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proved a blessing, we believe,
not only to the Jews of Pales
tine, but to the Arabs and
other non-Jewish communities
as well.
That the return of the Jews
to Palestine would prove of
benefit, not only to themselves
but also to their Arab neigh
bors, was envisaged by Emir
Feisal, who was the great
leader of the Arab peoples at
the Peace Conference follow
ing the first World War. On
March 3, 1919, he wrote: ‘ We
Arabs . . . look with deepest
sympathy on the Zionist Move
ment. Our deputation here in
Paris is fully acquainted with
the proposals submitted yester
day by the Zionist Organiza
tion to the Peace Conference,
and we regard them as mod
erate and proper. We will do
our best, insofar as we are
concerned, to help them
through. We will wish the
Jews a most hearty welcome
home ... I look forward, and
my people with me look for
ward, to a future in which we
will help you and you will
help us. so that the countries
in which we are mutually in
terested may once again take
their places in the community
of civilized peoples of the
world.”
Your Committee of Inquiry
will conclude, we are confid
ent, that, if allowed to develop
uninterruptedly, the standards
of life which are being de
veloped in Palestine, the con
cepts of social justice and the
modern scientific methods
will serve as a great stimulus
to the rebirth and progress of
the entire Near East with
which the destinies of the
Jewish National Home are
naturally bound up.
Your Committee of Inquiry
should also consider the po
tentialities of the country
which, if properly developed,
can, according to the expert
testimony of those most quali
fied to speak on the subject,
sustain a population much
greater than the present one.
Many important projects,
which will result in great eco
nomic and social improve
ment not alone in Palestine
but in all the neighboring
countries, are awaiting de
velopment pending a satis
factory political solution.
The Committee of Inquiry
should, while in Palestine, also
look into the real—the funda
mental—causes of the tragic
unrest and valence which to
day mar the life of the Holy
Land to which our Jewish
pioneers came, not with weap
ons, but with tools. They will
inquire, I am sure, why a
peace-loving community whose
sole interest was in building
a peaceful home and future
for themselves and their chil
dren, is being driven to a pitch
of resentment and tension, and
lamentably driving some of
its members to actions which
we all deplore. They will ask
themselves. I am sure, why
shiploads of helpless Jewish
refugees, men, -women and
children, who have been
through all the hells of Nazi
Europe, are being driven away,
from the shores of the Jewish
National Home by a Manda
tory Government which as
sumed as its prime obligation
to facilitate Jewish immigra
tion into that country. They
will also investigate, I hope,
how the Mandatory Govern
ment is carrying out another
of its obligations which was
to encourage close settlement
of the Jews on the land, when
in actual practice, it is today
severely restricting free Jew
ish settlement to an area less
than 6'< of that tiny country,
and in enforcing today in the
Jewish National Home, dis
criminatory racial laws which
the Mandate, as well as the
Charter of the United Nations,
severely condemns.
By way of digression, let it
be said, if it need be said at
all, that we are not engaged
nor shall we be engaged in
any criticism or condemnation
of the people of Great Britain.
We have no quarrel with
them. On the contrary, we
have the highest regard and
admiration for that people
and for its monumental con
tributions to democratic civil
ization. And we shall never
forget that it was Great Bri
tain which, first among na
tions, gave recognition to the
national aspirations of the
Jewish people. It is only a
wrong and unjustifiable pol
icy which contradicts and
tends to defeat the far-vision
ed British statesmanship of
earlier years which we con
demn.
Mr. Chairman, we hope most
earnestly that the Committee
of Inquiry will also visit the
Displaced Persons’ camps in
Europe and see with their
own eyes the appalling human
tragedy which mankind is per
mitting to continue unabated
two years—it is exactly two
years-today since V-E Day—
after the close of a war in
which the Jewish people was
the greatest sufferer. While
committees of investigation
and study are reporting on
their sad plight, and while
inter-governmental discussions
and negotiations are going on,
these war-ravaged men and
women are languishing in
their misery, still waiting for
salvation. They ask for the
bread of escape and hope; they
are given the stone of inquiries
and investigations. Their mor-
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