Word: ibn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This letter, by confirming Arab claims that Roosevelt had promised to let them in on any new deal for Palestine, threw pro-Zionists on Capitol Hill and elsewhere into confusion. The letter from Ibn Saud, published at the same time, made them hopping...
This hint stirred the State Department to action. The Department last week released some correspondence between Roosevelt and Ibn Saud, written after their Suez meeting last February. In his letter Roosevelt said: "Your Majesty will recall that on previous occasions I . . . made clear our desire that no decision be taken with respect to the basic situation in that country [Palestine] without full consultation with both Arabs and Jews...
Back to Joshua. Ibn Saud traced the Arab title to Palestine back to the Canaanites, from whom the Jews took the country. He flatly called the Canaanites "arab" because they came from the Arabian Peninsula. A critic pointed out that the Jews may have come from there, too, although Ibn Saud would scarcely call them "Arab." Nor would scholars check Ibn Saud's calculation that the Jews had ruled Palestine for less than four centuries. Westerners who added up Ibn Saud's own disputable figures got 627 years; the King...
...Ibn Saud's letter included an indictment of Joshua as a war criminal. His version of what happened at the siege of Jericho differed from standard Biblical texts. Ibn Saud had Joshua commanding: "Burn ye all that is in the city and slay with the edge of the sword both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep, and burn the city with fire and all that is therein...
...royal excursion to the Hejaz, King Ibn Saud finally put to use the C-47 transport plane which had come as a gift from Franklin Roosevelt...