Word: arabization
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...Israel, the chief fruit of the armistice was the promise that Arab soldiers finally would be withdrawn from all the territory allocated to her under the U.N. partition plan. For Syria, the armistice meant that paunchy little Dictator Husni Zaim could throw himself wholeheartedly into his pet project-proving that he is not a dictator...
...Haganah soldiers walked up to Tobiansky in a Tel Aviv grocery store and asked him to come along for an important conference. They drove him to a schoolhouse in an abandoned Arab village. There, three Haganah officers charged him with furnishing his British superiors in the electric company with a list of important users of current in Jerusalem; that list, passed on to the Arabs, supposedly guided the Arab Legion's artillery fire to the city's most important targets...
...less than four hours the court-martial reached its decision. Tobiansky was stood against a sunbaked mud wall of an old Arab building. He refused a blindfold as he stood at attention facing half a dozen Haganah riflemen. His last words were: "Take care...
Meyer Tobiansky was buried at once, in a rocky hillside near the Arab village, a small stone mound marking his grave...
...conditioned offices of Acting Secretary of State James E. Webb. The Israelis were smarting from a U.S. rebuke for their stand on the refugee question, but they were still adamant. Next day the Israeli embassy sharply announced that Ethridge had "misrepresented" Israel's stand on the Arab refugee question. Final peace in Palestine, it seemed, would have to wait until the neighbors were on speaking terms again...