Rep. Emanuel Celler today called upon the U. S. to “guarantee the borders of Israel and to redress the military advantage to Israel brought on by the shipment of American arms to Iraq.” He made the statement in an address before the National Advisory Board of the Jewish National Fund. The meeting precedes the opening tomorrow of the national assembly of the JNF.
Scoring the present State Department policy in the Near East, Rep. Celler indicated that if the United States is to arm the Arabs he felt that, in order to preserve peace through a balance of power, this country must also arm Israel.
Dr. Harris I. Levine, president of the JNF, in outlining the program of the Assembly said it would be dedicated entirely to the problems of Israel’s security against Arab attack. “As an organization dedicated to peace, we have but little interest in military affairs, “Dr. Levine explained. “However, the security of Israel in which the lives of almost two million of our brethren and hundreds of thousands of American dollars are involved, concern us deeply.”
Albert Schiff, JNF treasurer, reported that the organization raised $43,000,000 in the last ten years. Judge Bernard A. Rosenblatt, president of the foundation for the JNF, announced that the sum that accrued to the JNF during the last three years from bequests and insurance policies with the JNF as beneficiary, amount to $5,000,000.
Judge Henry Ellenbogen submitted a five-year plan for fund-raising in the United States in behalf of the JNF under which the Jewish communities of the United States are to subscribe 70 percent of the total budget for land reclamation and development in Israel amounting to $53,000,000. Max Bressler, co-chairman of the National Advisory Board and chairman of the “Dr. Nahum Goldmann Forest” in Israel, paid tribute to Dr. Goldmann, chairman of the Jewish Agency executive. He outlined plans for planting 60,000 trees in the Goldmann Forest which is to be created on JNF land in the vicinity of Jerusalem.
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