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Council of the Arab League: Establishment of a Unified Palestinian Arab Higher Committee

Council of the Arab League

Establishment of a Unified Palestinian Arab Higher Committee

Bludan, 12 June 1946

The Council approves the following recommendations of the Internal Committee:

1. After long consultations with our Palestinian brethren during which va-rious proposals were submitted to the (Internal) Committee by many persons and quarters, and after these (proposals) were carefully and scrupulously studied, (the Committee) recommends to the Council of the League that it should accredit the following persons as constituting the "Higher Arab Executive Committee of Pales-tine" which the Arab League had decided to establish in Palestine, namely, Jamal al-Husayni, Ahmad Hilmi Pasha, Dr. Husayn al-Khalidi, and Emile al-Ghouri.

2. The Committee considers that, in order to organize the work (of the said Executive Committee), Jamal al-Husayni should be the Vice-President of the said Committee, and that Dr. Husayn al-Khalidi should be its Secretary.

3. The Committee considers that (after effecting this new arrangement) the League should have the right to expect that the two existing organizations in Palestine, namely, the Higher Arab Committee and the Higher Arab Front, should appreciate the necessity of this new arrangement and should consider the (Executive Committee) as the one representing all of the Arabs of Palestine and (the one) speaking in their name and uniting all their efforts and endeavours for the sake of Palestine. For this (reason), it is no longer of any use that these (two existing Palestinian organizations) should continue to function now that the Higher Arab Executive Committee has come into being.

4. Should any member of the Higher Arab Executive Committee withdraw or for any reason find it impossible to participate in the said Committee, the "Palestine Committee" should then have the right to choose another member in his place.

5. In submitting these proposals to the Council of the League, the (Internal) Committee takes pleasure in expressing its admiration for the spirit of true pa-triotism, sacrifice and fidelity demonstrated by those Palestinian personages with whom it has come into contact, and it sincerely thanks them for their honourable stand, itself consistent with the gravity of the present situation, and wishes them success.

 

Source: Muhammad Khalil. The Arab States and the Arab League: A Documentary Record. Vol II Beirut: Khayat's, 1962, p. 162.