Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-02
Blame for the Middle East Crisis

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In iels 'unprotected" Arabs
we're left 10 the merciless on
slaught OF the zionists. Al
that time there were 46 mil-
lion Arabs living IN q territory
OF 2 million square miles.
surrounding 100000 Jews In
an area 5000 miles square.
Five Arab armies invaded the
incipient state. Their pro-
fessed object was 10 drive the
ISraelites into the sea. They
failed and Miss Thompson
apparently mourns their de-
feat. The leaders OF America
who lent their assistance TO
the new state have, she says.
sullied the reputation Of
America. How would Il be
with us. Miss Thompson, II
we helped destroy this little
people. this fragment Of hui
mainly, clutchine for q taste
Of life after the excuses Of
Hitler and Stain. our
enemies as well as theirs7
Would our troubles be less
today and would history deal
better with us?
The crisis Of the Middle
East is a matter Of transcend
ent Importance In the world
OF today. It should not. in
my opinion, be the subject of
hysterical outbursts. II Israel
had never existed or II all Of
its citizens were murdered
tomorrow. the crisis would re-
main. For the crisis derives
from the postwar struggle
between East and West for
control Of this area in the
context of the awakening
aspirations Of a long OPP
pressed people. We will not
gain the friendship Of the
Arabs by handing to them
on a silver platter the heads
of the Israelis. We will only
have lost for ourselves our
strongest and surest friend
in the Middle East.
Abraham Frank.
It is hard to determine
from Dorothy Thompson's
emotionally written articles
what her solution to the
Palestine problem should be.
Would she let the Israelis
fall to the tender hearts Of
the Arabs who so mercifully
dispatched their beloved King
Feisal? He was the one ruler
in all Araby who was making
q genuine start by rebuilding
the irrigation system that
once supported a population
of 10000. 900 people before it
was destroyed in the 18th
century AID. by Hulagu Khan.
The UAR could not allow him
to continue for therein lay
the peaceful solution of the
Palestinian refugee problem
and the poverty Of the Mid
die East.
1t is hard to imagine a more
powerful pro-Arab propa-
gandist than Miss Thompson.
She is trying real hard to
convince us that the Arabs
with their feudal murders,
opportunism, affinity for de-
ceit, bribery and corruption.
etc. are an idealistic, highly
moral people and really DEM
ocratic at heart. even King
Ibn Saud.
M. C.
In her column, Roots Of
the Middle East Crisis"
Dorothy Thompson is back
at her old obsession: Israel.
Everything would have been
peaceful and satisfactory in
the Middle East if only the
state OF Israel hadn't been
created.
To look to Israel as the
cause of Arab ills is to look
for a Scapegoat instead Of
real causes.
Israel's humiliation in a
subtle or brutal manner is
no cure for Middle East Arab
ills which are deep-seated
and complex.
M. S. Lumber.
4 y 4 =
Thanks for the column by
Dorothy Thompson, Roots
Of the Middle East Crisis"
Also for your editorial July
20. Arab Nationalism," and
Fred Theroux's story, what
Was the Road to lebanon"
I'm glad to see you have
the courage to publish the
truth: practically no other
paper has.
G. M.