Instead. we should have a true initiative for a general peace settlement. This would be a more sensible approach for the State Department to push. The Arab refugee problem can only be solved in the context of a general peace settlement. How can Israel be asked to admit potential fifth columnists. many of whom are adherents of the Arab Communist Party? It would seem obvious that peace is a prerequisite to any massive scheme for moving mobs of bitter people across disputed frontiers. They would not come as peaceful immigrants but as mortal enemies dedicated to Israels destruction. The Arabs reject the Johnson proposals for different reasons. They feel that even repatriation of Arab masses would lend tacit recognition to the legal existence of Israel as a nation.
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Arab refugees are potential fifth columnists and adherents of the Arab Communist Party.