Palestine: A Modern History (ص 50)

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Palestine: A Modern History (ص 50)

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at armed and arming, ready to spring at each other’s throats. . . In the @ preliminary’ condition to , arranging an interview with the Prime At
fale interests of the Zionist policy, all elective institutions have so far q Minister. The Delegation asked that they be given the opportunity to i i .
i \ att E been refused to the Arabs, and ‘they‘ttaturally contrast their: treat- ® consult with each other before answering Churchill's request. *
ea ment with that of their fellows in Mesopotamia. 4 Before the Delegation could decide on its course of action in il
ae It seems to me that the whole’ situation should be reviewed by the London, the High Commissioner summoned twenty-nine members of fi
Rae Cabinet.© } the ‘Moslem and Christian Consultative Committee’ to a meeting ‘in : Hi }
fi Jerusalem in‘ an apparent effort to undermine the position of the i
& Delegation in London. The declared aim of the meeting was to invite ‘ HG
i In their‘first memorandum to Churchillthe Delegation-reiterated the
| Palestinitin national demands®™ and during’the second half’of August,
the Delegation: had two lefigthy* interviews ‘with Churchifl and Major
eae Young of the ME Department. Churchill stresséd that “he was receiving
the Palestinian .Arabs to express their views on the terms of the
impending Constitution being prepared by the British Government. The
spokesman for those present replied that it was premature to consider a
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ate | them as an unofficial body and that as long as they insisted that the constitution at all since the status of the country had nbt been settled, ri
| , Balfour Declaration should be repudiated: there“ was nothing to say: The that they could not in any case approve a constitution embodying the rit!
| Declaration, he argued, had to be carried out, and the«Arabs must Balfour Declaration, and that the'Delegation then in London was the S
i accept the fact. i r ® body-to be consulted on these matters.¥ i"
Pile | : ' i ' ‘ Apart from informal conversations between Shuckburgh, Head of rf
tit But they could see that it was not carried out ina manner to’ injure the ME Department and individual: members of the Delegation, there ell
; the Arabs, and try and find some basis for a friendly arrangement for were no formal contacts between the Delegation and the Colonial
the next few years." : ' % §©Office from 1 September to 15 October. In the course of these '
ey #' conversations Shuckburgh found ithe Delegates agreeable but non- 7 8
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The Delegation submitted that while théy still dradcon fidence in the q cémmiftal. Although offended by Churchill’s suggestion that they
British Government and their sense of justice, they felt that Palestinian ¢ should: get into communication with-the Zionist Organisation, Shuck-
%: burgh gathered the impression that«.they would not be unwilling to
Zionist leaders, to see if they could workyput an agréement under‘the
auspices*of the Colonial Offite. The Delegation were unwilling to accept ‘
this particular suggestion as they didnot recognise: Weizmann and the lj
| Zionist Organisation. Besides, ‘The people of the country do not wish a
us to‘pailey with them.’ They sent us to the Gofernment’.” Churchill x
t | insisted that the Delegation’should. take-up his suggestion and convince
What they suggested, or demanded, among other things, was that
1 rights were being carried away.They had to,come to ‘London to discuss BF ar . ; P 85 :
ae the root of the problem —.the Balfour Declaration —-with those who ‘1 meet the wionists under official auspices at the Colonial »Office.: ie
; could bring about a change of policy. When the Delegation entered.into , th On 24 october ine anand addressee a letter .. Churchill we a i
LE a discussion of Ways and means of protecting Arabirights and inte‘ests, - ey wanted put before the Cabinet. in this etter t ey reite rate a ° Hi l}
Hi Churchill made it quite evident that any representative elective I k fears of 93 per cent of the People of Palestine regarding Zionist policies ; a
He assémbly.or council would have no power over the control of immigra- | % and maintained that | 7
fi} tion or arly other matter: ‘that: was vital to the implementation’of ‘the | ey . . .e . i i
a JNH policy. Thereupon,‘the Delegation declared that:thé:two ‘parts.of x The very Serlous and growing unrest among the Palestinianssarises i {
ave the Balfour Declaration ‘were irreconcilable ag Zionism was incompat- | ¢ from their absolute conviction that the present policy of the ar
ible-with Arab rights. * il British Government is curecteds rowanes evicting them from their i: |
Diy | ‘On the following day the same stumbling blocks were encountered, > The Bey in order to make it a nationa State or Immigrant ows. « « {' i i.
| and Churchill pressed on the Delegation:to meet Weizmann’and ‘other e Balfour Declaration was made ‘without {us) being consulted of
and we cannot accept'it as deciding our destinies. 74 ale
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The Declaration should be superseded by an Agreement which
would safeguard the rights, interests and liberties of the People of
Palestine, and at the same time .make provision for reasonable
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تاريخ

1978

المنشئ

Abdul-Wahhab Kayyali

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