Word: arabization
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With good reason, Arabs are afraid that Jews will take Palestine away from them. Britain's mandate over Palestine guarantees Jews the right to immigrate, indefinitely. In 13 years moneyed Jews have turned Palestine from a dead land of herders to a hustling, well-irrigated, industrial nation with a $31,000,000 Government surplus, an important business in oranges and a good supply of cheap Arab labor. Britain's mandate is also supposed to protect Arab rights, but two years ago young Arabs took matters into their own hands, organized terrorist gangs, began robbing and killing Jews. Fortnight...
Jews attributed the killing to a camp of Arab workmen. Two days later two of the campers were mysteriously murdered. Confusion was increased when one of these victims turned out to be an Egyptian Jew. The Arabs cried "Reprisal!" The Arab funeral, also orthodox and passionate, led last week to the lynching of seven Jews, the killing of two rioting Arabs by police...
...Arab leaders, heretofore hopelessly disunited, proceeded to join forces under Mufti Haj Amin el Husseini and declare a general strike...
...Herman Niels Bundesen. Born in Berlin in 1882, Herman Bundesen was growing up to be a Chicago street Arab when, as the story goes, a kindly Reformed Episcopal bishop, whose silk topper young Herman had smashed with a snowball, took him to Sunday school, reformed him. While Herman's two closest boyhood chums applied themselves to prodigal careers which subsequently landed them in jail for life for murder, Herman worked his way through Northwestern University Medical School, winding up on the Chicago Board of Health. As the Board's publicity-loving chief during the regimes of Mayors William...
...many years the firm of Kouchakji Frères has had a practical monopoly on excavations on the site of ancient Antioch, the city in Asia Minor where Christians were first called by that name. In 1910 a party of Arab workmen who had often been employed by the Kouchakjis came upon a heap of buried treasure that contained, among other things, a cross, three book covers and two chalices all of silver and all of excellent workmanship. The finders, with a shrewd idea of their worth, traded cross, covers and chalices to a syndicate of Arab merchants, who after...