Emphasizing that neither the Jewish Agency for Palestine nor the Arabs have accepted it, Falastin, Arab Christian daily, reports today that certain Jewish circles have allegedly offered a ten-year peace pact to the Arabs.
The compact, according to Falastin, consists of the following provisions:
1). Jews would be permitted to bring 400,000 more of their co-religionists into Palestine within a decade, bringing the total Jewish population to 800,000, as compared to an Arab total by that time of 1,200,000.
2). Arab landowners not to be permitted to sell to Jews more than three-fourths of their land, the remainder to be cultivated by Jews in the modern way at the expense of the Arabs, the cost to be met in instalments.
3). Jews would be obliged to employ a number of Arabs and vice versa.
4). Jewish enterprises would be obliged to take into them a proportion of Arab capital and vice versa.
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