TOTAL CITIZENSHIP

Chronicle (Levin), 18 March 1946, Page 7

TOTAL CITIZENSHIP

ARAB OFFER TO JEWS JERUSALEM, March 15. Although in tlie last 25 vears 500,06:), -Jevvs' -had eutered -Palestine against the will of the Arabs, the Arabs were novv willing to accept them as Tui! citizens and .throw a veil over the manner of their entry, said an Arab Ofiice spokesmari. He said that, the generositv of thia oil'er, wliicii was included i.. the Arno mei'iloraiidum to the Coinmittee ot luquiry ou Palestine, should not be uuderestimated. The nie'morandum deciared that the Palestine State would be au Arai) State, not in a uarrow, rac-ial sense, but because the niajority of the citizens were Arabs, and Palestine was part of the Arab world. The Jevvs would be given an opportunity of mouldiag the State, aud would be linked l>y goodwill and interest to the Arabs, but the Arabs would deiinitely not consent to the cou tinuation of e\ren limited Jewish iiuuii gration while the proposed State was being established, as this would encourage "Ihe Zionists to l)elieve that by exertiug more pressure they could obtain further concessions. ' 1 lf the Jews try to force a way into Palestine they should not be surprised* if the Arabs defend themselves with everv means at their disposal," he said. The Aniericaii-borii president of the Hebrew Universitv (Dr. Judah Magnes), in a memorandum to tlie coiunuttee, ' proposes a bi-natioual I'alestine with Jews and Arabs in a federative union under the trusteeship, of United Nations. The plan, whieh is sponsored by the fhud (Union) Association of Palestine, advocates equal rights for the two peojflcs and the union o 6 bi-national Palestine with neighbouring countries. The two iinniediate olijectives -pro.l>osed are (1) a common country for two equal peoples witli a full measure of self-governnient ; and (2) the im mediate admission to Palestine of 100,000 Jewish displaced persous from Europe. The memorandum calls for the transfer of Palestine to the trusteeship ot United Nations, the head of the State being nomiiiated by a Palestine Legis lature and appointed by Unitei Nations. The regional trusteeshiji should be composed of represeutatives of the administering authority, the Jewish Ageucy, and the Arab League. "The administering authortiy could doubtless l>e Britain, reprosenting tlie Christian World," said the memora'aduni.