Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About 7,000 of these were Jews. Most of the Arabs were women, children and old men who possessed little now but what they could carry on their backs. Their Arab neighbors had been helping out with relief of a sort. Lebanon, with more than 70,000 refugees, was trying to shelter them in barracks, schools and tents. The border town of Bint-Jebeil (see cut), with a population of 6,000, had put up 5,000 guests. In Transjordan's capital city of Amman, more than a thousand were holed up in the dank underground galleries...
...relief contributed by Arab neighbors so far had amounted to about $6,000,000. More than that would be needed. Shortly before his death, U.N. Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte had issued a worldwide appeal to governments and private organizations for help against "a great human disaster." From 14 nations he got specific promises. The U.S. told Bernadotte that private American assistance had amounted to $800,000, that the U.S. Government was thinking over whether it should do something more. If the U.S. came to the rescue, it might restore part of its shattered prestige in the Arab world...
...decide pretty quickly whether they're going to look after these people or let them die." At week's end it looked as if U.N. would get the job. British and U.S. delegates were planning a resolution asking the General Assembly to sponsor an Arab relief program...
...could use the roads for six hours each afternoon to supply their forces in the interior across an east-west road running under Jewish guns. The Jews, in turn, would have six hours each morning to supply their settlements in the Negeb across a north-south road blocked by Arab troops. When the Egyptians rejected the ruling, it became a dead letter. Since then, the Jews have supplied their settlements by night airlifts to secret landing strips in the desert...
Land fell on Gaza (seat of the Mufti's new Arab government in Palestine). Arab forces opened up on Jewish settlements in the Negeb with 100-pound guns. Both sides rejected a U.N. cease fire order...