(EDITORIAL) Not abandoned, but only deferred, is the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s proposal to call upon Britain to throw Palestine open for the free entry of Jews in violation of the pledges in the British White paper of 1939 restricting all further immigration from April 1, 1944.

Wiser than the Committee, the U.S. State Department had recommended postponement of any such official move in America when its repercussions on the international situation were bound to be disastrous. Much the same advice had been rendered earlier by the American Military Commander in the Middle East who had sensed the … temper of the Muslim world. That it is still expediency and not justice that enters into the American decision to cold-storage for the moment its pro-Zionist sympathies, is not a happy augury … .

With the large Jewish element in the U.S. and with the President’s election promises to support a Jewish National Home in Palestine, the last has not been heard of American intervention in the Middle East. … [T]he recrudescence of Jewish terrorism in Palestine and play of power politics in Iran have given a clear indication to the Muslim world of the dangers threatening it now. … (Dawn, Delhi)

Published in Dawn December 20th , 2014