San Francisco Examiner · 5 May 1948
CP-1948-075
Arabs Attack Four Zion Settlements
Truce Talks Pushed
Reginald Siegel, International News Service, Jerusalem, May 4
Transcribed from the clipping
“JERUSALEM, May 4.—Jews said tonight their troops knocked out twenty Arab armored cars in an all-day battle against a big Arab force attacking four Zionist settlements in the Hebron hills… In Jerusalem itself a British Government spokesman said truce talks are proceeding ‘satisfactorily.’… The International Red Cross also took its first formal step in trying to win a truce in the Holy City.
It invited Arab-Jewish response without any immediate reaction… Earlier, Trans-Jordan’s King Abdullah offered the Jews equal rights in a unified Arab Palestine. He warned through the U.N. that if they don’t accept this solution, violence will reach ‘the pinnacle of horror’ in the Holy Land after May 16.”
Context added by this archive
An offer of equal rights in a unified Arab Palestine, reported ten days before the state was declared.
A correction
The presentation captions this scan 15 May. Both datelines on it read May 4, so it is filed to the day after.
Cite this clipping
"Arabs Attack Four Zion Settlements," San Francisco Examiner, 5 May 1948, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-075. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-075
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