The Land Question in Palestine: Methods of Pressure Employed by Palestine Government in Vadi Havarit

The methods of pressure employed by the Palestine Government in the affair of Vadi Havarith constitute an action contrary to the Mandate, the law of Palestine, and the moral foundations of State and Society; and furthermore, constitute an encouragement to the lawless elements in the country to continue invading lands belonging by rightful purchase to the Jewish people, says a resolution adopted by the Executive Committee of the World Union of Zionist Revisionists.

Even the pretence of taking away Jewish lands as a “temporary” measure only is no more than a sham, the resolution proceeds, it being evident both from the declaration of the invaders and the practice of the Palestine Government that the occupation of Vadi Havarith by Bedouins will in effect, under one or another pretext, be made permanent.

It was the clear duty of the Jewish National Fund Directorium, the resolution says further, to refuse its consent and let the Government either restore the Vadi Havarith land to its rightful owner, the Jewish National Fund, or stand revealed before the world as aiders and abettors of lawless violence. The Jewish National Fund Directorium, by consenting instead to the so-called lease of Vadi Havarith has sanctioned the action of the Government and the provocative precedent created, and has violated the Articles of the Jewish National Fund by alienating the possessions of the Fund from Jewish occupation. While maintaining its support of the Jewish National Fund, the resolution concludes, the Executive Committee, therefore, demands the resignation of the directorium of the Fund to re-establish public confidence in the administration of the Fund and its possessions.