Summary
British Foreign Minister whose government, in Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, conducted a covert and two-faced political war against the Jewish Yishuv in 1948 through the Arab League and the Arab armies, and whose name stands in the book for the British direction of that war (Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, PDF p.24, p.39).
Details
- Ben-Gurion, in a speech of 18/2/48, tied the opening of Palestine’s borders to the invasions to the accord between Iraqi Foreign Minister Salah Jaber and Bevin (the Portsmouth accord of 15/1/48) and to Clayton’s participation in the Arab League’s meetings (Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, PDF p.24).
- Ben-Gurion described the 1948 war as a double war: an overt bloody war by the Arab states’ rulers and “a covert and two-faced political war by the Bevin government, and the two wars are connected” (PDF p.39).
- Begin, in the Knesset on 3/5/50, described Abdullah’s campaign as designed so that afterwards Bevin could “intervene” to rescue the surviving remnant of Israel and put it into a ghetto (PDF p.27-28); in the April 1949 armistice debate he charged that the accord with Abdullah meant Israel had “in effect subjugated our State to Bevin” (PDF p.51).
- Vilner, in the same debate, spoke of the “present accords with Abdullah-Bevin” as forcing Israel into constant war-preparedness (PDF p.54).
Related pages
Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, Brigadier Clayton, Arab League, David Ben-Gurion, Amir Abdullah