The Arizona Republic · Phoenix, Arizona · 18 June 1967
CP-1967-006
A Distinguished Historian Views the Mideast Crisis
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Its History and Its Prospects, by Prof. Arnold J. Toynbee. 'U.S. Has Made Arabs Pay for Germany's Crime Against Jews' / The Arabs Must Recognize That Israel Is a Fact
Prof. Arnold J. Toynbee, written for UPI
Transcribed from the clipping
“I will try to put, first, the Israelis’ view of this as I see it, then the Arabs’ view, and thirdly my own view. I am neither an Arab nor an Israeli. I am British, so I feel deeply my country’s share in the responsibility for this tragic conflict between two other peoples.
Britain issued the Balfour Declaration in 1917; Britain was in power in Palestine for 30 years ending in 1948. Britain’s precipitate abdication in Palestine after the second World War left the way open in 1948 for the first of the three Arab-Israeli wars.”
Context added by this archive
A full page given to a historian who sets out the Israeli case, then the Arab case, then his own. The two subheadings on the page are “U.S. Has Made Arabs Pay for Germany’s Crime Against Jews” and “The Arabs Must Recognize That Israel Is a Fact.”
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"A Distinguished Historian Views the Mideast Crisis," The Arizona Republic, 18 June 1967, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1967-006. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1967-006
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