Arab diplomats in the United States today sent greetings to the American Council for Judaism on the occasion of the Council’s annual national four-day conference which opens here tomorrow at the Hotel Warwick at which Assistant Secretary of State Henry A. Byroade will be one of the principal speakers. Mr. Byroade will outline the American policy in the Middle East.
Lessing Rosenwald, president of the organization, also received a message from President Eisenhower extending greetings to the members of the Council attending the conference. “It is my hope that your conference will further your commendable objectives in the fields of religion and civic responsibilities – objectives that all of us hope will be vigorously advanced by the Council for many decades to come, ” the message stated.
The Arab diplomats who sent greetings to the conference included Dr. Charles Malik, Ambassador of Lebanon who speaks for all the Arab states at the United Nations Security Council, and Rashad Mourad, Consul General of Egypt in New York. Their messages were made public by the Council.
Dr. Malik said in his message: “There is a fundamental error in the supposition of those who identify religion with one race, one nation, or one people. Therefore, we all admire your effort to save Judaism from such encroachment and to preserve its universal super-racial message. May God bless your activities and help you in the fulfillment of your high aims.”
The Egyptian message stated: “The American Council for Judaism, whose basic principle is that Judaism is a religion, is contributing much to help the American people understand from the proper perspective, the situation between the Arab states and Israel. Judaism is definitely a religion and not a nationality. So much trouble would have been avoided if the people of the United States had borne that fact in mind. No person would approve the dislodgment of the Arab people from their homes, or the deprivation of their property, in order to establish a State of Israel against the will of all the countries and the people in that area.”
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