Massacre Report Perturbs Gandhi He Calls on Pakistan to Stop Killings, Peace Is Held in Danger ― Council Has Case Today NEW DELHI, India, Thursday. Jan. 15 ― Mohandas K. Gandhi, now in an acute phase of his fast for communal peace, took cognizance at his prayer meeting last night of a reported train massacre […]
“The Arab League will offer its good offices to the governments of India and Pakistan to mediate their dispute over the Princely State of Kashmir, according to advices received from Damascus by the Syrian delegates to the United Nations. As Pakistan is a Moslem state, and since its creation on August 15, 1947, has been […]
The New York Times reported that 50 houses and hotels in Cairo had been raided, searched, and Jews arrested to prevent “Zionist crimes” against the Arabs. Source: 6
“On 10 January, Haganah intelligence tapped a revealing telephone conversation, between Dr. Hussein Khalidi, the AHC (e.g. Arab Higher Committee) and NC (e.g. National Committee) member, and an Arab merchant identified as ‘Abu Zaki’: Khalidi Said: ‘Everyone is leaving me. Six [AHC members] are in Cairo, 2 are in Damascus – I won’t be able […]
A bomb was thrown at a Jewish school in Beirut. Source: 6
Mahmud al-Habbash, a regular writer in the official Palestinian authorities newspaper, al-Hayat al-jadida, indicated in his column: “the pulse of life” that the Arabs left Israel in 1948 only after political Arab leaders persuaded them to do so, by promising the Arabs a speedy return to their homes in Palestine: “…the leaders and the elites […]
Sir John Troutbeck, British Middle East Office in Cairo, noted in cables to superiors (1948-49) that the refugees (in Gaza) have no bitterness against Jews, but harbor intense hatred toward Egyptians: “They say ‘we know who our enemies are (referring to the Egyptians)’, declaring that their Arab brethren persuaded them unnecessarily to leave their homes… […]
“We heard sounds of explosions and of gunfire at the beginning of the summer in the year of the Nakbah [1948]. They told us: The Jews attacked our region and it is better to evacuate the village and return, after the battle is over. And indeed there were among us [who fled Israel] those who […]
Chairman Dr. Hussain Khalidi of the Arab High Executive in Palestine: “Any invasion of the Holy Land by displaced Jewish persons would be met by a counter-invasion from neighboring Arab countries.” Source: 27, p. 42.
Deputy Sami Es Solb, former premier of Lebanon: “We are facing a 100 year-war’ and demanded compulsory conscription.” Ahmed Khalidi, president of the Arab College of Jerusalem, quoted by Nick Barrows of Chicago Daily News foreign service: “We are the majority here – we Arabs. You of the West have no right to inquire into […]