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Fascists
Fighting
Muftis
30,000
B4f,:ittle Against Palestine Jews

VOLUME 12—NO. 20

(By Direct Teletype Wire to The Jewish News)

JERUSALEM (JTA)—While the UN is debating at Lake Success with regard to
organizing an international force to protect the world decision on Palestine, another in-
ternational force—the Black International—:already is operating in the Holy Land front,
according to information from a high Haganah source.
The Black International army of 30,000 veterans of the old Fascist ranks is rapidly
training in Syria and partly already is in action attacking Jewish colonies. The Fascist
anti-Jewish army is composed of Nazis, remnants of the Vlasov battalion of renegade
Russians, remnants of the Anders army of reactionary Poles and Yugoslav Moslems
whom the Mufti organized into a Moslem brigade for Hitler.
Bodies of ex-Nazi Poles already were found when attackers were beaten off in sev-
eral raids by Jewish colonists.
On Wednesday, 480 Jews, part of the January quota, arrived in Haifa from Cyprus.

Goldie Meyerson Pleads for Defense Funds

—Inteinattonal Photo

Martyr in Judea:

One of the first U. S. citi-

zens to fall victim of Arab bullets in Palestine was Moshe A. Pearlstein,
22, of Brooklyn, N. Y. - He is shown (left) with friends in front of a
Jerusalem restaurant. Moshe served as a guard and scout for a
Haganah force which was ambushed by Arabs while trying to rein-

force the settlement of Kfar-Etzion in the Hebron hills of Palestine.

Mother Weeps

for Her Son

In her New York City home,

Mrs. Lillian Seligman weeps on

hearing that her 25-year-old

son, Dov, was killed by Arab

sniper bullets near the settle-

ment of Tira, Palestine. A U. S.

Army veteran, Seligman suc-

cessfully entered the Holy Land

on a Haganah immigration

blockade running ship.

—International Photo

CHICAGO—Mrs. Goldie Myerson, chairman of the political department of the Jewish
Agency for Palestine, who arrived in this country last Saturday on an urgent mission
to secure greater American support for the defense of the Palestinian Jewish commun-
ity, made a strona plea for the raising of an immediate cash sum of $25,000,000 to $30,-
000,000 for use in
b Palestine's defense, at the 16th annual general assembly of the Council
of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, on Sunday.
She pointed out that it costs $44,000 every 24 hours to maintain the 9,000 Jews who
have been mobilized for Palestine's defense and that this number must be increased to
27,000 "within the next few days."
, The former Milwaukee school teacher said that war was forced upon the Jews of
Palestine who have no alternative but to fight in their defense and declared:

"The Jews in Palestine will fight until the very end. You cannot decide whether •
we will fight or not. We will. No white flag in Palestine will be raised for the Mufti.
That deCision has been taken. You can only decide one thing—whether we will be
victorious or whether the Mufti will. That decision American Jews can make.

(COntinued on Page 12)

Arms for Palestine

It is "indefensible," as the newly-formed
Committee to Arm the Jewish State de-
clares, for the United States to put its whole
influence behind the creation of a Jewish
state in Palestine and then impose an em-
bargo on the export of the arms which are
more and more plainly indispensable to
such a state's survival. The notion that
there is something immoral about provid-
ing arms in a situation which one has
deliberately created with the full knowl-
edge that arms would be necessary is redo-
lent of that mawkishness which seems too
often to confuse every international issue.
The first and simplest answer to the sud-
den question of arms for Palestine is to
lift the embargo at once: The least which
the United States can offer to the Jewish
Agency and to Haganah is free access to the
available supplies or weapons for self-de-
fense.
This is the first and obvious answer. It
is not the full answer. The questions of
security and of enforcement were obviously
central to the United Nations' decision for
a partition of Palestine; yet these were pre-
cisely the questions which were shirked
by all the great powers. They cannot be
shirked much longer. The legal foundations
for the partition of Palestine have been
left in swampy ground. Legally, partition
has been "recommended" by the General
Assembly as a measure for meeting a situ-
ation, in the language of the Charter,
"likely to impair the general welfare of
friendly relations among nations." The
Arab states are fomenting a warlike rebel-

lion against this recommendation. They can
truthfully assert that the Assembly has no

binding power; on the other hand, they
are themselves bound by the general obli-
gation on all UN members to settle inter-
national disputes only by peaceful means
and to refrain from the threat or use of
force in any manner "inconsistent with the
purposes of the United Nations."
Administration of partition, in the
transition period, was vested by the As-
sembly in its Palestine Commission. But
the Assembly, aware of the uncertainty of
the authority thus conferred, specifically
requested that if a threat to peace arose
during the transition period, the Security
Council should act under its general power
to deal with such threats. The threat has
not only arisen; it is imminent. There is no
reason why the United States should deny
arms to the Jewish community in Palestine.
But there is at the same time every reason
why the United States should raise the basic
question of enforcement in the Security
Council, at once and emphatically, and de-
mand a clear decision on the underlying
responsibilities. Without it, this country
will have to give Jewish Palestine access
to arms, since this country was so largely
instrumental in offering Jewish Palestine
a freedom which every one knew would be
dangerous. But since it is the UN Assem-
bly, under the egis of the Security Council,
which has decreed and is immediately re-
sponsible for partition, the United States
both may and must ask a decision on en-
forcement from the Council.

'Commentator's Verdict'
On Jewish Self-Defense

'Security Measure:

An Arab wishing to enter

the Tei Aviv area is first searched by a Jewish policeman—a member
of Haganah—as a security measure to avert further bloodshed.

Editorial in N. Y. Herald Tribune
Jan. 20, 1948

By W. K. KELSEY

In the Detroit News, Jan. 22, 19,21.

A showdown must come some day between the UN and the Arab countries, all of
whom are members of the UN. It should appear sooner, rather than later, whether an
organized faction within the UN can, by threats and by armed force, negate a de-
cision of that body . . . .
If it can, then the UN will go the way of the League of Nations, which didn't
have nerve enough to stand up to Japan against that country's Chinese policy, or against
Mussolini when he deliberately attacked Ethiopia, thereby serving notice on Hider that
he could get away with anything.
The Christian Palestine Committee is absolutely right when it accuses the Arab
states of a "bold attempt to blackmail the United Nations into submission." This blackmail
takes the form of a civil war in Palestine, backed by Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and
the Arabian states, which will furnish men and arms and are probably already doing so.
Jews are being killed, and their property destroyed. Naturally, they are fighting
back—and are being told not to by the British, because they are thus contributing to dis-
order! Can you think of greater nonsense than to tell a man he must not defend himself,

even though the authorities cannot or will not defend him?

