ARAB ATTACKS ON JEWS FOLLOW U.N.O. VOTE ON PARTITIONING

Chronicle (Levin), 1 December 1947, Page 5

ARAB ATTACKS ON JEWS FOLLOW U.N.O. VOTE ON PARTITIONING

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Reuter

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Received Monday, 10.20 a.fn. rLONDON, November 30. Tension is mounting throughout Palestine according to reports Teaching the Arab Higher Committee, now holding an emergency meeting in Jerusalem, says Reuter's Jerusalem correspondent. British headquarters announced that all British troops except those on garrison duty in Jerusalem were confined to barracks. Six Jews h^ve been killed in Palestine since the United Nations vote on the partitioning of Palestine.

Jewish sources have reported i that five Jews were killed andl eleven wounded in Arab attacks on the Jewish buses. Musa Bey Alami, director-general of the Arab Office in London, issued a statement claiming that the United Nations had decided to liquidate an entire nation in its own homeland and give its country to another people. "U.N.O. has decided that majorities shall be suppressed and aggression upheld. U.N.O. has set the Arabs and Jews in the Middle East irrevocably against each other and made war inevitable." The statement added that the United States was subservient to Jewish influence in America and that Britain had shown a pusillanimous passivity, whicli had contributed largely to the present situation. In Cairo the secretary-general of the Arab League, Abdel Rahman Azzam Pasha, said the partitioning of Palestine meant war.' The Arab countries would not permit the United Nations' decision to be implemented. He predicted a long struggle and declared that the fate of Palestine would be settled in Palestine itself. "We will fight and we are preparing for victory," he added.