Egypt’s clandestine radio station beamed at other Arab countries today intensified its campaign of incitement against the Jewish population of the British colony of Aden.
Using a conference of Arab merchants “to combat the smuggling of Israeli commodities” the Cairo “voice of the Arab nation” radio warned its listeners that “most of the Jewish merchants play a big role in the circulation of these commodities. There is nothing illegal in trade between Israel and the British colony of Aden.
Claiming that “statistics show that 75 percent of Aden’s trade is in Jewish land, while 20 per cent of this trade is in the hands of the Indians,” the Cairo broadcast came to the Surprising mathematical conclusion that, as a result, “the Arabs control only 10 per cent of Aden’s trade.” Still, the broadcast claimed, “the Aden committee for the boycott of Israel was able to tighten its grip on the Jews.”
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