Article: ARAB REACTIONS TO A TIDE OF SOVIET JEWS

KUWAIT - Arab leaders and the Palestine Liberation Organization are coming to the bitter conclusion that they are powerless to halt the flow of Soviet Jews to Israel.

Throughout the Arab world, the prospect of 750,000 new immigrants to Israel is regarded with horror. It has reopened the wounds of 1948, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were pushed from their homes in British-mandated Palestine after Israel proclaimed its statehood and the surrounding Arab armies attacked it. It also has dashed Palestinian hopes of negotiating a settlement with Israel any time soon.

At best, Palestinians portray the expected wave of immigrants as a development that will bolster the ...

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