Word: nablus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mandated Trans- Jordan, British officers foresaw that friendly Bedouins would soon be leading Iraq raiders across the desert into Palestine. Meanwhile, in Palestine itself, twelve Arab terrorists replenished their none-too-full coffers by a new type of coup. In a daylight robbery of a branch Barclays Bank at Nablus, they obtained...
Before dawn one morning last week at Nablus a detachment of native policemen and soldiers, led by British Assistant District Commissioner W. Foote, moved off into the hills of northern Palestine. Their destination was the tiny Arab village of Mazar. With the squad moved armored cars. As they crept up on the village in the grey morning light, two British planes droned overhead. The Arabs scrambled from their houses to find their village surrounded...
...following or lose the high office he holds with British support. Last week this Nashashibi strategy seemed to be working to perfection. The Grand Mufti had been obliged to promise the British that the Moslem Supreme Council would support no violence or strike. Protested the inspired young Arabs of Nablus: "Your religious position requires you to march at the head of the people, never at the rear...
...savage, two-hour street battle that followed twelve Arabs were killed, 110 wounded. Next day fresh Arab riots broke out at Haifa, Nablus and on the second day in Jerusalem where two Arabs were killed, 60 wounded as British police battled to keep them out of Jerusalem's ghetto. From Egypt two thundering squadrons of British planes took off to cow Jerusalem. There Arabs plaintively restated their eternal grievance: "Jewish immigrants have so much money that poor Arab farmers are tempted and sell out to them. Unless something is done the Jews will slowly buy up all of Palestine...