Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the 55 delegations were representatives of five Arab states (Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia), who regarded the cause of Palestine Arabs as their own. But the success or failure of a Palestine solution ultimately depended on the U.S., the United Kingdom, and the U.S.S.R...
...views of the nations seemed as irreconcilable as the conflict in Palestine between Jews, Arabs and British. Britain, which had thrown its failure to solve the Palestine problem into U.N.'s lap, went on record in London that it would not be bound by any U.N. solution which it could not approve. The Arab delegates wanted a wide-open discussion and an end to Britain's mandate. The Jews, with a golden opportunity to present their case to the world, were split into rival groups, each demanding to be Jewry's voice before the Assembly. (The Jewish...
JERUSALEM, May 4--Jewish underground fighters freed 251 Jewish and Arab prisoners of grim Acre prison today by blasting a hole in one of its centuries-old walls, as 15 persons died in the bloodiest outbreak of violence in the Holy Land in many weeks...
...including four Jewish prisoners, an Arab prisoner and three Jewish raiders, were killed in the wholesale prison delivery which the underground fighter accomplished by planting four bombs in Turkish baths adjoining the prison wall after screening the attack with gunfire and grenade blasts...
...careful UN scrutiny. The results of such immigration would go a long way towards determining whether partition, a new mandatory power, or some other solution, would be best for Palestine. It is very possible that, in the light of America's new policy of halting further Russian expansion, the Arab threat to raise Middle East havoc as an answer to Jewish immigration is no threat at all. But despite all speculation, UN failure to deal with the refugee problem at once will convict it of its greatest weakness to date-a disregard for humanity...