Sen. Jacob K, Javits (R.NY) said here tonight that Israel’s friends in the United States have “an unavoidable responsibility for helping to create circumstances and attitudes conducive to creative diplomacy respecting the Middle East.” He said “There is a very creative role to be played at this junction in history by Israel’s friends in the U.S. in supplementing the formal channels of diplomatic communication between Washington and Jerusalem.”
Sen. Javits was addressing a dinner of the United Jewish Appeal and Federation of Jewish Philanthropies Joint Campaign given at the New York Hilton Hotel as a farewell to Israeli Ambassador Yosef Tekoah who is retiring after seven years as his nation’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations. The dinner was attended by 300 leaders of the New York Jewish community.
Javits observed that the complex problems of the Middle East “require bold and imaginative solutions which can by-pass the roadblocks of routine thinking.” He said that some of the best diplomatic ideas are “generated by non-official sources.” Former Rep, Herbert Tenzer, a member of the UJA-Federation Joint Board who presided at the dinner, presented Ambassador Tekoah with an original painting by the artist Marc Cleonsky, titled “The Persecuted People.”
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