Word: arabs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ceremony. The great day came. The University of Mount Scopus (consisting at present of a remodeled house, a copper-domed wing, an unfinished amphitheatre) was crowded by 8,000 clamoring spectators. The ancient city of Jerusalem was as festive as it could be without Arab cooperation. Jewish hawkers sold "Balfour biscuits," "Balfour keftas" (rissoles), "Balfour chocolate," which was not strange in a land which has a model village named Balfouria...
...followed some remarks on the idea of a Western University run on Western methods in an Eastern country and upon the beauty but questionable utility of the Hebrew language with which the Earl professed himself unacquainted. The speech ended on a Balfourian note: a graceful, tactful, courageous plea for Arab goodwill and cooperation, recalling that, in the 10th Century, the Arab and the Jew had worked in harmony for "the illumination of Europe"?a reference to the Moorish invasions of Spain...
...referred to in the cable, declared that "His Majesty's Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people . ," but specifically stipulated that "nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of the existing non-Jewish [chiefly Arab] communities in Palestine. ..." The letter and the spirit of this agreement have been carried out, according to British and Jewish sources...
...tacitly undertaken to reconcile irreconcilable peoples and policies. Within Palestine, which is about the same size as the state of New Hampshire, there are about 757,182 people (1922 census), of whom 77% are Moslems, 11% Jews, 9% Christians, and 3% other religions. The Moslems are practically all Arabs who view with considerable alarm the infiltration of the thrifty Jews. The issue is essentially between the Arab and the Jew; and since Britain tries ineffectually to side with both, a further issue between Arab and Britisher is created...
...Arab, as he has been in possession of the country for centuries, regards himself as a national of Palestine and consequently is opposed to the Jews coming into the country and considering themselves equally Palestine nationals. This resentment is heightened by the fact that the Arabs, although owning most of the land, are poor; while the Jews seemingly have unlimited wealth behind them, which comes in from the officially recognized Zionist organization...