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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Professor's Letter Hits Arab Claim to Israel
Editor's Note: Prof. R.
Kenneth, author of the fol-
lowing letter to the editor
of - the Jerusalem Post,
challenged the Jordanian
claim made at the Geneva
conference that the Jews
were interlopers in Pales-
tine.
I was not surprised when,
at the opening session of the
Peace Conference in Ge-
neva, the Prime Minister of
Jordan attempted to show
that the Jews are interlo-
pers, who came into a Pales-
tine heavily populated by
Arabs who, themselves were
indigenous to the land.
His argument is falla-
cious and should not be al-
lowed to win by default, as
have so many others which,
through constant unchal-
lenged repetition have ac-
quired the aura of verity
(e.g. the inflated figures
given for the number of
Arabs who left the country
in 1948).
The truth is that the total
population of Palestine at
mid-19th Centur-y vas, at
the very most, 100,000, in-
cluding perhaps 15,000
Jews.
150 were Jewish homes";
Tiberias, "less than 2,000,
half Jewish."
No figures were given by
Proof of the depopulated Russell for the following:
status of this country dur- Gaza, which was then ac-
ing most of the 19th Cen- cording to other sources the
tury may be found in sta- size of Jerusalem; Acre,
tistics in books written with 5,000 in 1861; Jaffa,
contemporarily by Chris- with 4- to 5,000 in 1836 and
tian scholars living here, 11,000 in 1861; Ramleh, with
such as those by Rev. T. H. 5- to 6,000 in 1836 dropping
Horne (1836), Rev. W. H. to 4,000 in 1861; Beersheba,
Thomson (1861), Col. C. R. Haifa, Jericho, Lod, Ramal-
Conder (1889), Rev. J. Ful- lah and Tulkarem which ei-
ton (1900) as well as in ther did not exist at that
U.S. Consular Reports and time or were more "mis-
other sources.
erable villages." A large-
To give one example: Ac- scale map of 1853 by W.
cording to Bishop M. Russell Hughes showed few inhab-
in "Palestine, or the Holy
Land, from the earliest pe-
riod to the present time"
(1849) the population of the
major towns was as follows:
Jerusalem, 12,000 (including
6,000 Jews); Bethlehem 1,-
Americana Complex 1, 2,
000-1,500; Hebron, "400
families"; Jenin, 800; Na-
3, 4
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Communal Service Unit Picks Chief
NEW YORK — The Inter- ecutive vice president of the
national Conference of Jew- American Jewish Commit-
ish Communal Service, at tee.
its recent quadrennial meet-
The five-day conference in
ing in Jerusalem attended
Israel addressed itself to is-
by more than 500 adminis- sues of "Continuity and
trators and educators in the Change in Jewish Life: The
field, has elected Charles Role of Jewish Communal
Zibbell as its president. Service." The conference
agenda ranged over current
Zibbell, associate execu- agency programs and serv-
tive director of the Council ices and the role and respon-
of Jewish Federations and sibilities of Jewish corn-
Welfare Funds (CJF), suc- munal workers at the local,
ceeds Bertram H.- Gold, ex- national and overseas level.
ited villages.
Where did the 1,280,000
Arabs in the British Man-
date census of 1946 come
from? Obviously the great
majority of "Palesti-
nians" were themselves
immigrants or sons or
grandsons of immigrants
from other Arab lands,
that came to partake of the
prosperity generated by
the Jews.
Entire towns and villages
in 1948 could trace their
origins to other countries,
e.g. Safed (Morocco); Bet
Shean (Egypt); Bellad esh
Sheikh (Hauran), to name a
few. Even during the Holo-
caust, when the doors of
this country were slammed
shut in the faces of Euro-
pean Jews looking for suc-
cor, the Arab immigration
remained unabated.
Tel Aviv Sheraton Manager. Named
BOSTON — Harold Rich-
man, who has managed
Sheraton hotels and motor
inns in New England for the
past decade, has been
named general manager of
the Tel Aviv-Sheraton, a
22-story, 400-room struc-
ture due to open on the Med-
iterranean in mid-1976.
Food and Beverage Execu-
tives Society of Greater Bos-
ton, he was a director of the
South Middlesex County
Chamber of Commerce and
a member of AH and MA,
the Massachusetts Hotel
and Motel Association, New
England Innkeepers,
HSMA, Skal and the Massa-
chusetts Food Service Edu-
cational Council.
A past president of the
Histadrut Meeting
Speakers Named
NEW YORK — Yeruham
Meshel, secretary-general of
Histadrut and Israel Kes-
sar, treasurer, will be fea-
tured speakers at the 52nd
annual convention of the
National Committee for
Labor Israel scheduled for
Oct. 10-12 at the New York
Hilton.
Two thousand delegates
and guests are expected to
attend the conclave which
will launch the 1976 drive on
behalf of th'e Israel Histad-
rut Campaign, in support of
major health, educational
and social welfare programs
maintained by the Israel
labor federation.
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vat Tikvat Yaakov. The
school offers Hebrew and
secular curriculum for both
junior and senior high
.school.
The school has 120 stu-
dents, mostly from Maalot
and Bet Shean.
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