The general outlines of the case that the Palestine Government will present to the Anglo-American inquiry committee, when it holds hearings here next month, are becoming apparent.
It is learned from reliable sources that the Government will claim that the Zionist demands for a Jewish state cannot and should not be fulfilled for the following reasons:
1. The large-scale development plans of the Jewish Agency–particularly the lowdermilk scheme–are not feasible, because the Government is preparing to freeze Palestine water resources, as it has frozen the bulk of the tillable land. A draft of such regulations has already been prepared.
2. The Zionists are only a minority of the Jewish people. The Government will bolster this point by submitting statistics on the number of Jews throughout the world who have purchased “shekels” – which are considered a token that the buyer supports Zionist aims.
3. Any change in the White Paper provisions will result in a “catastrophe.”
Meanwhile, leaders of the Histadruth, the Jewish National Fund, the Karen Hayesod, the Mizrachi, the Agudas Israel and other Jewish bodies are putting the finishing touches on the evidence they will submit to the committee.
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