Word: arab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the world by U.N. maneuvering and by a confusing war of a hundred skirmishes with real battles. Although, in years to come, fighting might break out again & again, its probable pattern was "fixed: the Jews were too tough, too smart and too vigorous for the divided and debilitated Arab world to conquer...
...conflict in Palestine, land of refuge for Jews, had created a refugee problem of its own. Panic-stricken over Israeli military successes, 300,000 Arabs had fled from their Palestine homes. With no food and few possessions of their own, they now live in refugee camps among Arab neighbors. Arab governments want to send them back...
This week, U.N. Palestine Mediator Count Bernadotte laid the refugees' plight before the Security Council, insisting that Israel take back the Arabs "despite the enormous difficulties." Israeli officials disagreed. As a struggling new nation on a war footing, they said, Israel could not afford large-scale relief projects. "Furthermore," said one, "the government won't organize a large enemy fifth column, which the return of some of these Arabs would obviously create . . . The ones who are pressing for their return are Arab states who . . . want to be rid of the economic and social problem they have created...
...Palestine war nearly finished U.N. This week it got a new lease on life when the Arab states agreed to a U.N.-imposed truce. The Jews had already agreed. Fighting dwindled toward a stop. It was U.N.'s first major achievement since it got the Red Army out of Persia in April...
...both sides, hotheads were sore at the U.N. order. The Jews were sure they could win in a fight. Arab diehards at first threatened countersanctions against Britain and the U.S. Azzam Pasha, spokesman for the Arab League, snarled: "If you prevent me from getting what I want, naturally I will prevent you from getting what you want." He meant oil. The Arabs could seriously interfere with the flow of 40% of the world's oil lying in areas they inhabit...