Dr. Joseph P. Sternstein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, tempered his expression of gratitude at the U.S. veto in the Security Council Monday night with an expression of “disappointment and regret” at the explanatory remarks given by the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Daniel P. Moynihan, and the State Department.
“The explanation that the resolution ‘would have blocked the surer and the tested way to a settlement in favor of one that would not have worked’ is disturbing,” Sternstein said, “in that it makes no mention of the fact that the vetoed resolution attempted to give the Arabs nonexistent rights to area which is Israel, and thus in effect, win international support for their efforts to disestablish the Jewish State.”
Sternstein said he felt that the speech was an attempt by the Administration to demonstrate even-handedness “and this, coupled with the unprecedented budget making practice of announcing now that it will cut aid to Israel in 1977, makes us see this as an attempt to appease the Arabs for the U.S. veto.” It is all “clearly designed to pressure Israel to make further unilateral concessions,” Sternstein stated.
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