The “Doar Hayom,” the only Hebrew paper here that has yet had time to comment on the Inquiry Commission’s report, has published a special issue containing it and calls it “the summit of anti-Zionism From the very first moment the majority of the Commissioners showed their enmity to the Jews and sympathy to the Arabs. The government actively supported this tendency. The Jews had a single way of defending the honor of Zionism, viz., to declare openly and comprehensively the aims of Zionism but this was not done by the Jewish witnesses.”
Pointing out that the report exceeds all the pessimistic forecast, the “Doar Hayom declares “It the report had been composed in the offices of the Arab Executive, “The London Daily Mail,” or the Vatican, it could not be more hostile. All of the recommendations of the Commission tend to justify the Arabs and to throw responsibility on the Jews. The report suggests measures contradicting the Mandate. Snell’s attitude is only a little consolation.”
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