Buffalo Jewish Review · Buffalo, New York · 1 April 1949
CP-1949-028
Exchange of Arab Refugees For Jews In Moslem Lands
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Washington
Transcribed from the clipping
“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.”
Context added by this archive
The lowest of the five refugee counts in this archive, given by Israel’s foreign minister while disputing a higher one.
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"Exchange of Arab Refugees For Jews In Moslem Lands," Buffalo Jewish Review, 1 April 1949. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1949-028. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1949-028
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