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books and pamphlets, some of
700,000, only 70,000 were Jews.
Professor Joseph Neyer of which refer to Iraqi soldiers
Rutgers University in a volume masquerading in women's garb,
on Israel, the Arabs and the manning the fortified positions
Middle East wrote: "After the in the village. The Jewish
Romans suppressed the last Agency initially published a
Jewish rebellion in 135 A.D. highly-biased report on Deir
Judea was renamed Syria- Yassin, which was subsequently
Palestina. However, in the 1,700 revised and corrected by the Is-
years before the First World rael Foreign Ministry.
The corrected version belies
War, Palestine was not to be Lurie's
snide reference to "un-
found on a political or national
map of the world. Whether disciplined Irgunists and Ster-
under Roman, Byzantine, Arab nists." His allusion to "re-
or Turkish rule, its inhabitants, visionist" attempts to rewrite
who had suffered many invasions, the history of the Jewish state
were never conscious of them- "when Begin came to power" is
selves as a national unit." . equally symptomatic of a liberal
"We have to recognize," says bias.
Nowhere in her book does
historian James Parkes, "that Joan
Peters try to denigrate or
the Palestinian population
before 1914 — had no real feel- deny the identity and national
ing of belonging to any wider aspirations of the Palestinian
unit than their village, clan or Arabs. What she does assert is
possibly a confederation of clans. that the emergence of "Palesti-
• The language spoken was nian" as distinguished from
mainly Arabic, but the persons Arab or Pan-Arab nationalism
usually referred to as Arabs is of recent vintage. Thus, the
were the desert Bedouin nomads notorious Mufti of Jerusalem
the Palestine mandate
and, occasionally, the effen ' opposed
because
it separated Palestine
landed aristocracy, who might from Syria,
and Arab represen-
thus refer to their supposed des- tatives at the
United Nations
cent from the noble families of reminded that body
in 1947 that
the conquering tribes that came "Palestine was part of
Prov-
out of the Arabian peninsula in ince of Syria." They the
claimed
the Seventh and Eighth Cen- that "politically, the Arabs
of
turies." Parkes added: "But Palestine were not independent
Jews, who were self-consciously in the sense of forming a sepa-
Jews, had always remained a rate political entity."
part of the population."
Even Yehoshua Porath, an-
Yehoshua Porath of the He-
critic of the Peters book,
brew University maintains that other
that "only since the
the phenomenal growth of the concedes
of the 1960s, and par-
Arab population of Palestine middle
ticularly after 1967, has the dis-
was chiefly due to natural in- tinctively Palestinian compo
crease. Yet, Walter Laqueur nent become relatively
states in his authoritative A stronger."
History of Zionism that "Arab
From Time Immemorial deals
immigration into Palestine ex- with
a highly-charged subject,
ceeded emigration from that and some,
if not all, of the criti-
country and the birth rate rose cism leveled at the book is polit-
more quickly than in the ically inspired and contrived.
neighboring countries, as did Lurie's nitpicking review is a
the living standard of the Arabs case in point.
in the neighborhood of the new
Jewish settlements." The
equally reliable A History of Is-
rael by Howard M. Sachar states
LETTERS
that between 1922 and 1946
"approximately 100,000 Arabs
entered the country from
neighboring lands." The
UNRWA (United Nations Relief Weizmann
and Works Agency) Review of Signatories
September 1962 disclosed that
... "the higher rate of indus-
In your Commentary of Jan.
trialization in Palestine at- 31 you feature the tribute paid
tracted many new immigrants to the late Dr. Chaim Weizmann
from the neighboring countries by leaders of the Detroit Jewish
. without their presence being community, dated Jan. 27, 1940.
Among your interesting ob-
officially recorded."
A study of Land Ownership in servations pursuant to that
Palestine, 1880-1948 by Moshe document, you call attention to
Aumann, shows that while Arab the fact that of the signers — a
population growth in predomin- most distinguished cross-section
antly Arab towns was consistent of Detroit Jewry at that time —
with the natural-increase pat- only five are yet alive. You then
tern, in the three major Jewish list four, including Philip
cities the Arab population rise Slomovitz, Charles Feinberg,
was far beyond the natural in- Judge' Charles Rubiner and Isi-
crease. dove Sobeloff.
Lurie's "liberal" proclivities
I trust that the name of the
come into play when he indicts fifth signer, Rabbi Leon Fram,
Peters for a "flawed" account of was inadvertently omitted. May
the Deir Yassin episode. The I offer the information that
story. of Deir Yassin has been
a, number of Continued on next page
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