The recently renewed campaign of hostile anti-Israeli propaganda by the United Arab Republic “cannot be considered harmless, since it is backed by great military forces and by the violent ambitions of a dictator who is out to make the Middle East his back yard, and strangle Israel in the process. “Foreign Minister Golda Meir warned here last night.
(The Cairo Radio, according to dispatches from London, has begun broadcasting a serialization of the so-called “Protocols of the Elders of Zion, “the notorious anti-Jewish forgery. The broadcasts are being beamed specifically to Arabic listeners in the refugee camps. On the broadcasts, the refugees are being told that the Jews consider themselves a superior race, fit to rule the world under regulation said down by “the elders of Zion.”)
Addressing the 100-member United Jewish Appeal mission from the United States, Mrs. Meir declared that the situation makes it mandatory for Israel to “reinforce its defensive capacity.”
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