Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grey-afternoon last November, the U.S. had rammed the Palestine Partition Plan through the United Nations, carving the pocket-sized country into future Arab and Jewish states. Few had anticipated the violence of the Arab reaction. Since November, more than 1,000 Arabs and Jews have been killed. Last week the Palestine Arabs threatened an all-out war in "self-defense" if partition were finally pushed through (see INTERNATIONAL...
Since the Assembly approved partition Nov. 29, not one major step had been taken to realize the plan. Washington, whose backing had helped win U.N. approval for partition, was now reluctant to support it (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The Arabs, who have stridently defied the U.N. plan ever since it was voted, last week repeated a familiar boast. Said the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine (which speaks for the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem) : Palestine Arabs will "never submit or yield to any power going to Palestine to enforce partition...
...appealed to the Security Council to provide an armed force. (The Security Council, as such, has no armed force to provide.) Finally, one day last week, with only 96 more to Partition Day, the Security Council began discussions. There was no saying how long discussions would take. In Damascus, Arabs hinted that they would strike while U.N. was still talking, and along Palestine's coastal plain, Jewish citrus exporters saw confirming activity: Arab growers were unseasonably shipping out oranges of a type which will not ripen until April...
Professor Elliott, who is now staff director of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was charged by the paper with two goals: "An Anglo-American alliance with the Arab states, and the inclusion of Franco Spain in the Marshall Plan...
...Arab attack touched off retaliation and counterretaliation. On the Syrian border, the Haganah dynamited a bridge. Arabs renewed their attacks on Jewish traffic between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, in one ambush killed seven Jews. At week's end, the fighting again abated for a day as Arabs celebrated the birthday of Mohamed. It was an ominous holiday. Throughout the Arab world, mosques reverberated with fiery anti-partition speeches made in the name of the Prophet. On the streets of Damascus, Syrian Boy Scouts sold "Rescue Palestine" buttons. The funds they raised would be used to prepare the full-scale...