The Arab states, having failed to exterminate the people of Israel in open warfare, are now attempting to crush them economically, General Yigal Yadin, former Chief of Staff of the Israel Army, declared here today at the 15th annual conference of the Council of Organizations of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York.
The nearly 2,000 delegates, representing some 7,000 organizations with a total membership of 1,000,000, pledged themselves to “redouble their efforts” in behalf of the UJA drive, noting the need for funds to speed housing and communal developments for recent immigrants to Israel and to provide special bombproof shelters for children living in border villages in that country.
Gen. Yadin reported that “into the breach of economic harassment, infiltration and border marauding, our people have thrown democracy–training and education of all our people.” He noted that Israel’s actual military defense is part and parcel of this process of development and democratization, citing the fact that Israel does not plant large standing armies on its borders but has turned the entire citizenry into soldiers and producers and is filling its border gaps with agricultural settlements.
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