Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Big Two agreement on the principle of Palestine partition a fail accompli, whole-hearted British cooperation in the implementation of the plan will effectively disperse all Arab League threats. From an examination of the economic and military foundations of Arab warnings, it is evident that Arab hands are tied without direct or indirect external aid. In brief, it Britain carries out her obligations both as a UN member and withdrawing Mandatory Power, Palestine can avoid major upheavals without calling upon UN police...
Economically, the oil-producing Arab states cannot halt their concessions without severing their supply of dollars. While Arab oil is important but not vital to the United States, American foreign exchange nourishes the power of the Effendi. The recent Arab League decision to postpone discussion of western oil concessions suggests that this Arab weakness is understood at home. A recent Arab threat, close ties with Russia, has evaporated, and never really existed outside the minds of Alice in Wonderland disciples...
Politically, the seeds of Arab disunity over the projected Arab portion of Palestine are already sown. The Hashemite-ruled countries of Trans-Jordan and lraq harbor long-range designs towards Syria as well as Arab Palestine, while the Mufti of Jerusalem sees the new state as the core of an ever-widening personal empire. To the North, the Christian Lebanese prefer a Jewish to a Moslem neighbor, while Ibn Saud of Arabia has already acknowledged that his oil concessions will be continued, whatever the UN decides for the Holy Land. Although the Arabstates could unite against partition, long term objective...
Militarily, the Arab states alone are a poor second to the Jewish Haganah of 75,000 well-equipped men, many of whom saw war action in Allied armies. General D'Arey, a recent British military commander in the Holy Land, stated that Haganah could defend itself against all external Arab forces for at least one year. Although Arab military manpower approaches 100,000, the quality is poor and it is considered significant that the one force capable of serious military action is the British-trained-and-officered Trans-Jordan Arab Legion...
...Before a U.N. Assembly committee this week was the 165-page report of the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) containing two diverging plans. UNSCOP's majority favored partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab nations, with independence set for Sept. 1, 1949. The minority plan (advanced by India, Persia and Yugoslavia) proposed semi-autonomous Jewish and Arab states within a Palestine federation, in which, because of greater numbers, the Arabs would elect the chief executive. Zionists regarded the majority plan as better than nothing. Arabs denounced both plans, opposed a Jewish state of any kind in Palestine...