Word: arabization
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...Vriendt, able Dutch Jew, settled in Jerusalem, was a tower of. strength to the Agudist party-orthodox, devout, antipolitical Jews, friendlier then to the devout Arabs than to the freethinking, politically-minded Zionists. But De Vriendt had two secret weaknesses: one was writing agnostic verse, the other was an Arab boy. He thought no one knew about either, but when the boy's family found out and his life was threatened, his friend Irmin of the British Secret Service discovered one of De-Vriendt's frailties. Knowing the perilous political situation in Jerusalem and fearing the consequences...
Brimful of Jews, mostly from Adolf Hitler Land, the Polish immigrant steamer Polonia and the Italian Martha Washington made warily for Palestine this week, only to turn back when frantic radio warnings were flashed by British High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope who had practically an Arab insurrection on his hands...
...Palestine, which both Jews and Arabs call their "National Home," the two peoples make themselves articulate through the Jewish National Council and the Palestine Arab Executive, respectively. Neither the Council nor the Executive have any legal status but both have much prestige. Early last week President Musa Kazem Pasha el Husseini of the Arab Executive warned Sir Arthur Wauchope that Arab young bloods intended to demonstrate at Jaffa, the port of Jerusalem, "against excessive Jewish immigration...
...days later the Arab mob whirled through Jaffa under the green flag of Allah...
...savage, two-hour street battle that followed twelve Arabs were killed, 110 wounded. Next day fresh Arab riots broke out at Haifa, Nablus and on the second day in Jerusalem where two Arabs were killed, 60 wounded as British police battled to keep them out of Jerusalem's ghetto. From Egypt two thundering squadrons of British planes took off to cow Jerusalem. There Arabs plaintively restated their eternal grievance: "Jewish immigrants have so much money that poor Arab farmers are tempted and sell out to them. Unless something is done the Jews will slowly buy up all of Palestine...