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Sponsored by the Radcliffe Graduate Chapter, Esther Herlitz, consul of Israel in New York, and Fayez Sayegh, deputy director of the Arab States Delegation to the U.N., spoke to a packed audience in the Alumnae Lecture Room at Radcliffe...
...Sayegh opened the forum by giving his conception of the "Palestine Problem" as that of an area where one small section has been completely and artificially transformed in religion, culture, language and economy in too short a time. One can not solve or negotiate the problem unless one treats it within this historical background, he said...
Miss Herlitz replied that the greatest stumbling block to successful negotiation is the Arab nations' refusal to "accept Israel as a fact." She treated Sayegh's statement as evidence that the Arabs continually wish to return to a state of affairs which no longer exists...
...detail on the refugee problem, continual truce violations, and Zionist proposals for expansion. Miss Herlitz asserted that Israel was satisfied with her present territory and would never try to expand. She asked the Arabs to "take the chip off their shoulder" and approach negotiation with a more positive attitude. Sayegh responded that his country could not accept happenings as "accomplished facts regardless of their method of accomplishment...
Esther Herlitz, Consul of Israel in New York, and Fayez Sayegh, Deputy Director of the Arab States Delegation to the U.N., will speak Sunday in a panel discussion of "The Middle East, Today and Tomorrow," sponsored by the Radcliffe Alumnae Association...