Arabs Charge Zionists Have ‘5 Year Plan’

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A new campaign of incitement against the Jews appeared today to have been definitely launched by the Arab press, with an alleged Zionist “Five Year Plan” as the latest peg on which to hang anti-Jewish propaganda.

Led by Esh-Shabab, the young people’s weekly edited by Emil Ghery, many Arab papers charged that 1937 will find the Arabs in the minority, followed in 1938 by their complete transference from Palestine to Trans-Jordan, and that in 1939 an autonomous Jewish commonwealth will be established in the Holy Land.

Esh-Shabab, whose editor has had more lawsuits on his hands than any other journalist here, assails the scheduled arrival of Dr. Chaim Weizmann to assume the duties of director of the Daniel Chaim Sieff Research Institute at Rehoboth.

The Zionist leader is coming “to engage in the scienific side of the upbuilding of the Jewish National Home,” Esh-Shabab complains.

The Arab papers published protests and articles inveighing against Jewish immigration and land settlement. More than 20,000 Polish Jews entered Palestine in a few months, it is asserted, and warnings are given that the General Jewish Labor Federation aims at displacement of Arabs from their jobs.

The Moslem town of Nablus is reported in advices reaching here to be seething over the issue.

Esh-Shabab, declaring that more than 100,000 dunans of land have been sold to Jews in the Beersheba district in less than a year, says:

“The country is not in need of empty words but of practical deeds and active people.”

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