THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
8 Friday, September 19, 1975
U.S. Diplomats Tried to Delay Israel Statehood, Kenen Says
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Editor's Note: The fol-
lowing article is a posts-
cript to "Truman, the Ar-
abists, and Palestine:
1947-1948," by I. L. Kenen,
editor emeritus of the Near
East Report, reprinted in
last week's Jewish News.
By I. L. KENEN
•
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The documents provide
additional evidence that
during the early months of
1948 the State Department
was trying to convince the
Jews to accept a truce in Pa-
lestine and to delay state-
hood.
To support its position,
the department tried to
drive wedges into the Amer-
ican Jewish community.
American officials met fre-
quently with Zionist leaders
like Dr. Nahum Goldmann
and Rabbi Judah Magnes in
an attempt to influence
these moderates to prevail
over those who State re-
garded as extremists, such
as Dr. Abba Hillel Silver,
the major Zionist spokes-
man at the United Nations.
Shortly after the pro-
posed truce was rejected, a
worried Dean Rusk, head
of the State.Department
UN Bureau, expressed
deep concern about Ameri-
ca's involvement in Pales-
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In a message to Under
Secretary Lovett early in
May (abstracted below),
Rusk speculated that the
Jews might become aggres-
sors:
Military operations after
May 15 probably will be
undertaken by Hagana and
terrorist groups. If so, we
will be confronted by a very
anomalous position, the
Jews will be the actual
agressors against the Ar-
abs. However, the Jews will
claim that they are merely
defending the boundaries of
the state approved by two-
thirds of the General As-
sembly. The Security Coun-
cil will have to decide
whether Jewish armed at-
tack on Arab communities
is legitimate or a threat to
international peace and se-
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measures by the Security
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Situation may be made
more difficult if Arab ar-
mies from outside Palestine
cross the frontier to aid
their disorganized and de-
moralized brethren. In the
event of such Arab outside
air, the Jews will come run-
ning to the Security Council
and claim that their state is
the object of armed aggres-
sion and will use every
means to obscure the fact
that it is their own armed
aggression against the Ar-
abs inside Palestine which
is the cause of Arab coun-
terattack.
Elements in this country
may demand Security
Council action against the
Arab states. It would be
morally indefensible, al-
most fatal, from the aspect
of our relations with the
Middle East and our broad
security aspects in that
region to put forces of the
U.S. and possibly Russia
against the governments
of the Arab world.
Suggesting a de facto par-
tition, it was Rusk's view
that King Abdullah of
Transjordan would cut
across Palestine to the sea
at Jaffa, would give Saudi
King Ibn Saud a port at
Aqaba, and would appease
the Syrians by some territo-
rial adjustment in the
northern part, thus leaving
the Jews a coastal state run-
ning from Tel Aviv to Haifa.
Rusk believed that the UN
could give its blessings to
that deal.
Fresh Air Annual Meeting
Pays Tribute to Silverman
A tribute to Nathan Sil-
verman and the election of
the Fresh Air Society's
board of directors high-
lighted the August FAS
annual meeting at Camp
Tamarack's Butzel Confer-
ence Center.
Lester S. Burton, Tamar-
ack Hills Authority (THA)
co-chairman with Bert L.
Smokier, presented Silver-
man with a resolution citing
his contributions.
Silverman is THA chair-
man emeritus and former
chairman for 25 years.
Under his leadership,
Camp Tamarack more
than doubled in size to
more than 1,200 acres and
became one of the out-
standing community
camps in the United
States.
The Esther and Nathan
Silverman Village in Orton-
ville, named for Silverman
and his wife and dedicated
last summer, served nearly
100 emotionally disturbed
children the past camping
season.
At the annual meeting,
the following Fresh Air So-
ciety directors were elected
to serve a three-year term:
`Isaiah' Dedication
Due at UN Wall
NEW YORK — Dr. Sam-
uel Brown is finally going to
get his wish — that the
name "Isaiah" be appended
to the quotation from that
book in the Bible which ap-
pears on the famous Isaiah
Wall adjacent to the United
Nations.
Dr. Brown began his cam-
paign and add the attribu-
tion to the wall in April
1974. However, typical bu-
reaucratic red tape — which
UN or New York City
agency held jurisdiction
over the project — caused it
to be delayed.
When the plan finally
reached the right agency —
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sion — Dr. Brown was told
that, personal financing of
the project rather than city
financing would bring
quicker results. Having
raised the necessary funds
— $650 — Dr. Brown is
awaiting the dedication of
the Isaiah attribution on the
wall.
The State Department
papers also include several
dispatches from Haifa in
which the American Consul
General, Aubrey Lippincott,
declared, contrary to the
conventional Arab propa-
ganda, that the Jews were
pleading with the Arabs to
stay and opposed their pre-
cipitous departure.
On April 26, 1948, Lip-
pincott cabled, "Local
Mufti-dominated leaders
urge all Arabs leave city
and large numbers
going." On April 29, 1948,
he wrote that the Jewish
leaders had organized a
large-scale campaign to
persuade Arabs to return.
A dispatch from Philip
W. Ireland, first secretary
of the U.S. Embassy in
Egypt, on April 28, 1948,
quoted Azzam Pasha to the
effect that "while the refu-
gees create economic prob-
lems for the Arab states
. . . the absence of women
and children in Palestine
would free the men for
fighting."
Thus the documents pro-
vide further evidence that it
was not the Jews who
created the Arab refugee
problem, but, rather, the
cynical Arab leaders who
led the Palestinian Arabs
from their homes.
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