Israel Under Fire by Egyptian Delegate to UN Subcommission on Human Rights

Israel’s “tantalizing victory” in the Six-Day War has “proved to be a complete miscarriage,” with the country left “almost naked, without a cause, without a case.” according to the Egyptian delegate to the United Nations Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. The subcommission met this morning to consider a rapporteur’s report on a study of racial discrimination. The Egyptian, Mohamed A. Khalifa, stated that Jewish and Israeli youth were now “liberating themselves from dogmas and were more aware of capitalist, imperialist maneuvers,” and would, eventually, in conjunction with other youth movements, “reject Zionist conspiracy.” Mr. Khalifa stated that this new trend had become quite common, even in America, despite the fact that it was a subject of concern for Zionists. These Jewish youth, he continued, were capable of perceiving far beyond the “foggy horizons of present Israeli authorities” and appeared to be aware that the international community would “not tolerate the supremacy of a state based on one race and on one people.”

Israel, he said, is, like the Third Reich, “founded first and foremost on some kind of racial premise.” He further said that these “young progressive Jews” were, therefore, working for the real interest of their own people. Mr. Khalifa said Israel was “aggressive, expansionist and irrevocably racist,” and that it had “the warmest ties” with South Africa and Southern Rhodesia. Many African countries, he said, had cut off their political and economic ties with it. Nobody, he said, could be a true friend of Africa and South Africa at the same time. He said the United States was becoming “more even-handed” and had found it “imperative to work out a peace plan.” He commended the “noble and righteous attitude of France” and the “noble and staunch support of the Soviet Union to the just cause of the Arab States. Yugoslavian delegate Branimir Jankovic, stressing that Nazism, Fascism and related ideologies represent “permanent danger to human rights and fundamental freedoms,” said the rapporteur’s report had made only “some reference” to them. He called for a “thorough analysis: perhaps in another study.