Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hopes for peace in Palestine centered largely on two men of royal blood who hurried by plane through the Middle East airlanes last week. One was earnest, Godfearing Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte; the other, mercurial King Abdullah of Transjordan, who was trying to unite the Arab world behind him to treat with-or fight-the Jews of Palestine...
Bernadotte put out his first long-term peace feelers to Jews and Arabs. The gist of his "suggestions": reshuffling of U.N.'s crazy-quilt boundaries, so as to favor Israel in the north, Arabs in the south; merger of the Arab areas with Transjordan; unlimited Jewish immigration for two years; an economic union of the two states. Neither Arab nor Jew accepted these first proposals. But neither did they reject them outright, and Bernadotte was ready to follow up with more suggestions. Said he: "I will carry on with the discussions as long as may prove necessary and fruitful...
...Arab answer to Bernadotte would depend, in the long run, on the outcome of King Abdullah's trip. Abdullah visited his old enemy, King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, for the first time since Ibn Saud kicked Abdullah's family off the throne of the Hejaz...
...King Abdullah of Transjordan was the center of Arab hopes in Palestine because...
...Legion is the most effective Arab fighting force in the Palestine arena...