Declaring that Emir Abdullah, Arab ruler of Transjordan, is a “British puppet,” the New Zionist Organization of America today issued a statement under the signature of its president, Col. Morris J. Mendelsohn, stating that “the Jewish people will fight with all its might and influence” the establishment of a pan-Arab Federation composed of Palestine, Syria, Transjordan and Lebanon as advocated by the Emir in a press interview this week.
“That this federation scheme is contrary to the desires of the countries concerned is obvious from the very fact that except Emir Abdullah no other spokesman could be found among the Arabs to advocate the plan,” the statement said. “It is well-known that the Emir is an insignificant British puppet whose influence among the Arabs is next to nil. It must be clearly understood that a federated Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Transjordan is at present calculated to embrace Jewish Palestine in a vise of Arab domination. Palestine Jewry would thus be relegated to a status of a permanent minority and the possibility of a post-war large-scale Jewish immigration into Palestine would be forestalled.”
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