Rep. Emanuel Celler today charged the Eisenhower Administration with reversing the traditional United States policy of friendliness and sympathy with Israel. He termed this reversal of the Administration a “new look vis-a-vis Israel,” in contradistinction to the favorable light in which the Jewish State had always been regarded by American statesmen up to this time.”
Mr. Celler made this charge in his address to the 30th Anniversary Roll-Call Conference of the National Committee for Labor Israel at the Commodore Hotel here. More than 2,000 delegates representing American trade unions, Labor Zionist organizations and Jewish fraternal groups attended the gathering and demonstrated their solidarity with the Israel Histadrut Campaign by donating $760,000 toward its $5,000,000 drive this year.
Rep. Celler questioned the wisdom of wooing the Arab states with arms, knowing their avowed goal was the utter destruction of Israel. He said: “The Administration knows, every informed citizen knows, that the Arab nations have declared one country only its target, and that is Israel. Yet, the United States talks blandly about sending arms to Iraq and Saudi Arabia as if none of these facts existed.”
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