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Buffalo Jewish Review · Buffalo, New York · 1 April 1949

CP-1949-025

Exchange of Arab Refugees For Jews In Moslem Lands

Looked Upon Favorably in Israel, Says Moshe Sharett, Israeli Foreign Minister.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Washington

Exchange of Arab Refugees For Jews In Moslem Lands — Buffalo Jewish Review, 1 April 1949
Buffalo Jewish Review · Buffalo, New York · 1 April 1949

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“WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Israel would welcome an exchange of Arab refugees for Jews living in Arab countries, Moshe Sharett, Foreign Minister of Israel, said this week at a press conference at the Israeli embassy here. Earlier, Sharett conferred briefly with Secretary of State Dean Acheson… He said at the press conference, in answer to a pointed question about Arab refugees being repatriated to Israel, ‘If you cannot make a homogeneous community, why try to swim against the stream?’ The plight of Arab refugees is entirely the fault of the Arab aggressors, he said, adding that there were not 750,000 as generally reported but closer to 500,000. Sharett made it known that Israel has developed far differently than if there had been no war and exodus of Arabs. Their integration now in the communities of Israel would be ‘very complicated.’ He said that Israel has no intention of giving up any territory assigned it by the U.N. partition decision… He said that Israel will pay for the Arab-owned deserted lands in Israel.”

Context added by this archive

The same dispatch a week later, headlined on the exchange rather than on the man.

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"Exchange of Arab Refugees For Jews In Moslem Lands," Buffalo Jewish Review, 1 April 1949. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1949-025. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1949-025

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