ARAB BOYCOTT
BLOW AGAINST JEWS
PLANS FOR PALESTINE
ECONOMIC BLOCKADE
(9 a.m ) JERUSALEM Dec. 17.
The Arab League has completed plans for the total economic blockade of the Palestine Jews. It is the greatest boycott since sanctions were applied againSt Italy, says The Observer’s correspondent. The object of the boycott is to destroy Jewish economic capacity in Palestine and make further Jewish immigration impossible. The boycott is beginning on January 1. The Arab leader in Palestine. Auni Bey Abdul Hadi. told the correspondent that all member States of the Arab League would stop granting import licenses to goods from Jewish Palestine, and would inflict heavy punishments for infringements of the boycott. They would open a special fund to assist Arab industries in Palestine and develop competition with the Jews. They were also refusing visas to all Jews’to travel to Arab countries as visitors or in transit.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21899, 18 December 1945, Page 3
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