Impartial Research Into Middle East
Issue Undertaken by Fund for Peace

NEW YORK (JTA)— An interna-
tional research group composed of
Arab, Israeli and American schol-
ars will undertake a broad-ranging
program of research in an effort
to promote a peaceful solution to
the Middle East crisis, it was an-
nounced by the Fund for Peace, a
New York educational foundation
supporting the project.
Joseph P. Lyford, president of
the fund, termed the collaboration
of Arab, Israeli and U.S. experts
"an encouraging and desperately
needed initiative" which the fund
hopes will "stimulate other rational
efforts by the world academic com-
munity to examine the possibilities
for conciliation of Arab-Israeli dif-
ferences."
The Arab-Israeli Research and
Relations project will operate on
the fundamental assumption, Ly-
ford said, that "the issues in the
Middle East which threaten the
security of the entire world cannot
be allowed to drift or be solved by
force. It is a tragic fact that despite
the growing threat of a large-scale
war, the expenditure of huge
amounts of money, and increasing
loss of life, very little has been
done by the world academic com-
munity to subject the key issues of
the Middle East crisis to the sort
of persistent examination which
can lead to practical operational
recommendations."

The Fund for Peace, formerly

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known as the Fund for Education
in World Order, was founded in
1957 as 'a private non-commercial
organization comprised of edu-
cators, businessmen, bankers and
lawyers. Lyford told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency that the
scholars who will be working on
the project have requested ano-
nymity in order "to preserve
their academic objectivity."
Some of the scholars, he said,
will be working in the Middle
East interviewing Arab and Is-
raeli leaders while others will be
working in archives and libraries
around the world.

A spokesman for the fund also
told the JTA that the project will
last "for at least a year" and that
the first part of the project is to
start "soon." A committee of
AIRRP coordinators, which will
supervise the project, includes Pro-
fessors Don Peretz of the State
University of New York at Bing-
hamton, Ahmed Haffar of the State
University at New Paltz, and Sim-
ha Flapan, editor of the New Out-
look in Tel Aviv.
Mrs. Louis Berman, executive
secretary of the research project,

stated that the "studies would be
conducted in as impartial a man-
ner as possible" and will include
"an examination of the whole
range of Arab-Jewish negotiations
beginning as far back as 50 years,
and focus on the Palestinian ques-
tion, on the implications of US/
USSR confrontation in the Middle
East, and on internal, little-publi-
cized ideas on conciliation that
have been advanced by nongov-
ernmental sources in both Israel
and the Arab countries." Addi-
tionally, Mrs. Berman said, the
studies will strive to "devise prac-
tical guidelines and procedures
which could help promote both
this reconciliation and other steps
essential to a final and peaceful
resolution of the Arab-Israeli
problem."

Joins Learning Tryout

BOSTON (JTA)—The Boston Col-
lege School of Nursing and the
Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for
Aged have jointly announced a
pioneering, cooperative relationship
designed to provide future nurses
intensive instruction and practice
in the care of the elderly.

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Iraqi Memorial Group Sends Message
of Solidarity on Aliya Anniversary

mo Mild, Israeli minister of
NEW YORK—The 'Iraqi Martyrs
Memorial Committee, established police. Mel was a leader in
by the Jewish National Fund of the "Ezra and Nehemia" opera-
America, sent a message of en- tion which brought 120,000 Jews
couragement and solidarity to the from Iraq to settle in Israel
ceremony held in Israel marking within a few months.
the 20th anniversary of Iraqi
The Jewish National Fund was
Jewry's resettlement in Israel.
instrumentbl in helping the Iraqi
Jews settle on the land and pro-
Mayor John V. Lindsay of New vided many of them with employ-
York is honorary chairman, and ment in their various projects.
Stanley Nabi is chairman. The
After the last exodus of 1950,
National Committee for the Iraqi
some 10,000 Jews remained in
Martyrs Memorial was formed to
There are now only 3,000
Iraq.
establish a memorial forest and
left, many of them in prison.
recreational area in Israel as a

tribute to the martyred Jewish
heroes in Iraq.
The message was sent to Shlo-

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