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Hong Kong, Friday, November 11, 1988

PALESTINE POTTERING

Immediate responses, of the Jew- ish leaders and of the Arabs to the Woodhead Report on Pale- stine, make it fairly obvious that it does no more than the

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Reel Commission to bring a solution of this vexed problem. Partition is dropped, which pleases the Arabs, and might please the Jews if it were not that also implied is abandon- ment of the National Home in the sense that the Balfour De- claration is interpreted by the Jewish people. But on the

issue of what is to take the place of partition, the Arabs continue obdurate and the Jews are plainly no more sat- isfied than they were

when

Lord Peel's Commission ten

dered its report.

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Neither in what it makes clear nor in the weightier matters which it leaves obscure has the Woodhead Report given satisfaction. It is clear that the primary objective—a quick solution is brought no nearer. Something on the lines of the Indian Round Table Confer- ence is proposed, with the issue not directly between the Brit- ish Government and one other delegation as on that occasion, but split three ways, with Brit ain presumably endeavouring. to play the part of mediator between warring parties.

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sofar as that is true, it does no more than the Peel Report to persuade either Arabs or Jews that nothing is to be gained by disorderly agitation. Rather, it creates the impression that if sufficient fuss is made, by either side, a greater chance of concession to their point of

is to be expected, Candid analysis, indeed, sug- gests that the report is com- pletely defeatist, for it reverts to the original proposal that than the Arabe And Jews should get together. When it is remembered that partition was recommended because it was considered that the pros, pects of a 'get together move. ment were remote indeed, it becomes apparent that little. progress has been made. Obviously, were, an Arab Jewish agreement possible, nothing would please any sane British Government better than one to which both parties could sin cerely agree. But efforts must have been made on a score of occasions to bring them to the conference table, and it is a puzzling recommendation which restores it to a programme of procedure at a time when racial bitterness has reached its limit.

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The White Paper, in fact, shows

the British Government, pre paring, from the highest mot- ives, to retreat, and using words which opponents inter- pret in such a way as would make a Jewish State impos- sible.

At a meeting some time back of the British Zionist Federation a bent was given to the Pale. stine problem of which more may be heard. The federation welcomed the idea of a settle- ment "which would ultimately give the Jewish State a place within the framework of the It British Commonwealth.”

would certainly be the greatest tribute that the peoples of the Commonwealth had ever re- ceived, or could receive, if a Jewish State, re-established in the ancient freedom, were to seek to join their membership. The proposal is at least a deci- sive reply to those people who profess to be doubtful whether an independent Jewish State would feel a genuine attach- ment towards the country from whose tutelage it had es- caped. There are, of course, strong reasons not only of sentiment but of interest why such a State and the Common- wealth should – support each other; the young-and-growing State will need friends during the early years of weakness, and we ourselves, whether the League system is what it is how or stronger or weaker, must always take the closest interest" in "the-fortunés" of Palestine. But for some time to come there will be many things to settle.