Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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News dispatches solemnly reported an Arab tale of a boy who lived with a herd of gazelles in the Syrian desert. He browsed and watered with them, sped over the sand with them when they fled the hunter. In fact, he ran at a speed of no less than 50 m.p.h.* for several miles before a jeepload of hunters finally overhauled him and took him into camp. Skeptical Americans, who had been raised on such fare from P. T. Barnum to Johnny ("Tarzan") Weissmuller, heard and grinned...
Neither Honey nor Sting. It was the Jews' relentless pioneer zeal as well as the pressure of Jewish numbers that troubled and angered the Arab world. But it was numbers that caused the present crisis. Should 100,000 more Jews be permitted to migrate to Palestine immediately from the "displaced persons" camps of Europe...
...stream of migration far beyond the dreams of World War I Zionists. About 400,000 homeless Jews who survived Hitler's crematories and death squads (about six million were killed during the war) want to leave Europe, and most of them want to go to Palestine. Wretched Arab Fellahin, the peasant workers, have angrily watched their landlords sell Arab lands to the Jews at inflated prices. This meant even fewer poor acres for the impoverished Arabs. The Arab landlords and princes have angrily watched the Jews upset Palestine's traditional feudal ways. In the upsurge of Arab nationalism...
...Koestler's novel an Arab effendi sums up the Palestine Arab attitude: "I care not for their hospitals and their schools. This is our country, you understand! We want no foreign benefactors. We want not to be patronized. We want to be left alone, you understand! We want to live our own way and we want no foreign teachers and no foreign money and no foreign habits and no smiles of condescension and no pat on the shoulder and no arrogance and no shameless women with wiggling buttocks in our holy places. We want not their honey...
...first the opposition to Jewish immigration came only from a few Arab leaders and freebooters. But today, if those leaders gave the word, it would find a readier response among the mass of Arabs. On the eve of World War II, Britain yielded to Arab demands, limited immigration into Palestine to 75,000 more Jews, sharply restricted the sale of land to Jews...