The Phoenix Jewish news., 1956-11-23
lsrueICuIIed
KeYIn Soviet
World Plot

NEW YORK-Top leaders of the
world Zionist movement issued this
week a grim warning against the
berilS of United Nations imposed
solution which would restore con-
tlitions as existed before the pres
ent Middle East crisis. They char
Acterized such a solution as a UN
Munich" which they said would
leave the way open for the seizure
of the Middle East by Soviet mill
tary power.
The warning was coupled with
an appeal to the United States to
press for direct peace negotiations
between Israel and Egypt.
THE ZIONIST leaders spoke at
an emergency meeting at Hunter
lCollege under the auspices of the
Zionist Organization of America.
Speakers included DR.. Nahum Gold
mann, president of the World Zion
ist Organization, and DR.. Emanuel
Neumann, president of the Zionist
Organization of America.
DR.. Goldman said that while Is
rael'S security situation has i'm
proved appreciatively as a result
of the destruction of large por-
ton of Egypt's fighting power, the
political situation which has led
to the military action of the past
few weeks remains unSolved,
plagued by uncertainty and preg-
nant with peril.
HE MAINTAINED that "the dis
unity of the Western world and the
unity of the pro-Arab bloc created
an untenable situation for Israel,
adding that "the danger is as great
today, as it had been before Oper-
alton Sinai, that Israel might find
herself politically isolated, con-
fronted by a UN-imposed solution
fashioned by the pressures OF the
Soviet bloc and the majority OF the
Arab-Asian bloc"
Emphasizing that "the decisive
factor will be the position of the
United States of America" DR..
Goldman charged that "it is un-
fortunate that on all essential queS-
tions of definitive settlement be-
tween Israel and the Arab states,
American policy is lacking in clar-
ity and consistency and firmness."
He asserted that "this situation in
vites the Soviet bloc and Asian
African friends of the Arabs to
jockey for position and move into
the vacuum created by American
vacillation."
DIR. NEUMANN cautioned as "a
dangerous assumption" to regard
the threat of active Russian inter-
vention as a "diversionary move
intended to distract the worlds at
tention from RuSSia'S bloody as
Sault on Hungary and her further
moves on other satellite countries"
He said that "for the Moscow
strategiStS, the Middle East is not
a minor or secondary theatre, but
of primary Importance in their
plans for world domination. If
they can take over the Middle East,
not just politically, but militarily-
as they hope-both Africa and Asia
will be theirs, and the cause of the
free world well nigh doomed"
HE AOh 1NEO1DEN1 TG1GIIGO
to startling revelations that have
come from London and Paris "of
the fantastic quantities of arms
valued at hundreds of millions of
dollars which the Soviets have
poured in Egypt and other Arab
states; and the contingent of Rus
sian experts and technicians-over
1000 in number - already on the
spot" He charged that "this tre-
men6ous military build-up could
not have been intended for use
only against IsraeP' and that cit
points to a Soviet conspiracy of gi-
gantic scope: to build up Soviet
military power in the Middle East
to a level that would enable them
to seize control of the region, to
subjugate it and use it as a base,
menacing all other positions of the
Western Powers, including Ameri-
can bases in North Africa and
Southwestern Asia"