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that. part of the world and going to the United
States.
That the task was enormously complicated I
knew in advance. After my arrival, and after
having contacted both parties, my first experiences
strengthened this impression, The Arabs and the
Jews have diametrically opposed opinions about
the destiny of Palestine and on no account will they
discuss compromises. The decision of the United
Nations on the twenty-ninth of May, by which a
concrete proposal for armistice was put before both
parties, was a great help to me. Thus my first task
was to try to induce them to accept this proposal.
It is perhaps easy to imagine my joy when, after
many negotiations and countless travels, I received
an answer on the night of June ninth from both
Jews and Arabs that they unconditionally accepted
this armistice proposal which we had drafted on
the basis of the Security Council resolution. With
that, however, my task was not finished. The
negotiations now had to be continued in order to reach, if
possible, a final peace in Palestine, I then chose
Rhodes as my headquarters as I naturally had to
look for a neutral place and could not stay within
a region dominated by either of the belligerent
parties. Rhodes seemed to me a suitable place to
continue the discussions. It is true that the island
is situated rather far from Palestine, but with a
plane at my disposal I could çover the distances
from Rhodes to Cairo or Rhodes to Tel-Aviv in
three and one half hours.
On the twenty-eighth of June I handed to both
parties a draft of my proposals for the settlement
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