Word: arab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nobody knows better than Britain's new Colonial Secretary William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore the history behind the terror that Arabs were last week waging against Jews in Palestine. During the War he was not only an intelligence officer with the Arab Bureau in the Near East, but assistant political officer in Palestine. In a statement on the Palestine terror in the House of Commons last fortnight he confined himself to droning out the bloody score: some 40 Arabs, half a dozen British soldiers, some 30 Jews killed. "The daily average of attacks by firearms in Palestine," continued...
Nearly hidden beneath last week's shootings was the deeper issue of an Arab family feud. Between the great Arab families, the Husseini and Nashashibi, bitter rivals for leadership in Palestine, the last insult fell last year when a Hussein beat out Ragheb Bey Nashashibi for the mayoralty of Jerusalem which he had held for 14 years. The Hussein had had the votes of Jerusalem Jews. The enraged Nashashibi plotted a great Arab revolt against Jewish immigration to win Arab leadership from the head of Husseini, Haj Amin el Husseini, president of the Moslem Supreme Council and, as Grand...
Actual loss of life was not great, Arab strategy being to take pot shots from housetops, destroy Jewish property whenever possible, then hustle off to bury their rifles in the ground behind their houses before British patrols could find them. British company commanders issued an order: Every shot from a hidden Arab sniper must be answered with a burst of 50 shots from an automatic rifle...
Mayors of Arab villages were summoned to the High Commissioner's office, asked to call off the general strike which had paralyzed trade in Palestine for 40 days. The mayors bluntly refused unless further Jewish immigration were stopped immediately. A compromise was suggested by soft-spoken Assem Bey Sayed, Mayor of Jaffa; Sir Arthur had promised that a British commission would be appointed to review the whole Jewish-Arab problem. If the commission should be appointed at once and if it should decree the end of Jewish immigration until its deliberations were over, then the Arabs could have...
Just the man for last week's trouble in Palestine (see p. 16) was Ormsby-Gore. His Wartime service included political work in Palestine, intelligence work in the Arab Bureau and active service in Egypt. Since then he has twice been a politically intelligent Undersecretary of State for Colonies and Britain's member of the League of Nations' Permanent Mandates Commission...