Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...returned from a flying visit to Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud. In Azzam Pasha's pocket, said aides, was Ibn Saud's promise to use most of his U.S. oil royalties (about $20,000,000 a year) to modernize his Bedouin army and to arm Palestinian Arabs for the war on Zionism...
...unity, long thought the soundest solution to the knotty Palestine problem, has received definitive backing from the 11-nation UN Special Committee. This sixth, and, it is hoped, last Holy Land report since 1937, now awaits immediate General Assembly action to implement it, meet British withdrawal qualifications, and maintain Palestinian tranquillity...
...many fine reports and free opinions have been written into the pages of modern Palestinian history. The General Assembly has a fair and workable plan and should put it to work within the next eight weeks...
...converts' persistence was rewarded in the fall of 1943, when the town was liberated by Palestinian units of the Eighth Army. The "Manduzians" received them with wild enthusiasm. Manduzio wrote in a letter: "Allied troops have arrived at San Nicandro. . . . When we noticed that vehicles had Hebrew signs we said to ourselves: these people are Jews, and we hoisted a flag with the same sign in front of my door. A truck stopped in front of my house and so did a whole convoy. They entered our home saluting with 'shalom...
Sandwiches v. Tommy Guns. The official Zionist movement was not stormy enough for Hecht. He preferred the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation, headed by blue-eyed Palestinian Peter Bergson. In the U.S., the Hebrew Committee is backstopped by something called the American League for a Free Palestine, of which Hecht became cochairman...