Word: arabs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Palestine is our own country." " Down with Zionism! " " Long live Mustapha!" These were some of cries heard at Jerusalem during an Arab procession in celebration of " Nobi Moussa "-the Prophet Moses. Several people were arrested...
...scathing denunciation of the Government's policy in Palestine was given by the editor of the London Daily Express. Commenting upon the fact that trying to find a Jew in Jerusalem is like trying to find a needle in a haystack, he said: "They are drops in the Arab ocean." Referring to the Government of Palestine, he remarked: "They are a cryptic hierarchy of esoteric oligarchs guarded by British bayonets, British aeroplanes and British armored cars...
...prisoners were saved. The embankment round the city is holding and there is no fear of its crumbling. King Feisal is said to be personally responsible for saving the palace and the cultivated land near it. His bodyguard, under his supervision and spurred on by encouraging strains from an Arab band, repaired damage to the embankment encircling the royal property...
...history and Arabian and Persian today are the Latin and Greek of the Mohammedan world. The present picture of Arabia is that of a gentleman in "rejuced circumstances" as Captain Costigan would say, but still a gentleman. The British Government, recognizing the potential authority in the remnants of the Arab empire, the tribal state of Irak, has attempted to set up as independent the territory held under a mandate. A twenty year treaty signed at Bagdad on October 10 incorporates the Arabs of the Tigris and Euphrates valleys in a self-governing state...
...Arab now has, for the first time since the last days of the great Caliphate, the opportunity to rehabilitate himself in the eyes of the world. What complicates the affair from the British point of view, is the fact that Irak's bitter enemy is the other Arab kingdom of the Hedjaz, also subsidized from British coffers...