Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...restricted zone, where Jewish purchases could be made only by "special permission"; 3) a small free zone, where Jews could still buy. Obviously this represented an Arab victory, a Jewish defeat, and loud was the cry of the Palestine Jewish Agency, its friends in the U. S. and Great Britain...
...rebuttal Secretary MacDonald spoke for 80 minutes, and veterans of the House declared that he gave a bang-up Parliamentary performance. He pointed out that it was the impoverished Arab working class who suffered when wealthy Arab landlords sold out to Jews. These ousted Arab workers, he warned, made ideal tinder for an uprising...
World War II brought peace to Palestine. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem quit having Jews mobbed at the Wailing Wall. Arab and Jewish youths joined the British Near Eastern Army. Jews entered Arab districts without risk of being blown to pieces, and vice versa. Jewish and Arab citrus fruit growers talked of forming cooperatives and Arabs in Jerusalem went to Jewish nightclubs. Problems like further Jewish immigration and smaller Arab land ownership were put by for the duration...
What that meant was that Jewish settlement of Palestine was to be brought to a close and that the "Jewish national homeland" promised by Great Britain in 1917 was squelched. In Arab Jaffa there was singing and dancing in the streets. In Jewish Tel Aviv there were prayers and parades through the streets with banners reading "WE WON'T SUBMIT!" and "DOWN WITH MACDONALD!" Meanwhile, the Palestine Jewish Agency called the restrictions a "concession to Arab political claims," said that the Jewish people "will not submit to the conversion of the Jewish national home into a ghetto...
This week Colonial Secretary MacDonald will be called upon to answer that question more fully. It was suspected that unreported Arab dissatisfaction was responsible for this sop to the Arabs, without whose sympathy a successful war in the East would be hard to wage. Meanwhile, Government whips got busy to line up the Conservatives for the important vote. Last time the House of Commons counted votes on Palestine, the Government had a majority of only 88, as compared to the usual Conservative margin of more than...