Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many Zionists who heard him were near tears. Arab delegates smiled discreetly. The reaction abroad (see INTERNATIONAL) and elsewhere was more violent. U.S. Jewish leaders spoke angrily of a sellout. The New York Herald Tribune spoke for others: "There are few Americans who will be able to regard the action of their government without a sinking of the heart...
Most of these critical areas are inhabited by Arabs, militarily not a formidable people. Yet they have shown the British, the French, the Turks and the Germans that they are capable of serious and persistent harassing operations-precisely the kind of warfare which would make bases in the Arab world costly and precarious if the Arabs were inflamed against...
President Truman called urgently yesterday for an Arab-Jewish truce in Palestine and United Nations trusteeship there, but both Arab and Jewish leaders seemed cool to his proposals...
Americans, hopeful of finding some shred of sense in their Government's action, offer oil as a reason. But although Arab oilmen may make threatening gestures at first, in the long run Arab shrewdness will prevail. They realize that America alone has the price for their oil and they are hungry enough for dollars to sell the precious liquid to the United States. Oil alone is not the answer...
...Arab chieftains have a vested interest in an economy which would be likely to prevent any overtures to Russia. On the other hand, however, abandonment by the United States might drive the Jews to seek friendship elsewhere. If strategy is the answer, it is a poor strategy and doomed to failure...