Word: arab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about to board a private plane. Korff had planned to drop leaflets over England: "To the people whose Government proclaimed 'peace in our time,' this is a warning. Your Government has dipped His Majesty's Crown in Jewish blood and polished it with Arab oil. . . . We will carry the war to the very heart of the Empire...
...ordinary evening at the Arab-owned, Jewish-operated Café Hawaii on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. Jewish couples crowded the dance floor. Alongside, the River Yarkon flowed quietly between its eucalyptus-lined banks. "Jeep," a comedian, stepped to the microphone, opened his mouth to sing, and a grenade exploded among the dancers. From darkness surrounding the brightly lighted open-air café came the flash and rattle of automatic rifle fire. Four Jews were killed, twelve wounded. Survivors said the attackers were Arabs. If so, the raid was the first serious attack by Arabs on Jews since...
...land of violent opinions, quiet Judah Magnes has won the respect of Jews, the British, and Arab moderates. He has not always been so quiet. As the editor of the college annual at the University of Cincinnati, he once raised such a commotion when a dean tried to censor him that the university's president was replaced during the resulting rumpus. As the young rabbi of a Reform Temple in Brooklyn, he led a funeral procession up Manhattan's Fifth Avenue to mourn pogroms in Czarist Russia. His fashionable congregation objected, and Magnes resigned. During World...
...look out over the plains of Jordan to the Dead Sea, Judah Magnes has placed two great filing cabinets, one marked "University Affairs," the other "Political Affairs." They are a sign of his divided labors. Still a pacifist and a longtime advocate of a joint Jewish and Arab Palestine, he has been attacked by extremists of both sides. Once his students went out on strike in protest against him; once Arabs set upon a car bearing two of his guests and killed the driver. But he has never let his university become a center of violence ("this vain doctrine, this...
Last week Harry St. John B. Philby, Briton-turned-Moslem, familiar intriguer in the Arab world and intimate of Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud, arrived in India "to buy tents." He went into a huddle with Moslem Leaguers and Hyderabad officials. Delhi was sure Jinnah was angling for the support of Moslem states in the Middle East...