Rosenne Says Israel Should Not Abandon Its Position in the UN

Ambassador Shabtai Rosenne, a member of Israel’s permanent delegation to the United Nations, characterized his country’s position in the world organization as on a front line but said Israel should not abandon it. Addressing the annual meeting of the American Jewish League for Israel, a national non-party Zionist organization. Rosenne said that it was in Israel’s interests to bring the Justice of its cause to the attention of world opinion and to remain in the UN despite the fact that the General Assembly is overwhelmingly stacked against it.

He said that although “the irresponsible action of the General Assembly in according recognition to a mass murder group is an encouragement to extremism, we are doing our utmost to remain on the road of peace and moderation and. we hope. eventual reconciliation.”

Judge Seymour R. Levine. of Peekskill, N.Y., was unanimously elected president of the American Jewish League for Israel. Eleazer Lipsky was re-elected chairman of the executive committee, and Samuel Rothberg, chairman of the board of directors.

In his acceptance address. Judge Levine stressed the need to speak “with one Zionist voice. and to remember that public opinion is still a powerful weapon in a free society.” Referring to huge sums being spent from Arab oil revenues for anti-Israel. anti-Zionist propaganda all over the world. Judge Levine said an urgent goal of the Zionist movement today is to “mobilize mass public opinion to the commitment for the fulfillment of the Zionist dream, both in the public sector and in the private sector.”

Judge Levine has been an active Zionist since his youth and is active in many major educational and philanthropic organizations. Including the United Jewish Appeal. National Conference of Christians and Jews and as former president of the First Hebrew Congregation of Peekskill, N.Y.