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An Open Leiter:
Arab Higher Committee Threats
Before UN Ridiculed as Bombast
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Friday, October II, 114?
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
GENTLEMEN OF THE ARAB
mruessiNistommi
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HIGHER COMMITTEE:
HOW MUCH MORE LAND DO THE ARABS NEED
I question your authority to
appear before the United Na-
tions as spokesmen for the Pal-
estinian Arabs, or, for that mat-
ter, as spokesmen for any Ar-
abs. As you well know, you are
a self-appointed committee, by
no means representing the com-
mon people. However, since you
have been given a voice before
the United Nations, I have no
alternative but to take cog-
1-kt
nizance of the statement made
ARAD
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by Mr. Ghory, representing youe
gly
ANGLO-EGYPTIAN
committ e e, as to your attitude
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on the United Nations 'recom-
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mendations in regard to Pales-
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•Mr. Ghory stated that the Ar-
single
Arab
achievement,
no date to Palestine, because then
abs had lost faith in the United
Nations and felt that the time work of art, of letters or of your leaders were grateful to
the world, but apparently you
had come when the Arabs science.
Indisputable statistical evi-
have forgotten it now, and you
should resort to force to defend
dence shows that )75 per-
threaten the world with blood-
their cause. He further stated
cent of the Arab population
shed if the promise made to
that the committee representing
of Palestine are either im-
the Jewish people 25 years ago
the seven independent states' in
migrants themselves or de-
will be fulfilled in part only.
the Arab League will give
scendants of persons who
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arms, men and money to the
immigrated into Palestine
Palestinian Arabs if partition is
THREAT RIDICULED
during the last hundred
approved thus bringing about
ASIDE FROM YOUR un-
years.
civil strife and a possible
gratefulness, I question your idle
Thus,
gentlemen,
prior
to
World War III.
World War I your Arab people threat. You threaten that you
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were a homeless, persecuted will fight, that you will send aid
and enslaved people. During to the Palestinian Arabs in the
ARABS UNGRATEFUL
way of arms and money.
THE LEAST I CAN SAY is World War I the league of Na-
We all know that no Arab
that you are a most ungrateful tions provided for your people
state or combination of states
, group. A brief survey of the five Arab states.
can start a war in Palestine
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history of your people will
without British connivance.
prove that. • THIRD OF U. S. AREA
Even if you were united, and
The Arab people are of Se-
AS A RESULT OF THE AL- you were not under British
mitic descent originally living LIED VICTORY IN WORLD
domination, your combined arm-
exclusively in the vast territory WAR I THE ARABS RECEIV-
ies are not strong enough to
which is called Arabia proper. ED SOVEREIGNTY OVER fight against a
determined ideal-
Palestine proper has never MORE THAN 1,200,000 SQUARE
liad more than a thin layer of MILES.
Arab population and only 437
This territory is more than
years of Arab rule in the course one third the area of the con-
of more than 3,d00 years of re- tinental United States, It in-
corded history (634-1071). Even- cludes six Arab states, Saudi
tually the country was con- Arabia, Yemen, Iraq, Transjor-
quered and subjugated by vari- dan, Syria and Lebanon.
WASHINGTON, D. C. — An
ous peoples, such as the Cru-
In the words of David Lloyd emergency appeal to President
saders, the Kurds, the Mongols George in his "Memoirs of the Truman to use his office "not only
and finally by the Ottoman Peace Conference," Volume I, for favorable consideration of the
Turks. Never after the year 1071 Page 723, "No race has done principles of the UNSCOP major-
has Arab rule existed in Pal- better out of the fidelity which ity report, but also its implemen-
estine.•
the Allies redeemed their prom- tation with the United States as-
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ises to the oppressed races than suming its share of the responsi-
bility," was made today by Frank
EMIGRATE TO LAND
the Arabs."
Goldman. president of Bnai
TILE WHOLE HISTORY of
While your people were
on behalf of its national execu-
Palestine is an almost uninter-
given the 1,200,000 square
tive committee.
rupted story of wanton destruc-
miles, the Jewish people
In addition, Bnai Brith urged
tion of human life and proper-
were also given a little
President Truman "in this elev-
ty which finally reduced the
stretch of land, which is one
enth and decisive hour" to inter-
country to an arid and nearly
percent of the territory giv-
vene personally to accomplish the
empty desert. Apart from the
en to you.
following:
Mosque of Omar, which was
You see, they too were home-
1. The immediate large-scale
built in the 7th Century by less at that time. Your so-
Greek architects for the dura- called leaders at that time did immigration of Jews into Pales-
tion of Arab life in Palestine, not hesitate to,, indorse the Bal- tine.
2. Making ships available so
(1300 years) there was not one four declaration and the Man T
that displaced persons desiring to
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immigrate to Palestine need not
languish in the camps of Ger-
Goldntan Urges
U.S. to Press for
Palestine Solution
BOXMAN BROS.
Serving Detroit for Over 25 Years
istic army of Jewish youth. The
Egyptian army consists of 22,000
ill-armed and ill-trained con-
scripts. It is without armor,
without an airforce and without
a. single submarine or other
warship.
As far as Iraq is concerned, it
took only two battalions of
British troops to suppress the
pro-Axis military putsch 9f the
Rashid Ali government. As for
the army of Saudi Arabia, the
desert horsemen of Ibn Saud
might have been an effective
force in the days of Mohammed.
Today they could be dispersed
by a single squadron of planes
long before they reached the
lands of the fertile crescent.
As to Syria, it took the in-
tervention of Great Britain to
drive out the small French
troop in Syria, and as far as
Transjordan is concerned, it has
no army except as it is con-
trolled by the British govern-
ment.
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CLAIMS NOT BACKED
THUS IT IS OBVIOUS that
your threats are idle and that
your claims to Palestine are un-
substantiated. What, then, is
your real reason for an oppo-
sition to a Jewish Palestine? It
certainly is neither religious
nor political, but rather social
and economic.
The Arab population of Pal-
estine is negligible in compari-
son with the vast number of
Arab elements in North Africa
and Asia.
You Arab chieftains did not
arouse the Moslem world
against Mussolini's regime in
Libya; on the contrary, you
were greatly honored guests in
Rome.
You rich Arabian landowners
did nothing to improve the
nature, the civilization or the
living standards of the people
in your countries. Your large
Arabian states are under-popu-
lated and the masses of your
people are held in a backward
and inferior condition.
You big effendis fear the ex-
ample and the impulse which
the Jewish colonization of Pal-
estine presents to the people of
the Near East.
You resent the social and eco-
nomic uplift of the Arabian
workers in Palestine. You act
as all Fascist forces have acted.
You scream your fear of social
reform behind nationalistic slo-
gans and demagoguery. If it
were not for you so-called lead-
ers and instigators I have no
doubt that perfect agreement
and cooperation could be
achieved between the Arab and
Jewish people. But all that
would be at the cost of your
great harems and fat bellies.
S. T.
Brandeis Women Plan
Movies for Meeting
Coining Events
Listed by Center
,
Dr. Morris Raskin will be guest
speaker at a meeting of the Wed-
nesday Evening Discussion Group
Oct. 15 in the Jewish Commu-
nity Center.
A social will be held by the
New Detroiters Club at 8 p. in,
Tuesday, Mrs. Alice Schwab, di-
rector announced.
Meetings of the Center Chess
Club are planned each Tuesday
evening, Yebuda Rosenman, young
adult leader, revealed. For in-
formation call MA. 8400.
Mrs.•David B. Werbe, consul-
tant of the Center's art school,
announced that the 27th annual
exhibition of Detroit Jewish ar-
tists will be held Oct. 21-Nov. 4
at the Center.
Center Intermediates
Plan Contest for Social
A "Name the Record" contest
will highlight a get-together so-
cial of the Intermediate Group
of the Jewish Community Center
from 3 to 5 p. m. Sunday in But-
zel Hall of the Center. Dancing
will be held.
Leonard Serwetter has been
named lounge supervisor, Mort
Goodman, group director, an-
nounced.
The lounge c1mmittee consists
of Barbara Axelrod, June Feld-
man, Gail Mogell, Helen Levin,
Phyllis Sutherland, Mickey Sie-
gel, Pauline Wallens and Mert
Schlessinger.
Linen Shower Planned
by Branch 5 of LZO
'Branch No. 5 of the Labor
Zionist Organization will be host
at a linen shower at 8:30 p.m.
Saturday in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. E. Wolk, 3223 Hazelwood
avenue.
Purpose of the affair is to es-
tablish a linen supply for the
new settlement, Kibbutz Aliyah
Doled.
BODZIN FAMILY CLUB
Harry Blitz will be installed
as president of the Bodzin Fam-
ily Club at a meeting at 8:30
p. m. Saturday, Oct. 11, in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Bodzin. Othet new officers are
Milton Duchan, vice-president;
Rachel Bodzin, secretary; and
Harry Bodzin, treasurer.
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A movie showing Bnai Brith
contributions to varioijs philan-
thropies will be presented at an
open meeting of the Louis D.
Brandeis Chapter at 8:30 p. m.
Monday in the Rose Sittig Cohen
Bldg. Mrs. Gerald Goldberg will
speak.
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