Word: arab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, a defiant Moslem Congress with delegates from eight Moslem countries, exultant that Arab rebels now rule large areas of Palestine, met in Cairo, demanded that Britain repudiate the famed Balfour Declaration promising to establish "a national home for the Jewish people'' in Palestine, stop Jewish immigration, resign as mandatory Power-in plainer words, that Britain get out and leave the 400,000 Jews to the mercy of the 900,000 Arabs. Significant it was that the delegates journeyed to Alexandria to drink tea at Ras-El-Tin Palace with plump, ambitious, 18-year-old King Farouk...
...murderous Arab-Jewish dispute over Palestine in the past ten weeks has left 1,700 Arabs, Jews, British soldiers and police dead or wounded. Into this bloody mess last week stepped the figure of Seyyid Tawfik al Suwaidi, Foreign Minister of Iraq. Invited to London by the British, Seyyid Tawfik conferred last week with the only Jew in the Chamberlain Cabinet, War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, and with Scottish Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald. Seyyid Tawfik then proffered a plan. Ignoring Britain's original idea of partition, he proposed that Palestine be set up as an independent state under British...
...Godesberg on world peace last week, in Palestine another peace conference was held between its biggest two Mohammedan terrorist leaders, seven-foot-tall Abdul Rahim Haj Mohammed and Arif Abdul Razik, former Iraq Army officer. Each of these potent terrorists has been signing himself "Commander-in-Chief" of the Arab revolutionary forces. Each has persisted in issuing orders to the other...
...parched hills of northern Palestine, matters were settled amicably. Each chief agreed to allow the other to retain the "Commander-in-Chief" title, but only over separate districts. Neither is now to give the other orders, although "requests for cooperation" will be heeded. To celebrate this "peace" in true Arab fashion, the two chieftains and their henchmen roasted a sheep and brewed a kettle of black Arab coffee. Just when huge hunks of mutton were being devoured, British bombers appeared and the party scattered. The rebels put their losses at three dead, six wounded, guffawed heartily when British aviators reported...
...confused with the Yemenites, Arab inhabitants of Yemen, who like all Arabs are at present the Jews' bitter enemies...