Word: arabization
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...Sylvie's old prison cellmate, Mme. Jeanne Perron, an amiable reformed fence known to most of her friends as Aunt Jeanne. Her little niece, Denise LeRoy, 12, soon moved in to join Sylvie's children, and in time the family circle was swelled by a handsome young Arab, Abdellah Saoulite, who had fallen prey to Sylvie's eyes. A few months later, Sylvie was pregnant again...
...million Israeli bond issue in the U.S. Israel, it was pointed out. is taking in some 6,000 refugees a week, and needs help badly. Nothing was said, however, about the people who became refugees as a result of Israel's birth-the 880,000 Palestinian Arabs uprooted by the Arab-Israeli war.* In December 1948, a U.N. resolution suggested that Israel take them back, but up to now Israel has successfully dodged the issue...
Bitter Motto. The refugees huddle in leaky tents, dress in tatters, live on dates and flour. Their children run wild; the camps are periodically menaced by smallpox, dysentery, typhoid. The Arab refugees' bitter motto: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend...
Organizer Saleem Abou el Naage, a handsome, sullen young man who had served a jail term for Red activities, shouted: "Every day there's a new story we'll be moved to Libya, or the Sinai desert or Syria or Jordan . . . Tell the Arab and foreign governments we'll never go! There's not enough dollars to make us forget our dearest Palestine. Here we live in a tent, fit for four chickens, not twelve people. Have you ever heard of such a camp in Russia or Communist countries? We are not Communists. We are Moslems...
...Arabs, who lost their land to the Israelis, last week got it back-symbolically. Reviving the ancient tradition of shemittah, or sabbatical year ("And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still"- Exodus, 23:10-11), Israeli rabbis turned over all the Jewish land to an Arab for the new Jewish year which starts Oct. 1. The land transfer has no legal standing...