BERTRAND RUSSELL
SCORES ISRAEL AS AGGRESSOR
[The following statement on the Israeli attack in the Middle East was released by Bertrand Russell on June 12.]
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Israel's attack on Syria, which has continued despite universal demand for ceasefire and assurance by Israeli leaders that they intend to advance no further, should be condemned as aggression. In this policy, Israel has proceeded with the unstated approval of Western governments which desire the overthrow of the Syrian regime because it challenges their customary exploitation of the resources of the Arab world.
Israeli spokesmen have indicated that Israel will not automatically relinguish its newly captured territory, which is three times the size of Israel itself.
This, too, is aggression in the Israeli pattern of earlier years: it seizes what it can and holds on until this becomes the "status quo." Israel should respect ceasefire arrangements, cooperate with any agency which supervises them and recall all its troops within its borders.
The demands of the governments of the United States and of Britain for the unfettered flow of oil from Arab land are demands that the exploitation of these BERTRAND RUSSELL lands continue unhindered. The Arab world must be permitted to own and develop its Europe should not equate Israel's survivown natural resources. al with its policy of territorial con-
quest. Aggression is unjustifiable, the
Those who rightly sympathize with more so when perpetrated by those who Jewish victims of Hitler's aggression in know its full meaning.