Leon Dulzin, chairman of the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization Executives, urged the U.S. Jewish community and “all Americans of good will who are committed to the ideals of morality and democracy to stand against the very dangerous current tendency to make Israel a scapegoat for the serious problems of the oil shortage and the resulting energy and inflation crisis.”
Dulzin, who is in the U.S. on a 10-day visit, also emphasized that “despite all differences of opinion in Israel, there is complete consensus in our nation on the three critical issues facing our people: First, Jerusalem will remain united as the capital of Israel. Its redemption as a unified whole in 1967 will never be repudiated. Second, Israel and its people are opposed to a Palestinian state on the West Bank. Third, there shall be no negotiations with the PLO whose covenant calls for the extinction of the State of Israel.”
Dulzin is appearing at four major regional conferences of the United Jewish Appeal, and will open the UJA campaigns in Milwaukee, Cleveland, Chicago and Boston. He will also be the featured speaker at the International Leadership Conference of the Zionist Organization of America in Miami which begins tomorrow. While here, Dulzin will meet with the top UJA and Federation leaders to launch their fund-raising campaigns for this year and to discuss the problem of Soviet Jewish dropouts.
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