AMERICAN ZIONISTS BLAME U.S. POLICY FOR NEGEV AMBUSH
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles today received a message from Louis Lipsky, chairman of the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs, asking “whether the Department of State intends to bring this latest flagrant violation of United Nations armistice agreements for censure by the United Nations Security Council.”
Mr. Lipsky told Mr. Dulles that “unless our government and other Western Powers recognize that recent policy is responsible for what is happening there is every danger that the present tension will deteriorate into open warfare. “
“The ambush and murder of 11 Jews by an armed Arab band near the Israel-Jordan frontier is a direct consequence of a policy of appeasement pursued by the Great Powers and specifically by our own government, ” the message said. “It is the inevitable result of a policy which permits the Arab states to believe that they do not need to make peace with Israel and that they can secure arms and other favors from us without undertaking to end their economic blockade and military aggression.
“In the light of this latest Arab outrage and other recent Arab attacks the proposals to supply arms to any Arab League member appear to be reckless and provocative, ” Mr. Lipsky declared.
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