The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-27
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MORE TROOPS IN
PALESTINE WAR
Land Thetfs Cause Riot
Arabs Use Pogrom
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have us believe, but class war. The
events at the wailing wall are only
belated effects of the frightful cam
paign of murder that has been
carried out for half decade. The
propaganda of the kept press of
the United States about religious
persecution of Jews in Palestine is
only an attempt to arouse sympathy
for the Jewish tools Of British i'm
1 perialism and to deceive the Jewish
| working masses regarding the class
! character of the struggle.
Analyses Class Conflict.
A leading contributor q. b. to
the international press who is ac-
tive in the labor movement in Pales-
tine wrote very Illuminating re-
view of the situation there in the
August 9th issue of the Interna-
tional Press Correspondence which
we publish in full:
The Fight for Land.
GAS a result of the methods of
imperialist rule, a unique, hard and
bitter strugg the fight FOR land
has become the most immediate,
in fact the central problem of politi-
cal and economic life in Palestine.
Ii order to convert Palestine into a
favorable strategic base for it's war
activities, into favorable key posi-
ton for conquering the whole of the
Arabian East, British imperialism
requires the aid Of a Jewish ma
tional home"
Fight Arabian Masses.
''The Jewish national home must,
however, if British policy is to
achieve it's aim, be built in fierce
and lasting conflict with the Arabian
masses, in the first place with the
peasant masses. The British i'm
perialists have, therefore, given their
I servants, the Zionists, to understand
l that if a Jewish colonization is to
be tolerated at all, then it must pro-
coed along agricultural lines.
appropriation Campaign.
"Thus the Zionists have been given
the hint to place once again in the
foreground the appropriation cam
paign against The Arab peasants,
which ever since the inception of
Zionism has constituted the founda-
ton Of this 'idealistic movement.
But in expropriating the Arab peas
ants recourse must not be had to such
primitive means as brute force. The
British are far too cautious to rouse
the anger of the Arabs all at once
by fulfilling the demands of the
Zionists and directly handing over
to them large stretches of land. The
appropriation of the Arab Fellahin
is carried out in a more subtle and
refined way and it is precisely
these underhand methods of the
Zionists that cause the resistance of
the Arab peasants to be all the more
I fierce and desperate.
Il Big Landowners Aid.
4 "In carrying out its historical mis-
sion of helping British imperialism
by driving the poor Arab peasants
from the soil, Zionism makes use of
two factors. The first is the Arab
big landowners who "sell'' to the
Zionist societies the peasants land,
the real possessors and cultivators
Of which, owing to the peculiar con-
dition of land registration, are Of
ten quite unaware that it does not
belong to them but to the Effendi
1.-THE big landed proprietors). Nay
more, the big land owners are at the
same time dealers in land, who bride
the elders of the Arab villages. make
dirty bargains with the government
officials and in this manner hand
over the Arab lands to the Zionist
colonizing companies. Once the first
part of the business (the fraudulent
bargaining away of the peasants
land without the previous knowledge
of the fellahin) is concluded, the
Zionists, backed by the authority of
the law, can now proceed to the sec
ond act of land-robbery.
Role of Labor Leaders.
"This is where the Zionist labor
leaders, the section of the II. Inter
national, come to the scene. The
chief task which the Zionist social
lists set the members and supporters
of their party, is to carry out the
n seizure of the land. The poverty
striker Jewish workers are melted in
u the most Inscriptions m ann r
against the Arab small peasants in
order to induce them to seize the
latter's land. Numerous bloody col
lisions result in the carrying out
of this task. Upon the ruins of the
small Arab farms there arise huge
orange plantations, upon which a
few parasitic capitalists exploit in
the most unheard of manner hun
dreds of Jewish workers, who have
''won" this land, and thousands of
Arabs, mostly appropriated small
peasants. And that is Zionism.
Communists Lead Resistance.
1.-THE only force which offers re-
sistance to this perfidious imperial
Observation-Disclosures game is
the Communist Party.
"The Communists place in the
foreground the interests of the Arab
small peasants. The fighting slogan
of the Communists is, active revolu-
tionary fight against the expropria-
N ton of the small peasants land by
the Zionists. Brotherly union of the
Arab and Tewiek worLars ~ +ho