ISRAEL 'S PECULIAR POSITION

The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are

forbidden to the Jews.

Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no
refugee problem. Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it.

Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchman.

Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese and no one says a word
about refugees.

But in the case of Israel , the displaced Arabs have become eternal
refugees.

Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single one.

Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than
any committed by the Nazis.

Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms.

But when Israel is victorious, it must sue for peace.

Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.

Other nations, when they are defeated, survive and recover but should Israel
be defeated it would be destroyed.

Had Nasser triumphed last June [1967], he would have wiped Israel off the
map, and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews.

No commitment to the Jews by any government, including our own, is worth the
paper it is written on.

There is a cry of outrage all over the world when people die in Vietnam or
when two Blacks are executed in Rhodesia .

But, when Hitler slaughtered Jews no one demonstrated against him.

The Swedes, who were ready to break off diplomatic relations with America
because of what we did in Vietnam , did not let out a peep when Hitler was
slaughtering Jews.

They sent Hitler choice iron ore, and ball bearings, and serviced his troops
in Norway .

The Jews are alone in the world.

If Israel survives, it will be solely because of Jewish efforts. And Jewish
resources.

Yet at this moment, Israel is our only reliable and unconditional ally.

We can rely more on Israel than Israel can rely on us.

And one has only to imagine what would have happened last summer [1967] had
the Arabs and their Russian backers won the war, to realize how vital the
survival of Israel is to America and the West in general.

I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will
it go with all of us.
Should Israel perish, the Holocaust will be upon us all.