The State Department “is again missing the boat” by failing to insist on peace between Israel and the Arab states, Rep. Abraham J. Multer, Democrat of New York, declared here last night at the 48th annual convention of Bnai Zion, the Zionist fraternal order. Rep. Multer called for a “peace offensive” noting that “we have a price to offer in the form of economic aid and technical assistance and financing the cost of the resettlement of Arab refugees among their Arab brethren.
Mendel Fisher, executive director of the Jewish National Fund of America, told the 500 delegates from a dozen states that as of the end of 1956,600 rural settlements had been established on JNF land in Israel, 83,000 housing units had been erected on the land and more than 27,000,000 trees planted. Max Varon, Israel consul in New York, told the convention that the “leading democrats must guide the pro-Western Arab rulers to a peaceful co-existence with Israel.”
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