THE CASE FOR THE ARABS

Chronicle (Levin), 10 July 1948, Page 5

THE CASE FOR THE ARABS

LOXDON, Juiy P. It is impossible to diseuss I'alesiiiu" with Arab leaders without being im

pressed by their convietion that the seales at Lake Success are so heavily weighted in favour of israel, that it the Arabs are to obtaiu justiee it mvis! be by their own elforts, savs Tlie Tinies' speeial correspondent in Cairo, who points out that the fundaiiiental reason why Count Bernadotte 's j>roposals were unaeeeptable to the Arab Beague, is that they appear to be naseu ■on the assumptiou that the existenee oi a soverergn, independent israel is a faet that eannot be uridone. 'Jiie Arabs argue that by aeeepting the truee, tliey refrained from destroying or at least niortally injuritig Israel,. only to be tolo tli.at the basis of the Palestine solurion diould be that Israel had not been destroyed. it was, therefore, the Arab.; say, rnanifestly unjust that they siiouh. be asked to aeeept, as an irrevoeuble fait aeeonipli, tlie verv eonsuinmatioi. whieli they were struggiing suecessfuly lo prevent and whieli they wonld liave j.-rcvented had there been no truee. The Times eorrespondeut adds. •'Rightly or wrongly fhe Arabs beiiev:that had they refused the truee on Jiuk11,. they wouhl by now liave been in possessfon of all .lerusaJein and otlie, areas of Palestine. The Arabs alleg--that the Jews violated tlie tru;-e ra ewry possible wav wliile the Arabs, with rare and trivial except ions, ob served it honourably.