PALESTINE. BRITAIN'S POLICY ATTACKED BY AL MUSSAWAR

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• Publication Date: August 5, 1948
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DAILY REVIEW OF THE ARABIC PRESS
State Dept. review completed
For Distribution to U.S. Embassy Personnel only.
EMBASSY OF THE U.S.A., CAIRO-EGYPT.
L'ICLi1TIrNG 1 Ai ERS .
THURSDI Y Au,r;us t 5th,19' 8 .
Palestine,
Britain's policy attacked by
Al I.iussawar.
Under the headline; "The Palestine drama", Fikry
Abaza, the editor of Al T.Iussawar publishes an editorial in
which he doss natos t zo . pa os inian question as T-draa:ia with
five chaptorS."
Chapter ' 1; Enr-lanC, draw up her policy aGainst the Arabs
In 1,9-2.70 Balfour issued his famous declaration in that
year and EnGland Cave the Jews from then onwards every
opportunity to Cain a foothold in Palestine.
Chapter 2 ; EnGland prpiais od the Arabs coin; lcto independence
fo.lowin- their revolution aGain.st Turkey in the first world
war. She promised then Palestine but she broke her promise
and continued to afford every facility to the Jews to increase
their influence in Palestine, She then induced the Arabs
to form the Arab LoaCue'in the hope that she would be able to
use it for her own ends, but she forgot that she no lon` or
had Arab "aGents" in high offices who would be in a position
to execute her policy. The LeaGue became a real Arab LeaGue
with the result that Britain lost the friendship of both
Arabs and Jews.
'Chapter 3 ; England noticed that her influence in Europe
ancti o ~Ieditorrancan had been inherited by flussia and '
America, and that she had lost India, Australia, Canada,
Burma, Palestine, and South Africa. She then turned once
more to the Arabs seekinG their friendship and Gavo thorn
arms and ammunition in ordoi, to punish the Jews who deserted
her and throw themselves into Arlcrica-s arms.
Chapter 4: The Arab armies attacked the Jews in Palestine
Without a word of protest from Britain. Yet she loft Haifa
to the Jews, stopped ,-ivinL; arms to the Arabs, then chanGod
her rlind and beGan to supply them with the arms they needed.
Then main she stopped supplyinC them with aryls in order to
show America and Russia that she was the master of the situa-
tion, and in ordor to make the ECyptians C;ivo up the $udan,
make Iraq conclude a treaty, and mako Trans jordcn stop tryinG
to break away from Britain-s sphere of influence..
Chapter 5: EnGland-s policy proved a success. The Jews made
peace with her and became satisfied with the part Given to,
them. The Arabs also made peace with her. America became
more lenient with respect to the debt which Britain owes here
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Britain ro5ainod her influence in the 1,Tediterranean. But
her traditional enmity towards the Arabs induced her to
hell; the State of Israel ccnquor the Arab countries
with its money and fifth c olur.m.
"Tho curtain falls and the drama ends, but Britain
coos on living for over. Her policy of playing the Arabs
acainst the Jaws and the Jews ag ainst the Arabs America
acainst Russia and Russia acainst America, backing Turkey
and Greece and withdrawing her support half way, and nahinc
Italy do what she wants and then leave her strandogl, may
prove successful for a tine. This unscrupulous devil Who
would Uladly ally herself with Russia if she thought that
such an alliance would be beneficial to her, cannot be
trusta d.rr
"Developments in British policy".
Under the above heading;, Al r,Tussawar says that
Britain fooling that she has lost ;lrab r-~`endship is now
trying; to make it up to the Arabs by defending; the Arab
refucocs . The Arabs of course welcome any aid from Britain,
but they could never trust her again for the following, reasons;
1 It was Britain which created the Palestinian question.
2 She surrendered Haifa to the Jews before her forces
evacuated Palestine.
3 - She did not rospdet the treaties she has with Egypt,
Iraq, and Trans Jordan, which stipulate that she must corio
to the aid' of those Arab countries when they are at war.
Britain exercised yprotsurc on the Arab countries to
make than ac c el .t the truce.
5 - She voted in favour of the Security Council's order
to cease fire.
England will support the Arabs .
Al Mussaw r than g;oos on to say that the British
rolprasen a . vos aE-'the Arab countries told the Arab autho
ritics that Britain supported the Arab conditions for the
truce, and that she was sorry for the attitude she had
adopted at the Security Council recently. They promised
that Britain would dive her whole-hearted support to the
Arab Loacuo in future,,
It is not 'a truce.,,, it is. an
armistice, say- ,*.l Mussawar.
"It is absurd to call the present Palestine armistice
a truce or cease-fire", says Al Mussawar. "Seeing that the
Arabs stoppod fighting, before their con itions wore accepted
and seeing that there is no tinge limit for the truce, there-
fore the so caller, truce is in actual fact an armistice".
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THUISD11Y Au ;us t 5th 1908 .
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Arab rofut oos ,
Pross comments .
AZ Mussawar writes : "Days and weeks fly by while
the Jews are ontorl Palestine and the Arabs quitting it:
Every day that passes makes the Jews stronger. Count Bar-
nadotto, the very noble and neutral mediator, ' says that he
will not submit now proposals until September. This moans
that the number of Arab rofugcos may become half a million
and that of Jewish refugees 10,000. The Jews are laying
.their hands on Arab property in Palestine, They are occu-
pying the homes of the 'refu;oes, eating their food, and
sloe; int on their boas, while the poor Arab refugees are
living, in the open on little broad and water. How long will
the West stand looking on at the Jewish atrocities without
lifting a finger to stop them? 1-.11o is going to compensate
the Arab rofugoes?'!.
Under the headline: "The Palestinian rofugoos".
Al Liisri writes: "The position of the Palestinian refugees
s d a y becoming more dangerous,. This prblori has become
the most pressing i:probler_i which faces Lebanon and the Arab
countries at present. To give shelter and food half a
million refugees is not. easy. News reaching Beirut from
certain countries where Arab refugees are living, indicator-
that the Arab authorities cannot oven vivo the poor, raisera-
ble, refugees any broad to oat. Those refugees are truly
living in hell. Tho Arabs have seldom been 6onfrontod with
such a serious problem in their long history.
"News also indicate that Bernadotte is trying
to persuade the Jews to let'tho refugees return to their
homes. ldhat does this moan: Have the Arabs boon reduced
to the s taro' when they have to sit obediently and listen
to conditions laid down by Zionist terrorists for their
return to the homes of their ancestors? The Arab poop le
will not remain patient much longer.
Oil.
Al Nussawar writes: "Iraq used to Bross Saoudi
Arabia to cancel Me American oil concessions, and claim
that she, too, was ready to cancel the British oil conce-
ssions,' Iraq has the opportunity now to show that she is
sincere, by cutting off oil from Haifa. Will Iraq continue
to lot her oil reach Haifa or will she out it off in rcadi-
ness for the days when she and Saoudi Arabia will cancel
all the oil concessions? That is the question".
Irgun coup in Jerusalem?
Monahcm Beigin addresses four thousand
Jews,
All the Arab papers give special prominbnce to
the following story: Jerusalem August The Jewish
authorities in Jerusalem have issued a proclarration imposing
military rule in all the Jewish occupied areas of the Holy
City, At his first public appearanco today in Jerusalem,
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THUPtSDAY L~ugus t 5th, 1948..
Monahom oigin, Conmandor of the Irgun addressed a crowd
of ',000 pcoplo in Zion Suaro. Acconpaniod by a large body-
Guard, ;cigin spoke for over an hour and told his listonors
through loudspeakers that he rejected any solution for the
Holy City other than a totally Jewish Jcrusalora.
Dofore leaving for Alexandria, Count Bdrnadotte
had a meeting with Dornard Joseph, it is learned.
~.N.11.8 Spacial Correspondent in Alexandria reports,
meanwhile, that 'in view of the possibility of an early Irgun
Zvai Leumi coup, Count Bornadotto tonight booked a telephonic
call to Lake Success. This took ;.lace despite the assurance
of the Swedish General Landstron that Bernard Josoy5h had
affirmed that the Irun. Zvai Louni was undor control.
Al Siyassa conmonts on. alleged
Jewish violation of the truce.
Al Siyyassa, mouthpiece of the Liberal Constitutional
party, says that according; to the system followed by Count
Dornadotto, violation of'tho truce can be stopped only after
thirteen stops are taken.
1 - The Chief observer, General Lands f rom, n: s t first make
surd that a violation of the truce took place.
2 - Landstrori submits a report to the Mediator informing
him of the incident.
3 - The Mediator satisfies himself that Landstrom has not
made a mis take .
4 The Count drafts a letter to Mr Trygvio Lie.
5 Pair Lie refers the Count's report to the Security Councilf
5 - The President of 'the Security Council calls a meeting
to' discuss the report.
7 - The Socurit;7 Council discusses the report and after
several noctings, takes a decision,
8 Lie communicates the decision to Count Dernadotto.
9 = Dornadotto communicates it to General Land6tron.
lo.;- Landstron coruiunicatos it to the Observers*
ll~- The Observers communicate it to the offending party.
12- The Observers wait for a little while to sec if the
offending party obeys the decision of the Security Council.
13- If it does not obey, then the observers evolve a plan to
force it to obey.
Al Siyass . then coos on to remark that sexing that
the Jews vie ate tlhQ truce daily, any decision which nay be
taken by the Security Council against the offending Jews is
useless.
Al Kutla c oments also,
Al Kutla comya is on the same subjoet by saying that
the Jews aretreac iorous, mean, lot, The Arabs must hit back
evorytirne the Jews violate the truce. The Arabs also must
insist that unless the Arab refugees are roturnod to their
hones by a certain clato,,. thoy will resume war.
Will Libya become independent under
Sinoussi's rule?
Under the above heading, Al Ahram publishes a mossa-
So received from its Tripoli correspondent in which he says:
'1Tho return of Al Saycd Dashir Al Saadawi to Libya after a
3-month absence has Eivcn_ rise to the runour that Libya will
be cox4pp pvvf fpm legAeL2 1 /ib,2: ELflkRb ''3a0nt 4obh.3o4ubOo6;16 Eiiir
Adrees Al Sinoussi.