Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day a clipped English voice that has persuasively argued in many Jerusalem courtrooms replied: "With the future of our children in doubt, with our national patrimony in danger, we [Palestinian Arabs] come to you ... in the full assurance that your conscience will support us." Dark, dapper Henri Cattan, speaking for the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine, was telling U.N. what the Arabs expect of them: immediate stopping of all Jewish immigration into Palestine, setting up of an independent state in which Arabs would have a majority...
House Afire. The Arabs made the most of the occasion. Cried Iraq's Columbia-educated Fadhil Jamali: "At this moment Palestine is being invaded. ... A part of our home is on fire." The Arab delegations repeatedly wandered from the procedural debate to demand immediate freedom of Palestine as an Arab state. Zionist leaders writhed, but since they had no official status, could not answer. (This week the Assembly decided that the Jewish Agency for Palestine should be allowed to speak before the Assembly's Political and Security Committee, which includes all 55 of the United Nations...
...Game. Russia's Gromyko played a coy game. First he roused Arab hopes by voting for immediate decision of the Palestine question. Then he disappointed them by plugging to give the Jewish Agency a voice in full Assembly proceedings. But in Russian Assembly maneuvers and recent publications supporting Arab hopes, one object was apparent: to get the British out of Palestine (and the Middle East) as soon as possible...
...Zealand's Sir Carl Berendsen pleaded for a "true truce of God" [in Palestine] during the U.N. inquiry. "Let all passions be stilled." (Next day, Jewish terrorists blew up the Crusaders' Castle in Acre, now a prison, and released 251 Jewish and Arab prisoners, including 80 terrorists. The dead in an hour's gun battle: 14 Jews, one Arab...
Flatus Vocis. The most talkative non-Arab delegate was India's florid Asaf Ali. "When we talk about Jews," he said, "what Jews do we mean? . . . You will perhaps be surprised [the Assembly was] to hear that there are a large number of people living ... on our [northwestern] borders, who claim descent from Israel . . . something like, I should think, between 20 to 30 million people." Said tired Assembly President Dr. Oswaldo Aranha at last: "I am sure the eminent jurist who is the Indian representative knows what I mean when I refer to flatus vocis, which scholars use when...