To settle Palestine Arabs in Transjordan would be opposed to the best interests of the Arabs since it would show that the solution Dr. Weizmann proposed as a way out of the Palestine land shortage was acceptable to Arabs, the Arab papers “Al Hayat” and “Felestin” comment on a report from Amman that Government leaders there are disposed to receive a number of landless Palestinians.
The Transjordan leaders who favour this move were prompted as much by Transjordanian considerations as by the plight of landless Arabs this side of the Jordan, it is understood. Transjordan, it is argued, possesses enormous stretches of land lying fallow, which could be brought to life by cultivation. The “Felestin” does not question the good intentions of the Transjordan nationalists, but it warns the Arabs against the possibility of the Zionists capitalising these intentions to prove that Transjordan offers a solution to the Palestine land problem.
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