Word: arab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words stuttered to an inconclusive close in Paris, Jerusalem was having its first real peace in more than a year. It had come quickly and quietly and without benefit of U.N. orders. Meeting in Jerusalem's white Government House (now a U.N. establishment), officers of Abdullah's Arab Lesion had sat down with their opposite numbers from the Israeli army and in two-days had hammered out the terms of a "permanent" truce. They had also agreed to talk over the chances of a permanent peace. U.N. observers, playing the genial hosts, served countless tiny cups of Turkish...
...into Peace? In both the Old City and the New City, Jewish and Arab soldiers chatted amiably back & forth across narrow strips of no man's land. One Arab Legion captain, lifting a glass of tea, called out: "May Allah grant that the end of the war come before my next glass of tea!" Near the Jaffa Gate, unarmed Legionnaires sat dangling their legs over the wall of the Old City. In the streets below, Arab soldiers were dancing, without swords, a Bedouin sword dance. Jewish and Arab civilians even staged a football match. The Israeli team...
UNESCO, however, could not ignore the fact that the very country in which it met last week was proudly and openly at war with the Jews of Israel. On the second day of the conference, the Lebanese delegation, supported by other Arab nations, raised an outcry against the admission of Jewish observers from whatever nation. A hot debate ensued until somebody discovered that no Jewish observers were present or intended to come. Sullenly then the Arabs agreed to admit all organizations which had "accepted the invitation" (no Jewish group...
...vacant lot in Beersheba, the musicians played a program of Mozart, Beethoven and Gershwin to 1,000 soldiers who overflowed the benches, squatted in the sand, or sat on the flat roofs of surrounding Arab houses. Conducting while played the piano sitting on a chair balanced on piles of flat rocks, Bernstein felt the chair slipping away from him, rose to a half-stance, and continued to play the Rhapsody in Blue while the first violinist propped the chair up again...
...repeats each concert nine times to accommodate the crowds. It has played on, undismayed by blackouts, air raids, or the impertinent obbligato of small arms fire. In July another American guest conductor, Izler Solomon, conducted a concert at an army camp outside Tel Aviv while Israeli troops were attacking Arabs at Lydda airport, only an eight-minute jeep ride away. Soldiers returning from battle trickled in between numbers while others left to take over at the front. A few days later the orchestra gave its first concert in Jerusalem in spite of an Arab blockade of the city...