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Guardian: "corrections and clarifications"Saturday 05 Oct 2002
author: The Guardian
This appeared on Oct 5 in the Guardian's "corrections and clarifications" section:
In Benny Morris's article on the expulsion of Palestinians from Israel, page 8, G2, October 3, a number of quotes were removed when the piece was edited to fit the available space. Mr Morris believes that the comments were significant because they revealed that some Arab leaders supported the idea of moving the Palestinians from the Jewish state during the 1940s. The following passage was cut from the piece: "Nuri Said, Iraq's senior politician, told a British interlocutor that if the British imposed a partition solution for Palestine, there would be a 'necessity of removing the Arabs from the Jewish state...' Lord Moyne, the British minister resident in the Middle East, reported that both Tewfiq Abul Huda, Transjordan's prime minister, and Mustafa Nahas Pasha, Egypt's prime minister, similarly believed that 'a final settlement can only be reached by means of partition'. Two years later, in 1946, Alec Kirkbride, Britain's knowledgeable representative in Amman, reported that 'King Abdullah and prime minister [Ibrahim Hashim] of Jordan consider that partition followed by an exchange of populations is the only practical solution to the Palestine problem. They do not feel able to express this view publicly.' Hashim 'thought that to leave Jews in an Arab state or Arabs in a Jewish state would lead inevitably to further trouble'."