Word: ishmael
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...isolation is unprecedented. He has personal friends, the chief being that other kindred spirit, Lord Birkenhead, and his loyalty to them is notorious; but he is an Ishmael in public life, loathed by the Tories whom he left and has now returned to; distrusted by the Liberals, on whose backs he first mounted to power; hated by Labor, whom he scorns and insults, and who see in him the potential Mussolini of a wave of reaction...
About 2,000 B.C., Abraham ("father of multitudes") was the Patriarch of the Hebrews ("those from the other side"?they came from Ur in Baby- lonia). Abraham had two sons: Ishmael by Hagar (ancestor of the Ismaelites or Arabians), Isaac by Sarah ("princess"). Isaac married Rebekah and they begat Jacob called Israel, the ancestor of the Jews. His male progeny became the heads of the twelve tribes of Israel...
Significance. British policy* as continued in the Balfour Declaration has been called one of "reconciling seemingly irreconcilable peoples and parties." The Arabs, Semitic people descended from Ishmael, have a historic, ethnological, ethnographical claim, not only to Palestine, but to all Arabia. The claim is not disputed but another claim, that of the Jews, is made co-equal in Palestine. The Zionist Jews? began slowly but are continuing steadily. More and more money is pouring in from scattered Jewry to Modern Israel. The Jews are showing an energy which contrasts sharply with Arab apathy. Everywhere small communities are developing the land...