WHO, OR WHAT, IS A 'PALESTINIAN'? A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
PART 3
1942
1. 21 OCTOBER 1942 Frederick Post (Frederick, Maryland)
GOVERNOR MAY SPEAK
Governor Oconor said today he was considering an invitation to be the principal speaker at a dinner in New York City November 17 under the auspices of the committee for a Jewish army of stateless and Palestinian Jews.
2. 9 NOVEMBER 1942 The Independent Record Helena Montana
REVIEWING THE WAR BY MAJOR GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT
AGITATION FOR JEWISH ARMY DEBATED
Briefly what is proposed in regard to the Jewish army is this: that a separate force be formed out of stateless and Palestinian Jews now resident in Palestine, to operate as a unit of the United Nations forces under their own colors.
3. 7 DECEMBER 1942 Frederick Post (Frederick, Maryland)
TODAY IN HISTORY
1933- 200 TON 'EMMANUEL', first ship to fly the Palestinian Jewish flag in 2000 years...
1943
1. 11
JANUARY 1943
(The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts) PEPPER URGES FREE PALESTINE
The United Nations must create a free Palestinian state to protect the 'security and freedom' of the oppressed Jews in Europe, according to U.S. Senator Claude Pepper of Florida, who warns that the Jews face a wave of rising intolerance in this country.
2. 3 AUGUST 1943 (The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts)
NATIVE LINGUIST SERVE AS CLERKS
Each day the supply and administrative services must with British, French, Italian, Greek, Palestinian, Egyptian, Spanish, Syrian, Iraqi, Arabian and persian citizens.
3. 16 AUGUST 1943 (Edwardsville Intelligencer)
REFUGEE HAVENS ARE CONSIDERED
Meanwhile, a delegation representing the emergency committee to save the Jewish people of Europe called on Secretary of State Cordell Hull yesterday. They presented a program adopted by the committee in New York and urged his cooperation. The delegation consisted of Peter H Bergson, head of a Palestinian delegation to the United States.
1944
1. 7 MARCH 1944 (The Charleston Daily Mail)
THE LOCAL VIEW
When Field Marshall Rommell rammed the gates of Cairo and Alexandria threatening to close up the Suez, the life stream of the British Empire, where were Ibn-ben-Saud soldiers? Where were his legions to oppose the German hordes?
It was the Jews of Palestine, who gave their lives fighting together with our Allies...
Palestinian Jews, men women and children and even the very old...
2. 9 MARCH 1944 (The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts)
PALESTINE ARABS HAPPY
Palestinian Arab circles were jubilant over what was regarded as the successful first round in the campaign launched by neighboring Middle Eastern governments against the proposed United States Congress resolution favoring a Jewish state.
3. 8 MAY 1944 (The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts)
ON THE RECORD
THE PROBLEM OF THE UPROOTED
But the Palestinian experiment has decisively proved that people who have never been with the land can and will retrain themselves to carry on a highly successful agriculture ...
4. 18 SEPTEMBER 1944 (The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts)
SPORTS ROUNDUP
Besides assorted American GI's, the contestants included British, French, French Moroccans, Palestinians, and Yugoslav partisans.
5. 20 SEPTEMBER 1944(The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts)
JERUSALEM PLANS GARDENS OF THE PROPHETS
This garden, too, will be of great service to research students in Biblical and Talmudical literature and botanists interested in Palestinian flora.
6. 12 NOVEMBER 1944 (The Charleston Daily Mail)
THE POINT OF VIEW
In war, Palestine Jews through dark days and bright,...
1945
1. 2 April 1945 (Oxnard Press Courier Oxnard California)
A JEWISH BRIGADE WARS AGAINST NAZIS
I was told that upwards of 50,000 Palestine Jews, men and women, so far have voluntarily enlisted for armed service in the British army, navy, air force and women's auxillerary service.
2. 1 NOVEMBER 1945 (Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan)
EXTREMIST JEWS RIOT:
The dead comprised one British soldier, one and possibly two policemen, and two Palestinian railway workers.
3. 20 NOVEMBER 1945 (The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts)
ONE MORE DIFFICULT PROBLEM
(Such as Palestinian Jews have begun already)
1946
HOLY LAND TROUBLE CENTER
Shaded areas are those in which transfer of land by a PALESTINIAN Arab, save to a PALESTINIAN Arab is prohibited
2. 7 MAY 1946 (The Charleston Daily Mail)
BROTHERHOOD MIGHT PREVAIL
The Palestinian Arabs really have nothing to lose.
3. 24 MAY 1946 Gettysburg Times Gettysburg Pennsylvania
NO HOME FOR JEWS IN EUROPE, CHAPLAIN SAYS
Chaplain Honig praised the work of the Palestinian Brigade of the British Eighth Army
4. 13 JUNE 1946 Gettysburg Times Gettysburg Pennsylvania
SPEAKS OUT ON TWO IMPORTANT WORLD ISSUES
"The Jews asked, as I understand it, that in Palestine they should have not merely a home but a Palestinian state...
5. 21 JUNE 1946 Atchison Daily Globe Atchison Kansas
SIDELIGHTS ON THE PALESTINE PROBLEM
5. 9 AUGUST 1946 (Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan)
BRITISH SEEK JEWISH SHIPS:
"British warships and aircraft searched the eastern Mediterranean in record peacetime strength today to clear the seas of Jewish refugee ships sailing toward Palestine.
The London Daily Telegraph said Britain was renewing her requests to Russia to halt departure of ships crowded with illegal Palestine immigrants from Romainian ports."
7. 3 SEPTEMBER 1946 Gettysburg Times Gettysburg Pennsylvania
PALESTINIANS FOUND TO BE PEOPLE TOO
Palestinians are Arabs who...
Palestinians are Jews who...
8. 7 SEPTEMBER 1946 (Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan )
A TROUBLED PEACE COVERS HOLY LAND ON CHRISTMAS EVE
The stutter of machine guns and the crashing roar of exploding mines to which PALESTINIANS have become accustomed...
9. 7 SEPTEMBER 1946 Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City, Michigan
BACK FROM PALESTINE
He asserted that PALESTINIANS are being deprived of life, liberty and property by the British imperial policy
9. 11 DECEMBER 1946 The Independent Record Helena Montana
THESE DAYS
And that is the gist of the Palestinian question
1947
LOSS OF DR WEIZMANN
Last July I had advised that American Zionists, schooled in democracy, should take over Zionist leadership from the PALESTINIAN Jews...
2. 13 MARCH 1947 Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan
BANDITS ROB TEL AVIV BANK
The PALESTINIANS were taken back south in military transport, the government said
3. 15 MARCH 1947 (Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan)
PALESTINE TERRORISTS
Effort has been made by conservative elements among Palestinian Jews to bring terroristic activities to an end.
4. 26 MARCH 1947 Pottstown Mercury Pottstown Pennsylvania
300 PALESTINE JEWS RETURN TO HOLY LAND
It was unofficially reported that 150 other Jews still in dentention camps on Cyprus also claimed to be PALESTINIANS...
5. 3 MAY 1947 (The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts)
THE UNITED STATES IS COMMITTED TO WORK FOR A DECISION ON PALESTINE THAT CAN BE ENFORCED BY THE U.N.
It cannot now enforce any decision that required it to crush the opposion of large organized masses of Palestinian Arabs or Palestinian Jews
6. 12 MAY 1947 The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts
IN THE MIDST OF PALESTINE STRIFE, A NEW VILLAGE IS BORN PEACEFULLY
Most of the 'Halutzim' (pioneers)who will live at Maayanoth are South African ex servicemen. The rest are PALESTINIANS and Americans.
7. 6 JUNE 1947 Pottstown Mercury Pottstown Pennsylvania
TRUMAN CAUTIONS US GROUPS AGAINST HOLY LAND MEDDLING
"While the British continue to incite PALESTINIANS, we will continue our activities"
8. 8 JUNE 1947 Waterloo Daily Courier Waterloo Iowa
VETERAN OF JEW'S COLONIZATION TELLS OF ITS SUCCESS
With only a few days warning, PALESTINIANS awoke one morning to find all communications, transport and bank deposits frozen.
9. 15 SEPTEMBER 1947 The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts
FLAWS IN MR EDSON'S ARGUMENTS AGAINST PALESTINE PARTITION
A noisy minority of American Zionists along with the anarchist minority in Palestine itself have been as discouraging to the main body of American Zionists and PALESTINIAN Jews...
10. 29 SEPTEMBER 1947 (Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan)
HAIFA POLICE HQ IS BLOWN UP
The dead included four British constables, four Palestinian constables, and one Arab coffee seller.
11. 3 OCTOBER 1947 (The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts)
JEWS CHARGE TEAR GAS USED:
Jewish refugees charged today that a British boarding party used tear gas against them yesterday when the royal navy seized their immigrant ship as it entered Palestinian waters.
12. 13 OCTOBER 1947 Oxnard Press Courier Oxnard California
TROOPS MOVE ON BORDER OF PALESTINE
The Syrian-Lebanese forces, part of the seven nation Arab army the Arab league had threatened to throw against the Jews, were so close to the frontier that the PALESTINIANS could see their campfires twinkling across the desert all night.
13. 15 NOVEMBER 1947 Pottstown Mercury Pottstown Pennsylvania
FIVE MORE DIE AS TERROR GRIPS HOLY LAND AREA
The violence ended about a month and a half of comparative quiet throughout Palestine - a period during which most PALESTINIANS, Jew and Arab, concentrated attention on on the partition plan now before the United Nations.
14. 17 NOVEMBER 1947 Atchison Daily Globe Atchison Kansas
JEWS EVADE BRITISH NET
"Are probably already dressed as workers and housewives and are out in the fields besides Palestinian Jews."
15. 20 NOVEMBER 1947 (Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan)
MONEY NOT EVERYTHING
Tell the Palestinian Arab that a Jewish state will raise his standard of living and he is unmoved.
16. 15 DECEMBER 1947 Portland Press Herald Portland Maine
ARABS DEMAND ARMS IN EGYPT
"Today we are all PALESTINIANS, tomorrow Sudenese, and after tomorrow North Africans," El Azhari said
1948
1. 12 JANUARY
1948
(Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City
Michigan) JEWS DESTROY JORDAN BRIDGE:
The attack was believed made to halt the return of Palestinian Arabs to the Holy Land after receiving military training in Syria.
2. 2 February 1948 (Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan)
ARABS BLOW UP JEWISH PAPER:
The five story building housing of the Palestine Post, the only English language Jewish newspaper in the Holy Land, was blasted and burned to rubble today by Arabs using the Jewish barrel bomb technique.
The blast was the first time in 30 years that Arabs have blown up a building in the center of a Palestinian town.
3. 6 March 1948 Reno Evening Gazette Reno Nevada
ASKS PROTECTION OF UN DELEGATES IN PALESTINE
Cunningham asked PALESTINIANS to accord the secretariat the immunity which civilized nations must 'show to members of this world organization.'
4. 17 MARCH 1948 (Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan)
DISCUSS HOLY LAND PROBLEMS
“In fighting against Jewish immigration the east is fighting against progress and advancement. Their fight will not succeed because light is always stronger than darkness and justice will certainly win out in the end.” So spoke Akiva Perel, dynamic Palestinian native
5. 26 MARCH 1948 Gettysburg Times Gettysburg Pennsylvania
JERUSALEM TIRES OF AMERICAN TALK
'We want a democratic Arab government with all PALESTINIANS- that includes Jews- given an equal right to vote..." said an Arab lawyer with the Palestine Arab higher committee
6. 15 MAY 1948
A LONG VIEW OF PALESTINE
They hope and pray even though knowing how irreconcilable the PALESTINIANS are...
7. 17 MAY 1948
DR WEITZMAN ELECTED HEAD OF ISRAEL
All members of the new government except one are PALESTINIANS, who automatically became citizens of Israel upon formation of the new state.
8. 29 MAY 1948 (Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan)
ARABS CAPTURE OLD JERUSALEM
The (Arab) legion guaranteed the safety of the Jews against screaming, cursing and hooting mobs of Palestinian Arabs who tried to mob the first groups and beat them to death in the streets
9. 15 JULY 1948 Daily Register Harrisburg Illinois
JERUSALEM'S 'WRONG WAY' EXODUS-70 AMERICAN JEWS LEAVE HOLY CITY FOR U.S.
Most Jewish PALESTINIANS disagree violently with any evacuation scheme
10. 16 OCTOBER 1948 Pottstown Mercury Pottstown Pennsylvania
UN TOLD TIME IS RIPE FOR PALESTINE PEACE BUT FIGHTING BREAKS OUT ANEW IN HOLY LAND
...guarantees of the rights of all PALESTINIANS...
11. 05 NOVEMBER 1948 The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts
STORY OF PALESTINE MOVIE WILL BE SHOWN HERE MAY 11
"To the Jews, Arabs and PALESTINIANS of all creeds who enacted this film, we are grateful," the author has declared
12. 14 NOVEMBER 1948 Portland Press Herald Portland Maine
UN URGES RELIEF FOR PALESTINIANS
A comittee resolution declared the "alleviation of starvation and distress among PALESTINIAN refugees...
13. 02 DECEMBER 1948 Atchison Daily Globe Atchison Kansas
SEEK A UNION IN PALESTINE
A dispatch last night from Amman, Abdullah's capital, said Sheik Gaabari had told Abdullah of proposals by the congress and asked him, in the name of all PALESTINIANS, to take steps for the unification of the two countries.
1949
1. 21 FEBRUARY 1949 Portland Press Herald Portland Maine
ISRAEL OK'S ARMISTICE, IS REPORT
Arab prisoners include 5000 PALESTINIANS...
1. 21 FEBRUARY 1949 Oxnard Press Courier Oxnard California
PALESTINE PACT EXPECTED SOON
One hundred Israelis from the Transjordan prisoner of war camp at Marfraq Bee were released at the same time as 157 PALESTINIAN Arabs and Transjordan legionaires were released.
2. 3 MAY 1949 Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan)
HOOPER COLT 2 TO 1 FAVORITE
Missing are such derby probables as Greentree's Wine List, Clifford Mooer's Old Rockport and Palestinian, the very serious contender owned by Isador Bieber.
(Isador Bieber is listed in History of Jews In Horse Racing.)
3. 16 JUNE 1949 Nashua Telegraph Nashua New Hampshire
JEWS AND ARABS BOTH
Substitute 'Arab' in this passage for 'Jew" and you have eloquence on behalf of another group of PALESTINIANS. Both need help.
1950
1. 25 APRIL 1950 The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts
ARAB PALESTINE, TRANS-JORDAN UNITED BY AMMAN PARLIAMENT
The signing came after a stormy session of Parliament at which at least five PALESTINIAN members voted for delay in acting on the union
2. 23 JULY 1950 (The Zanesville Signal)
CENSORSHIP
He was not permitted to mention Palestinian truck-drivers...
3. 18 OCTOBER 1950 (Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan)
THESE DAYS
He (Robert Taft) was responsible for the Palestinian planks in the 1944 and the 1948 Republican platform
(In 1944, for the first time, both political parties had planks endorsing a commonwealth in Palestine. The Republicans called for unlimited Jewish immigration and the establishment of "a free and democratic commonwealth" while the Democrats were more specific and mentioned a "Jewish commonwealth.")
4. 26 OCTOBER 1950 (Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan)
THESE DAYS
In this they succeeded because of the enormous contribution to Palestinian activities by American Jews out of their private resources.
During the 1940's we have PALESTINIANS being used to describe all inhabitants of the Palestine region, which became the state of Israel.