Statement Issued by the Governments of the Arab League States
on the Occasion of the Entry of the Arab Armies in Palestine
(May 15, 1948)

Reprinted in The Arab States and the Arab League:
A Documentary Record Vol. II
Edited by Muhmmad Khalil
Published in 1962

"The events which have taken place in Palestine have unmasked the aggressive intentions and the imperialistic designs of the Zionists...."

As the United Nations (an international organization founded in 1945 to promote peace and cooperation between countries around the world) considered the idea of partitioning, or dividing, Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, Arab Palestinians were living without an organized self-government. The governing body of the Arab Palestinians, the Arab Higher Committee, which had formed in 1936, had been dissolved by the British in 1937 and its leaders had been...