Loon Dulzin, acting chairman of the Jewish Agency and World Zionist Organization Executives, told the European conference of the World Union of General Zionists of which he is co-chairman, that Israel must have a government of national unity “in response to the critical times.”
Addressing the two-day conference in Paris attended by delegates and guests from eight European countries and Israel, Dulzin emphatically rejected the notion spread, he said, by the Labor Alignment, that the Likud would hamper peace negotiations. He said that people who are not keen on giving away territory for nothing were not necessarily against peace negotiations. In the and, Dulzin stated, their attitude may be more conducive to peace than what he termed a spineless posture.
Jacques Torczyner, member of the Jewish Agency and co-chairman of the World Union of General Zionists, also demanded a government of national unity and called upon Zionists everywhere to make their voices heard on issues concerning the destiny of Israel “which is ultimately the destiny of the Jewish people as a whole.” Delegates to the conference were from France, Britain, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Holland and West Germany.
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