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Balancing the Scales in Palestine Rival Claimants in Belgium of the Middle East agitators, prevent the formation of ain will lend full backing to the flying from the Nazi terror. They brought their industries and their armed bands, or even to speak as friendly State. the voice of a united Israel. The This is not to exclude a human- industry with them. It is an imBritish are certainly in an awk- itarian desire on the part of the pressive list: dressmakers, fashion ward predicament. One might Brtish, shared by Christian sen- designers, perfumers, auto mechsay, Why not clear out and let timent everywhere, to make a anics from Paris and Vienna; diachiefly responsible for the Arab them fight it out among them- home for the homeless thousands mond cutters, glass blowers, shop By "PERISCOPE The hard- builders from Amsterdam; leather outrages. The Jewish counterpart selves? Or hand over the respon- or millions of Jews. The sympathy of the Christian of the Higher Committee is the sibility to U.N.0.?In fact, the Bri- ship on Arabs is not so abhorrent chaftsmen, glove workers,interior world, we have no doubt, is with Jewish Agency.,It acts for the pol- tish have shown a desire to have as might seem. The dispossessed decorators from Budapest; scientchemists, opthe Jews in the movement to itical Zionists and administers the the U.SA. share their task. But individuals are compensated, and ists, engineers, workers and steel give them a National Home in Jewish fund (subscribed to by to wash their hands of Palestine Arabs in general are sharing in the tical pharmacists, Berlin; Palestine. Nobody likes being Jews in all countries) which has altogether is not expedient.,Pres- benefits of Jewish progressiveness. from techlaboratory evicted, even at a price. What the largely financed the developments sure from influential Jews in Eng- in the British plan as set out in sboe-makers, Arabs most fear is that in time achieved by the Jews in Palestine land, U.S.A., and elsewhere, cannot the White Paper of 1939, the Arabs nicians from Prague; geologists ttie Jews will reduce them to an in recent years. The Agency has be ignored. But most of all', Pales- were to be safeguarded against oil drillers, petroleum specialists ignored minority. been claiming the whole of Pales- tine may turn out to be a very use- wholesale inroads of Jews on their from Bucharest; garment and texCertain areas were mar- tile workers room Warsaw and Our pity is with the British who, tine for a Jewish State. In his ful vantage point in imperial de- lands. Now ked out where Jews might not Lodz; goldsmitns and canners from by Mandatory Power, and also out most recent statements, however fence and communications. purchase property. This, indeed, Belgrade; stevedores and shipof the necessities of empire, have is one of the grievances of the ex- wrights from Athens and Salonika. undertaken the task of establishtreme Zionists, who want the Jews Palestine's ship-builders turn our ing the Jews without imposing too to he free to settle in any part of Diesel engines made in Palestine. much hardship on the Arabs. Palestine. Dr. Chaim Weizman The Dead Sea is alive with chemThe Balfour Declaration of 1917, for the Jewish Agency has repeat- ical extraction plants and factories. the basis of negotiations ever since edly and bitterly denounced the Tel Aviv, once a sand dune, now promised "a" National Home for White Paper. on the other hand has 200,000 population. Haifa practhe Jews in Palestine. The the Arab Higher Committee com- terminus of a great oil pipe-line, been satisfied tical" Zionists have plains that the hest land is already has become the third city o ftbe to interpret that as settlement in in the hands of the Jews-the Bay Mediterranean., Even JesOusalem, the country, not necessarily with of Acre wth the best port, Haifa, though the Old Holy City has been aspiration to Statedom. The "polthe fertile plains and the best left with its hallowed ancientness itical" Zionists envisage the whole orange -growing country; the JeWs (one of the clauses of the White of Palestine as a Jewish State. have been granted the monopoly Ps.per is to "safeguard the Holy Arabs living there would be "Jewish for the exploitation of water power Places") can boast, in the indust citizens." The Arabs, at least the for electrical generation and irriga- rial New Jerusalem clustered arHusseini party-who are the majotion, and the, Dead Sea concession ound the old, an annual producrity-oppose both. In 1922, Winwith its immense chemical wealth. tion of nearly £3,000,000 in foodston Churchill then Colonial SecNazareth, where Christ spent His boyhood and young man- - The Jess. have a good answer. The stuffs. ceramic drugs and precision decPaper, retary, issued a White hood. tools. Most of the credit for this laring that the nationality would prosperity goes to the Jews and be "Palestinian" and would apply Dr. Chaim Weizmann, voicing the much of the benefit to the Arabs. to all citizens, whether Arabs or views of the Agency, has moderThe Call to Araby and the Call Jews or others. The British pol- ated his ideas to a portion of the to Jewry, however, seem to be icy was "not the imposition of a country for the Jewish State. The irreconcilably discordant. Jewish nationality upon the inhabiBut how the Arabs who are in British, who seemed to have been taitts of Palatine as a whole, but a proportion of nearly three to one waiting for something to turn up, the further development of the ex- can enjoy a just share in a Jewish got it shockingly in the blowing isting Jewish community, in order is the conundrum, At the State up of the Hotel David, Jerusalem. that it may become a centre which end of 1945, there were in Palestine Their reaction has been the nearthe Jewish people as a whole, may 1,177,400 non-Jews, mostly Arabs. est approach to a concrete plan yet take, on grounds of religion and Hence, bitter opposition of Arabs produced-partition and federarace, an interest and a pride." to admission of any more Jews; tion. A federation of three states: Another White Paper, 1939, ten- and, on the other hand,discontent The Jews to get 15 per cent. of ded towards a binational, bilin- of Zionists with the quota of 1500 Palestine (1500 miles), the Arabs gual, bi-cultural State in vfhich per month plus, for the present 40 per cent., the remainder to have both Arabs and Jews will have a year, a "compassionate quota"' of a Central Government (its compofair share in government and eco- 100,000 as soon as tranquillity is sition not yet stated-doubtless it nomic life. On either side there restored. Meanwhile, hot -heads will have a strong British repreis a section of opinion agreeable are resorting to terrorism, and Cana, where Our Lord performed His first public miracle. sentation). This may satisfy the to some such solution. Among though the Agency has disavowed We the Arabs, the Nashashibi party. complicity, its inflamatory accu- that withdrawal from Egypt seems Arabs share in the benefits. In the moderates on either side. Among the Jews, the "practical" sations of British insincerity must to have become a necessity, some past si; years, nventy-nine new doubt it will satisfy the extremists. Zionists. On 14/3/'46, the Rector be an incitement to the terrorists. substitute adjacent. naval, air and agricultural villages have been of the Hebrew University in Jer- And there must be evidence again- land base must be found. Pales- founded, and are being run on usalem said that the Jewish Union st some Agency members, for some tine is almost as well situated for Modern lines; industry has leapt Association (Thud) regarded co- of them have been arrested. Offi- the purpose as Egypt. Haifa is a from about £18,000,000 in 1943 to operation between the two races as cially at any rate, the Agency good port to replace Alexandria. £27,000,000 in 1946. Attracted by the only way. a union in a bilin- claims that it is unable to control If Palestine on ceasing to be a this prosperity, Arabs have been gual Palestine based on the parity - the Hagana, a Jewish Defence org- Mandate, were to become an all flocking into Palestine to take of the two peoples: immigration anisation. Hagana in turn blames Arab State, the British would al- work on the farms and in the inArab workers at the should give the Jews the chanre violence on Irgum Zvai Lanni, Ab- most certainly be ordered out, as dustries. after some years, of becoming one- raham Stern's gang and other ar- has been done in Egypt. In any Dead Sea chemical plants earn as half of the population. "Irgum Zvai case, Arab goodwill must be cul- much as 18/- a day in comparison med partisans. for a labourer in On the other hand, and on either Leumi" means "National Military tivated in deference to Mohamm- with about 21/estimated that from side, there are extremists, violent Organisaton." It is said to be on edan solidarity throughout the Egpyt. It is 85,000 Arabs have in action and uncompromising in fascist lines, and is recruited only world and in particular the British 1922 to 1944, Palestine. And, of demands. The party of the ex - from ex-servicemen and others Empire. Therefore, it is more to thus entered Palestinian Arabs have Mufti, Haji Emin el Husseini, will who have received some military the purpose of Empire, either to course the administ- willingly availea .themselves of the haVe none of the Jews, not even 'training. These illegal partisans retain the mandatory wrangle remunerative employment. as a minority in government or derive a certain heroic kudos from ration while Arab and Jew Piccadilly Arcade Jews Even with the limited number of as settlers. This party's principal the propaganda of the under- or to abide the day when the Jews already admitted, and in a organ is the 'Arab Higher Com- ground radio, the "Voice oft Israel" will be strong and numerous enPerth Pal- limited area, Palestine bids fair to mittee (disbanded by the British The fact seems to be that in their ough to shape the policy of B 7988 Tel. the Middle of the Belgium of itbecome part goodly people a estine-or in 1936 but revived recently in unhappy condition of a Many of the immigrants The East. spite of them). They want Jew without a land there is no autho- favourably to British needs. highly skilled workers, immigration stopped, and are rity recognised by all, to restrain benefit will be mutual. For Brit - have been
Arab and Jewish Extremists Hamper a Rational Solution
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ELLIOTT ELLIOTT
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