The United Nations was urged by 17 American Jewish leaders in a joint statement last night to bar the restore that would restore Egyptian domination over Faith and the Straits of Taran.
The statement warned it would be an act of the gravest injustice against the free world and Israel, and sheer folly from the point of new of America if Egypt were permitted to restore gun positions that would again threaten the free worlds best hope for second link between the Atlantic and Pacts Oceans.
The 17 leaders also pointed out that a sample withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza opens up the dangerous possibility of its reoccupation by Egyptian military forces as a base for “the training, direction and dispatch of the murder as fedayeen squads whose mission has been to kill mercilessly and pillage wantonly on Israel soil.
The Jewish leaders, commenting on President Eisenhower’s new Middle East program, said that the “danger is not only rooted in a threat of aggression from sources outside the area.” They added that recent events have demonstrated that threats to Israel can quickly mount into threats to the entire western world.
The statement also asserted that while the United Nations has concentrated on the withdrawal of British, French and Israeli troops. called for in the UN November 2 cease-fire resolution. “Egyptian compliance has not been forthcoming for these portions of the resolution which call for the cessation of border raids and for adherence to the armistice agreement.”
TERM CONCESSIONS TO EGYPT AT ISRAEL’S EXPENSE AS “IMMORAL”
“Thirty days after adoption of the resolution, on December 2, Radio Cairo signaled the reopening of guerilla raids against Israel’s people, the statement asserted “Israeli citizens have again been killed and wounded and property has been destroyed.
The Jewish leaders warned against “unilateral confessions Egypt at Israel’s expense” as both “immoral and inexpedient” and they urged that the United Nations, with active United States support, “must press as rigorously for Egyptian compliance with the UN resolution as she has for British, French and Israeli compliance.
The statement was signed by the following presidents Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein. American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs; Joseph Bresian. American Trade Union Council for Labor Israel; Mrs Moise S. Cahn, National Council of Jewish Women; William Carmen, Jewish War Veterans; Dr. Maurice N. Eisendrath. Union of American Hebrew Congregations; Moses L Feuerstein Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America; Dr. Miriam Freund, Hadassah Dr. Israel Goldstein American Jewish Congress.
Also, Dr. Nahum Goldmann, Jewish Agency for Palestine Adolph Held Jewish Labor Committee; Philip M. Klutznick. B’nai Brith; Rabbi Mordecai Kirshblum, Mizrachi Organization of America; Rabbi Irving Miller American Zionist Council; Dr. Emanuel Neumann, Zionist Organization of America; Charles Rosengaten United Synagogue of America; Louis Segal, Labor Zionists, and Bernard H. Trager National Community Relations Advisory Council.
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