Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bullets did not rage as hot last week as the war of communiques. But behind the curtain of Arab and Jewish censorship, men & women were fighting and dying. For the most part, both Jews and Arabs stayed within the partition boundaries, fixed by U.N., but Israeli* forces captured Acre in the north, fanned out toward the Lebanese border, and attacked Arab Ramie near Tel Aviv in an effort to open the lifeline road to Jerusalem's Jews...
...heavy-walled Old City, the fight was at close quarters. Cabled TIME Correspondent Don Burke, who was watching the Arab Legionnaires : "A drumfire from the semiautomatics goes on for long periods against a background of mortars, howitzers and heavier guns, as the Arab Legion works over the Jewish positions outside the Old City. When we arrived, the Jews inside the Old City were confined within an area of about 800 square yards, undergoing a constant pounding but replying constantly with semi-automatic fire. Their main vantage points were two synagogues...
...their part, moderate Zionists wanted to make a settlement which would let them go back to the job of building Israel, free of Arab attacks. Without outside help on a lavish scale, they could not support the present war budget of $48 million a year, or spare workers from field and factory for front-line duty...
...warned that his soldiers would fight for "all" of Palestine, including Transjordan, "until the Jewish flag will fly over the Tower of David in Jerusalem and Jewish peasants will work in the fields of Gilead [in Transjordan]." He warned the Israelite government not to make "further concessions" to the Arabs. Arab leaders, for their part, have not yet shown any willingness to live with the accomplished fact of a Jewish nation. Said Egypt's King Farouk last week: "I cannot and will not tolerate a Zionist state in the Middle East...
Both sides last week contained men who felt compelled to boast of tomorrow. Whatever hope there was of an understanding between Israel and the Arab states, short of years of debilitating conflict, lay in the fact that there were also some who were boasting as little as possible...