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The Vice President commented that he thought that the
State Department version of paragraph 30 was adequate. On the
other hand, anyone who has visited the Near East or studied the
area must certainly have reached the conclusion that the major
immediate problem there was the problem of the Arab refugees. On
this problem the Vice President said he urged a new look and the
allocation of new resources and money if they were needed. Solution of the refugee problem, the Vice President thought, was the
thing to concentrate on at the moment.
Secretary Dulles replied that in point of fact the Under
Secretary of State was giving his special attention currently to
trying to devise an answer to the Arab refugee problem, and he accordingly invited Secretary Herter to comment. Secretary Herter
observed that every approach thus far made to the Arabs on ways
and means to solve the problem elicited no response whatsoever.
_While the Israelis had indicated a willingness to make sume con-
‘cessions to start solving this problem, they naturally do not want
' to put all their cards on the table at once.
Mr. George Allen said that he well understood the frustrating character of all attempts to solve Arab-Israeli tension.
Nevertheless, he had one suggestion to throw out, which the menbers of the Council, he feared, might find rather shocking at
first sight. The question of further Jewish immigration into
Israel was perhaps an even more difficult aspect of Arab-Israeli
hostility than the question of the Arab refugees. Could we consider, accordingly, a position that the United States will not
support any further immigration into Israel except in instances
where religious persecution of Jews is shown to exist? The Zionists of the world would not be happy with such a U. S. position,
but middle-of-the-road Jews throughout the world would probably
give this position considerable support. Most of the Jews who at
the present time desire to emigrate and go to Israel come either
from Morocco and Tunisia or else from areas behind the Iron Curtain. There is no religious persecution of Jews in Morocco and
Tunisia, and the Jews within the Soviet Union at least suffer no
more religious persecution than Christians. Accordingly, Mr. Allen
thought his proposal worth consideration. If we took up a policy
of opposing further immigration of Jews into Israel we would, of
course, have to follow up this policy by refusing tax exemption to
contributions made by Americans in support of organized immigration
into Israel.
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Secretary Dulles expressed the belief that we could not
end such tax exemptions without recourse to an Act of Congress,
and he and his State Department colleagues believed that there was
no possibility of the Congress passing an act to end tax exemption
on contributions made on behalf of emigrants desiring to settle in
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