UN NOT PEACE INSTANT
Despite her praise for Nixon and Rogers, Mrs. Meir nevertheless appeared critical of the administration when she remarked that it “is dangerous when friends think they know better than we do” the real dangers facing Israel with the continuing arming of Egypt by the USSR. She reaffirmed Israel’s willingness to negotiate without preconditions.
The Israel Premier sharply condemned the United Nations for its inability to deal effectively with world tensions, threats of war and actual war, and noted that the conflagration now involving India and Pakistan was another indication of what small nations can expect from the UN. She observed that the ineffectiveness of the UN in that area should be a lesson of what to expect if war resumes in the Middle East. “Anyone who asks us to place our faith and future in the hands of the UN should know that what motivates this world body is not the question of right or wrong but government interests.”
Mrs. Meir praised American Jewry for its continuing and unstinting efforts on behalf of Israel and declared to a burst of applause: “Thank God we are not alone and never will be.” She also praised the “miracle” of the “renaissance” of Soviet Jewry and stated that when emigration restrictions end Soviet Jews would leave by the tens of thousands.
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