Egyptian President Nasser’s blockade of the Tiran Strait to Israeli shipping constitutes “the gravest provocation” by the aggressive Arab rulers” who endanger world peace,” the Central Committee for Uruguayan Jewry and the Uruguayan Zionist Organization declared today in a joint statement. The two groups issued the statement after a massive rally by Uruguayan Jews in the Great Hall of Montevideo.
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