The Arab claim that Palestine is an Avob country ig not capable of real faction, the statement declares. The Jews already formed one-third of the population and were responsible for two-thirds of the economic activity of Palestine.
"The Jewish claim to Palestine will never be abandoned, and the Jewish community there has never ceased to exist, In every age Jews have worked their way in Palestine, and for the last, sixty years active' resettlement work hay been going on. the Jews could not conceive that, after twenty years, the British Gov: ernment should be' seeking an inter~ pretation of the Mandate which might curtail fundamental Jewish rights. These rights were essential to their place in the world, where the Jews were not w fraction and not an apbendix. to something else, but were themselves "masters of their own Palestine had been prepared by sixty years of pioneer work. It had agriculture and industry and a norm= ally rooted Jewish society.
Palestine was now capable of absorbing hundreds of thousands refugees, and if it ware not capable of taking them all, that was hardly reagan for refusing to allow it to take any as it could.
the statement emphasized the Jewish desire to bring about good understanding between Jews and Arabs. 2 was teuo, it says, that Palestine was holy place for the Arabs, as It was also for the British, but it'had never been a national centre for the Arabs as was Damascus.
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