The exile of Subhi Al Khadra, manager of the Arab Executive’s office, to Safed for one year and his being put on parole for a similar period of time as a dangerous person, has strongly impressed everybody here. High Zionist leaders consider the stiff punishment to Khadra as the most important British measure against agitators.
The Hebrew paper, Doar Hayom, describes the sentence as unprecedentedly logical but thinks it is due to the fact that Khadra’s proclamation calling for a general strike on August 23 was more anti-British than anti-Jewish and light in comparison with the crime. The paper adds that Khadra was only a tool in the hands of other persons “whose activities are shrouded in mystery,” an obvious reference to the Grand Mufti. The Doar Hayom says that permanent peace is impossible “so long as British policy enables secret sedition to thrive.”
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