Star Herald · 21 October 1949

CP-1949-011

Claim Jews Are Forcing Arabs to Quit Israel

Official Says Less Than 100,000 Arabs Remain of Over 785,000 Before War.

By Fred J. Zusy, The Associated Press, Jerusalem

Scan 310 × 400 pixels

Transcribed from the clipping

“Jerusalem, Oct. 20—(AP)—Arab sources say the Arab population of Israel is now less than 100,000 and claim that the Jews are forcing small numbers of Arabs to leave the country almost every day.

Hundreds of thousands of Arabs who fled Israel after the start of Palestine hostilities now live in refugee camps in the Arab border area surrounding the Jewish state or are crowded into nearby Arab villages and towns. Ahmad N.

Sabi, external liaison officer for the Hashemite Jordan government in Arab Palestine, estimates the Arab population of what is now Israel at 785,000 before the fighting started. ‘The most tragic and ironic part of the picture,’ he said, ‘is that for every Jewish refugee or emigree brought into Israel, an Arab refugee was created—forced out of his homeland.’

Sabi told a reporter that Israel is pushing small numbers of Arabs out of the country almost daily—chiefly on the ground that they have illegally infiltrated across the border… He said an official protest had been made to the United Nations Security Council over an incident at Qalqilya last June in which four Arabs were killed.

As Sabi told the story, this is what happened: Three cousins operating an orange grove and a young neighbor were ordered into a jeep by unknown Israelis, taken to the border, ordered to ‘get out’ and machine gunned as they crossed the line.

Then, Sabi said, other Arabs running orange groves in the vicinity, were told that ‘irresponsible’ persons had killed these four and warned that the Israel government could not guarantee protection to those remaining. As a result, Sabi said, about 100 other Arabs fled.”

Cite this clipping

This clipping is read closely in the section below

• Disabled Palestinians, and the warning that becomes the defense

More from Star Herald

• Jewish Immigrants Get Former Arab PropertyStar Herald · 27 August 1950
• Israel releases more than 250 prisonersStar Herald · 21 July 2007

More from the 1940s

• Palestinian Arabs In Distress, Hope For Speedy War EndAda Evening News · 11 January 1949
• Palestinian Arabs Hope For PeaceMcAlester News-Capital · 11 January 1949
• Palestinian Arabs, Embittered At War’s Course, Invites Abdullah To Act in Hope for Speedy PeaceSun Journal · 11 January 1949
• MODERN MADONNAThe Waukesha County Freeman · 12 January 1949
• Truman Gets British View On Critical Situation in PalestinePoughkeepsie Journal · 13 January 1949
• Israel Speeds Resettlement of Areas Left by the ArabsThe New York Times · 18 January 1949
• All 334 clippings from the 1940s →

In these collections

The same copy, in 7 other papers

• Israel Arabs Say They Are Being BannedPress of Atlantic CityAtlantic City, New Jersey20 October 1949CP-1949-019
• Arab Population Of Israel Is Less Than 100,000Appalachian News Express21 October 1949CP-1949-007
• Arabs Complain Israel Making New RefugeesEvansville Courier & PressEvansville, Indiana21 October 1949CP-1949-010
• Jews Accused Of Reducing Arab PopulaceThe Arizona RepublicPhoenix, Arizona21 October 1949CP-1949-008
• Jordan Liaison Officer Says Arab Population in Israel DwindlingThe Billings GazetteBillings, Montana21 October 1949CP-1949-009
• 100,000 Arabs Left In IsraelThe Morning UnionSpringfield, Massachusetts21 October 1949CP-1949-012
• Arabs Complain Israel Ejecting Their NationalsIntelligencer Journal27 October 1949CP-1949-020

Their text and this one are nearly identical. Found by comparing transcriptions, not by reading them side by side, so this establishes that the text overlaps and not that these papers ran the same dispatch. How this was done.