The Israeli Government accused the U.N. Truce Commission in Jerusalem over the week-end of having “seriously jeopardized that public confidence in the commission which is essential to its successful functioning.”
Aubrey S, Eban, Israeli representative to the U.N., in a note to the Security Cornell, declared that the truce body had no business transmitting “vague insinuations unsupported by any facts, rumors concerning plots by unspecified Jews, and tendentious speculations about the future political or military policy of any party.”
The Israeli note quoted a July 13 message from the commission which said “Jerusalem Jews appear to be increasingly inclined to ignore the most elementary rules of international war.” In this message, Eban pointed out, “there is no indication as to the identity of the Jews concerned; or what are the elementary rules of international war which they are alleged to be ignoring; or in what way they are contravening those rules.” He also quoted from messages of July 15 and 16, dealing with the seizure of five Britons in Jerusalem by Irgun members, which the commission said, was “part of a whole scheme carefully planned by Jews beforehand in order to seize illegally a power station and its assets” and to bring Jerusalem within the Jewish state.
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