Arab Refugees Are Problem

By Marquis Childs, Washington

Transcribed from the clipping

“Washington.—No one knows better than Dr. Ralph Bunche, the skilled United Nations trouble-shooter, that the present peace in Palestine is no more than a temporary truce so long as causes of friction exist in the explosive Middle East… There can be no permanent peace, he reported, until some solution is found for the problem of the 700,000 to 800,000 Arab refugees who fled from their home during the war… A somewhat similar proposal comes from the American Zionist emergency council in a memorandum prepared by Eliahu Ben-Horin urging the extensive development of Iraq as a home for the refugees. A political issue arises here. Israeli officials until recently opposed the return of Arab refugees to communities within Israel from which they fled, making an exception for broken families… The Arab countries insist that the refugees be returned to the villages from which they came.”

Context added by this archive

A syndicated Washington column proposing Iraq as the answer, thirty-three years before the Jordan Is Palestine Committee bought advertisements making the same kind of case.

Cite this item

"Arab Refugees Are Problem," Escanaba Daily Press, 14 June 1949. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1949-004. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1949-004

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Britain Gives $2,000,000 To Resettle Arab RefugeesEvening Star · 2 August 1949 · the same year

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