Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This explains why Zionists molded themselves according to the slogan "The nation without a land--back to its homeland without a population." Therefore they were welcomed by the prominent Arab leader Emir Faisal, King of Iraq, who signed a cooperation treaty in 1919 with Chaim Weizman, who later became the first president of Israel...
During that war, claims Professor Said, "780,000 Arabs fled from the country." According to other sources, only 540,000 Arabs did so. The reason that they left, wrote a Jordanian newspaper in 1954: "The Arab governments told us: Get out so that we can get in! So we got out but they...
...Cairo newspaper in 1963 wrote that "The Mufti appealed to the Arabs of Palestine to leave the country...because the Arab armies were about to enter in their stead against the Jewish gangs and oust them from Palestine...
Many of the refugees had come to Palestine only ten or 20 years before, in the '30s and '40s. Wrote an observer in 1937, "One always finds in Palestine Arabs who have been in the country only a few weeks or a few months...Since they are themselves strangers in a strange land, they are loudest to cry 'Out with the Jews!' Among them are to be found representatives of every Arab country: Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Egypt, the Sudan and Iraq...
They do not want to be used any more as a propaganda weapon for Arab Pan-Arabism; they want to be absorbed by their brothers in the vast and rich Arab countries that desperately need manpower for their economies. Just as the 750,000 Jews who escaped from the Arab countries were absorbed by their brothers in Israel...