Many of them were Egyptian citizens. They were just the helpless victims of Nassers monomania. The New York Times took notice of this in an editorial dated November 29. 1956: Despite an Egyptian denial. there is enough evidence now that Jews are being deported from Egypt * * 0 because they are Jews * * to require United Nations intervention. The methods used are so similar to what Hitler did before the war as to be frightening. In the United States Governments appeasement of Nasser. these inhumanities were ignored. No voice spoke up to denounce Nasser. and no steps were taken to indict him for his crime of genocide * * among others. The United States did not even accord the same generous treatment to Jews driven out of Egypt. as it did to the refugees from Communist Hungary. I ask you: "Is there any meaning. or consistency. to our foreign policy? Is our Government afraid of Nasser?
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