Jerusalem Claimed as Capital of Jewish State

Proposal Viewed As Reaction
To Suggestion of Arab Rule

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—United Nations military observers
and members of the consular corps saw Israel's Jerusalem
garrison on parade and heard its commander lay claims to the
city as the capital of Israel.
In a speech accepting a velvet military banner sent to
him by Israel, the commanding general of the Sixth Brigade,

David Shealtiel, declared: "The o•
enemy turns his eyes towards reinforcements, including armor-
Jerusalem, the eternal seat of our ed -vehicles, were sent to Jeba,
eternal people. It will be a say-- where Arabs opened fire against
age and merciless battle without Jewish positions and attempted
retreat. Our fate will be victory to block the main Tel Aviv-Haifa
or annihilation. We shall fight to road. Jeba, an Arab village, is
the last man among us for our about 10 miles south of Haifa.
survival and our capital city.
An official Israeli communique
This conviction' foreds us to be as said that a number of Jews were
ruthless as those who stand in Wounded in the engagement and
our path. This time we shall uti- that Jewish troops are taking
lize all the means at our corn- "appropriate action." Two Amer-
mand, without a single considera- ican marines driving UN vehicles
tion other than our existence and were fired upon by the Arabs for
our triumph. Good and consider- 40 minutes and were forced to
able equipment is in our hands take cover in a ditch. They later
and we shall demonstrate our returned to their headquarters.
strength to the enemy. Soldiers
Telephone lines between Tel
of Israel — forward to victory! Aviv and Haifa were cut during
Add laurels to your flag!"
the night, and no details of the
UN observers view the claim fighting at Jeba are available.
to establish -Israel's capital in Israeli authorities have made it
Jerusalem as reaction to Pales- clear to UN truce observers that
tine mediator Count Folke Ber- they are determined to protect
nadotte's proposal to place the the Haifa-Tel Aviv road.
Col. Thord Bonde, chief of
city under Arab rule. Shealtiel's
reference to "utilizing all means" staff to UN Palestine mediator
is interpreted here to mean that Count Folke Bernadotte, was re-
the Jewish garrison now has ar- ported to have been fired upon
tillery and is prepared to use it from Arab lines while trying to
even against the Old City, where bring about a cease-fire in the
Arab military targets and the re- fighting at Jeba. He was finally
ligious shrines of the three major rescued from a precarious posi-
tion by a UN jeep displaying four
faiths are hopelessly mixed.
The Jewish fighting men, plus UN flags, while a UN plane cir-
50 girls — some of whom carried cled overhead. A French UN ob-
server was killed and lais driver
rifles and sub-machine guns
were drawn up in neat forma- wounded when their jeep struck
tions under a hot summer sun on a landmine on the Tiberias-Naz-
a school playground as Jewish areth road.
dignitaries, United Nations ob-
Arabs Hold U. S. Consul
servers — headed by Swedish
John McDonald, U. S. Consul-
Col. Nils Brunsson — and several General, was prevented by mem-
members of the consular corps bers of the Arab Legion-from re-
entered the shaded reviewing turning to Jerusalem after visit-
stand.
ing Tel Aviv. He was detained by
A police band played the Arab control station on the
waltz melodies until Gen. road between the two cities and
Shealtiel appeared on the scene was forced to return to Tel Aviv.
and the flag-presentatiowi cere-
Israeli authorities arranged for
mony began. Chief Rabbi Dr. the return of the American diplo-
'Isaac Herzog, wearing a top hat mat to Jerusalem by way-of the
and a long frock/ coat, stepped new road which the Jews built
to the microphone and in a during the Arab siege of the city
brief address presented the and which has been named
banner to the Sixth Brigade "Commander Marcus Road" in
"on behalf of the Jewish peo- honor of Col. David Marcus, the.
ple and the Provisional Gov- American Jew in supreme com-
ernment of Israel." The flag mand of the Jewish troops in the
is emblazoned with •the brig- Jerusalem area who was killed
ade's insignia — an olive several hours before the truce
branch entwined around an became effective.
erect broad-bladed sword.
A convoy of 38 food trucks
Shealtiel handed the banner to reached Jewish settlements in the
a kneeling standard-bearer. In Negev. The transport passed the
tribute to those who had fallen Egyptian military lines under the
in battle, the banner was drop- supervision of United Nations ob-
ped in salute as the band played servers.
38-year-old
Barzilai,
Israel
a flew bars from Beethoven's
funeral march, followed by the member of Negba, communal
chanting of the traditional pray- settlement in the southern' desert,
er for the dead by a cantor. A was appointed Israeli Minister to
brief address by the Sephardic Poland. He is a member of the
Chief Rabbi, Ben Zion Uziel, fol- United Workers Party, an oppo-
sition group within the Jewish
lowed.
The UN officers saluted as the Federation of Labor.
Tel Aviv Bombed
Jewish national anthem was
When the Palestine war broke
played, concluding the cere-
monies. As the platoons marched out anew Tel Aviv was subjected
past and out into the street, the to air bombing, while Haifa had.
British Army pattern on which a 10-minute air alert during which
the Israeli forces are organized no bombs wer dropped. Three
showed very clearly. Not only do Jews, • including two children,
the Israelis wear the British-type were killed and eight wounded
brown berets and high, black when one of the bombs dropped
shoes, but they also drill in col- on the Israeli capital struck a
umns of three — a 'traditional farm school on the city's north-
er onutskirts.
British formation.
In a series of other clashes
In addition to infantry units
there were also military police, along the southern front at least
civil police, 'and rifle-carrying 30 Egyptians we're killed and
fire brigade members.
In the many wounded as a number. of
street they were joined by Israeli villages changed hands. Among
Army armored cars and trucks the Egyptian troops captured
which exhibited the Jews' over- were a number of Sudanese, in-
size mortar -- the "Davidka" — cluding a major who had on his
which is home-made, but highly person orders to launch an attack
effective. There were also a hand- on the night of July 7 — r at least
ful.' of pack mules, but the artil- 36 hours before the truce expira-
lery which rumors said would tion.
Capture Lydda and Ramleh
. be shown publicly • for the first
Israeli forces captured the
time, was left out of sight at the
Lydda airport and Ramleh.
last minute.
A call for every Jew to stand
united behind the Israeli Army,
Reinforcements Go To Haifa ,
was voiced by Premier David
'To Check Arab Road Block
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Jewish Ben Gurion at a meeting of the

37-member Provisional State
Council.
American Officials Arrive
The first American consular of-
ficials assigned to Israel arrived
in Tel Aviv headed by Charles
Knox, formerly a U. S. commer,7
cial attache in Venezuela, who
will be the assistant to consul-
general John J. MacDonald,
whose headquarters are in Jer-
usalem.
The United Nations .truce ob-
servers in Israel left for Haifa
to return' to various points in
Europe. A group of UN observers,
who have been stationed among
Arab forces, flew to Beirut en
route to Europe. .
Gromyko Attacks Bernadotte
Soviet delegate Andrei Grom.-
yko, addressing the UN Security
Council, sharply attacked Count
Bernadotte's "peace suggestions"
for revising the geographical and
political map of Palestine.
Analyzing Bernadotte's sugges-
tions in detail, Gromyko said
they were biased against the
Jews and expressly designed to
delay a peaceful settlement. Such
a scheme, he added, could only
have been written by the British
Foreign Office. By implication,
he accused Bernadotte of being
a willing tool in Britain's hands.
"Count Bernadotte has decided
to place himself over and above
the United Nations," the Soviet
Deputy Foreign Minister declar-
ed. "His plan goes counter to the
General Assembly's' decision of

Nov. 29 which is still in force
since it was not revoked by the
special , session."
The union between Israel and
Transjordan proposed by Berna-
dotte, under which Transjourdan
would annex Jerusalem and the
Negev, would "abolish the As-
sembly decision with a single
stroke," he said.
Gromyko attacked Bernadotte s
scheme to hand over Jerusalem
and the Negev to King Abdullah
whom he described as a "puppet
king who is on the payroll of
the British Exchequer."
Count Bernadotte, in a message
to the Security Council, charged
Transjordan wale' violating the
truce by preventing the flow of
water into Jerusalem during the
entire truce period.
UN Message to Israel
• All UN official communications
to the Jewish authorities in Pal-
estine will be addressed to the
"Provisional Government of the
State of Israel," in the future,
Secretary-General Trygve Lie
told a press conference here. He
said thig action was in line with,
the new designation accepted by
the Security Council.
A letter from Jamal Husseini,
representative of. the Palestine
Arab Higher Committee, was sent
to Dmitri Manuilski, president of
the Security Council, protesting
Manuilsky's "arbitrary" action in
designating the. Jewish delegate
to the Council the "representa-
tive of Israel."

THE JEWISH NEWS-3

Friday, July 16, 1948

Anglican Bishop Says
British Officers, Men
Fighting with Arabs

NEW YORK, (JPS)—The Rt.
Rev. Henry Stewart, Anglican
Bishop of. Jerusalem, personally
confirmed reports that British
officers and men are still serv-
ing with Arab fighting forces in
Palestine. He said many desert-
ers from the Palestine police
and British Army had joined
the Arab League.
The Bishop Was quoted by
Correspondent Bernard Minns,
in a special dispatch to the New
York Star from' London, where
Bishop Stewart had arrived for
the World Anglican Conference.
Asked about the damage to
sacred places in Jerusalem, he
said: "So far as I have seen,
the . holy places in the Old City
have suffered very little dam-.
age, with the exception of the
two ancient synagogues, which
were destroyed by the Arabs."
While the Arabs deliberately
destroyed synagogues, t h e Arab
mosques were respected by Jew-
ish forces, the Bishop said. "Aft-
er Haganah had captured t h e
northwest sector of the new
city, I saw • a mosque marked in
Hebrew letters, • 'this is a holy
place.' "

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