Ambassador Dov Schmorak, acting permanent representative of Israel to the United Nations, yesterday urged the Zionist Organization of America to watch closely the upcoming General Assembly debate and the voting pattern of each country and “lead the Jews in their fight against those who attack them.”
Speaking at a luncheon of women delegates to the ZOA’s 79th national convention at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Schmorak declared that since last year’s General Assembly meeting “the scope of the attack against Israel by the petro-Communist group and the satellites was broadened to include the whole Jewish people and the Jewish movement of national self-preservation, Zionism.” He said that in the Assembly session that starts Sept. 21 “we can expect a further escalation of these attacks.”
Schmorak said that the “Arabs are in alliance with anti-Semitic extremists of the far left and far right, an alliance which has produced in the last few months a new wave of virulent anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi literature in many countries, particularly in Latin America.”
He charged that the “Soviet Union is seeking, by the attack against Zionism in the UN, to stop the decline of Soviet influence in the Middle East and at the same time to legitimize by UN resolutions the brutal Soviet anti-Zionist campaign within the Soviet Union and the denial of the right of the Jews for self preservation as Jews.”
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