WHO, OR WHAT, IS A 'PALESTINIAN'? A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

1. The Helena Independent Helena Montana 03 January 1932  DR ELLIS SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
"For example, Dr James Montgomery,...has proved, by a study of the words used, that the author must have been  a PALESTINIAN Jew... "


2. Appleton Post Crescent Appleton Wisconsin 13 January 1932 THREE ROBBERS TORTURE RABBI TO FORCE HIM TO SURRENDER MONEY
"Abraham Edwy, a PALESTINIAN rabbi"


3. Chronicle Telegram Elyria Ohio 28 January 1932 MOSLEMS URGE UNIFICATION AT WORLD SESSION
Resolutions finally adopted included: ...to boycott in all Moslem lands Jewish merchandise produced in Palestine factories, to proclaim to the world that Zionism is a catastrophe for Moslems,...and to inform the world that Palestinian Moslems desire independence.


4. Sheboygan Press Sheboygan Wisconsin 20 February 1932  VP CURTIS AND SENATOR WRITE TO LOCAL MAN,
"...in which the writers express their willingness and pleasure to serve upon the American PALESTINIAN Committee"



5. The Charleston Daily Mail Charleston West Virginia 24 February 1932 JEWISH OLYMPICS SET FOR MARCH 29,
"The impetus for the Jewish Olympics come from the organization of 'Maccabi', which in 35 years has become world-wide and numbers more than 35,000 members.  The members of the Maccabi hope to develop athletes of their own and enter them in the international Olympics of 1936 as PALESTINIANS"

1. The Marion Star Marion Ohio 13 MARCH 1935 IMPORTANT BIBLICAL DISCOVERY MADE
...since the names of famous Israelites of that period who are mentioned in the Bible also occur in the tablets.  The find is regarded by Palestinian archaeologists as one of the most valuable ever.

2. Indiana Evening Gazette Indiana  Pennsylvania 10 APRIL 1935 ZIONISTS IN CONFERENCE
...Mr Samuel then began to speak of the growing necessity to strengthen the agency for the redemption of the Palestinian soil, the Jewish National Fund.


3. The Helena Independent Helena Montana 24 DECEMBER 1935 (JERUSALEM)
JEWS IN HOLY LAND IN ROW WITH BRITS
The communique states if any section of the Palestinian population refuses to participate...

1. Sheboygan Press Sheboygan Wisconsin 17 April 1936 NEW SUNDAY ABC PROGRAMS ARE SCHEDULED OVER WHBL
"A new Sunday evening feature is to be found in 'The PALESTINIANS who will present Dramatized Bible Stories from the field og Biblical lore"


2. Deming Headlight Deming New Mexico 26 June 1936 THE DAY OF PENTECOST
" Paul found almost everywhere he went devout Jews who had already wandered far from their Palestinian homeland in pursuit of their various occupations."


3. The Charleston Daily Mail Charleston West Virginia 30 September 1936 TROUBLE IN PALESTINE
" In theory, when Great Britain took over the Palestinian Mandate...it seemed perfectly possible to reconsile the aspirations of the Jews with the welfare of the Arabs."


4. The Iowa Recorder Greene Iowa 11 November 1936  CHRISTIAN FAITH
"There were in Jerusalem at that time certain Jews who had known Paul during his missionary elsewhere and they stirred the animosity of the PALESTINIAN Jews against Paul"


5. The Marion Star Marion Ohio 08 December 1936 JEWISH WOMEN HEAR TALK ON ENGLISH FURORE
"Mrs Fred Johnson spoke to the Marion Council of Jewish Women at a luncheon meeting yesterday at Hotel Harding of the effect of the possible abdication of King Edward on the PALESTINIAN mandate, "

1937

1938

1939

1. The Charleston Daily Mail Charleston West Virginia 16 January 1940 SENIOR HADASSAH
"Mrs Philip Presser will sing a group of Palestinian songs,..."

2. The Charleston Daily Mail Charleston West Virginia 13 February UNIT OF SECOND AUSTRALIAN ARMY REACH PALESTINE BASE
"The Australians followed a trail blazed by British forces in the near east during the World war.  Some of them were PALESTINIANS who had emigrated to Australia after the world war"

3. Gettysburg Times Gettysburg Pennsylvania 13 February 1940 GREATEST STRUGGLE IS BETWEEN DARKNESS AND LIGHT, SAYS PASTOR
" “As Jesus of Nazarath passed by along the Palestinian road,... "

4. The Times Recorder 16 FEBRUARY 1940 (LOCAL COLUMN) DOMER OUTLINE
"The Herodians were descended from Esau instead of from Jacob as were the Palestinian Jews."

5. The Helena Independent 24 FEBRUARY 1940 SOME NOTES ON WAR AND PEACE
"This collapse (Turkish Empire) had been promoted by the encouragement of a Arab rebellion and a Zionist campaign; these two measures of war had involved somewhat contradictory promises to the Palestinian Arabs and the Zionist Jews."

6. Appleton Post Crescent Appleton Wisconsin 12 March 1940 LENTEN THOUGHTS FOR TODAY
" Surely the psalmist had been walking through little fields in early Palestinian spring when he made this song about the meaning and promise of a furrow (PSALM 65: 9-13)"

7. Gettysburg Times Gettysburg Pennsylvania 21 March 1940  ANNOUNCE CAST FOR PAGEANT
"The characters follow Jethro, the father; Anna, the mother; Naomi, a daughter;...
the scenes all take place in the living room of Jethro, a Palestinian merchant"

8. Chronicle Telegram Elyria Ohio 09 April 1940  CLEVELAND RABBI REVIEWS CURRENT BOOK AT TEMPLE
" At that time Rabbi Rudolph Rosenthal of the Tempple of the Heights in Cleveland reviewed 'The Nazarine' by Sholem Asch.  It was very interesting to hear the review from the viewpoint of a rabbi. Later Palestinian movies were shown and refreshments served."

9. The Helena Independent 12 MAY 1940 (LONDON) N.E.A WRITER TELLS WHY PEACE HAS COME TO WORRIED PALESTINE.
"Palestinian Arabs have ceased their war of murder, pillage and terrorism in the Holy Land almost completely because
1. They are busy with their crops.
2. Money from German sources  has ceased to finance the rebellion
3. The European war finds the sympathies of most Arabs, like the Palestian Jews, with the Allies...
Great surprise has been manifested in western countries that a Palestinian army corps was formed in which Jews and Arabs enrolled voluntarily."

10. The Helena Independent 10 OCTOBER 1940 HADASSAH IN PALESTINE
"As a part of the educational work, Hadassah has organized the Palestinian Health Scouts among school children."

11. Appleton Post Crescent Appleton Wisconsin 26 October 1940 ANCIENT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS WILL BE SUBJECT OF LECTURE
"Robertson plays on the silver trumpet of Biblical vintage and carries his audience back 2000 years to the hills of Judea.  The illusion is complete in that he wears an authentic Palestinian  costume during the lecture."

1. Long Beach Independent Long Beach  California  3 JANUARY 1941 VAN PAASAN SAW THREAT OF HITLER, IL DUCE YEARS AGO
Van Paasan is one of the first foreign correspondants to interview Mussolini and Hitler and to see in their rise an ominous threat to the future freedom and welfare of mankind.  He has served time in a Dachau concentration camp, and had his life threatened many times.  It was he who saw Dreyfus in the Sacco and Vanzetti trial and defied the Mufti of Jerusalem to deny his responsibility for the Palestinian riots.


2. Sheboygan Press Sheboygan  Wisconsin 5 APRIL 1941(LOCAL COLUMN) PEOPLE OF JEWISH FAITH TO WELCOME FESTIVAL OF FREEDOM
At the family Seder service in the home Friday evening, April the Jewish people will welcome the advent of passover...
The holiday is observed for seven days by Reform and Palestinian Jews...


3. The Marion Star Marion  Ohio  19 APRIL 1941 (LOCAL COLUMN) CONFERENCE SET IN COLUMBUS ON PALESTINE THEME
Sir Norman Angel, distinguished British statesman, Nobel Peace Prize winner, lecturer and author, together with Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, national chairman of the United Palestine Appeal and one of the most distinguished and illustrious personalities in American Jewish life, will head an imposing program of outstanding figures who will address the Palestine emergency conference in Columbus May 4...
The present crisis in the Balkans must call for even more effort from the Palestinian community to stem the Hitler drive.

4. The Charleston Daily Mail Charleston  West Virginia 18 MAY 1941
SYRIANS QUIT VILLAGES
(RAS EN NAKURA, SYRIAN PALESTINIAN FRONTIER

5. The Helena Independent Helena  Montana 1 JUNE 1941 BAGHDAD AT LAST HAS  FALLEN TO BRITAIN'S FORCES
Dispatches by way of Lebanon said the suburbs were already occupied and that a Palestinian  motorized  force had driven into the city.

6. Long Beach Independent Long Beach  California 3 JUNE 1941(LOCAL COLUMN)
ON THE RECORD
She refused to arm the Jewish settlers, although they would have raised an army of every Palestinian youth to fight for Britain.
These Palestinian Jews are men who left professions...

7. Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge  Alberta  07 July AMERICANS BELIEVE MAIN REASON IS TO STRENGTHEN INDIA FRONT
"The Army  of the Nile, under his command, was whipped into a fine fighting force out of a great variety of desparate elements- British, Australian, Free French, Greek, East Indian, PALESTINIAN Jews, Poles and others."

8. Iowa City Press Citizen Iowa City  Iowa 13 SEPTEMBER 1941 JEWISH LEADER SAYS LINDY ATTEMPTS TO INJECT RACIAL ISSUE
Fisher, here on behalf of the National Jewish Fund which seeks to buy Palestinian lands for a Jewish national home...

9. Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge  Alberta  28 October  THAT WICKED BRITISH EMPIRE
"It treated the Arabs so brutally that, the minute war broke out, the Arabs took advantage of a preoccupied Britain to make a truce with the PALESTINIAN Jews"