The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations today protested Soviet “invective and incitement against Israel” at the United Nations and called on the USSR to support “not one side or the other but the overriding cause of international peace.” Dr. Joachim Prinz, chairman of the President’s Conference voiced “shock and concern” at the Soviet rupture of diplomatic relations with Israel and the USSR’s “disturbing role” at the U.N.
“Instead of seeking to reduce tensions so that the new facts of the Middle East may be dealt with realistically and rationally by the family of nations, the Soviet Ambassador to the U.N. has elected to out-harangue the Arab representatives in his words of invective and incitement against Israel,” Rabbi Prinz stated. “Indeed, he descended to new depths of calumny when he compared Israel, the remnant of Hitlerite persecution and murder, to the Nazi demon.”
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