Communists Expelled from Villages for Threatening Israeli Arabs

Three Israeli Arab Communists were expelled from their home villages by Israeli authorities for passing out threatening propaganda, Premier David Ben Gurion revealed today in Parliament.

Replying to a query submitted by Tewfik Toubi, Arab Communist deputy, the Premier stated that after the July revolution in Iraq, the three men passed out leaflets in Nazareth and in Galilean villages warning that Israeli Arabs who “acted against Arab interests”–as defined by the Communists–would meet the same fate as Nuri as-Said, late Iraqi Premier who was lynched by a revolutionary mob. The leaflet distributors have been forced to take up residence in another Arab village in Israel on orders of the military governor.

Meanwhile, a Foreign Ministry spokesman commenting last night on the United States approach in the United Nations toward a new method of handling the Arab refugee problem, indicated Israel welcomes the new Western approach. He said the U.S. -Western attitude implies a more realistic appraisal of the refugee problem.

Radio Cairo, heard here, last night denounced King Hussein of Jordan as “an imperialist tool” acting “in concert with the Zionists” in his charges that Syrian military planes tried to force down his plane this week when he was in flight from Amman to Europe. The entire affair, said Radio Cairo, was “an attempt to defame the United Arab Republic.”

Reports from the Galilee asserted today that during the Syrian shelling in the Huleh area last week, local radio receivers picked up orders in Russian and Czech languages to Syrian troops. The intercepted orders included a warning to the Syrian troops to stand by and then instructions to Syrian soldiers to open fire, it was said.