Broadcasts by the Bucharest radio monitored here — as well as Moscow dispatches broadcast by Tass, the official Russian news agency — indicate an increase in attacks on Israel.
The Bucharest broadcasts — in Rumanian and obviously meant for home comsumption — are presently concentrating on descriptions of conditions awaiting new immigrants in Israel. “Zionist propagandists” encouraging Rumanian Jews to go to Israel are described in the Rumanian broadcasts as “worthy successors to the slave traders.” As for immigrants recently arrived in Israel, the Bucharest radio says they live in “promiscuity, disease and starvation.” Further, the broadcasts state, although accomodations are lacking, “abandoned Arab houses are pulled down for the profits to be made from the sale of old building materials.”
The broadcasts also attack the Jewish state’s judicial system, which is compared to that of “Tito’s Yugoslavia, monarchist and fascist Greece and France Spain. Work in the defense of peace in Israel, the Rumanian radio continues, has become a crime punishable by years of imprisonment, while “a Jew who murders an Arab is allowed to go free.” Also, the Bucharest radio says that Israel’s support of the United Nations action in Korea proves that Zionism has become “an instrument of imperialist strategy.”
Tass reports that Lydda airport is being rebuilt at the behest of the United States to enable it to handle jet aircraft.
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