JEWISH DOMINATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26584, 6 October 1947, Page 5

JEWISH DOMINATION

Fears of Arab League Leader THREATS TO USE FORCE Rec. 9.45 p.m. CAIRO, Oct. 4. Arab Governments would permit volunteer armies to move freely into Palestine if Palestine Arabs were forced to become “ subjects of a Jewish State,” said the secretarygeneral of the Arab League, Abdul Pasha. The Zionist minority would be free to create a dictatorship to dominate the # Arab majority. “ The effort of international Zionism to put 500,000 Arab people under their domination was absolutely immoral. We have a right to fight it.” Abdul Pasha added that Haganah’s tanks, armoured cars, guns and bombs would crush the Palestine Arabs if they fought alone. Haganah had obtained arms easily with the Zionisms’ contributions of millions of dollars, some of which were, in effect, from the United States Government, because the contributors avoided higher income tax by donations to Jewish relief. “ We-don’t want a clash. We don’t want to kill Jews. We, however, are facing an aggressive imperialism which is fixed on the idea of force.” The Arab League’s Political Committee recently decided to help Palestine Arabs with manpower, money and arms.

A general strike of Palestine Arabs began at dawn as a protest against the possible partition of the Holy Land, reports, the Jerusalem correspondent of the Associated Press. The strike paralysed all Arab sections of transport, and Arab pickets prevented Arabs from riding in Jewish buses. The police stood to at dawn, and tommy gun units replaced the usual riflemen on foot patrols. Barbed wire blocked the Old walled city’s seven gates in case the Arabs tried to storm from the mosques to demonstrate in Modern Jerusalem.. Arab Commandos Ready Mahmoud Labib Bey, commander of the Palestine Arab'youth organisations said in Cairo: vArab commandos are ready to liberate Palestine and Egypt simultaneously. The Moslem brotherhood has a, programme which it is pledged to carry out.” He asked the Egyptian Government to warn Palestine that Egypt would counter by force any partition of the Holy Land. The British United Press correspondent at Beirut says protest strikes against the partition plan occurred at Beirut, Damascus, and other Lebanese and Syrian towns, in compliance with the Arab Higher Organisation’s appeal to the Arab: and Islamic worlds to strike and demonstrate to-day against the report of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine. The ban on demonstrations because of' the cholera epidemic prevented Egyptians joining the Middle East Arabs in protests to-day- against the Palestine partition, says Reuter’s Cairo correspondent. The police dispersed Cairo youths who tried to form a procession. Jewish Demands In Jerusalem, Jewish political leaders sent a cablegram to Mr Tyrgve Lie, Secretary-general of the United Nations, saying that Palestine Jews would continue the struggle for Jewish immigration, settlement of waste land, and political independence. The cablegram expressed the hope that Arabs and Jews would not be provoked into fresh violence, but “would co-operate, as free and equal allies for peace and progress in the Jewish State and other Middle East countries.”