Word: turkishly
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...COURSE, there were millions of Arabs whose country was already Palestine. Most of them were peasants, in many cases working for absentee Turkish or Arab landlords. For awhile, it seemed as though Jewish settlers would just try to acquire Arab tenants or laborers and replace the Turks, much as other colonists elsewhere replaced native exploiters of labor, even though the first stirrings of Arab nationalism--directed against the Turks--were beginning to be felt in Palestine. Baron Edmond de Rothschild poured considerable amounts of money into buying up land and settling Jews on it, with Arab peasants continuing...
...First. Even though his political influence had waned, Ben-Gurion was mourned all over Israel. He was the realist and visionary who had dreamed of and worked for a Jewish state through half a century of Turkish, British and international rule in Palestine. He had suggested the name for the new country. He had carried out hard or unpopular decisions in the state's early days and inevitably left on Israel the strength of his own personality...
...Gurion soon left the land for the labor movement. He started out organizing Jewish workers and wrote for a small labor weekly. Eventually his political activities on behalf of Zionism so angered Turkish authorities that they exiled Ben-Gurion and forbade him ever "to set foot on Palestinian soil." He went to the U.S., met and married a Polish-born Brooklyn nurse named Paula Munweiss. After he became famous, she liked to tease him by saying that he had spent part of their wedding night at a Zionist meeting...
Many universities despair of finding a qualified Arab who would be willing to settle into what they admit is a hostile environment. Says the director of Harvard's center, Turkish Anthropologist Nur Yalman: "Arabs who are educated enough to compete in the environment of the Western university are already the cream of the cream." He adds that such men have a "serious consciousness of a deep cultural gap between the Christian and the Moslem worlds...
...generally holds an informal reception for about 100 tribal and business leaders. Visitors to his office are often puzzled to see what looks like three bottles of perfume behind the King's desk; they are actually filled with different grades of petroleum. Feisal speaks English, French and Turkish, but insists on Arabic for official dealings; when meeting with foreigners he uses an interpreter-and sometimes corrects him in midsentence. Friends describe him as a good listener and a man who believes in the ancient Arab proverb, "God gave man two ears and one tongue so that we listen twice...