Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Birobidjan was the latest move in Russia's drive for influence among the Arabs of the Middle east. In UNO Russia had stood behind Arab Syria and Lebanon in their dispute with France and Great Britain. Now Russia was reminding the Arab world that she did not support Zionism, in fact already had a substitute Zion. In Palestine, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization, stated unequivocally: "It is perfectly useless to offer the Jews a substitute for Palestine...
European nationalism in the mid-20th Century had reached a pitch which forced Jews to react with a desperate nationalism of their own. But between them and a Palestine refuge stood another offshoot of European chauvinism, the awakened nationalism of the Arab states and their new instrument, the Arab League. Only superficially was the current Zionist issue the same as before the war. On both sides the pressures had become many times as intense and explosive...
Clark's Arab driver explained to the natives that the jeep was the offspring of the truck that followed with Clark's luggage. Yemenites, who understand heredity, understood that; they have been "electing" members of one family as their rulers since 897 A.D. The latest, Imam Yahya bin Mohamed bin Hamid el Din (76), had asked Clark to come up from Aden, where he is U.S. consul, to arrange for regular diplomatic relations between the two nations...
...already in the widening Soviet orbit. The Russians all but have their hands on Iran's oil, and certainly have their eyes on the pipeline in the Levant states, which last week asked UNO for withdrawal of British and French troops. Russian diplomatic radar is feeling out the Arab League. Turkey is under pressure to let Russia dominate the Dardanelles. Russia's good friend Tito is still clamoring for Trieste on the Adriatic, and Russia herself is clamoring for a one-panel trusteeship in Tripolitania...
When Jamal al Husseini alighted at the Damascus Gate, cheering Arab crowds pelted him with flowers. A firebrand of Arab anti-Zionism had come home from eight years of exile. Whirling dervishes and fierce-looking Arabs on prancing horses escorted him through the city. Jamal looked older, graver, but seemed to have lost none of his flaming nationalism. The British had brought him back on the eve of the Arab-Jewish showdown. Gratefully, the Arabs welcomed Jamal. Within a few hours of his homecoming the chairman of the Palestine Arab Party, cousin of the still-exiled Grand Mufti, was deep...