“Peace between the Jews and the Arabs is possible and will have to come,” former President Harry S. Truman declared in an interview here with Isaac Hamlin, national secretary of the Histadrut campaign in this country, and Isaac Korn, secretary-general of the smallholders’ cooperative settlement movement in Israel.
“There are no serious reasons why the two cousins, the Jews and the Arabs, should not live in peace and work together for the development of the Middle East,” President Truman declared. He expressed the opinion that Israel’s industrialization and progressive agricultural set-up would help her become the center of the Middle East and that such economic improvements would bring stability to the region.
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