Page Twelve An Open Leiter: Arab Higher Committee Threats Before UN Ridiculed as Bombast • Friday, October II, 114? DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE GENTLEMEN OF THE ARAB mruessiNistommi mar- - 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 ir ' by Mr. Ghory, representing youe gly ANGLO-EGYPTIAN committ e e, as to your attitude SUDAN 14r '4 4.4 on the United Nations 'recom- • mendations in regard to Pales- • tine. OA EDUCATION DEPT./Iu n ih, ...... ... THE a I •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 • • • 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 • • .• • 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 • • • 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- • • • 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 • 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. • • • 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. Coiffures By NINO Announces Association With MARIE ROSE, R. E. UNWANTED HAIR by Remove.1 permsneeil I y A movie showing Bnai Brith contributions to varioijs philan- thropies will be presented at an open meeting of the Louis D. 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