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Kalman Sultanik, acting chairman of the World Zionist Organization, American section, termed the terrorist action despicable and pointed to the irony that the “senseless and brutal outrage came just as progress was being made toward an understanding between Israel and Syria.” Obviously, he said, “there are evil forces in the world who will stop at nothing to prevent peace from coming to the Middle East.” Mrs. Henry N. Rapaport, president of the Women’s League for Conservative Judaism, said acts such as today’s “must be condemned by the United Nations and the governments of the world. Lebanon must be severely punished for allowing these terrorists to operate from her territory so that she will be forced to cooperate in bringing an end to such barbaric behavior.”
Seymour Graubard, national chairman of the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation League, called upon the U.S. government to Introduce measures in the UN imposing penalties on the Arab states which collaborate with terrorists. He said the recent refusal of the Security Council to condemn Arab terrorism at Kiryat Shemona was “an invitation to continue terrorist tactics throughout the world. What is required is not sanctimonious condemnation by governments and their spokesmen but concrete measures to stop Arab governments from giving support or tacit approval of the terrorist activities.”
In Paris, the two Presidential candidates, Valery Giscard D’Estaing and Francois Mitterand, denounced the attack in which children were used as hostages in the conflict of Arabs and Israelis. Both said that everything should be done to prevent anything harmful to the children.
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