Unless Israel’s contemplated withdrawal from Egyptian territory leads to increased security for Israel, greater stability for the area and more prestige for the United Nations, the withdrawal could lead to new hostilities and a conflagration in the Middle East, the annual British Poale Zion conference declared in a resolution adopted here today.
The 200 delegates of Britain’s Labor Zionist movement expressed disquiet about the withdrawal negotiations in Washington and at UN headquarters, and regretted the UN’s inability to deal with the fundamental problems of the Middle East situation. They pointed out that Egypt’s claim to belligerence against Israel and hostile actions over the past eight years had violated the UN Charter and invalidated Egypt’s moral and legal rights to the Gaza Strip. Finally, the delegates expressed their solidarity with the people of Israel and confidence in their ability to find “the best way out of the present crisis.”
Herbert Morrison, Labor Leader and Foreign Secretary in the last Labor Government, told the conference that neither the United States nor Britain had been effective at the UN in security justice for Israel and protection against aggression–and that both had supplied the Arabs with more arms than Israel. President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles, he charged, had sought to bring unfair pressure on Israel. It would appear, Mr. Morrison continued, that the Secretary of States had not promised “real action or guarantees that his country would seek effective UN action. ” It would be “scandalous” if Israel were “double crossed, ” he concluded.
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