Moslem deputies in the French National Assembly this week-end attacked the French Government’s support of Palestine partition and warned at it would have dangerous repercussions within the French union.
Algerian deputy M. Mezzerne, said: “Zionism is a movement artificially created international finance. Palestine always has been Arabic and other countries better situated should agree to accept Jewish immigrants. French agreement to use race in Palestine would be an act hostile to the Arab world.”
He emphasized the solidarity of the Algerian Arabs with the Arabs in Palestine and added that Algerians “cannot countenance arbitrary decisions which line up Arabs against Jews in bloody conflict.” The French Government, he said, favors increased Jewish immigration into Palestine and France is becoming a Zionist bridge-##ad.Another deputy, A.I. Bentounes, declared that France had erred in favoring partition and added that “this action would have dangerous repercussions within the French Union as it had aroused anger throughout the Arab world.”
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