The report that London political circles are debating the establishment of Palestine as a republic is termed pure fantasy today by “Al Jamia Arabijah,” organ of the Grand Mufti.
At the same time the paper asserts that the Arabs will never agree to Palestine’s becoming a republic with a Zionist premier.
The Mufti’s mouthpiece doubts whether Britain is ready for the republic idea for Palestine. “The highest Great Britain wants to donate to us is a Legislative Council with limited rights which already both Jews and Arabs have rejected,” the paper says.
“If an agreement could not be reached on the creation of a Legislature, how ever could it be reached for the creation of a Parliament?” it asks.
The Arabs will never relinquish their demand for full control of Palestine which is to be part of a Pan-Arabic Federation, the paper emphasizes.
In the same issue, “Al Jamia” demands that permission be refused to Jews desiring to visit Transjordania.
It warns that the appearance of Jews in Transjordania may lead to attacks upon them.
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