Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1957-02-13
ROTARY CLUB
Jerusalem, Israel
Dear President,

Dear President
recently copy of letter address,
ed by the Cairo Rotary Club Rotary all over the world
President Clan Paoo Lang had appealed World Fellowship
Week TO international understanding The Cairo Club
responded to that appeal by sending fellow
OF political propaganda which throws ombc light the
ridden background Of n Egypt
The Rotary Club of Jerusalem twenty-evcn
ershp Comprising representatives ~ a vi iNru memo,
We had
uona does not take sides in political conflicts work of our
club have strictly adhered that from Cairo
conravenes this basic principle fellowship In view of its
misleading character have felt my duty after great deal of
heartsearchng to send this cover all the
points raised by the Cairo letter with those which
specifically refer to Israel
Permit in the first place say a few words H. o., th,
s'aonment OF the State of Israel which letter
Syloed as "a foreign growth the body East
rms statement runs counter all historical
Isra" is not foreign intruder, but ancient ma
mons OF the Middle East The history place
holds in the civilization bound up for all time with
Inc spiritual experience of the people land as il
IS recorded in the the There is hardly parallel
U" people maintaining TO the land
us oGh throughout the centuries that people
IN relation to Palestine given rise in our generation o
great social and spiritual The hstor
10, association c. the Jewish peop Palestine
\naiona recognition when the League Nations in 1922
up e Mandate for Palestine for the express purpose
Sg there Jewish National Home by facilitating Jewish
grafton development and selfgovc policy was
ed when on 20 November 947 the Assembly United
Nations voted IN favour of the establishment
S' 30 lar from no agreeing it,
r more than two thirds of the States
Nations supported that resolution 1t
vote That the State Of
when the British Mandate terminated
\ Let next deal he Arab
There is foundation statement that the Pacs-
he Arabs were pushed by the Jews
rary ample viddcnce from Arab that at
OIL The Arab military
ARABS left the country the
whoLto quote an Arab published States
ud' o)-urged them Ito go to stay temporarily in
e neghbouring brotherly guns
Arab armies them down" the Jews having
pushed ue OUT the Jewish authorities than oc
Gon urged the Arabs country guaranteed
melt safety testified for eyewitness report
hed In the Economist Of 2lOls8 This also confirmed
y the files of the British Police Headquarters
april 1913 where is recorded that 1.-The making
" persuade the Arab population to remmain and settle
back 20 their normal lives"
For eight these refugees left Palestine at the
Oh helr leaders, have been kept by the Arab in
camps where they being by the United
do ana other relief agencies The Arab Governments have
frustrated scheme escttlemcnt regarding
1uute condition of the refugees principal their
campaign against Israel and the The
lie oi It's part mas on numerous occasions declared
us readiness 10 enter into negotiations speedy
solution Of this problem, to the refugees full CON-
PSdon III respect of their abandoned
resettlement 1t has also during past eight per-
many of these refugees to return under the Family Ren
chee cannot however, admit to territory hundreds
thousands of people who for eight years
ated with hatred of salc That nothing
hey would constitute hostile fifth column The
ann OF the Arab leaders in demanding the wholesale
turn oil these refugees to Israel has been a
Egypt:
Let known and appreciated that in demanding the
restoration of the refugees to Palestine
they as masters of the homeland and not nc aos
More explicitly they intend to annhlate Israeli
(Mohammed Salah ed Din in "Al Misri"I
is ample space for the resetlement Of these n., il
e Arab countries which underpopuaed and n
ac need additional population for their development as
lraq and Syria.
further consideration has be taken into account
since It's establishment Israel has 400 600 cs
o tue Arab countries Of the Middle East Africa
most of them driven out of their homes by
ana Intolerance There has thus been exchange OF pop
comparable to that which took place when parti
ana he new states of India and Pdkstan established
he only difference being that in that agreement was reached
the TWO Governments for the reselement rcfu
gees and for the payment Of compensation in
ther lost property The Jews who to Israel from the
Middle East and North Africa pennies ali their
possessions having been taken them before tloir
any final settlement of this claims Of tbese
grants most clearly also be ~
The letter Of the Cairo further staes "rs, b.
no hope economically and must live ever On oreign 49,
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