American military forces will not be required to keep peace in Palestine if a Jewish State is established here, the entire Hebrew press says today, lauding President Truman’s statement with regard to Palestine, but expressing puzzlement as to why he believes that it may be necessary for the United States to send a half-million soldiers to keep order in Palestine.
The general sentiment of the Palestine Hebrew press and of the Jews in the country is best summarized in an editorial in today’s Davar, leading daily. “Few hope that the Arabs will agree to Jewish immigration into Palestine before the Allies make their decision, and few fear that active Arab resistance will take place after the Allies make their decision. The decision of the Allied Governments is the precondition for Arab consent.”
The paper points out that the impression prevailing abroad that there may be disorders in Palestine requiring the intervention of American and British military units is the result of “Oriental propagandists,” but has no foundation in fact. “Neighboring Arab countries,” the editorial says, “have no right to interfere in Palestine affairs, and who is so foolish as to believe that the Arab countries will oppose by force any decision taken by the Big Powers?”
DR. WEIZMANN REPORTED TO HAVE STATED HE HAS NO FAITH IN JEWISH STATE
Rabbi Judah-Leib Fishman, leader of the Mizrachi, told a press conference here today that a statement at the World Zionist Conference by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, in which he declared that he has no faith in a Jewish State, led to the resignation of the Mizrachi from the World Zionist executive. (The resignation was withdrawn at the concluding session of the conference.)
Rabbi Fishman revealed that in London he signed an agreement with leaders of the Zionist-Revisionist organization the terms of which provide that the Revisionists will accept the Zionist Shekel in order to re-join the World Zionist movement and that they will also support the Mizrachi political demands. In return, the Mizrachi will support the Revisionist political policy and will attempt to secure a place for the Revisionists in the executive of the Jewish Agency and in the Zionist Actions Committee.
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