PALESTINE. BERNADETTO'S ARRIVAL IN EGYPT.

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 2006
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• Publication Date: August 4, 1948
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DAILY REVIEW OF THE ARABIC PRES$
State Dept. review completed
For Distribution to U.S. Embassy Personnel only.
EMBASSY OF THE U.S.A., CAIRO-EGYPT.
M0RTTIlTG PAPERS .
WEDNESDAY AutLus t firth, 19/18.
Palestine.,
Dornadottels arrival in ECypt?
Dcrnadottcts arrival in Egypt and the statements
made by his Public 2olations Officer GoorCo Barnes and by
Sir 1,aphacl Cilonto, of the RofuCce division of the Social
Affairs Department of U.11,1-0.0 arc given wide publicity by
all the Arabic newspapers, For details sec EnClish and
French Dross.
Arab refugees*
ConnontinC on the Arab refugees question, Al 11isri
publishes an editorial under tho headline; "A winninC card"
in which it says : 11V .To wrote yostcrday about the riGht of
the Arab refugees to return to their hones (Soo yesterday's
Rcviow) and we wish to add to-day that this question is a
WinninC card in the hand of the Arabs of which they must
tako full advantage, All oars arc ready to listen at present
to all what the Jews or the Arabs may have to say about the
refugees. We must seize this opportunity to-show the world
tho bestialities which the Arab refugees sufferod at the
hands of the barbaric Zionists. Every bit of information
must be dads available to the world by way of photorraph.s,
articles, or broadcasts. The world must be made to realise
that the so called State of Israel is nothinG but a Group
of Gangsters who would stop at nothing; to rot what they want".--_
Under the hoac'line: "Count Bernadotte", Al LIisri
writes: "Count Dernadotto arrived in Alexandria to discuss'
the Rofu-oos question as well as the demilitarization of^Jeru
salem. We sincerely hope that he will be fair and make a
serious attempt to solve these two problems especially the
refugees problem which, to use Sir Raphael Cilentots expression,
is rather pressing. It must be understood, howover, that
the question of refugees is not hart of the Palestine qucstion.
The one has nothinG to do with the other. The refugees ques-
tion must bo sottlod indopondently".
Under the headline: "The Azzam Dernadotte discus
sions. The latest doveloDronts in the Palestinian question",
Al 1,.hr.?an the important independent daily, writes: "tistama
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own fact that Bernadotte is trying to make the present
porary truce a permanent one. The Mediator as well as the
nations which chose him as Mediator are trying to prevent
the Drabs from defendinG themselves against Jewish aGGrcOOsion.
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ti'VEDN SDAY Au gus t 4t 191,8--.
They hope that time will be on the side of the Jews and
that Israel will ultirlatoly be established.
"Thoy arc trying in tho name of humanity to per-
suade the Arabs to au-roc to lotting food supplies roach
the 100,000 is olate c. Jews in Jerusalem who are rios tly
terrorists, although the number of the Arab rion, woman,
and children who wore driven out of their homes by Jewish
gangs remain hungry.
"They arc also trying to Persuade the Arabs to
agree to Jewish frri ;ration during the truce, although there
are 10,000 Arab rofugoos who vivre turned out of their horns
and who have no place to sloop or food to eat .
"Bernadotte wishes to dcnilitarisc Jerusalori but
while the Arabs are ready to disarm, the Jaws refuse to do so.
Lloroovor, the Jaws arc daily violating the truce under the
l.lodiator's vary nose . The Arabs and their Coverni:ients know
all this, but they cannot be expected to remain patient for
ever. It is tine that the Arabs broke the international
chain which binds their hands and restricts their actions,
and deal the death blow to Israel to save the world from
the most abominable clrai:ia".----
Eclesiasticals to control Jerusalem?
!,1 Ahram reports that 2).zzara Pasha has suggastod to
Count Lcrnado - ethat the Administration of Jerusalem should
be taken over by a body of priests and Sheikhs who would bo
responsible to the United Nations and the Arab Lcaguo.
The Count objected to the proposal on the grounds that most
of the religious centlomen would be Arab, Azzan Pasha re,.
plied that the Sheikhs and priests would represent religious
bodies and not the people, The Count promised to study the
proposal carefully, says Al Lhran.
Taxes for the rofurecs,
Al Abram also reports that the Syrian govornment
has agrcec to 7,zzzari Pashafs proposal that special taxes
should be imposed by the Syrian government on certain luxu-
rios such as tobacco, in died of the Palestinian rofuceos .
Syria, Al Ahram points out, has Moro Arab refugoos than
any other lira-country.
The paper then goes on to say that the Arab League
Secretariat has sent Lebanon LE 100,000 to be spent on the
Palestinian refugees there. It has also boon decidcc. to
sand contributions collected in Iraq to the Transjordanian
government direct in aid of the Arab rofugeos in Trans jordan.
The Loacuors Secretariat has already given Transjordan
LE 25,000, while Saoudi Arabia cave it LE 20,000 for the
rofugoos fund.
"The Arab rofugoos problem is
a shameful sin corarmittad by the
Security Council.
Under the abovo heading, Al SiyaSi ssa writos "The
Arab rofucees question is one of the most3-i-.ip?ortant questions
which Count Bernadotto is discussing with the Arab loaders
at present. Count Bernadotte himself admits that the situa-
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~,vEDICSDi+Y L UCus t 'nth, 1948.
I,rab icings to discuss sanctions?
Al T.Iisri writes: Damascus August 3 Dar4-da
assorts t za lrao Prime Ilinistors will take part in a forth
coning meeting; of Llrab Kings and i:'rosidonts. It is added
that it is oxpocted that the mooting will result in a boycott
of goods from those countries having supported Zionism and
in oil sanctions.
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tion is very serious. So do most of the big nations, Dut
none of then stoppod to think how was this problem created
and who is responsible for the misery of those poor refugees.
The treatment of any world problem must bogin at the root of
the trouble. In this instance, the Security Council alone
is to blame. It supported the Jewish gangsters against
the peaceful Irabs for no reason at all",-----
"1rWe want a quick solution to the
ilofugocs problor"i.
Under the abovo heading, Al Kutla publishes a short
editorial, made shorter still by b an s--aces a p~pearing in
its diddle to indicate that the Censor disapproved of certain
parts of the article. The writer says that the Arab loaders
must find a quick solution to this problem and not wait while
time drifts on in the hobo that the problem will solve itself.
The 300,000 Drab refugees aro suffering terribly and they
are entitled to protection, says the L aper which fails howo-
ver to rlake suggestions as to the best means of solving this
problom.
Syrian Doctors boycott U.S. Products.
111 T.Tisri writes 3 Damascus August 3 (~,.IT.+,) R A
number of Dar., ascus doctors are planning to boycott A orican
modicinos and surgical instruments. This is one result of
the prosont tendency to impose sanctions on the U.S.LL. Ono
coiar~: orcial organisation has pointed out that the. value of
Syria`will orefuse toc~sand e ucationalliras. 192 millon It is unc~ers
1It iscun r Jtoosd to Syria
missions to U.S.I.
Arab rulers meeting this month?
Al T,Iisri writes: Damascus August 3 (Ia.IZ.ia) -? A
meeting o ,!rac Kings and Frosidonts - "Somewhere in the
Arab World" - is likely to take I)y.a ce towards the and of
the present month assorts the Dar..ascus nowspa~ or ol-Insha,
which adds that praparations are already being made or
the meeting.
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VvEDPIESDA:,Y I,uus t 4th, 1948.
Et to Brute?
Under the above heading, Al Ikhwan Al I:Iuslimoun
writes; "Some persons ox,cuscc' Turkeys negative attitude
towards Palestine by saying that she needed American
dollars. Truman, it was said, mould be angry Trith Turkey
if she displeased the Jews by supporting; the Arabs. Tho'
Turks themselves tried the old -arm of ploasinC both par~-
tics The Turkish writer Omar Rida publishes, a feVr arti-
cles, obviously inspired by the Turkish f-ovornmont, in
support of the Arabs. The Turks thought that a few such
article would win thei:i the friendship and - ratitudo of the
Lloslom world.
"But Turk-oy has taken off her mask and. sent one
of her ships to the Jeers of Haifa loaded with food. The
ship was intercepted in Lebanese waters, searched, and her
carco confiscated. Had this ship not boon (fiscovered, Omar
Iiida would still be writinb his absurd articles about ,f,ra'i-)..
Turkish friendship. Yet Turkey hopas to make the Arabs
E;o to her aid if she is attacked by ilussia. The British
want to create an Islamic Loa~;uo to protect Turkey. But
Turkey is no more an Islamic country than Israel itself".
"In whose interest?
111 Assas condeiins bomb outrasos.
Al 1~ssa s, Plokrashits nouthpiocc, ; r-ints an artiCl, undar
the above headline in i-riiich it says, "Thosc outr.a os do no coos.
to EL,~ypt and do no harm to the enemy. A bomb which is
planted anywhere in Cairo is bound to hurt more Egyptians
than others. In fact at least ten times as many Egyptians
were hurt in the recent explosions than forci"nors; I.Iost
of the property damaged was also Egyptian property, There
is a Concral feclin" of unsafoty arlonc ECyptian pedestrians
thcso days. The shops which were meant to be blovm up do
not care a button whether they are blown uip or not. They
are fully insured aCainst such outrages, and in most .cases
insured with an Ecy, tiara insurance company. Besides, tide
need not stress the fact that such abominable and cowardly
crimes arc bound to harm Ecypt t s reputation a'.~brad. W o
therefore refuse to bolicvo -that any Egyptian in his right
rind can commit such crimes. They must have ;.,con c oim:iitted
either by madmen, Zionists, or communists. The duty of the
EEyptians is clear. They must do ovorythin- possible to
help the police brine those criminals to book.
Al Assas admits Cicurol bomb
was plantod.
Al Assas goes on to say: "Of course we do not
discount the possibility that some icnorant Egyptians are
under the impression that a bomb which explodes inside a
Jewish-owned ostablislizlont serves the Arab cause. But if
such persons exist, do they still hold the same opinion
after they saw the damaCo done to Egyptian shops which
adjoin Cicurcl and the lives lost as the result of the bomb
which exploded beside that shop? If such persons still
persist in plantinC bombs in Jewish establishments then
we can only say that their iL;noranco is a danCorous form
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ti1EDI`TL' SDLY lluGus t ?cth, 19, 8.
Another bomb.
The !,rabic press Lives wide publicity to the
explosion which took place at the ELyptian Delta Land and
Invostriont Company in I.Iaadi.
Akhor Sala, the pro-Covornrlont weakly, sur ests
that the l,ro;.priators of Cicurol may be behind the explosions
of Ad s, GattcCno and 3enzion. It ox laix.s this original
idea by saying that Cicurol is findin- it difficult to collect
insurance secinG that the Government maintains that the ox-
plosion which ti wrecked the shop was caused by a land mine
drops od from an enemy plane. To show the Insurance corl,,a-
nies that this is not the case, Cicurol enCinocrod the series
of explosions which took place recently?
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