The B’nai Zion convention here called today upon President Eisenhower “to assume a policy of real, dynamic leadership that is so vitally necessary if we are to bring about permanent peace in the Middle East and fortify that area against further Communist infiltration and aggression.”
The convention of the American Zionist fraternal organization, in its second day, attended by delegates from 22 states, warned that “present State Department policy of giving outright military support to the Arab states, not only fosters a policy of partisan support but menaces Israel and its democratic ideology.”
A resolution, presented by Samuel E. Cooper, a former judge and now member of the City Council of Newark, N.J., and unanimously adopted by delegates, stated that “by assuming direct and vigorous leadership, President Eisenhower can point the way for economic aid to both Israel and the Arab states that will build a spirit of accord that will find Communism properly discredited in any appeal it may seek to make.” Supreme Court Justice Arthur Markewich of New York was re-elected president of the organization.
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