An attack on American Jews was made here by Syrian Ambassador Farid Zeineddine at a conference of the American Friends of the Middle East. “Why don’t they make a Zionist state in New York where the Jews believe in a Jewish State?” he asked in the course of his address. He said that “Zionism is similar to Nazism”
Dr. Izzat Tannous, director of the Palestine Arab Refugee Office in New York, similarly charged the Jews with resorting to “Nazi techniques.” He told a meeting of the Chicago Council of Foreign Relations that the Arab refugees will never accept compensation from the Israel Government for their abandoned property. “We don’t want to sell our country,” he declared.
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