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...AFTERMATH of the war of 1948, more than 600,000 Palestinians left or were expelled from their homes. One of these refugees was Fawaz Turki, the author of The Disinherited: Journal of a Palestinian Exile. He and his family left Haifa for Beirut where he grew up in a refugee camp and slums. His book is an intense and vivid account of what it means to be homeless, to live on international hand-outs of a few cents a day, to be "an outsider, an alien, a refugee, a burden." It fills the cold term "Arab refugee" with painful reality...
...Palestinian problem is not just a refugee problem as Turki makes quite clear; it is a national problem. The Palestinian refugees have never wanted to be resettled in Lebanon or Syria or Jordan. They feel separate, they want their own homeland and a self-determined destiny. As Eric Rouleau, the distinguished Middle East correspondent of Le Monde, pointed out earlier this year when speaking at Harvard in response to an Israeli Jewish questioner, the Palestinian situation is almost a mirror image of the Jewish situation before the creation of the State of Israel. There now exists a Palestinian diaspora with...
...Saud claims Buraimi as part of Saudi Arabia; and Britain, as "protector" of Trucial Oman, claims it for a Trucial Oman Sheik and the Sultan of Muscat. Since the summer of 1952, the claimants had fought their siege with angry words and glowering looks. Ibn Saud sent Emir Turki Ibn Utaishan to occupy Buraimi, supposedly in answer to an appeal for protection by the villagers. Britain countered by stationing three young officers and a batch of Trucial Oman levies in a string of Beau Geste mud forts sprinkled around the oasis, to harass and starve the Emir into retreat (TIME...
Palmorston Style. Fed up with the past humiliations in Iran and Egypt, the British were putting on a fine old-fashioned Palmerstonian display of Empire. R.A.F. fighters buzzed up and down the 750-mile-long camel tracks running into Saudi Arabia, searching out reinforcements bound for Turki. Jeep-borne Oman levies roamed everywhere, terrifying camel caravans. From a 40-foot-high Beau Geste-like tower of mud-brick reinforced with palm logs-containing storerooms for food, water and ammunition, and slotted for rifles-a young British major named Peter MacDonald was happily running the show...
...shot has been fired. In bleak, besieged Buraimi, Turki still holds out; he has 800 bags of rice, enough for many meals. Around him circle a busy band of British. Happiest of all are the local sheiks. They figure that all this excitement means oil. One of them has already decided how to spend his first oil royalty check-on a fancy new airplane...