Replying to the 42 proposals for Arab-Jewish cooperation made by Harry Snell, Labor member of the Palestine Inquiry Commission, and published last week by the Brith Shalom Society headed by Dr. Judah L. Magnes, chancellor of the Hebrew University, the Arab paper, “El Carmel,” sets forth certain rather stringent conditions as preliminary to a discussion of the Jewish proposals.
The “El Carmel’s” conditions are that the Jews should agree not to evict a single fellah, not to compete with Arab officials or workers, to employ at least 80 per cent Arabs in their undertakings, not to claim government aid for their industries, not to compete with Arab merchants, to accept Arabic as the only official language in Palestine, to abandon “the dream” of the Jewish National Home and not oppose Palestine’s joining an Arab federation.
Among the proposals of Mr. Snell, which are endorsed by the Brith Shalom, are the establishment of mixed Arab-Jewish chambers of commerce, the extension of credit by Jewish credit organizations to the Arabs, the admission of Arabs to Jewish schools, the extension of Jewish research to Arab districts, the extension of Jewish medical and social service to the Arabs and the allocation of a special member of the Jewish Agency Executive to concentrate on Arab-Jewish relations.
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