Dr. Joseph Burg, Israel Minister of Social Welfare, tonight told a thousand guests at the 60th anniversary dinner banquet of the Religious Zionists of America that “Israel is continuing her quest for accommodation and peace with her Arab neighbors. But the comparative calm along Israel’s borders, as recent events have shown, still calls for and demands her continuous alertness.” The dinner was held at the Hotel Pierre in New York.
Dr. Burg also said that “the Arabs are continuing their barrage of hatred toward Israel and still cling to their policies of belligerency, boycott, and general intransigence. But we continue to hope that the problems of our relations with the Arabs, which seem insoluble today, will eventually find their solutions.”
Rabbi Mordecai Kirshblum, president of the Religious Zionists of America, criticized the State Department for “permitting the Arab states to continue to discriminate against American firms and individuals who deal with Israel in a variety of commercial undertakings. The United States Government should cease distributing economic, technical and military assistance to the Arab countries as long as they continue engaging in worldwide campaigns of economic boycott, religious discrimination and anti-democratic as well as anti-Jewish propaganda, ” he urged.
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