The House of Representatives today received its second resolution within a week calling on Secretary of State Dean Rusk to furnish “full and complete information with respect to the reasons underlying the United States sponsorship and active support” of Israel’s censure in the United Nations.
Today’s resolution, identical to the one introduced last week by New York Democratic Congressman Leonard Farbstein, was introduced by Democratic Congressman Barratt O’Hara of Illinois. The Illinois lawmaker’s action is intended to add additional strength to the original Farbstein request. Both drafts have been referred to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, of which Farbstein and O’Hara are members.
Democratic Congressman Abraham Multer, of New York, said today in a speech on the House floor, that the United States has “no right” to say it will spend millions of dollars for its own defense “and at the same time frown upon the conduct of other nations who defend themselves against attack by enemies who seek to destroy them.”
The Brooklyn Congressman said that the United States, by virtue of its support of the UN resolution to censure Israel, “lives by a double standard.” He told the House that the United States “can bring peace to the Middle East by insisting that the Arabs meet with the Israelis and negotiate in good faith a permanent peace treaty.”
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