PALESTINE. JEWISH INVITATION TO THE ARABS REJECTED

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 2006
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• Publication Date: August 11, 1948
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DAILY REVIEW OF THE ARABIC PRESS
I.IORNI1TG PAPERS .
WEDNESDAY August llth-, 10,40.
Palestine.
Jewish invitation to the Arabs rejected.
while Al I.Iisri, Al Ahran, Al Ikhwan, and Al Kutla
say that the Ara gove r~:len s Will p rosoint send a note to Count Bornadotto"rejecting the Israeli invitation for
direct negotiations, Al Siyassa and Al Assas (both govorn-
mont organs) report t a ho reply was actually sent yes-
terday August 10th to Dornadotte . Al Si, assa adds that in
their reply, the Arab countries said ha ey did not know
who 1.Ir Short ock was., that they did not recognize the state'
of Israel; and that the invitation must therefore be consi-
dered non-,existent.
Other news portaining to the
Palestinian situation.
Al 1.Iisri the important Wafdist daily., publishes
a message from i 's Doirut correspondent in which ho says
that Lebanese Primo Liinistor Iliad Al Solh Day is drafting
a moriorandun-to the Arab countries. conecrning his recent
meeting with King Abdullah of Trans j ordan,
The same daily says that 1Azza m hash had lade aa listate
ment to the press in which he said
Nolcrashi Pasha concerning certain requests made by the
Pa .ostinian landowners in the Southern part of Palestine
w 4o asked that facilities rii ht be afforded to'them to export
oanges. Southern Palestine, said Azzam Pasha, had LE
1,500,000 worth of oranges to export. The Pasha added that
tic had spokon to the P,111, about two Arab refugees in the
'Egyptian-controlled hart of ralostine whose number was esti*>
mated to be 150,000.
Conmionting on the refugee situation in Transjordan,
Azzam Pasha said that the number of refugees in Trans jorC.an
was not bigger than the number of refugees in other Arab
states. Trans jordan was a small country and it therefore
felt tho weight more so than other Arab states, expl ainic
Azzam Pasha who concluded his statement by saying tha Arab League Political Cori:iittcc would certainly moot
tirlo in September before the meeting of the United Nations
General llssombly.
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VIEDNESDI,Y AuGus t 11th, 19'8,
Egypt may withdraw f ram the coming
session of the United Nations, says Al T.Iisri.
Al Misri reports that it has ascertained from an
official source at the Egyptian Ministry of ForeiGn Affairs
that Egypt and the rest of the Arab countries intended to
withdraw from the cominG session of the United Nations
General Assembly if the Assembly failed to give justice to
the Arabs. "This international demonstration will shako
the United Nations to the core", adds Al fisri.
Al T.Iisri also says that Egypt rs doloGation to the
U'4N. Assembly will be headed by I .iashaba Pasha.
Al Misri;s proprietor criticizes
Prosic'ont Truman.
Al T.Iisri reports that Senator TMMahmud Abul Path who
is visiting h U.S.I. at resont has made statements to the
Now York Times, Now York Post? World Telc-rxn, and Now York
Sun in which he severely criticized President Truriznrs Palos-
tino policy.
Israel blackmails the U.S.A.,
says Al T.Tisri,
Al Misri ! s Damascus correspondent writes: "A i:icrlbor
of the A .crican onsular mission in Jerusalem who arrived in
Damascus to report to the American Location in Syria about
the situation in Palestine, told no that Israel was thrca-
teninU the U.S.A, that unless tho latter rave more help to
the Jews of Palostino,. Israel would conclude a military
alliance with Soviet Russia. The same Arioritan also told
no that the Soviet diplomatic mission in Tel-Aviv is coup cased
of thirty officials, some of whom were recently sent to
Haifa to open a Consulate there?'.
The Arab refuSeo question.
Al Ahram publishes a story in its front page in which
it says that the Jaws drove the Arabs of Palestine out of
their hones in order to make room for Jewish ir. r.iiGrants ,
Al. Abram also says that the Jaws are trying to persuade the
~a~ ash inhabitants of the -Arab countries to irmiI ratb to
Palestine, The paporrs correspondent in WashinGton expresses
tho beliof that Dritain will exorcise the right of veto to
p.rovont Israel from joining the United Nations,
Al Abram criticizes Dornadotto G
Al Ahramts Amman Correspondent writes an article
for his 1),,L,,-)or which he accuses Dornadotto of conspiring
with the Jews to disarm the Arabs of old Jerusalem in orJ'or
to enable the Jaws of now Jerusalem to occupy the whole o
Jerusalem. The Mediator has notified the Arab LoaGue that
ho was lcavint- Rhodos for Sweden on AuGust 13th. The !grab
also received a note from Sir Raphael Colanto of the United
Nations sayinC that the number of Arab rofuuocs at Rariallah
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was 80, 000, at Lebanon 50#000, at Trans Jordan. 100,'000; and
at Syria 80,000. The total number of rofugoos was 322,000
said Sir Raphael in his note, Al Ahram adds that a high
Egyptian source made a statement to it to the effect that
although Egypt gave refuge to only 12,000 Palestinian gabs,
she was virtually supporting the ontiro population of the
Egyptian controlled parts of Palestine.
Al Ikhwan Al Zuslirioun suggests that Egypt should
allow the Arab rfugoes to ivo at the military barracks
at flafh which can house 50,000 persons Those barracks
are partly locatocd in Palestine and partly in Egyptian terri-
tory, and they are fully equipped with electricity, water,
and necessary furniture.
Al Assas publishes an editorial headlined: "The
Arabs raust depend on thorisolvos" in which it says that the
Arabs would be foolish to oxpoct justice from international
organisations or from the big powers, and they should there-
fore depend on themselves and cooperate fully,
Al As s as also reports that the Minister of Educa-
tion has ins rue o d the Egyptian Education Mission in Swit-
zorland to sever all relations with the Egyptian Joaish stu-
dents in Switzerland who are proved to be engaged in pro-
Zionist activities in that country.. This moans that the
Jewish students in question will no longer-bo entitled to
got Swiss francs from the Egyptian mission.
Nationalising the Suez Canal Company,
Al Assas, the official mouthpiece of Nokrashi Pasha,
publishes 'a statement by Under-Secretary of Cotniordo Abdullah
Abaza fey, in which he says that the Ministry of Commerce
,has asked the State Council to rule whether or not the
Companies bill may bo appliocl in the case of the Suez Canal
Company whose board of directors is located outside Egypt.
The State Council ruled that the Companies bill may be applied
in this case. The Ministry therefore asked the Company to
give it all information concerning the number of Egyptians
on its board of directors and the number of Egyptian employees
and workers employed by the company, The Minis try intends
to apply the Company's bill in this instance and nationalise
the Suez Canal Company by -the: year 1950, concluded Abaza Dooy.
The recent explosions in Cairo.
Akher Sala quotes Under-Secretary of Interior
Anmar Day as saying to its roportor: "The Egyptian government
has laid its hand on the source of danger. I can state vrith'
emphasis that there will be no more explosions in Cairo s imi--
lar to those which took place recently".
The s aim weekly reports that the Egyptian author it ie s
are employing 4000 policemen for the purpose of guarding
Jewish establishments in Cairo,, at a cost of LE 5000 per day.
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WEDNESDAY Angus t 11th, 1948.
The weekly suggests that this money should be taken from
the Jewish sequestered property,
Akhcr Sala also reports that a number of Foreign
Representatives in Egypt who arc unfavourably disposed
towards the Egyptians wanted to submit a protest, collecti-
vely,, against what they ' c alto d "Hostile Egyptian movements
against the foreignerstr, The weekly continues; "Dut the
wise ones among the Foreign Representatives refused to take
part in this movement, A senior Italian diplotht said that
the Italian residents in Egypt received good treatment at the
hands of the Egyptians"
Akhor Sata says that hugo quantity of arms and
ammunition were scizcd at a villa of a senior Egyptian (On-
named). Among the thins seized were 3000 Itdlian bombs,
50,000 French lancTh inosp 15 English landmines, and thousands
of handgrenados, rifles, machineguns, sub-machinoguns, as
well as a huge quantity of dynamite,
A meeting botwoon Scragoldine Pasha
and Nurtada Al Maraghy Boy.
Akhcr Sata reports that a meeting took place between
the Secretary General of the W fd party Fouad Scragoldinc Pasha,
and Under-Secretary of Interior Maraghy Boy. The weekly
says that the VJafdists are encouraging the rumours that the
meeting was in connection with the possibility of an early
return to power by the Z7afd party. Those rumours are complc-
toly unfounded, concludes the magazine which fails, however,
to explain the purpose of the meeting in question,
The return of Sidky Pasha has no
political significance, says Al Ikhwan,
Al Ikhwan reports that the return of former Prime
Minister Ismail Sidky Pasha to Cairo from Europe has no
political significance. He will neither be appointed minister
In this Cabinet nor be asked to form a now Cabinet, says the
daily,
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