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Briefs...continued from previous page Israel’s right to exist? Haven’t you been On July 4, 1946, in the town of Kielce, ticed that many of the Latvian men had
THE ARAB WORLD negotiating with Israel all these years? some 40 Jewish survivors were killed their blood types tattooed under their
HAS DECIDED TO MOVE Haven’t you been conducting security in a pogrom: “stoned to death, beaten left arms, revealing them to have been
members of the S.S. When British min-
to death, thrown from windows, shot,
coordination with Israel? Where is the
divided into two hostile coalitions. On FORWARD WITHOUT problem, if an Arab country such as the bayoneted,” Nasaw reports. ers refused to work with the Baltic men
one side is Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, THE PALESTINIANS United Arab Emirates wants to make When it came to resettling the ref- whose S.S. tattoos they had spotted,
Yemen, Qatar and Gaza, supported For the first time ever, the Palestinian peace with Israel?” ugees, the prospect of increased Jewish the National Coal Board recommended
from the outside by Turkey, Russia leadership is now feeling that the Arab The Palestinians are afraid that if immigration to Palestine, which Presi- that they not be given jobs “where they
and China. Against it stands Saudi world is really fed up with them and you normalize relations with Israel, dent Truman endorsed, exasperated the might have to remove their shirts.”

Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, Jor- does not want to wait for them any- you are actually recognizing Israel’s British who still controlled the region. In late 1946, Jewish groups in the
dan, Morocco, Sudan and Israel, sup- more. The Arab world does not like the right to exist as the homeland of the Yet there was no mobilization to bring U.S. pushed Congress to pass legisla-
ported from the outside by the U.S. condemnations coming from the Pales- Jewish people in this part of the world. Jewish refugees into the UK. In the tion to accept 400,000 D.P.s, estimating
While there was no Saudi response tinians and the accusations of treason. This whole conflict is really about Is- U.S., too, the number of Jews admitted that based on the proportion of Jews in
to the September 2019 Iranian attack on They do not like seeing pictures of rael’s very existence in the Middle during the first years after the war was the D.P. camps, a good 100,000 would
Saudi oil-producing facilities or Iran’s their leaders being burned at Al-Aqsa East. There are still a large number of achingly small. be Jews. But senators who didn’t want
attacks on oil tankers in the Persian Mosque. They also do not like to hear people in the Arab and Muslim world At the same time, the British gave to let Jews in added language excluding
Gulf or the Red Sea, Israel has proven the PA Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Mu- who continue to see Israel as a foreign sanctuary to thousands from the Bal- the Jews who had fled the Polish po-
capable of inflicting severe blows on hammad Hussein, issuing a fatwa ban- body imposed on this region by West- tic states to address labor shortages groms. Meanwhile, hundreds of thou-
Iranian forces and pro-Iranian militias ning citizens of any Arab country that ern powers, even though Jews have in agriculture and industry. This hit sands of non-Jewish Eastern Europeans
in Syria. normalizes relations with Israel from been here for more than 3,000 years. a snag when a doctor in London no- continued on page 35A
It turns out that there are things praying at Al-Aqsa. (Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Insti-
more important to some countries than I follow what is being said in the tute)
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which precipitated the collapse of re- prominent Emirati academic tweeted from World War to Cold War, after
gimes and economies and the rise of pictures of UAE flags in the Israeli city World War II the Allied authorities ini-
the Islamic State, the fight for the “lib- of Netanya. Next to them, pictures of tially maintained that it was wrong to
eration of Palestine” is not uppermost the UAE flag being burned by Palestin- differentiate Jews from other displaced
among Arab concerns. (Lt.-Col. (res.) ians in Ramallah and Gaza. He wrote, people. Instead, displaced persons
Dr. Mordechai Kedar, Begin-Sadat “My flag is being honored in Israel were to be sorted out on a “national-
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