Arab Press in America Lauds State Department for Shelving of Palestime Resolution

Reporting that “Zionism has suffered a grave blow in Washington,” the Arab press in the United States expresses gratification at the fact that the State Department prevented passage of the Palestine Resolution by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The Meraat-Ul-Garb, a New York Arab paper, attributes the shelving of the resolution on to protests from Arabs throughout the country “who are exerting every pressure to defeat Zionism and its evil machinery.”

The Al-Bayan, a Washington paper, criticizes the House Foreign Affairs Committee for passing the Palestine Resolution. “This is not the first time such a resolution has been put through by Rep. Sol Bloom and his colleague, Emanuel Celler,” the paper writes. “Luckily, they have been stopped by log in and reason – and this time by the State Department which has ordered the resolution shelved.”

Adding that the Zionists will probably not be discouraged and will continue their propaganda in the United States, the paper says. “They picture themselves as the only ones who supported Allied war efforts, saying that the Arabs were on the side of the Axis at the beginning of the war, and further, that if they are with the Allies now, it is only because they have no alternative. Using the force of the Allied armies, they try to push the Arabs out of their own land, Palestine. Their greed knows no limit. They are determined to get all of Palestine, not satisfied that it gives refuge to more than half a milion of their Jewish refugees coming from all over the world.”

The paper appeals to the Arab world to continue Arab pressure upon the Allies. “We must tell the world that Palestine will be strongly defended now and in the future by Arabs all over the world as it has been in the past,” it emphasizes.