The warm support give ### Arab position at the recent conference of 29 Asian and African nations at Bandung by Chinese Premier Chou En-lai and other Communist delegates was cited by Mortimer May president of the Zionist Organization of America, as a warning to the Western powers of their short-sightedness of appeasing the Arabs at Israel’s expense.
Speaking today before several hundred Zionist leaders at a conference sponsored by the ZOA Commission on Israel and the Middle East at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Mr. May asserted that “the ###called unity which the Bandung conference seemingly achieved by deferring the wholly unreasonable demands of the Arab states will prove to have been spurious for the Arab leaders are interested only in extorting concessions wherever and whenever they can in order to continue their vendetta against Israel.“Surely our State Department must now recognize that it cannot base American strength in the Middle East on Arab allegiance to the democratic cause and that the security of the State of Israel is vital to our interests in that part of the world, “###e ZOA president said He further stressed that “action to insure Israel’s security is ###ng overdue and the latest developments have made it imperative.”
Another Zionist leader Harry Torczyner, chairman of the ZOA Commission n Israel and the Middle East reviewing the results of the Bandung conference, maintained that “from a long range point of view the absence of both the United States and the Soviet Union from the conference may have historic consequences and Bandung may prove to have been the beginning of a basic shift in alignment of the world powers.
Arthur C###veran, member of the Israel delegation to the United Nations, addressing the conference charged the Arab states with lack of sincerity and lack of faith in “trying to act### self- appointed guardians” of United Nations resolutions relating to Israel. He maintained that the ###dinal feature” of Israel-Arab relations today still is the lack of desire for peace by the Arab states. “Never having ###anted Israel to exist at all and having failed in their attempt to destroy he### they are latent on maintaining a hostile attitude which denies to Israel the right to peaceful existence side by side with there” he said.
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