“We do not hate England but we do not love the Mandate,” argued the Arab paper “Jamel El Arabia,” the Mufti’s organ, in the last issue before it was suppressed indefinitely for publishing the story of an alleged Jewish conspiracy against the Mufti’s life, in answer to the “Felestin’s” contention that the Arabs seek the repeal of the Balfour Declaration and not of the Mandate.
“Why concentrate our war against the Balfour Declaration when the Mandate is more dangerous to the Pan-Arab-Union than Zionism?” asks “El Arabia.” “Arab hostility to the trusteeship means a struggle for complete independence and not tolerating foreign rule of any shade. The repeal of the Mandate will strengthen Anglo-Arab friendship. Britain does not regard as enemies the Egyptians who are fighting for independence.”
Thus the leading Moslem organ goes a long way to confirm Harry Sacher’s evidence before the Inquiry Commission that the Arabs are using Zionism as a lightning conductor, while they are really fighting the Mandate.
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