Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-04

pOlltlCaI e0ClCyl certainty an
tedates this by 1000 years.
The historic rights of the Jews
to Palestine, as against Arab
claims, was fully explored by
the Allied nations at the emo
Of World War I, when the
Ottoman Empire (Which in
cluded Palestine) was liqui-
dated and out of it were carved
q number Of independent Arab
states with an area totaling
over a million square miles. AS
against this. one tiny segment,
comprising $4,000 square miles
(reduced by successive parti-
tons to 5000 square miles,,
was set aside for the Jewish
people as the Christian worlds
answer to the centuries-old
problem Of Jewish national
homelessness. This recogni-
ton Of the Jewish right to
Palestine had full indorse-
ment of So nations. including
the United States, and is
embodied in the preamble to
the Mandate in the following
terms: recognition has
thereby been given to the his
torical connection Of the jew
ish people with Palestine and
to the ground for reconstitut-
ing their national home in that
country"
Not only was Israel not
founded at Arab expense. but
the very instrument which
brought the concept of the
Jewish national home into
being also brought about the
emancipation Of the Arab
countries. Witness, for exam
pie, the 1896 Royal Commission
Report on Palestine. stating:
THE Arabs do not appear to
realize in the first place that
the present position of the
Arab world as q whole is main
ly due to the great sacrifices
made by the Allied and asso-
ciated powers in the war and,
secondly, that. in so far as the
Balfour declaration helped to
bring about the Allies victory,
1t helped to bring about the
emancipation Of all the Arab
countries from Turkish rule"
Pearl Shalowitz.
4 y y y
Harry foreigner pretends in
his letter to The Star that
there are irrefutable docu-
ments proving that Arab refu-
gees left their homes by COM
mand Of their leaders. I am
not sure that such documents
do exist, whereas there are
many evidences which prove
that Israeli forces carried out
deliberate raids on defenseless
Arab villages. thus terrorizing
the inhabitants and forcing
them to flee their homes. An
example Of these tactics is the
case Of DER Yasin. the whole
population Of which were mas
sacred in cold blood on April
0, 1913. i've weeks before Arab
armies interviewed to save the
rest Of the Palestinian Arabs
from the same fate. BY May
is. 1948 when the Arab armies
interviewed there were already
hundreds Of thousands Of refu-
gees.
I would like also to refute
Mr.. Torezyner's argument that
the Arabs are Anti-American
because Iraq revolted against
Britain, an American ally dur
ing World War II. This is
similar to saying that Israel is
anti-American because the
Jewish terrorists in Palestine
fought the soldiers Of Britain,
an ally OF the United States.
Furthermore. 1t seems to me
that Mr.. foreigner has for
gotten that Trad now is a
member Of the Baghdad Pact
which includes Britain as well
and which is supported by the
United States.
III. Mustafa,
ONCE Of Military Attache
Embassy Of Iraq.
4 4 4
Dorothy Thompson's recent
columns on the Middle East do
her credit as president Of the
American Friends of the Mid
die East, an organization dedi-
Gated to propagandizing the
American public for the bene-
mt Of certain Arab states. AS