Word: arab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago Akir was deserted," said an Israeli captain. "There wasn't even a stray cat here. We didn't consider these Arab villages fit places for our people to live, but we had to have some place to put them." First the government sent workmen to spray Akir with DDT. Cement was poured over the earthen floors; boards or tin roofs replaced Arab thatching. Water pipes were laid between the courtyards...
Life in Akir has few refinements. Moshe Ben Yaacov Libby, a lean, swarthy immigrant from Yemen, lives with his family of five in a rusty, corrugated-iron shelter. They cook Arab style over an open clay oven and eat from a rough board supported by orange crates. Moshe's wife has found only occasional work picking oranges, and the 'family's stake is going for food. But Moshe, who spent three years in a British detention camp in Aden, plans to stay. He says: "The Arabs of Yemen hated us. There we had a three-story house...
...Little Sofia." Nissim Shamle, a Bulgarian electrician with four children, summarized the hopes and complaints of Akir. "We are far from 100% organized, but we see a good beginning," he said as a crowd of roughly dressed settlers in work caps nodded approval. "Of course there is still the Arab cemetery. We have left that untouched. We have a school and a small synagogue...
...10th Century, Arab warriors from Bagdad knifed into western India and founded Bagdad-ul-Jadid (New Bagdad). When more Moslem immigrants spilled through the fertile valley of the Indus River, the Princely State of Bahawalpur was born...
...Amir was a mass of glittering green. His head was ringed by a gold and platinum crown studded with $3,000,000 worth of emeralds. More emeralds flashed from his silver-braided Moslem long coat and sword belt. Only his shoes, British-made black oxfords, were plain. While Arab minstrels wailed in the background, 500 red-fezzed subjects came up one by one, bowed, and dropped gold pieces (worth $7 each) at his feet...