The United States Government should look toward a compromise formula to settle the problem of Jerusalem in such fashion as to “prevent neither Israel nor Jordan from locating its capital in its own area within Jerusalem” and at the same time permit the United Nations to protect the interests of the three religions in the city, Rep. Jacob K. Javits of New York declared here tonight.
Addressing a dinner given by the Combined Jewish Appeal of Boston on an “American Policy in the Middle East,” Congressman Javits outlined a program for gaining the friendship of the peoples of the region–a policy which he called “objective and dynamic.” He suggested, among other things:
That the United States seek peace between Israel and the Arab states; that the U.S. force the Palestine Arabs on neither Israel nor on the Arab states. but “cooperate in every feasible way with the efforts of the United Nations to settle the Palestine Arab refugees and integrate them primarily within the Near East region.”
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