Word: arabized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hills outside Jerusalem, British troops stopped a battle between Jews and Arabs. There the Jews were trying to dislodge Arab snipers who have almost cut off communications between Jerusalem and the coast. The British military commander, Brigadier Charles Phibbs Jones, made a quiet point: "Prolonged firing between Arabs and Jews within Jerusalem makes life intolerable for its inhabitants...
...British, who have been importing 13,000 tons of flour a month, served notice that they would not import food for civilians after May 15. And how would Jerusalem's 100,000 Jews get their fuel oil (which comes by pipeline across Arab lands) or water (which is pumped from .the wells of Ras el Ain in Jewish Palestine through Arab territory)? Who would run and maintain railroads, the postal system, telegraphs and ports, or patrol the borders against cholera-carriers...
...Jerusalem, the advance party of the Palestine Commission were prisoners of hate. They dared not stir out of the British security zone, encircled with barbed wire and gun emplacements, except in bulletproof cars. No Arab leader would speak to them; Jews had to talk to them mostly over the telephone...
...make in the Council chamber than in the embattled Holy Land. The comic effort to make it, however, followed logically from past U.S. efforts to please everyone, which had ended by pleasing no one. Zionists were crying traitor at the U.S. The U.S. position in the strategically important Arab world was hurt in ways that might cost years and possibly blood to repair...
...make partition stick without all-out Arab-Jewish war would require military intervention. Where was it to come from? The U.S. would not send its own troops. It did not want an international force-that would include Russian troops...