Warning that the growing tendency toward Arab economic cooperation with Jews in Palestine should not be interpreted as indicating political reconciliation between the two peoples was sounded today by Joseph M Levy in a Cairo dispatch to the New York Times.
Citing increasing signs of economic cooperation, the correspondent writes: “It would be a gross misrepresentation to say that the Arabs are now reconciled to the Zionist aims for Palestine. Arab nationalism and the Arab opposition to Zionism are as strong as ever. It is a simple fear of starvation, which Arabs believe may result from the war, that impels them to seek the benefits accruing from economic cooperation with the Jews in Palestine for the duration of the war at least.” Levy reports that the desire for economic cooperation is evidenced even in Jaffa, hotbed of Arab terrorism, where Jews are being welcomed back and are living amicably again with the Arabs, and in the Arab press which while not deliberately pro-Jewish “never misses an opportunity for hinting editorially at the importance and desirability of economic cooperation.”
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