Study Shows Way to Y Refugee Solution
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NEW YORK—The Arab refugee
problem cannot be solved until
there is peace between Israel and
the Arab countries, but negotiation
of the problem can precede a peace
settlement, an authority on the
Middle East declared today.
In "The Refugees of Arab-Israel
Conflict," published by the Amer-
ican Jewish Committee as the
ninth in the series of reports on
subjects related to its foreign af-
fairs program, George C. Gruen,
the - committee's Middle East spe-
cialist, recalled that Israeli For-
eign Minister Abba Eban told the
UN General Assembly last Octo-
ber that Israel was willing to dis-
cuss a five-year plan for the re-
fugees in advance of peace nego-
tiations.
Gruen states: - How many of the
Arab refugees will ultimately be
living as citizens of Israel, of Jor-
dan and other Arab countries, or
of some sort of autonomous Pal-
estinan Arab state will depend on
the territorial and other arrange-
ments that will emerge from an
Arab-Israel settlement. If the dif-
ficult transition can be made from
war to peace, the problem, which
now looms so large, will be on the
path to solution."
The need for a settlement of
the Arab refugee problem is be-
coming increasingly acit t e,
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Gruen points out. "Even before
the outbreak of hostilities in
1967," he states, "the United
Nations Relief and Works
Agency for Palestine Refugees
in the Near East (UNRWA) was
hard-pressed to meet its normal
expenses. In recent years, it has
incurred increasing deficits. The
United States has provided more
than two-thirds of the $629,000,-
000 expended by UNRWA from
1950 through 1968, but Congress
has become increasingly reluc-
tant to continue to contribute
such a disproportionate share of
the funds. It has also hesitated
to approve grants without evid-
ence of action to reform UN-
RWA's relief roll system."
Arabs were not the only victims
of the Midle East conflict, Gruen
stresses. "Consideration of the
problems of persons displaced
since the 1967 Arab-Israel con-
flict," he says, "should include
the more than 15,000 Jews in
Arab countries who fled mob vio-
lence and severe official restric-
tions during and after the June
war. The plight of these refugees,
and of Jews arrested and still im-
prisoned in Arab countries, also
merits attention."
It should not be overlooked that
Israel has undertaken measures
on behalf of the Arab refugees,
Gruen states. "In Gaza and West
Bank towns," he reports, "the
Israel ministry of social welfare
provided cash grants and other
aids to needy families to supple-
ment UNRWA rations. In Gaza,
the Israeli authorities helped UN-
RWA repair some 400 war-dam-
aged refugee homes.
"In November 1968, Ambassador
Michael Comay announced that Is-
rael would make a special contribu-
tion of $6,000 for expansion of UN-
RWA's Vocational Training Cen-
ter at Gaza, and that it was devel-
oping its own vocational training
services in Israeli-held areas. He
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said the Israel government had
contributed more than $2,500.000
directly during the year ending
June 1968, and had made a cash
contribution of $300,000, plus $600,-
000 for port services, transport,
storage and other expenses, mak-
ing a total of $3,500,000 toward
its program."
Complicating the pictur e,
of
knowledge about the actual num-
ber of Arab refugees. At the end
of May 1967, he says, "refugees
registered with UNRWA in the
Gaza Strip in the United Arab
Republic, Jordan, Lebanon and
Syria numbered 1,344,576—a fig-
ure United Nations sources be-
lieve to be inflated by retention
on relief rolls of many persons
who have become self-sufficent,
moved away or died."
Gruen declares, is lack
Gruen states that Israel's ap
proach to the Arab refugee prob
lem could be of value given some
degree of Arab cooperation. In a
statement by Foreign Minister
Abba Eban in October 1968, Gruen
writes, Eban "proposed that,
under a peace settlement, joint re-
fugee integration and rehabilita-
tion commissions be set up to ap-
prove plans for refugee integra-
tion in the Midlde East with re-
gional and international aid. The
plan projects a reintegration and
compensation fund for land settle-
ment, compensation for abandoned
property, and training to which
Israel would give substantial finan-
cial support."
"The Refugees of Arab-Israel
Conflict" traces the development
of the Arab refugee problem from
its inception in 1948. It also dis-
cusses the findings of the United
Nations envoy Nils Goran-Gussing
on his missions to the Middle East
in the summer of 1967.
'Support of Centers Has Quadrupled'
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latest year book of the National
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In an article, Harold Dinerman,
director of community services for
the JWB, writes: "The Jewish
community center has become a
major enterprise in the American
Jewish community. In 1946, the
Jewish community had a capital
investment of 530,000,000 in Center
facilities, and local annual expend-
itures for centers were approxi-
mately $8,000,000. In 1966, 20 years
later, the capital investment in
center facilities had grown four-
fold to $120,000,000, and the expedi-
tures for operations in that year
were $37,000,000.
"Based on community studies
currently being conducted or
planned, the anticipation is that
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