Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week cables came from Aden to Cairo newspapers saying: "Our father Imam Yahya Hamid el Din has passed away. Ahmed el Waziry has been elected Imam and I am President of the Council." They were signed by Ibrahim. The Arab world wondered whether the Sword of Truth was sure of his facts. Perhaps Ibrahim's friends were trying again to oust Yahya. Last summer, a U.S. mission which visited Sana to sign a million-dollar loan agreement found the Imam in good health. He had recovered from an illness in 1946. But he had given up riding...
...lying along the Banias stream (one of the three sources of the Jordan), a sliver of Palestine is wedged between the boundaries of Syria and Lebanon. There the hills are speckled vith the orchards and fields of Jewish settlements, and their fisheries line the river. Last week 1,000 Arabs came out of Syria and Lebanon, swooped from the surrounding heights, for 3½ hours besieged the Jewish settlements of Dan and Kfar Szold, wrecked irrigation installations, and withdrew across the border only when British Lancers opened fire on them with mortars and artillery. It was the first large-scale...
Next day, organized Arab bands of about 100 each struck again, at Jewish settlements along the coast below Jaffa and at Ramat Rachel, only three miles from Jerusalem. Again British forces intervened and drove off the attackers. At week's end, Jews blew up the "Bridge of Jacob's Daughters" over the River Jordan to cut one of the main Arab invasion routes into northern Palestine...
This was the first clear case of violation of the U.S. arms embargo (imposed after the United Nations voted to partition Palestine). But undoubtedly it was not the first time Zionists had been drawing on hidden U.S. sources for arms and ammunition. Britain, which has been supplying some Arab states with arms for their national armies, has vainly tried to prevent their diversion to Palestine guerrillas...
...story continued in the land to which New Jersey's cargo was addressed. In Jerusalem's sacred Old Walled City, violent fighting broke out. Arabs claimed that the Jews started it, retaliated with "Molotov cocktails" (bottles filled with gasoline and ignited). At week's end, Jewish terrorists blasted Arab headquarters in Jaffa and Jerusalem, killed 34, wounded 100. At sunrise one morning, on the Mount of Olives, the Jews of Jerusalem buried their own dead of the last week's fighting, while British soldiers stood guard against Arab snipers. The living, among both Jews and Arabs...