Word: jaffa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...differed considerably. All agreed, however, that the Jewish State will be in the north of Palestine, mainly along the Mediterranean; that the Arab State will be in the south, mainly inland; that His Majesty's Government will retain for themselves a corridor running inland from the port of Jaffa to such Biblical holy places as Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Some Jewish insiders opined that this British corridor will bend north at Jerusalem and extend all the way to Nazareth, others were sure it would stop at Jerusalem. Most agreed that Judea will be given to the Arabs...
...Near Jaffa the orange grove of Manhattan Banker Felix Warburg was fired by inflamed Arabs. At Geniger others did likewise to a Jewish reforestation scheme known as Balfour Forest...
...villages were summoned to the High Commissioner's office, asked to call off the general strike which had paralyzed trade in Palestine for 40 days. The mayors bluntly refused unless further Jewish immigration were stopped immediately. A compromise was suggested by soft-spoken Assem Bey Sayed, Mayor of Jaffa; Sir Arthur had promised that a British commission would be appointed to review the whole Jewish-Arab problem. If the commission should be appointed at once and if it should decree the end of Jewish immigration until its deliberations were over, then the Arabs could have at least a symbol...
Starved for troops by the High Command, whose eyes were glued to the Western Front, Allenby launched a campaign up the coast of Palestine, taking Beersheba, Gaza, Bethlehem and Jaffa, splitting the Turkish armies. On Dec. 9, 1917, without firing a shell into the Holy City, he walked into Jerusalem, in deference to the Arab legend that Jerusalem's conqueror would enter on foot. Thenceforth the Arabs respectfully called him "El Nebi" ("The Man on Foot...
Meantime, the warring races continued to bedevil one another. In the preponderantly Arab city of Jaffa, Arabs set fire to a few Jewish shops. Thereupon the fire, backed by a strong wind, turned and burned a number of Arab homes. Jews from the Arab towns of Hebron, Acre and Beisan were evacuated to nearby Jewish communities. All-Jewish Tel Aviv was ringed with barbed wire to keep out bloodthirsty Arabs. In terrorist murders and police fire, the Jewish dead last week reached 18; the Arab, twelve...