Evening star., 1933-11-08
ARABS PLOT NEW
ANTEZ|ON RIOTS
Two Leaders Vow to Give
Up Lives for Effective
Protest.
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JERUSALEM, Palestine, November g.
Disturbances here have only Just be-
gun and may break out again before the
end Of the month. the two chief leaders
Of the Arabs told this correspondent to-
day in exclusive interviews.
The Arab Executive Steering Com
mittee is submitting a plan Of action to
the executive meeting this coming week
end which may call for a series of three
simultaneous Nationwide demonstra-
tionS in defiance of the British prohibi-
ton. The first and possibly the second
of these would be during November, ac-
cording to the tentative plan considered.
The Arabs have lost all hope OF Great
Britain's giving them any satisfaction,
both leaders said today. The only thing
left for them to do is to go into the
streets and die, they believe And II
and when all outward manifestations of
Arab opposition to Zionism are sup
pressed, these Arabs are convinced that
nationaliSm only will be heightened and
driven underground in the form Of
secret societies. and possibly even polit-
ical aSsaSSinations.
Two Released from jail.
The two outstanding Arab leaders are
Aunt Bey Abdul Hadi and Jamal Effendi
Husseni Both participated in the re-
cent demonstrations and both have just
been released from Jail on bond to await
trial on charges of criminal sedition. It
was Jamal Effendi who was most en-
phatic in the belief that troubles here
have only just begun.
I'VE shall not even ask the govern
ment permission for demonstrations,
he said 1T would be waste of time
If the police will allow the Arabs to
demonstrate there will not be any dis
turbance There was none last week
when the police did not try to prevent
the demonstration.
I'VE have nothing to lose any more.
We are drowning. 1t is better to die
now than to prolong death agonies,
drawing our families after us from
place to place in search of homes.
"Our people have lost hope in British
| Justice. Seven or eight experts have
been appointed by Great Britain to
study the problem and all are agreed
that the Arab fears are justified. None
of these has been acted upon. There
has been lone report, favorable to the
Jews. All its recommendations were
adopted"
Aunt Bey was receiving congratulatory
calls following his release from Jail
when he talked to this correspondent.
The Arab, who looks like thinner
but more humorous BRAND (Aristide
! BRAND, the late French foreign min
| ister). sat on an Arab divan with the
correspondent, drinking Turkish coffee
| and smoking cigarettes.
What is there left for us to do?" he
asked. "For years we have been dis
| cussing with the British. For years
| they have been promising to consider
our protests. For years they have done
nothing.
"They are playing with us. They
are treating US like children begging for
candy. We have become a laughing
| stock.
There is nothing left for us to do
! but to go into the streets and die. Every
| day that passes our position Is worse.
| More Arabs are driven of their land.
"All we ask to do is to be allowed
to cry out publicly. We went into the
| streets defenseless and unarmed. We
were met by bullets.
| IF we only knew what this national
home for the Jews meant, We might be
willing to help achieve it, but nobody
| can tell us. Does it mean q Jewish ma
| jority, a Jewish half or an entirely
Jewish Palestine? Hoy long must we
wait for our rights? A hundred years, a
thousand years? Arabs cannot keep
silent. They may all be killed, but
| they will not die silent"
Plan TO Be Submitted.
Meanwhile four leading Arabs are
going to Amman today to confer with
Emir Abdullah of Transjordania on
the program they want him to submit
to Maj. Gen. Sir Arthur c. Wauchope,
British high commissioner for Pales-
tine. They are Fakhri Bey Nashashibi,
Aunt Bey, Jamal Effendi and Ameen
Bey Tamimi.
Il cannot tell you all know" the
Emir told demonstrating Arabs at AM
man last week, but you can be sure
am doing everything possible"
The Mufti of Jerusalem is expected
to return this week end from a trip
through the Moslem East, where he has
been collecting funds with which to
help the Arabs to hold on to the land
there, thus escaping forced sales to
| Jews.
(Copyright. 1933)
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