Word: arabization
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...From the start the Palestine mandate has been ruled by Colonial Office administrators largely experienced in dealing with unlettered, ignorant Zulus or Sudanese. Taught in the divide-&-rule schools of British Colonial administration, the English carefully nursed weak Arab antiSemitism, helped subsidize a heretofore nonexistent Arab nationalism, set out to sabotage Zionism...
Great Britain stalled for time again last week in deciding what to do about the irresistible force of Zionism that has met the immovable object of Arab nationalism in the blood-stained hills of the Holy Land. Last year a Royal Commission under the late Lord Peel, having duly visited Palestine, taken copious notes, heard both sides' pleas, recommended that the country be partitioned into a Jewish State, an Arab State and a British Corridor. So great was the Arab terrorism that followed the announcement of this plan that last April the British Cabinet sent out another commission under...
Meanwhile, Zionism acquired its latest and most persuasive propagandist in William B. Ziff, publisher of the U. S. magazines Popular Aviation, Popular Photography, Radio News, Amazing Stories. In The Rape of Palestine,† Author Ziff brushes aside or categorically denies all Arab arguments, directs a Zola-like series of accusations at Great Britain. His assertions...
...Arab territory constitutes one of the world's last frontiers, with population scarcer than in any .other inhabited part of the globe. Palestine is rich in many minerals, can grow almost any kind of fruit or vegetable, has sufficient water supply. Instead of being overpopulated, it is notoriously undermanned. If as dense as Massachusetts, it would have 5,270,000 instead of 1,300,000 inhabitants. It now supports only one-tenth of the population of Roman times...
...19th Century grave charges of maladministration were made against the company's rule. Arab slavers had been largely suppressed, it was admitted, but cannibalism was practiced, natives were forced into labor and the association had a strangle grip on all trade. Various commissions of inquiry failed to humanize the company's rule and finally in 1908 the Belgian Government formally took over the Congo's administration...