The new Revisionist daily “Haam”, which has started publication here with Mr. Jabotinsky, the Revisionist leader, as editor-in-chief, following the reversion of the “Doar Hayom” to its former editorship under Mr. Ben-Avi, condemns in its first issue published this morning the peace pact concluded by the Jewish colony of Motzah with the neighbouring Arab village Colonia, from which the rioters came who razed Motza in the disturbances of August 1929, killing the Jewish family Macleff.
It is an unheard of disgrace, the “Haam” writes. Even Jewish assimilationists never declared peace pacts with pogromists.
Meanwhile, it is stated, in connection with the conclusions of the peace pact, that the charges against 14 Arabs of Colonia who are accused of attacking the home in Motza of the Jewish colonist Broza (on whose initiative the peace pact is said to have been made) have been dropped, and it is rumoured that the Attorney-General may withdraw the proceedings completely as a result of the pact.
In connection with the movement to prevent disturbances breaking out in Palestine with the simultaneous approach of the Passover, Easter and Nebi Moussa Festivals, the appeal for peace issued last week by Rabbi Chaim Sonnenfeld, the octagenarian leader of the Agudath Israel Community in Palestine (given in the J.T.A. Bulletin of the 21st. inst.) is displayed to-day throughout Jerusalem as a poster placarded on the hoardings.
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