Word: arab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With good reason, Arabs are afraid that Jews will take Palestine away from them. Britain's mandate over Palestine guarantees Jews the right to immigrate, indefinitely. In 13 years moneyed Jews have turned Palestine from a dead land of herders to a hustling, well-irrigated, industrial nation with a $31,000,000 Government surplus, an important business in oranges and a good supply of cheap Arab labor. Britain's mandate is also supposed to protect Arab rights, but two years ago young Arabs took matters into their own hands, organized terrorist gangs, began robbing and killing Jews. Fortnight...
Jews attributed the killing to a camp of Arab workmen. Two days later two of the campers were mysteriously murdered. Confusion was increased when one of these victims turned out to be an Egyptian Jew. The Arabs cried "Reprisal!" The Arab funeral, also orthodox and passionate, led last week to the lynching of seven Jews, the killing of two rioting Arabs by police...
...Arab leaders, heretofore hopelessly disunited, proceeded to join forces under Mufti Haj Amin el Husseini and declare a general strike...
Meantime, the warring races continued to bedevil one another. In the preponderantly Arab city of Jaffa, Arabs set fire to a few Jewish shops. Thereupon the fire, backed by a strong wind, turned and burned a number of Arab homes. Jews from the Arab towns of Hebron, Acre and Beisan were evacuated to nearby Jewish communities. All-Jewish Tel Aviv was ringed with barbed wire to keep out bloodthirsty Arabs. In terrorist murders and police fire, the Jewish dead last week reached 18; the Arab, twelve...
...Herman Niels Bundesen. Born in Berlin in 1882, Herman Bundesen was growing up to be a Chicago street Arab when, as the story goes, a kindly Reformed Episcopal bishop, whose silk topper young Herman had smashed with a snowball, took him to Sunday school, reformed him. While Herman's two closest boyhood chums applied themselves to prodigal careers which subsequently landed them in jail for life for murder, Herman worked his way through Northwestern University Medical School, winding up on the Chicago Board of Health. As the Board's publicity-loving chief during the regimes of Mayors William...