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The Baltimore Sun · Baltimore, Maryland · 3 December 1947

CP-1947-014

Interviews With Arabs In Palestine Indicate Unity In Determination To Combat Partition

By Philip Potter, Sun Staff Correspondent, Jerusalem

Interviews With Arabs In Palestine Indicate Unity In Determination To Combat Partition — The Baltimore Sun, 3 December 1947
The Baltimore Sun · Baltimore, Maryland · 3 December 1947

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“Jerusalem, Nov. 18 (By Mail)… a score or more Arab spokesmen with whom this correspondent has had interviews in the past two weeks. They include men and women, Moslems and Christians, labor leaders and newspaper publishers. On the record they are all opposed to partition. Let some of them speak for themselves. Mrs. Matiel Mogannon is president of the Ramallah chapter of the Arab Woman’s Union, which has units throughout the country and is affiliated with similar organizations in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Trans-Jordan… Mrs. Mogannon, a Christian Arab, spent most of her childhood in the United States, coming back to Palestine after her marriage… ‘When it comes to national interest we are all, Christians and Moslems, Arabs. Our religion doesn’t count at all. It’s the Arabs against the Zionists. We have set aside petty quarrels in the interest of unity on Palestine.’ ‘It is true there have been family feuds—feuds between the Husseinis and the Nashashibi, and it may be there will be again once Palestine is an independent state. But on this issue we are united.’ … Raja el-Issa, proprietor of Felastin, Arab language paper of Jaffa, one of four Arab dailies in Palestine… ‘We’ll never come to any understanding with the Jews on the basis of partition or a separate state for them. We’ll give them equal rights here, but there is to be no more immigration.’ … Mustafa Ibrahim Mustafa, 35, is an Arab journalist who returned from a nine-month tour of the United States, where he visited New York city, Washington, Detroit, Chicago and Los Angeles.”

Photograph caption

“ARABS LOOT JEWISH SHOPS—This was the scene in Jerusalem as Arabs looted Jewish shops.” (AP Wirephoto)

Context added by this archive

Palestinians quoted at length in an American daily two weeks before the fighting began, under a headline saying they were united. On the same page: Dixie Belle gin at $3.17 a quart, and a Kayser lingerie advertisement headed <i>Dear Santa!</i>

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"Interviews With Arabs In Palestine Indicate Unity In Determination To Combat Partition," The Baltimore Sun, 3 December 1947. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1947-014. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1947-014

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