Day 301 of 599 of מלחמת העצמאות MILḤEMET HAʾAẒMAʾUT (War of Independence)

A noon telegram from Cairo recorded Arab League secretary-general عبد־الرحمن عزام ABD-AR-RAḤMAN ʿAZZĀM rejecting Bernadotte’s recommendations. He disputed territorial provisions for the גליל GALIL, יפו YAFO, חיפה HAIFA and ירושלים YERUŜALAYIM, and rejected frontiers for a state that the Arab authorities did not recognize. His assertion that all Arab flight arose from terrorism by יהודים YEHUDIM is a political allegation, not a local investigation of each departure. ¹

A memorandum written September 26 dates محمود فوزي MAḤMŪD FAWZĪ’s conversation with an American diplomat to the preceding day. The diplomat reported:

Fawzi Bey made no objection to the existence of the State of Israel. ²

The conversation supports a private willingness to negotiate boundaries, refugee return and arrangements for holy sites and ports. It is not Egyptian recognition. The Kingdom of Egypt’s representatives and the League secretary-general did not voice one identical position.

An account of the Soviet speech as a defense of partition is not established by the full plenary transcript, which remains unexamined. The American reference identifies the September 25 address chiefly with disarmament. No new battlefield death is assigned to this date from that speech or from the September 24 battle near Midya. Publication and occurrence must remain distinct. ³

This is the civil-date recap for 1948-09-25, Day 301 of the 599-day series. TJD uses the register’s Hebcal civil-day conversion without its after-sunset option. Its daytime public route is כ״א באלול ה׳תש״ח 21st 𝑜𝑓 Elul, AM 5708. ⁴ The civil slot continues after sunset on כ״ב באלול ה׳תש״ח 22nd 𝑜𝑓 Elul, AM 5708; the recap’s route does not establish the occurrence date of each item. Broadcast, conversation, attack, death, document, receipt and publication dates are distinguished above. Unknown hours remain unknown. Later investigations and cumulative figures are not new attacks or deaths.

• What did the Egyptian diplomat’s private consideration of negotiation establish about official policy?
• How did the Arab League secretary-general’s rejection affect the state’s prospects for a settlement?