which have since been re-
opened, owing to a dispute be-
tween Arabs and Israelis over
the textbooks. It predicted that
more Arab youth will leave the
West Bank for refugee camps
in the Arab countries as a re-
sult.
Mertens also deplored what he
called "Israel's phobia of terror-
ism" which brings Israelis to tear
down houses and sometimes entire
villages on the basis of "mere
denunciations or even only suspi-
cious." Summing up, Mertens said
"innocents have suffered on both
sides because of a war they did
not want and for which they were
prepared."
(In Washington, Rabbi Jay Kauf-
man, executive vice president of
Bnai Brith, charged that the United
Nations Relief and Works Agency
for palestine refugees had permit-
ted its facilities to be used to "sub-
vert minds and poison hearts"
against Israel in its "desire to re-
main acceptable to the host Arab
Countries.")

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