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Nonsense About The Negev
By Freda Kirchwey, In The Nation
From the distance of Paris or Washington, Palestine's internal boundaries are fairly easy to rearrange according to whim or expediency. The Jews want western Galilee? All right, but naturally they don't get something for nothing. Let them hand over a piece of the Negev; they can't reasonably complain about a few hundred square miles of sand. Obviously, the Arabs deserve something in exchange.
This line of argument is generally accepted; the President himself uses it, so friends of his say. It isn't that he wants to hurt Israel. On the contrary, he has said Israel is to lose no territory without its consent�no territory, that is, allotted to it in the original partition plan. But if Israel is assured of the boundaries fixed in the partition plan and the Ber-nadotte report is thrown out, then the Jews shouldn't be stubborn about a piece of the Negev.
From Paris and Washington, this probably seems logical. After all, politics is a process of bargaining. Since Mr. Truman has forced the American~~delegaHon� and finally the BritUb�-to'gwe op
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had indorsed and the British had fought for, how can he refuse, or countenance an Israeli refusal, to permit some reduction of Jewish territory in the process of negotiating a final settlement.
And so, bit by bit, the quid pro quo theory is frozen into doctrine; and the Jews, if they resist, become defters of U. N. authority, even aggressors* _
In Israel, it looks different. There, the Negev is not a wedge of desert to be sliced up and distributed. It is Israel's frontier, its Imperial Valley, its future. In the Negev are settlements of young pioneers who have committed their lives to its redemption. They have irrigated hundreds of acres of sand and grown vegetables and grain and even forests; and since last spring have lost them again under the shells of Egyptian invaders; and have hung on, fighting. They have reclaimed land with their sweat and held it with their blood. In the Negev, too, lies the sure promise of industrial crops, still implanted, which can make Israel self-sufficing, and oil and other minerals, still untapped. ~
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impulse that drove American pioneers westward. There is more than national self-interest in this drive; it is creative and fierce beyond prudence or reason. It would be impossible for a government to survive in Israel that gave up any considerable part of the Negev.
The Arabs there are Bedouins; their number, even, is unknown, and variable. They bring their flocks across the desert, moving into Transjordan or Egypt as their needs dictate, without knowledge or concern about boundaries. But what they are or how many they may be is really beside the point, for the idea is not to give the Negev to them. The idea is to give it to King Abdullah in return for land in western Galilee�which is hardly Abdullah's to swap since it is occupied at present by Israel and since, in addition, he has never had any jurisdiction or even influence in northern Palestine.
Galilee, east and west, was taken by Israeli troops from Palestinian "irregulars" and the armies of Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq which had invaded Palestine even before the British moved out last May. Those countries lost Galilee and surely cannot reconquer it, but even so they may inquire, rather plain-
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tively, how come Transjordan gets title to part of the Negev in exchange for land which borders only on Lebanon. The thing gets complicated once you are on the ground, or even when you look at B map.
The Egyptians, too, might challenge this curious barter scheme, since they are the only authentic invaders of the Negev, the people who tried to wrest it from Israel and who, though defeated and besieged, remain in pockets at Fal-uja and at Gaza on the coast. As ex-conquerors of part of the Negev, have they less claim than their neighbor and rival across the Jordan?
The Jews ask different questions. Why, they ask, should we give up to Abdullah, Britain's little factotum, an area that is ours by right of settlement, development, and armed defense�as well as by the decision of the United Nations Assembly�in compensation for a piece of territory we successfully took from other invading armies? Why, in any case, should Israel pay any aggressor Arab state for land it holds, even land reluctantly surrendered when partition was voted? Partition conferred no rights to Palestinian territory on Abdullah or on any Arab ruler. If the Jews are to pay for western Galilee with land in the Negev, the logic of partition would dictate that payment be made to the independent Arab state provided for in the resolution of November 29. To be sure, there is no Arab state, and this fact poses a nice legal question if the quid pro quo theory is to prevail. Would the part of the Negev paid over by Israel be given to a legal fiction or to one of the aggressor Arab states? The question is straight out of Alice in Wonderland.
But the answer is straight out of Whitehall. The Negev, or as much of it as the Jews can be pressured into relinquishing, should obviously go to the one Arab state which the British totally control, however little claim to the area that state may have, and without regard to the embarrassingly patent fact that ^Transjordan loses nothing by the
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tition plan divided the modest remainder into Jewish and Arab areas, allotting 5,500 square miles to the Jewish state-to-be. The boundaries suggested by Count Ber-nadotte, amputating the Negev (3,800 square miles) and adding western Galilee (420 square miles), would have reduced Israel to some 2,200 square miles which is around half the size of Connecticut and a little more than a third the area assigned the Jews by the U. N. decision.
The Bernadotte plan has been abandoned, mostly because President Truman did not like it and reversed the position taken at Paris by Secretary Marshall. But the idea of a "bargain" remains. The in Paris call it "reciproci-
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To urge that Israel should not yield one mile of the Negev would be silly. In negotiating directly with the Arabs, the Jewish state may find good reasons for making concessions, in land or other trading counters. What should be rigidly insisted upon, however, is the
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What has happened to the proposed Jewish National Home since 1917? Its original area of 45,000 square miles was reduced to about 10,000 when the British, on their own and over the protest of the League of Nations, sliced off 35,000 square miles east of the Jordan to create Abdullah's realm. The par-
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DATED AT MONTREAL, this l^rh day of December 194S, A.D. (One Thousand Nine Hu-dred ord Forty-Eight).
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abandonment of the quid pro quo idea. This notion represents not an honest effort to find a basis for peace in Palestine nor an honest bargain, but a devious method of assuring Great Britain military bases on the border of Egypt, a link in its line of strategic communications, and probable new sources of oil. Britain's demand for special arrangements at Haifa and
Lydda is part of the same man-oeuver.
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