Word: arabization
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Many Zionists who heard him were near tears. Arab delegates smiled discreetly. The reaction abroad (see INTERNATIONAL) and elsewhere was more violent. U.S. Jewish leaders spoke angrily of a sellout. The New York Herald Tribune spoke for others: "There are few Americans who will be able to regard the action of their government without a sinking of the heart...
Most of these critical areas are inhabited by Arabs, militarily not a formidable people. Yet they have shown the British, the French, the Turks and the Germans that they are capable of serious and persistent harassing operations-precisely the kind of warfare which would make bases in the Arab world costly and precarious if the Arabs were inflamed against...
...Wonderful!" cried Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, secretary general of the Arab League, when he heard the news of the U.S. decision. Then he added more soberly that the Arabs would settle for nothing less than a full Zionist surrender. Said he: "I am afraid the Zionists will lose their heads. ... If the Jews fight, we will accept the challenge...
President Truman called urgently yesterday for an Arab-Jewish truce in Palestine and United Nations trusteeship there, but both Arab and Jewish leaders seemed cool to his proposals...
...Arab chieftains have a vested interest in an economy which would be likely to prevent any overtures to Russia. On the other hand, however, abandonment by the United States might drive the Jews to seek friendship elsewhere. If strategy is the answer, it is a poor strategy and doomed to failure...