Times Record · 1 December 1947

CP-1947-012

Palestine Partition Decision Incenses Arabs To Violence

Seven Jews Slain in Holy Land, Four Others in Damascus and American Legation in Latter City Stoned, Flag Ripped Down, Shutters Torn Off, Windows Broken

By the Associated Press

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“Death, strikes, insults at the United States and grim threats of a Holy War developed swiftly in the eastern Mediterranean today in the wake of a United Nations decision to partition Palestine, a move which incensed Arabs throughout the area… Shouts of ‘down with the United States,’ ‘down with the American University’ and ‘give us arms’ rang through the streets of ancient Cairo… The threat of Holy War seemed implicit in utterances of Abdel Rahman Azzam Pasha, secretary of the Arab League of seven nations with 33,000,000 Arabs. He declared the Arabs would never submit to partition. ‘I cannot say where and when I will place my troops,’ he declared. ‘It is a question of life or death. We never wanted violence of war… Now our hands are forced to a definite course for which Palestine Arabs and the whole Arab world have no alternative.’”

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"Palestine Partition Decision Incenses Arabs To Violence," Times Record, 1 December 1947. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1947-012. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1947-012

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