Rabbi 3.M. Zambrowsky, executive vice-president of the Mizrachi Organization of Canada who recently returned from Israel where he attended a religious conference, took sharp issue here with statements made in Montreal by Rev. Brother Raphael Quinn, O.F.M. secretary to the Roman Catholic custodian of Holy Places.
In a formal statement replying to allegations made by Brother Raphael, Rabbi Zambrowsky termed the former’s comments “contrary to fact” and challenged him to produce evidence that elements of Israel forces were responsible for either the bombing or destruction of Holy Places in Jerusalem. “There was no bombing of religious places in Jerusalem, nor was there any defamation or deliberate destruction done to such places by the Israel forces,” Rabbi Zambrowsky said.
Denying Rev. Quinn’s allegation that the damage to Holy Places was Israel’s responsibility, Rabbi Zambrowsky recalled that Israel accepted the United Nations proposal to internationalize Jerusalem at the time of the U.N. partition decision of Nov. 29, 1947, but that “it was then that the Arabs invaded Israel, plundering and fighting without consideration to Holy Places in Jerusalem.”
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