Mideast Expert Warns West of Arab Attack on Western Values

The Arabs, “abetted by oil-soaked funds and the world’s critical energy needs, are gearing up for a no-holds-barred attempt to delegitimize–indeed to dehumanize the collective existence of Jews as expressed in the sovereign society of Israel, “Prof. Dan Schueftan charged today in his address to presidents, leaders and educational directors of American and Canadian Jewish youth movements. Schueftan teaches Arab-Israeli Affairs and Contemporary Arab History at the University of Haifa and lectures at the Israeli Defense Forces Command Staff College.

Schueftan alerted the participants in a workshop seminar on Arab propaganda, “The Case for Israel–Know What to Answer,” that ” the implications of this Arab campaign constitute a basic assault on the principles of human rights, dignity, morality and freedom whose values are the basis of Western society and civilization.”

The values, he observed, “are endangered by this insidious Arab-PLO attempt to sabotage and undermine them. This onslaught has grave consequences for the United States and the free world.”

Schueftan told the seminar participants, “You must alert and warn the American people, and show them how this campaign must be countered not only by Jews, but by all who hold sacred these basic values which have given Western nations and society so much of their moral stature in the history of civilization and the struggle for human rights and liberty.”

The workshop on Arab propaganda and how to counter it was sponsored by the North American Jewish Youth Council under the aegis of the American Zionist Youth Foundation.