The Palestine Arab delegation is alleging that the “Zionist-Jew leaders in the United States” are using the Watergate scandal to blackmail President Nixon into supporting Israel. A six-page statement elaborating the charge and warning Americans that Jews are trying to “railroad” the U.S. “into a third world war in the Middle East” has been in circulation within and outside of the United Nations since May 14.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency obtained a copy of the statement which is signed by Issa Nakleh, chairman of the Palestine Arab delegation, “Permanent Representative of the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine,” headquartered in Beirut, Lebanon. The group is registered with the U.S. Department of Justice as a foreign agent.
Its statement claims that “The objective of ‘Israel’ and the Zionist-Jew leadership is to dictate to the President the Middle East policy of the United States.” It alleges that to further that objective a “vicious and libelous campaign by the Zionist-Jew controlled press, television and radio networks carried on against the President of the United States and his Administration over the so-called watergate scandal is an attempt to break the will of the President and to force him to submit to the dictate of ‘Israel’ and the Zionist-Jew leaders.”
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