Protection of the rights of 10,000,000 Jews outside Israel is essential to the over-all strategy of Jewish survival, Rabbi Israel Goldstein, chairman of the western hemisphere executive of the World Jewish Congress, said here today in a report on the recent meeting of the Congress executive in Geneva. He stressed the adoption by the executive of a resolution to intensify efforts in unite Jewish communities throughout the world.
Dr. Goldstein pointed out that the State of Israel deals with governments and the United Nations on matters directly affecting it, the Zionist Organization seeks support for Israel at the hands of the Jewish communities and the World Jewish Congress seeks to protect the rights of Jewish communities in the lands where they live.
“In the program of Jewish self-determination,” he said, “the chief instrument is the reborn State of Israel.” He added, however, that the well-being of the millions of Jews outside Israel was also of “major significance,” and pointed out that the State of Israel could not exist independently of the Jewish people.
Dr. Goldstein denounced the decision of the Western Powers to sign a peace contract with the Bonn Government, declaring that such a contract would be “an act of incredible folly” if not accompanied by iron-clad agreements for continued supervision. He said that Germany must assume moral and material responsibility for Nazi persecution.
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