It was as if you came into a room with one hundred people and referred to ninetythree of the people there as the nonseven. And when the United Nations recommended on November 29. 1947 the partition of Palestine. the nonJewish community was still 66% of the population with Zionist Jews owning but 7% of the land. These are historic facts which cannot be overlooked and explain the depth of the emotional feeling on the part of the Palestinian Arabs who through American support of the creation of Israel became refugees to the number of more than a million and a half. living In exile since 1948. many subsisting in camps at the rate of 7 cents U.N. charity per day. No wonder this injustice rankles and drives them. if not through the front door. then by the back door into the hands of our enemies. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." An old Arab adage has been workIng to push Uncle Sam out of an area in which we had accumulated a tremendous reservoir of goodwill due to our philanthropic. charitable and educational good deeds. not to mention our oil interests. The YMCAs.
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