Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blueprint for Federation. The Anglo-U.S. Cabinet Committee on Palestine, which had been conferring in London for two weeks, came up with a proposal: Palestine should be "federated" into three parts, Jewish, Arab and British controlled (see map). The Jews would get about 15% of the country's 10,400 square miles, the Arabs 40%, the central government (i.e., British) the remaining...
...World War I Britain sought support from both Jews and Arabs. To the Jews the famous Balfour Declaration promised "a national home" in Palestine, which Zionists insist means a Jewish State. Arabs were promised self-rule in the Middle East, which the Arabs insist must include Palestine (where there are now a million Arabs, 550,000 Jews). Today stronger Arab nationalism and a sharply intensified Zionism can find no common ground...
...British fear that further large-scale Jewish immigration may cause a major Arab outbreak in the Middle East endangering Britain's oil supply and its road to the Far East. And if the British washed their hands of the Arab world, the U.S. would likely have to step into their shoes to keep the peace, to keep Russia out and to protect its own essential Arabian oil interests...
...solution of the problem of Palestine." In fact, the object was the broadly based Jewish underground Haganah, responsible for illegal immigration of Jews, which has worked closely with the Jewish Agency. Haganah has insisted that its wellarmed, well-organized secret army exists only for self-defense against possible Arab attack...
...London Bureau cabled: "It is an undisguised fact that Britain is on the verge of an Anglo-Jewish war in Palestine." Westminster's lobbies rang with the muttered warnings and fears of pro-Zionist Labor members. Everything was piling up to transform what had been an Arab-Jewish conflict into an Anglo-Jewish fight...