Arthur J. Goldberg, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, stressed tonight in an address here the common heritage and religious roots of the Arab and Jewish peoples and called for an end to the “fratricidal conflict” in the Middle East. He told the National Young Leadership Cabinet of the United Jewish Appeal that the 8,000 Israelis killed in battle since Israel’s independence in 1948 exceeded the number of Americans killed in World War II in proportion to total populations, and that the Israeli toll in the 1967 Six-Day War proportionately exceeded the American toll in Viet Nam.
He spoke at the closing banquet of a two-day United Nations seminar held by the leadership Cabinet. Earlier in the day, the UJA members conferred at the UN with several dignitaries, including George Ball, the United States Ambassador to the UN, and Ambassador Shabtai Rosenne, Israel’s deputy permanent representative to the UN. Mr. Goldberg reiterated an earlier proposal that the United States should make it clear to the Soviet Union that “we will not stand by and permit a Soviet ‘Czechoslovakia’ in the Middle East” and urged continued patient United States efforts to convince the Arab states that they should seek to avoid “the dubiously protective embrace of the Soviet bear.”
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