Friday, September 5, 1917

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Page Thirteen

Text of UN Group's Report on Palestine

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LAKE SUCCESS, L. I. — Fol-
lowing is the summary' of the
recommendations in the United
Nations Special Committee on
Palestine report:
Apart from specific plans as
to the constitution of the future
government and territorial pro-
visions, matters on which a ma-
jority and a minority proposal
are submitted, the committee
forwards to the General Assem-
bly the following eleven unani-
mous recommendations:

Martial Law in Nathanya

Recommendations

1. The mandate for Palestine
shall be terminated at the ear-
liest practicable dater
2. Independence shall be
galled in Palestine at the ear-
date.
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3. There shall be a transition-
al period preceding the granting
of independence which shall be
as short as possible, consistent
with the achievement of the
conditions essential to inde-
pendence.
4. During the transitional
period the authority entrusted
with administering Palestine
and preparing it for indepen-
dence shall be responsible to the
United Nations,

A Jewish youth, resident of Nathanya, leans forward earnestly to answer questions put him by
British authorities, after strict and brutal martial law was declared in Nathanya, following the
kidnapping and execution of two British sergeants. Telephone and postal communications
were cut and day and night curfew enforced.

The objectives of the eco-
nomic union of Palestine shall
be a customs union, common
currency, operation in the com-
mon interest of railways, inter-
state highways, postal, telephone
and telegraphic services, and the
ports of Haifa and Jaffa. It
shall also promote joint eco-
nomic development especially in
respect to irrigation, land recla-
mation and soil conservation.
A joint economic board shall
be established to consist of three
representatives of each of the
two states and three foreign
members appointed by the Eco-
nomic and Social Council of the
United Nations.
The functions of the joint eco-
nomic board shall be to organize
and administer the objectives of
the economic union. After vari-
ous obligations have been met
in full, the surplus revenue
from the customs and other com-
mon services shall be divided in
the following manner: not less
than 5 per cent and not more
than 10 per cent to the City of
Jerusalem and the residue in
equal proportion to the Arab
and Jewish. states. •

IV.The City of

Jerusalem
HOLY PLACES
5. With regard to religious
The City of Jerusalem shall
interest and the holy places:
be placed, after the transitional
(a) In whatever solution may establishment of such privileges scheme recommended and shall all residents and citizens of the period, under the international

be adopted, the sacred character
of the holy places shall be pre-
served and access to the holy
places shall be insured in ac-
cordance with existing rights.
(b) The present rights of the
several religious communities
shall not be impaired or denied.
(c) An adequate system for
the impartial settlement of re-
ligious disputes shall be devised.
(d) Specific stipulations re-
garding these matters shall be
inserted in the constitution or
constitutions or any indepen-
dent Palestinian state or states
which may be. created.

and immunities in an indepen- carry out the following meas- two states in Palestine and the trusteeship system by means of
City of Jerusalem shall be pre- a trusteeship agreement which
ures:
dent Palestine.
shall designate the United Na-
UN COOPERATION
Admit into the proposed served.
tions as the administering au-
11. The General Assembly Jewish state 150,000 Jewish im- ECONOMIC TREATY
D. The constituent assembly in thority. The City of Jerusalem
shall call on the peoples of Pal- migrants at a uniform monthly
estine to extend their fullest co- rate, 30,000 of whom on human- each state shall appoint a pro- shall include within its borders
operation to the United Nations itarian grounds. Should the visional government empowered the present municipality of Jeru-
in its effort to devise and put transitional period continue for to make the declaration and sign salem plus the surrounding vil-
into effect an equitable and more than two terms Jewish the treaty of economic union. lages and towns, the most east7
workable means of settling the immigration shall be allowed at On making the declaration and ern of which to be Abu Dis, the
situation prevailing the rate of 60,000 a year. The signing the treaty of economic most Shu'fat. The City of Jeru-
difficult
there, and to this end, in the Jewish Agency shall be respon- union by either state, its inde- salem shall be demilitarized.
interest of peace, good order, sible for the selection and care pendence as a sovereign state The governor of the City of
and lawfulness, to exert every of the Jewish imigrants and for shall be recognized. If only one Jerusalem shall be appointed by
effort to bring to an early end the organizing of Jewish immi- state fulfills these conditions the the Trusteeship Council of the
the acts of violence which have gration during the transitional General Assembly of the United United Nations. He will be nei-
Nations shall take such action as ther Arab nor Jew nor a citi-
for too long beset that country. period.
EUROPE'S JEWS
it may deem proper. Pending zen of the Palestinian states nor,
agreed TRANSFER OF LAND
12. The committee
such action the regime of eco- at the- time of his appointment,
6. The General Assembly with two dissenting votes to a
2. The restrictions introduced
a resident of the City of Jeru-
should undertake immediately twelfth recommendation as fol- under the authority of the Pal- nomic union shall apply.
salem. The governor shall be
the initiation and execution of lows: In the appraisal of the estine (amendment) order-in-
empowered to make decisions
an international arrangement Palestine question it should be council of May 25, 1939, will not II. Declaration
on the basis of the existing
whereby the problem of the dis- accepted
as incontrovertible apply to the transfer of land
The declaration shall contain rights ("status quo") in cases of
tressed European Jews, of whom that any solution for Palestine within the borders of the pro- provisions for the protection of
disputes which may arise be-
approximately 250,000 are in as- cannot be considered as a solu- posed Jewish state.
the holy places and religious tween the different communities
sembly centers, will be dealt tion of the Jewish problem in
buildings
and
sites
and
the
re-
B. Constituent assemblies shall
in respect of the holy places,
with as a matter of extreme general.
be elected by the, populations of ligious and minority rights. religious buildings and sites in
urgency for the alleviation of
the areas which are to comprise There shall be no discrimination any part of Palestine. The pro-
their plight and of the Palestine Scheme of Partition
the Arab and Jewish states, re- on the grounds of race, religion tection of the holy places, relig-
problem.
With
Economic
Union
spectively. Qualified voters for or language.
ious buildings and sites in the
7. It shall be a prior condition .
The state shall ensure ade- City of Jerusalem shall be en-
each state for this election shall
According
to
the
plan
of
the
to the granting of independence
be persons over twenty years of quate primary and secondary trusted to a special police force
that the political structure of majority (the representatives of age who are:
education for the Arab or Jew- the members of which shall 'be
the new state or states, includ- Canada, Czechoslovakia, Guate-
ish minorities in their own lan- recruited outside Palestine and
(a)
Palestinian
citizens
resid-
ing its constitution or other fun- mala, the Netherlands, Peru, ing in that state and
guage and in their cultural tra- shall be neither Arab nor Jew.
damental law, shall be basically Sweden and Uruguay), Palestine
(b) Arabs and Jews residing in ditions, and each community The City of Jerusalem shall be
shall
be
constituted
into
an
democratic, i. e., representative
the state, although not Pales- shall have the right to maintain
in character. The constitution Arab state, a Jewish state and tinian citizens, who, before vot- its own schools for the education included in the economic union
shall contain guaranties of the City of Jerusalem. The Arab ing, have signed a notice of in- of its own members in its own of Palestine.
essential human rights and fun- and the Jewish states will be- tention to become citizens of language.
V. Boundaries of the
damental freedoms, and safe- come independent after a transi- such state.
Palestinian citizens, as well as
guards to protect the rights and tional period of two years be-
Arabs and Jews who, although Arab and Jewish States
ginning on September 1, 1947. JERUSALEM CITIZENS
interests of minorities.
The proposed Arab state will
not holding Palestinian citizen-
Arabs and Jews residing in ship, reside in Palestine shall, include western Galilee, the hill
8. A prior condition of inde- Before, however, their indepen-
recognized,
they
be
the City of Jerusalem, who have upon the recognition of inde- country of Samaria and Judea
pendence shall also be the in- ence can
corporation in the constitution must adopt a constitution, make signed a notice of intention to pendence, become citizens of the with the exclusion of the City
of basic principles of the Char- to the United Nations a declara- become citizens, the Arabs of the state in which they are resident. of Jerusalem, and the coastal
ter of the United Nations, includ- tion containing certain guaran- Arab state and the Jews of the CHOOSE CITIZENSHIP
plain from Isdud to the Egyp-
ing the obligation to settle in- ties, and sign a treaty by which Jewish state, shall be entitled to
tian frontier. The proposed
Such
persons,
if
over
18
years
ternational disputes by peaceful a system of economic collabora- vote in the Arab and Jewish of age, may opt within one year Jewish state will include east-
means and to refrain in inter- tion is established and the eco- states resepectively. Women may
for the citizenship of the other ern Galilee, the Esdraelon plain,
national relations from the nomic union of Palestine is cre- vote and be elected to the con- state of which they are citizens; most of the coastal plain, and
ated.
A
summary
of
its
essen-
stituent assemblies.
threat or use of force against
provided that no person who has the whole of Beersheba subdis-
t rritorial integrity or politi- tial features follows:
C. The constituent assemblies signed the notice of intention trict, which includes the Negev.
dependence of any state 1. Transitional Period
shall draw up the ,constitutions referred to in Paragraph B
The three sections of the Arab
or in any manner inconsistent
of the states. The constitutions above about the constituent as- state and the three sections of
with the purposes of the United and Constitution
shall provide for the establish- semblies shall have the right of the Jewish state are linked to-
Nations.
gether by two points of inter-
A. During the transitional pe- ment in each state of a legisla- option.
ECONOMIC UNITY
riod the United Kingdom shall tive body elected by universal
A resident in the City of Jeru- section, of which one is situated
9. It shall be accepted as a carry on the administration of suffrage and by secret ballot on salem; who signs a notice of in- southeast of Afula in the sub-
cardinal principle that the pres- Palestine under the auspices the basis of proportional repre- tention may opt for the citizen- district of Nazareth and the
ervation or the economic unity of the United Nations and on sentation and an executive body ship of one of the Palestiniarf other northeast of El Majdul in
of Palestine is indispensable to such conditions and under such responsible to the legislature. states, if an Arab of the Arab the sub-district of Gaza.
the life and development of the supervision as the United King- They shall also contain provi- state and if a Jew of the Jewish The Arab State
dom and the United Nations sions for the protection of the state.
country and its peoples.
Western Galilee is bounded
10. States whose nations have may agree upon. If so desired, holy places, religious buildings
on the west by the Mediterran-
in the past enjoyed in Palestine the administration will be car- and sites, and for the religious III. Economic Union
A treaty shall be entered into ean and in the north by the
the privileges and immunities of ried on with the assiaiance of and minority rights. Equal and
foreigners including consular one or more members of the non - discriminatory rights in between the two states, which frontier of the Lebanon from
jurisdiction by capitulation or United Nations. The United civil, political and religious mat- shall contain certain provisions Rai en Naqra to Qadas; on
usage in the Ottoman Empire, Kingdom shall during the tran- ters and the enjoyment of hu- to establish the economic union the east the boundary starting
should be invited by the United sitional period take such pre- man rights and fundamental of Palestine and to provide for from Qadas passes southwards,
Nations to renounce any rights paratory steps as may be neces- freedoms shall be guaranteed. other matters of common in- west of Safad to the southwest-
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pertaining to them in the re- sary for the execution of the Freedom of transit and visit for terest.

