Egypt plays a leading part in the…
October 1944 CE
Egypt plays a leading part in the formation of the Arab League in 1943-44.
The neighboring Arab countries begin to take a more direct interest in Palestine as the war begins to end.
Arab heads of state meet in Alexandria, Egypt, in October 1944, and issue the Alexandria Protocol, a statement setting out the Arab position.
They make clear that, although they regret the bitter fate inflicted upon European Jewry by European dictatorships, the issue of European Jewish survivors ought not to be confused with Zionism.
Solving the problem of European Jewry, they assert, should not be achieved by inflicting injustice on Palestinian Arabs.
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