The Arab League mission for Argentina and Chile has for the first time openly sponsored an anti-Israel advertisement in one of this country’s leading newspapers. The 5,000 word ad published Friday in the morning daily. La Nacion, was signed by Yusif Albandak, the mission head. Previously such ads were published under the facade of sponsorship by various local committees.
The La Nacion ad accused Zionist bodies of the murders of Count Folke Bernadotte and Lord Moyne and the “political murder” of the late US Secretary of State James Forresial and the late President Charles de Gaulle, of France.
The ad attacked the DALA, the central representative body of Argentine Jewry as “plutocratic” and accused it and other Zionists of displaying contempt for Argentina’s sovereignty as demonstrated by the kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann a decade ago. The ad was apparently in response to ads placed recently by the DAIA to counter Arab propaganda.
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