The best method for stabilizing the situation in the Middle East is for a joint East-West guarantee of the Israeli-Arab status quo, accompanied by arms control and “some kind of arms embargo, ” Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Zionist Organization, declared here today.
Dr. Goldmann made that statement upon his arrival today to participate in the centennial celebration of the settlement of Jews in Argentina. The Middle East situation now, he said, is “unstable and potentially dangerous.” He pointed out that, while the United Arab Republic and Iraq are being furnished with “great quantities of highly-modern weapons at the cheapest prices, ” Israel must buy some defensive materiel “expensively. “
On the subject of the recent wave of anti-Semitism in Germany and elsewhere, Dr. Goldmann said that the World Jewish Congress had tabulated more than 1, 000 incidents in 34 countries, nearly half of them in Germany. ” He stressed that there is “no immediate, serious danger” to Jews as a result of these incidents, but warned that the incidents should be “considered a serious symptom regarding the future.”
Regarding the situation of the Jews in the Soviet Union, the Jewish leader emphasized that “anti-Semitism in Russia is not greater than usual. Rather, it is a case of spiritual genocide. He said he told a Russian diplomat last week, when the latter asked what Russia should do: “Allow Russian Jews the same rights they have in Hungary or Rumania.”
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