Word: arabization
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Both were wrong. Next day Cairo's crooked streets spawned more trouble. More stores, Arab as well as foreign, were looted, and synagogues in Cairo and Alexandria were set afire. Doughty Premier Nokrashy Pasha personally seized two pillagers by the scruff of the neck, had them arrested. By the second nightfall more than 1,000 persons had been jailed in Cairo alone, many of them for looting...
Already the Arabs had planned a boycott of Jewish goods. Now they again threatened a strike throughout the Middle East, spoke of cutting off U.S. and British oil concessions. Nobody paid much attention to the threats, but they reflected rising Arab tempers. If there is trouble, the Jews will fight back. Now being demobilized in Europe, veterans of the war-wise Jewish Brigade are coming home to Palestine (see cut); 23,000 armed Jewish settlement police are already on the spot...
This letter, by confirming Arab claims that Roosevelt had promised to let them in on any new deal for Palestine, threw pro-Zionists on Capitol Hill and elsewhere into confusion. The letter from Ibn Saud, published at the same time, made them hopping...
...Your Majesty will also doubtless recall that during our recent conversation I assured you that I would take no action, in my capacity as Chief of the Executive Branch of this Government, which might prove hostile to the Arab people. It gives me pleasure to renew . . . the assurances...
Back to Joshua. Ibn Saud traced the Arab title to Palestine back to the Canaanites, from whom the Jews took the country. He flatly called the Canaanites "arab" because they came from the Arabian Peninsula. A critic pointed out that the Jews may have come from there, too, although Ibn Saud would scarcely call them "Arab." Nor would scholars check Ibn Saud's calculation that the Jews had ruled Palestine for less than four centuries. Westerners who added up Ibn Saud's own disputable figures got 627 years; the King...