Evening star., 1949-07-22

having been sorted by the
Egyptian military police. How
ever, the police allowed two Amer
lean correspondents to interview
at length one Communist courier
organizer and to inspect some
of the party orders and propa-
ganda fresh from headquarters
in Tel Aviv.
The Communist pattern emerged
as follows:
Two hundred fifty thousand
of Palestine's million Arab refu-
gees, trapped in the 30-mile
sandspit of the Sinai Desert, are
being promised recovery Of their
lost farms and stores in Israel
if they will join or, support the
Communists of Israel and agitate
against Quaker distributed United
Nations relief here as Anglo
American Imperialism.
Autonomy Offered.
The Communists offer the
Arabs an autonomous Arab state
within the future Communist
Israel.
Arabs joining the Communists
will not recover their property
Immediately. After two to three
years. however, the Communists
pledge that their labor unions
with secret Communist leadership
in the Israeli Army will seize
Israel's government.
A Communist coup might be
successful today, Jewish Conn
munists tell the Arabs. But it is
being delayed because an imme-
diate blow would sever American
funds going to Israel.
Israeli Communist tactical
headquarters for controlling the
Arab underground are located in
the village of AL Majdal, a few
miles north Of GAIA, and the
Jewish settlement Of Biroitshaq
Both are within sight Of Gaza's
minarets below which refugees
huddle in torn tents and sand
blown caves.
Courier Caught.
The Communist underground
was quietly cracked a few weeks
ago when Egyptian police cap
tured Hamid- -Elabed Husary, 81
year-old welder from Jaffa who
had been acting as courier
across no-man'S land.
Another Communist courier
whom the police are keeping
nameless, described in an inter-
view today at headquarters how
he received orders for a political
offensive in AL 'Majdal directly
from the lips of Schlumel Mikunis.
Jewish general secretary Of the
joint Jewish and Arab Com
munist Party leadership.
The Communist strategist was
described as a blunt, quiet blond
about 81 years old. apparently of
Slavic origin, with turned-doWn
mustache.'
Puzzled Arab Communist lead
ers asked Mikunis in a recent con-
clave why the GAIA refugees must
agitate against Americans who are
not only feeding the refugees on
the Arab side but also subsidizing
Israel and hence helping build
communism in the Middle East.
Mikunis Calls Meetings.
Mikunis answered sharply: I'm
here to give you orders. not ex-
plantations. Israel Will be Com
munist state in two or three years
when the Weizmann-Ben-Gurion
government will collapse yielding
to U.S."
Mikunis. according to the eX-
Communist courier, calls meetings
by summoning Arab cell leaders
who never meet otherwise-from
ragged settlements on the Arab
side to confer with him and his
Arab subordinate Twef1k Tuba.
Tuba, a Christian Arab from
Haifa. who heads the Arab wing
of Israel's Communist Party, also
called three meetings alone re-
Gently
Mikunis also directs an Arab
Communist network among hun
dreds of thousands Of refugees
in Hashemite- Jordan where the
Red organization is headed by a
Bethlehem Arab, Fouad Nassau,
and a Nablus Arab. Fahmi Salfity
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