Who is the terrorist?
February 28, 1949
The Consul at Jerusalem (Burdett)
to the Secretary of State – secret
Would be most useful if US would quickly make available its own appropriation and indicate in some other way additional concern for 700,000 homeless people living largely in tents under most distressing circumstances in this weather. My own feeling is that the United States has accumulated an enormous moral and even financial responsibility in the situation in our justifiable zeal for creation of a state. Nevertheless these people have been displaced either by force, or terrorism or have fled because of their own fear. Even if the American public has not been told about Deir Yassin massacre, all Arabs know about it a and all Arabs with whom Commission has talked have either implicitly or directly blamed US and UN for displacing 700,000 persons.
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