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VOLUME 13—NO. 23
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Liquidate Truce, Israel Demands
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y Jews as Arabs Resume War
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The Mapai Council was told by David Ben-Gurion, Israeli Prime Minister : "If the United Nations is
unable to impose a decision to oust the foreign invading armies, not only from Israel territory but from all of Palestine, we will have
to do so ourselves, since their presence threatens our existence and violates international law. Israel did not emerge from a UN deci-
sion, but was created through its own efforts and perseverance. The country's fate is now dependent on the war issue and we must be
prepared for a renewal of hostilities. The frontiers of Israel have not yet been finailly set and, although we will respect an interna-
tional agreement on our borders, we must strike a victorious blow to substantiate our claims. Even when our frontiers, authority, sov-
ereignty and international status will be safely established, we will still be remote from the aims assigned ourselves for the establish-
ment of our state. Generations have not in vain suffered and struggled to see only 500,000 Jews in this country. It is the duty of the
present generation to redeem the Jews in the Arab and European countries."
TEL AVIV. (JTA).
Outlining Israel's foreign policy at the Mapai meeting, Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok emphasized that the Jewish state's policy will be based_
"on the United Nations, but will be completely independent from the Eastern and Western blocs and in consideration of our national interests." Assert-
ing that "it is impossible for Israel to continue in a state of neither war nor peace," Shertok said "we must request the UN to liquidate the truce through
the expulsion of • the invaders or the truce will have to be ended through war." - '
The Israeli Foreign Minister stressed, however, that "in case hostilities were renewed, the Israeli Government will not cease its efforts to at. ,
tain peace by pursuing its recently-made proposals. Regarding our frontiers, the Provisional Government is mindful of. the UN demarcation lines, but the
UN's inability to prevent changes resulting from war is clear corroboration that the question of frontiers requires revision."
"Israel never intended to dispossess any Arabs and was prepared to agree to the presence of a large Arab minority within its • boundaries,"
Shertok continued, adding: "But it has never happened throughout history that, after such a drastic change, the situation should revert to its former
aspect. The Arab refugee question will be dealt with at the peace negotiations."
The 'existence of the so-called "Burma" water pipeline to Jerusalem was made known here. Put into use several weeks ago, the new line
draws water from the Judean plain. Its capacity, however, is limited and improvements are now under way to enlarge its facilities.
Within four hours after the new Israeli currency was issued on Tuesday, more than 1,000,000 Palestine pounds were exchanged-for new
Israeli money.
Jews and Arabs fought a five-hour artillery duel at dawn Tuesday when Arabs battered Jewish positions along the entire corridor, cutting
Jerusalem from the north to the south.
- The Tel Aviv District Court ruled on Tuesday . that Israel's detention of Peter Bergson and four other Irgun leaders is lawful.
Arab forces launched a "general attack" along the entire Jerusa-
lem front. Two Jewish soldiers were killed and three were wounded
in the initial fighting.
The Israeli communique noted that the attack was directed by the
Egyptian
Army in the south—mainly against Ramat Rachel and Tal-
A 10-day seminar for the discussion
, Cinema Lodge of Bnai Brith will
pioth—and against the Mt. Zion and Beith Israel quarters by the Arab
of current issues affecting the State of
purchase 10 equipped ambulances for the
Legion.
,
Seminar of Laborite
Zionists Aug. 22-29
Aid to Israel Drive
Gains Momentum
Israel will be held at Farband Camp,
Chelsea, Mich., Aug. 22 to 29. Prom-
inent local and national speakers will
address the sessions which are sponsored
by the Labor Zionist Organization of
Detroit. A Farband seminar also will be
held next week.
(Detailed Story on Page 5)
Israeli 'troops returned the fire of the Arab attackers. There were
no indications as to whether the Arab attacks had resulted in any ad-
vances.
UN Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte's representative in this
area, Brig. Gen.:William E. Riley, of the U. S. Marine Corps, was
notified by Israeli military governor for Jerusalem Dr. Dov Joseph
that although Jewish troops have been ordered not to `open fire
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Aid-to-the-People-of-Israel-Program be-
ing sponsored in Detroit for the national
Material for Palestine project by the
Greater Detroit Bnai Brith Council.
Zager Bnal Brith Lodge has donated
a jeep. Food and essential materials are
being gathered in this campaign.
(Detailed Story- on Page 2)
An Expose
Count Folke Mediation
By J. L. TELLER
Count Folke Bernadotte, the busy bee on a mediation spree, possesses an amazing
capacity for the queerest objectivity:
Appointed by the UN, the 'Count counts out the UN's own decisions, by contend..
ing—through a press spokesman—that,the validity of the Nov. 29 decision "is a matter for
lawyers."
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Notwithstanding mounting evidence of repeated Arab truce violations in Jerusalem,
he places the guilt equally on Jews and .Arabs.
Before the Latrun pumping station explosion had been properly investigated, the
Count's press spokesmen were quick to announce that Arab "irregulars," and not the
Arab Legion, had set the fuses that caused the havoc.
The Count, so impatient with Israel's refusal to abide by some of his arbitrary
and fickle judgments, manifested admirable (from Abdullah's viewpoint) patience
with regard to the Arab Legion's refusal to permit water to flow to -Jerusalem from
Latrun.
He outlawed the Jews' Burma Road during: the first truce; during the second
;truce, when he failed for weeks to obtain Arab agreement to let Jewish convoys pass
Latrun without attack by the Arab Legion, he offered the Jews a simple "solution"
—use the primitive "Burma Road."
Despite this remarkable record in Palestine, the British-accented Count has , the
temerity to pass around the word that the Jews are "the more aggressive" party in Jer-
usalem. He displays, furthermore, a unique kind of sagacity if reports are true that he is
touting a new "solution':, namely that Israel forego its sovereignty for a "Swiss can-
: tonization" solution, i.e., the old Morrison-Grady plan.
.Count Bernadotte apparently is Sir Alexander ,Cadogan's 1948 model of Rip Van
Winkle. Israel is now a great force in the Middle East, 'a dynamic community, with military
potentialities probably second only to Turkey, but Count Bernadotte's potentiality to
confound public opinion must not be underestimated, nor must his rare talent to lend
comfort to the aggressor and ruffle the sensibilities of the victim of aggression.
We hear that the Count is a good Boy Scout master. How about sending him back
to his knots and marshmallows over camp-fires? And how about reminding him, so long
as he persists in his Palestine effort, that he should at least abide by the Boy. Scout codes
which require some qualities he seems to have left behind when he embarked on his
Middle East adventure. To overlook Arab truce violations is, we can assure him, a viola-
tion. of the boy scout's code of `.`a good deed a day."
Copyright, 1946, • by The Independent Jewish Press Service, Inc,
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--International News Photo
Israeli. Ladybird: Fighting side
by side with
Israel's warriors, an Air Force woman pilot prepares to take off from
at Tel Aviy. The ladybirds are used mostly for reconnais.
the airport
sance and communications flights. Israel's aerial emblem is a six-
pointed blue star in a white circle.