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Show Arabs Will Fight to End Against Holy Land Split By WEBB MILLER (World Copyright, 1ft.".7, ox Th Teles; rami JERUSALEM, viii London, Dec 22 UP Bitter determination t resist the imposition of the Brltlsl royal commission's recommendatioi for the partition of Palestine int three parts is being increasing! expressed as the Christmas seasor approaches in the land of Christ'i birth. Rioting, bloodshed and daily as-sassinatiuna as-sassinatiuna have, if anything, in urease J Tn" tempo. The commission's report recommended recom-mended dividing Palestine into an THIRD independent Arab ARTICLE state merged with OF HKRIK8 Trans jordania; an ' independent Jewish state and a new British mandatory tone between the two, comprising Jerusalem and near-by sacred towns, and stretch ing to the sea. The foremost Arab leaders expressed ex-pressed undying opposition to the plan. I talked with leaders of every shade of political opinion, Including several Arabs at Beirut who fled into Lebanon to escape arrest and deportation. There waa surprising surpris-ing unanimity of opinion In refusing refus-ing to agree to any form of "dismemberment." "dis-memberment." extremist leaders asserted that they Intend to intensify their guerilla guer-illa warfare and terrorist activities against the British and Jews, de- spits repressive measures, unleaa the partition scheme is abandoned. They proclaimed their intention of 'continuing armed resistance as long j as is necessary to attain their basic liaim of independence. 1 1 Arab rejection of partition u based chiefly on the following out r standing pointa: 1 1. Partition withholds what 1 Arabs regard as their inalienable right to complete independence in ' all of Palestine's soil, similarly to ''the neighboring independent Arab "states. 2. In the section provisionally delineated by the royal commission as comprising the suggested Jewish state there live 325,000 Arabs, compared com-pared to 300,000 Jews. Land Is Factor 3. The greater portion of the fer-litile fer-litile coastal land has been assigned to the Jewish state, leaving the arid, rocky and infertile mountainous portion to the Arabs. 4. The proposed frontiers would 1 throw a barrier between Arab Palestine Pal-estine and Arab Syria, which are I linked by bonds of blood and cul-I cul-I ture, thus constituting a barrier to Arab unity. 5. The proposed British mandatory manda-tory son passes through lands principally Arab owned and fur- . ther infringes Arabian territorial unity. 6. Inclusion of Jerusalem in the i British. . mandate., with . iu . 75.000 Jews, 39.000 Moslems and 30,000. iCh ristiana, wou Id result in its even-tual even-tual control by Jewish interests, which would be intolerable in view of the location there of the holy place of the Moslem faith. Split Protested T. Of nearly 1.000.000 Arabs In Palestine, only about 570.000 would be included within the frontiers of the proposed Arab state. 8. The Jewish state is overpopu-lated overpopu-lated with immigrants and the re-sult re-sult would be Jewte h aspirations for . expansion. 9. The Jews are a minority of intruders whose political -onnec- j tions in Palestine ceased 30 centuries cen-turies ago, while the Arabs have I maintained unbroken residence for more than 13 centuries. 10. Establishment of a Jewish state as proposed fails to solve thei problem of world Jewry, because it ' would not hold a small fraction of the Jews of the world, even those desiring to emigrate from Germany and Poland alone. Leaders Speak In view of the present repressive campaign, some of the leaders with whom I talked preferred to remain anonymous, but their attitude might be summarized in condensed form as follows: The British government during the World war made an agreement with King Hussein, representing the aArabs, promising In event of victory vic-tory the independence of all Arab territories within the Turkish era-" jpire in exchange for Arab support. "Later, under stress of the critical criti-cal war situation of the allies, Brit-lain Brit-lain waa impelled to issue the Bal-jfour Bal-jfour declaration, promising Jews a ' national home la Palestine m order 'to gmrn world Jewish financial sup-i sup-i port for the war. Betrayal Alleged "The Arabs have never ceased j declaration, which was a betrayal of the Arabs. I "We will not and cannot agree to 'surrender under the partition scheme". "We will not accept it and stand more firmly than ever upon the principles which the Arab higher' committee enunciated to the league's mandates commission five months ago." These were: 1. Recognition of the right of Arabs to complete independence in their own land. 3. Cessation of the British mandate man-date and its replacement by treaties similar to the treaty existing between be-tween Britain and Iraq and Britain and Egypt, also between France and Syria, creating Palestine as a sovereign state. 1. Immediate cessation of Jewish immigration and land sales pending pend-ing conclusion of a treaty. J |