The files of the Maronite Patriarchate in Lebanon: In 1947, Maronite Bishop "Mubarak expressed his opinions in a passionate letter to UNSCOP (UN Special Committee on Palestine). Denying any Arab claims to Palestine, contrasting the enlightened Jews (and Christians) with the "backward and unprogressive" Muslim Arabs, and citing the need for cooperative minority havens in the Middle East." (From Zittrain Eisenberg, Laura, "Desperate Diplomacy: the Zionist-Maronite Treaty of 1946," Studies in Zionism, vol 13, no. 2 (1992), p. 159.