The Montreal Gazette, 15 sept 1938
Zion Arabs' Terrorists Extremes Alienate Kin in Adjacent Lands
By Joseph M. Levy (Wireless to The New York Times and The Gazette) Jerusalem Sep 14...
Reliable information just received by the writer from Syria, which is now the headquarters of the Palestine Arab rebellion, reveals that German and Italian money is subsidizing the Arab terrorism in Palestine.
It now transpircs that the amount of money received by the Palestine committee in Damascus for the support of the tcrrorislic activities in the Holy Land would not cover one month's expenses, considering tho large scale of Arab terroris. All this is further proof that money from Germany and Italy is financing the Arab rebellion here. A circular letter signed by one rebel chief, Arif Abdul Razik, which is addressed lo British forces in Palestine and written in English with the intention of creating a mutiny among British troops, is another proof that there is the German hand behind all this terrorism.
The letter has all the earmarks of Nazi influence. It is couched in familiar anti-Jewish Nazi propaganda, with striking similarity to phrases constanlly feen in Der Stuermer:
"It would be tragic for the British nation to lose its tradional friendship with the Arabs for the sake of the aggressive[sic] race[sic] of parasitic (sic. Nazi-Arab: Arif Abdul Razik:) Jews [sic].. inhuman[sic] creature... disase," reads one paragraph of this appeal.
This circular letter, coupled with Hitler's Nuremberg reference to "defenceless Arabs in Palestine" has convinced British circles here of Germany's intention to keep up the Arab terrorism in Palestine and weaken Britain In Europe by forcing her to send troops here, thus reducing the number of British forces in Europe. One regiment, the Eighteenth Brigade arrived in Palestine from England today, and three more regiments are following shortly, which will bring the total number of British troops here to about 10,000.
By Joseph M. Levy, wireless To the New York Times. Sept. 15, 1938. While terrorism continues unabated here and greatly increased in the south of Palestine, interest in the Palestine Arabs on the part of Iraq, Egypt and Syria is rapidly diminishing...