1. PALESTINE: ARABS DEMAND RETURN OF REFUGEES- -SECRETARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006000040017-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 2005
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: September 14, 1948
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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General Azzam Pasha of the Arab League recently told an
official of US Embassy Cairo that the Arab countries would
refuse to discuss a Palestine settlement until the right of the
Arab refugees to return to their homes had been acknowledged
by the UN and accepted by Israel. Azza.xn Pasha added that he
had proposed to UN Mediator Bernadotte that the UN undertake
to resettle 100,040 refugees to Haifa and Jaffa, which would
become neutral zones under UN control. Azzam Pasha also
men-timed to Bernadotte the possibility of achieving a settle -
ment through the cantonization of Palestine Into Jewish and
Arab districts according to population.
(CIA Comment: It is extremely unlikely that the
Provisional Government of Israel would agree to any of these
proposals.)
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