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Special Emergency Fund to Aid Palestine Jews Launched in South Africa

January 29, 1948
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The foreign policy of the new Jewish state in Palestine will be based on friendly relations with all the Big Three powers, Major Michael Comay, a member of the Jewish Agency delegation at Lake Success during the U.N. Palestine deliberations, who is now visiting South Africa, told a Zionist mass meeting which launched a Palestine emergency fund campaign to “aid in present Palestine crisis.”

Major Comay said that the Jewish state wanted peace with the Arabs, “but not peace at any price. Peace with the Arab world must mean a peace based upon a healthy respect for our state,” he said. The Arabs In the future Jewish state, he declared, are in a “favored position — they will be a protected and pampered minority.” Pointing out that the Jewish state will be required to pay the Arab state a subsidy of $16,000,000. Comay said, “We are loyally accepting this decision.”

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