Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other interested parties were also busy recasting their strategy. Palestine Arabs sent a delegation to confer with the exiled Grand Mufti in Cairo. Arab participation in the London Conference on Palestine when it reconvenes on Dec. 17 may result...
...Twelfth-Century Arab philosopher, whose own attempts to propagate classics, chiefly Aristotle, came to the West in a Latin translation of a Hebrew rendition of his Arabic commentary upon an Arabic translation of a Syriac translation of the Greek original...
Always concerned with the relevance of personal psychology upon political events, Koestler dissects the Arab-British-Jewish triangle and finds that the British colonial administrators, "not the best type of Englishman," feel uncomfortable and ineffectual in their dealings with the legalistically impeccable but personally over-intense Jewish leaders, represented in the book by the Zionist Executive member, Glickstein. The British naturally favor the Arabs, over whom they feel comfortably superior along "the white man's burden" lines, and whose colorful tribal customs and indifferent air appeal to their more romantic nature. Koestler's British Commissioner admits to the "impartial observer...
Joseph's decision to become a terrorist, however, is precipitated by the Arab murder of the woman he loves, Dina. It hardly seems fair to hinge the major decision of the book on this one incident, but Koestler probably justifies this disturbing reasoning on the grounds that it is just some such private crisis that makes up mens' minds on more broadly ideological questions. Aside from this one questionable bit, Koestler's argument is both fairly and illuminatingly presented. Arabs and British as well as Jews are given a chance to speak their pieces effectively and clearly; Joseph, Koestler...
...Denied, in a letter to Ibn Saud, any U.S. hostility to Arab aspirations, reaffirmed his conviction that 100,000 Jews should be admitted to Palestine immediately...