Israel must be secured by her own strength. as well as by the support of the United States. Let us realize that an American policy that is weak. vacillating and influenced by expediency. will encourage Arab belligerence. We must make it clearto the Arabs. to Israel. and to the worldthat we will not stand idly by when aggression is prepared or begun. when international law is challenged. when the plight of refugees is exploited. when rivers are spitefully diverted. I understand the Jordanian economy. which is developing satisfactorily. is gradually absorbing the United Nations refugees. I understand further that they are literally vanishing as such. as Jordans urban centers grow and encompass them. I wonder whether the number of refugees has not been somewhat exaggerated by the refusal of surviving refugees to turn in the identification cards of their deceased relatives. I am satisfied that aid be continued for the refugees. but the host countries to whom control should be transferred should not use them as a political weapon with which to beat Israel over the head. Our visitor of yesterday seemed distressed over what he called diminishing good will toward and friendship with the Arab world. Is the fact that we have been feeding almost half of Egypts people under Public Law 480. while she sells her cotton to the Soviet Union for arms. evidence of this fact?
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Refugees are exaggerating their numbers by not turning in deceased relatives' identification cards.