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8. Enlisting certain Arab personalities, tempting them with abundant money, and placing them in high offices in order to exploit the Palestinians against the interests of their cause and divert their energies into what harms themselves and their homelands. 9. Damaging the reputation of the Palestinians, corrupting their relations with their Arab and Muslim brothers, and inducing them to interfere in internal affairs in ways that damage their relations with Arab and Islamic states and peoples. 10. Isolating the Palestinians from their cause for a long period and firmly preventing them from confronting and fighting their Zionist enemies when Jewish forces were still weak and primitive. 11. The Jews and their supporters attempting to corrupt the morals of Arab young men and women and, for this purpose, forming secret Zionist organizations among them, along with other dangerous methods and means dictated by international Jewry and the colonial states that support it, to enable the enemies to achieve their aims by uprooting the Palestinian cause from its roots, tearing apart the Palestinian people, severing their ties with the Arab and Islamic countries, and plunging them into disorder and sedition.

By these methods and means, the Jews and their allies tried, and continue trying, to remove the formidable obstacle standing in their path, namely the Palestinian people.

When the British forces occupied Palestine, the Jews owned no more than two percent of its land, and their number there did not exceed 54,000. Britain did not leave Palestine until it had established a state for them in the Palestinian land and created out of nothing the Palestinian problem now called the Middle East problem. In this way it created a sedition whose losses in lives and property have been enormous to this day. Now Britain comes forward to solve the Palestine problem as though it had not created it. It is well known that the Security Council resolution issued on 22 November 1967, which formed the basis of the Rogers Plan, was drafted by the British representative, Lord Caradon, who was himself Mr. Foter, formerly governor of the Nablus district. Britain is chiefly responsible for the Palestine problem and for the bloody seditions and tragedies that arose from it. Yet we hear British officials continually offering their valuable advice to Arabs and Jews about understanding, harmony, and peaceful coexistence, and presenting in their statements and declarations their sorrow over this disagreement