The resettlement of the refugees in Arab lands was proposed by a United States Congressional Study Mission in a report to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives. Prepared by Congressman Lawrence H. Smith of Wisconsin and Congressman Winston L. Prouty of Vermont who visited the Near East from September 27 to November […]
Israel Offers Peace Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations in a communication to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles stated: “It has always been the desire of the Government of Israel to have peaceful frontiers with its neighbors. “The reciprocation of this desire by Israel’s neighbors and their abstention from acts of provocation, violence and […]
Dr. Mohammed Salah Ed-Din. “The Arab peoples are not afraid to disclose that they will not be satisfied with anything less than the obliteration of Israel from the map of the Middle East.” Source: Al Misri, Cairo daily, April 11, 1954.
Colonel Nasser, President of Egypt: ISRAEL IS AN ARTIFICIAL STATE WHICH MUST DISAPPEAR. Source: 36, p. 369.
The Foreign Minister of Israel told the Parliament: “Israel is ready at any time to enter into negotiations with any of the neighboring states concerning either a final and comprehensive peace settlement, or any partial or interim arrangement aiming at paving the way towards peace.”
Another refugee told the Jordanian daily a-Difaa: “The Arab governments told us, ‘Get out so that we can get in.’ So we got out, but they did not get in.” Source: 25
Time bombs were hurled into three Jewish business establishments. Later the Sayyad Bazaar, the economic enter of the Jewish community of Baghdad, Iraq, was occupied by troops. Source: 6
Newspaper “Kul Shay” of Beirut, Lebanon “There are plans afoot, under which the refugees will return as invaders and conquerors…we want them to march forward from north and east and kill off the Zionist enemies of the (Arab) nation.” Source: Arab Refugees. (p. 25)
“…Even the 15,000 Jews (e.g. From Iraq) choosing to remain here have great doubts about their future. Some nationalist politicians have been peddling the slogan: ‘nationalize oil and denationalize all the Jews…’ “Because of the ‘freeze’ law, a Jew cannot take a cent with him in cash. He is permitted to take only clothing. Nothing […]
The World Council of Churches, at its meeting in Beirut came to the conclusion that the solution for Arab refugees lay in their integration in Arab lands. “ … We are convinced that there can be no permanent solution of the problem of the Palestine refugees until there is a settlement of the outstanding political […]