Word: arab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twenty years unceasing strife between Arabs and Jews has harassed the statesmen of Europe and the Near East. In her proposal to create an independent Arab-controlled Palestine, Great Britain has arrived at a feasible solution of this seemingly insoluble post-war racial problem. Although granting the Moslems their ardently desired national state, England intends to insist that Jewish minority rights in the Holy Land be maintained...
...strange assortment of gifts was a gesture of good-will from the Independents to the Jewish fund-raising organization whose cause they supported at a meeting last week. The meeting was thrown into confusion by an Arab, Victor E. Sawabial, who opposed the Jewisk migration in an impromptu speech...
Particularly distressing was the Arab split. Both parties were agreed that Palestine should be independent. But the faction under the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem has long tried to achieve that end by terrorism, while the Defense Arabs, under two leaders, Fakhri Bey Nashashibi and his uncle Ragheb, wanted negotiation. The Mufti Arabs refused to negotiate with the Defense Arabs, whom they would shoot on sight in Palestine. By diligent shuttling Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald finally got them together...
...Conference" was already off on the wrong foot. Arabs refused to sit in the same room with the Jews.* On the first day the Arabs appealed to Allah, the Jews to Jehovah, and the British, diplomatic as ever, to common sense. Zionist Spokesman Dr. Chaim Weizmann declared that under the Balfour Declaration and League of Nations mandate, the Jews have a material and moral right to a permanent national home in Palestine, particularly now when the refugee problem is so critical. Arab Spokesman Jamal al Husseini said the mandate was a flop, that Arabs had squatter's rights...
Jealousy among the various Arab delegates-from Palestine, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Trans-Jordan, Yemen-broke out next. It was learned that Palestinian Defense Leader Ragheb Bey Nashashibi had "caught cold"-not from dank British weather but from heat put on him by representatives of surrounding States...