Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About 500,000 Arabs are now refugees from areas of Palestine controlled by the victorious Israeli army. Jews-most of them refugees from Europe themselves-have taken over the Arabs' communities, where they now work Arab land, live in Arab houses and even use Arab cooking utensils. One such community is Akir, a village on the road between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, which TIME Correspondent John Luter visited last week. Here is Luter's report...
Cowboys & Indians. Until last May, Akir's baked-mud huts were inhabited by some 500 Arab families who worked the nearby vineyards and orange groves, occasionally sniped at a passing Jewish convoy. As the Jewish troops approached, most Arab families fled, the rest were chased out. Today Akir is a community of 300 Jewish families from Bulgaria, Poland, Rumania and Yemen. These new inhabitants have moved in to stay...
Where the road widens slightly to make Akir's village square, Jewish children romped around a gnarled sycamore tree last week, playing a popular game, the local version of cowboys & Indians; it is called "Jews & Arabs." Watching them was an elderly Bulgarian Jew who was selling small balloons from a folding table. Fifty yards away was the two-story stone building where, in old days, Arab fellahin used to sit gossiping over Turkish coffee. Part of one wall of the Arab cafe lay in rubble. The cafe had been hit by an Israeli shell. On the undamaged section...
...thorny questions of Jerusalem's status and the disposition of 500,000 Arab refugees* still had to be settled. Israel's other Arab neighbors, Syria, Lebanon and Transjordan, must be satisfied, and Syria, in particular, was showing signs of unabated bitterness. But the confident Israeli were not expecting trouble from anyone. A quip going the rounds of Tel Aviv last week: "Armistice applications accepted only during business hours...
...Netherlands. Fearing to unlcash the Republic altogether lost it decide against inclusion later on, the Dutel, demanded strict control of its military and foreign affairs. After two years of independent administration, the Republicans were unwilling to compromise and began to court the friendship of India and the Arab States. Within four months, the Dutch resorted to military measures to remedy an "intolerable situation...