Buffalo Jewish Review · Buffalo, New York · 24 June 1949
CP-1949-021
Israel Suggests A Plebiscite on Arab Palestine State
Arab Delegates in Knesset Suggest Government Consideration of Refugees. Score Arab States’ Leaders For Imperialistic Policies and Absolve Jews For Condition of Arab Refugees.
Special Dispatch, Tel Aviv
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“TEL AVIV, Israel (Special Dispatch) — Moshe Sharett, Israeli Foreign Minister, told the Knesset Monday that he had advised the Lausanne delegates to advocate a plebiscite in Arab Palestine to determine whether the inhabitants desired a separate state or annexation to Transjordan.
The aim of such a move, apparently, was to dispel the uncertainties of the present situation in Palestine in which no one knows what Arabs are represented by whom… Mr. Sharett said that plans had been formulated to receive the refugee wives and children of Arabs already here. These, he said, will be special cases and subject to screening.”
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The subheading carries the blame-the-Arab-states argument and attributes it to Arab members of the Knesset.
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"Israel Suggests A Plebiscite on Arab Palestine State," Buffalo Jewish Review, 24 June 1949, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1949-021. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1949-021
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