WHO, OR WHAT, IS A 'PALESTINIAN'? A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
PART 4
1951
1. 19 MAY 1951East Liverpool Review East Liverpool
1 CAR WRECKS LEAVE FOUR HURT
Pennsylvanians and PALESTINIANS injured
(In this instance, the PALESTINIANS are Americans who live in East Palestine, Ohio)
2. 17 JULY 1951
Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan
EX PREMIER OF LEBANON SHOT
A second man, Mohammed Abdullahtif, a Palestinian, attempted suicide.
3. 23 JULY 1951
The Bridgeport Telegram Bridgeport Connecticut
NAB EX MUFTI KIN IN ROUNDUP OF 500 IN ASSASSINATION
The annexation was never popular with PALESTINIAN Arabs
4. The Bridgeport Telegram Bridgeport Connecticut 26 July
BOY, 16, IN LINE TO MOUNT THRONE AS JORDAN RULER
Political sources in Cairo said Prince Regent Naif's choice of Abul Huda for premier was intended to appease Arab PALESTINIANS.
HERE WE FIND
PALESTINIAN BEING USED MAINLY TO DESCRIBE ARABS. BUT THEY ARE
STILL CALLED PALESTINIAN ARABS.
1952
Iowa City Press Citizen Iowa City Iowa
MASONIC ANCESTRY
Pioneer PALESTINIANS in Iowa City who were commandery officers..
(PALESTINIANS here describes members of the Masonic Lodge)
2. 16 JUNE 1952
Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan
ABORTIVE MOVEMENTS
The influx of the Jews into Palestine and the consequent migration of many PALESTINIAN Arabs resulted in the formation of the Arab League, comprising the chief Arab Near Eastern states.
3. 19 NOVEMBER 1952
Dixon Evening Telegraph Dixon Illinois
REMINDER FOR CHRISTMAS: REMEMBER THE NEEDY ABROAD
"On behalf of 800,000 PALESTINIANS entering their fifth year as refugees"
EDITORIAL NOTE: READ
THIS ARTICLE AND SEE HOW IT MENTIONS REFUGEES FROM ALL OVER THE
WORLD. THIS WAS IN 1952. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ALL THOSE
OTHER REFUGEES? AND WHY IS IT THAT THE ONLY THE PALESTINIAN ARAB
REFUGEES ARE STILL REFUGEES OVER 50 YEAR LATER?
KOREA= 10 MILLION REFUGEES
CENTRAL EUROPE= HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS
1953
1. 15 MARCH 1953
Massachusetts Lowell Lowell Sun
TRAINING STEPPED UP
Jordanians many of them PALESTINIANS driven from their homes...
2. 6 MAY 1953
Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan
PHOTO CAPTION
This tattered child is typical of the needy youngsters among the nearly 1 million homeless Palestinian Arab refugees overseas.
3. 7 MAY 1953
Dixon Evening Telegraph Dixon Illinois
PHOTO CAPTION
A group of elderly Arabs huddle...as they wait patiently to be recognized as refugees at one of the camps housing displaced PALESTINIANS
4. 12 JULY 1953
Massachusetts Lowell Lowell Sun
AMERICAN DOCTOR IS GOODWILL AMBASSADOR IN ANCIENT JERUSALEM
Dr Moll's main mission is to supplement skimpy UN food...alloted to 800,000 Christian and Moslem PALESTINIANS...
WE CONTINUE WITH THE
USE OF PALESTINIAN BEING FURTHER DEFINED BY ARAB, CHRISTIAN AND MOSLEM.
BUT THE USE OF ONLY PALESTINIAN TO DESCRIBE THE ARABS OF THE REGION IS
GAINING USE. HERE IT MUST BE NOTED THAT THE ANCIENT REGION OF PALESTINE
INCLUDED THE NEW TRANS-JORDAN (LATER TO CALLED JORDAN) NATION, WHICH
WAS ESCLUSIVELY SET UP AS A HOMELAND FOR PALESTINIAN ARABS, AS YOU WIL
SEE LATER.
1954
1. 7 JANUARY 1954
The Times Recorder Zanesville Ohio
INTERPRETING THE NEWS
PALESTINIANS hold half of the ten portfolios in the new government
2. 12 DECEMBER 1954
The Bridgeport Telegram Bridgeport Connecticut
COLLECTS CLOTHING
The Lebanon-American will today open a campaign to collect clothing in usable condition for distribution among PALESTINIAN Arab refugees in Lebanon.
AGAIN,
WE CONTINUE WITH THE DUAL USE PALESTINIAN ARAB AND PALESTINIAN TO
DESCRIBE THESE NON JEWISH INHABITANTS
1955
Ames Daily Tribune Ames Iowa
THESE DAYS
Actually, Israel includes Asiatic and African Jews, native PALESTINIANS, Yemenites, Egyptian and Moroccan Jews, the Fallashas of Ethiopia, the Bnai of India and many others.
2. 4 SEPTEMBER 1955
The Bridgeport Telegram Bridgeport Connecticut
FIGHTING RESUMED ON GAZA FRONTIER
Egyptian spokesmen at Gaza Saturday placed Palestinian Arab casualties in that attack at 39 killed and 13 wounded.
3. 24 DECEMBER 1955
Bennington Evening Banner Bennington, Vermont
LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM
The lives of these people show that Joseph and Mary were not the last Palestinian family to bring a baby into the world in a manger “because there was no room in the inn.”
OOOPS, HOW DID THOSE
PALESTINIAN JEWS SNEAK IN THERE?
1956
The Coshocton Tribune Coshocton Ohio
HAMMARSKJOLD IN IRAQ FOR MEETING
Egyptian and Israeli artillery blazed across the border near Kissufim for four hours yesterday in a battle that killed three Israelis and one Arab PALESTINIAN.
2. 6 APRIL 1956
Ames Daily Tribune Ames Iowa
MIDDLE EAST NEARER TO ALL OUT WAR
In Cairo, loudspeakers inflamed the populace with reports of the PALESTINIANS killed in the fighting.
3. 12 APRIL 1956
Indiana Evening Gazette Indiana Pennsylvania
UNNATURAL CALM IN JERUSALEM LIKE THE LULL BEFORE THE BIG STORM
PALESTINIANS were killed in the latest attacks...
4. 12 APRIL 1956
Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts
PRESIDENT HAS SELECTED THE BEST AVAILABLE APPROACH TO THE DIFFICULT PROBLEMS FACING US IN THE MIDDLE EAST
The threatened Palestinian war is just the kind of war that the United Nations was designed to prevent.
5. 6 JUNE 1956
Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts
THE LIVING DEAD
This is Karamaneh, one of the three camps for the Palestinian refugees that the UN maintains in the region of old Jericho.
6. 2 OCTOBER 1956
Newport Daily News Newport Rhode Island
UN CAN PREVENT RAIDS
Therefore the various Arab governments bordering on Israel will continue to just as heretofore to arm, instruct and send 'guerrillas' (called former PALESTINIANS) over the Israel border to murder and destroy...
7. 5 DECEMBER 1956
Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts
NASSAR CALLS ATTACK '3 POWER CONSPIRACY'
On the Egyptian-Palestinian frontier...
1957
1.16 JANUARY 1957
Newport Daily News Newport Rhode Island
THIRD WORLD WAR COULD START IN SOME UNKNOWN THIRD WORLD OUTPOST
A million PALSTINIANS, many of them educated, now seemingly headed for disintegration, may become the object of a Syrian- Iraqi clash.
2. 25 FEBRUARY 1957
Chronicle Telegram Elyria Ohio
ISRAELI ENVOY GETS NEW INSTRUCTIONS
The Palestine Arab army is composed of PALESTINIAN refugees attached to the Egyptian army and under Egyptian command.
3. 26 FEBRUARY 1957
Newport Daily News Newport Rhode Island
FIVE KILLED IN FIGHT IN CAIRO AREA
At least five persons were killed today when about 500 PALESTINIAN Arab soldiers clamoring for arms attacked an Egyptian police station in the suburb of Maadi.
4. 11 APRIL 1957
Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts
JORDAN REORGANIZATION MET WITH CALM
Khalidi, an elderly Palestinian leader, is a political independent and former member of several Jordan cabinets.
5. 15 APRIL 1957
The Chillicothe Constitution Tribune Chillicothe Missouri
KHALIDI NAMED JORDAN'S NEW PREMIER TODAY
This is important since PALESTINIANS form more than a third of the population.
6. 16 APRIL 1957
Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts
USING THE LIVING DEAD
Under the mild but brilliant sunshine of the balmy southern Mediterrainean springtime, the big camp of Palestinian Arab refugees a few Miles south of Gaza town, seemed not to bad a place.
7. 26 APRIL 1957
Gettysburg Times Gettysburg Pennsylvania
JAMES MARLOW REPORTS
About 900,000 are PALESTINIAN Arabs who became Jordanians in 1948 during the Arab - Israeli War when Hussein's grandfather King Abdullah grabbed part of Palestine or because they fled to Jordan from Israel.
8. 27 APRIL 1957
Nevada State Journal Reno Nevada
NEIGHBOR STATES CAUTIONED BY US
Although some reports said the 47 year old leader of the turbulant PALESTINIANS in Jordan was in seclusion at home an official said "we are looking for Nabulsi."
9. 4 MAY 1957
Newport Daily News Newport Rhode Island
'TIMES' REPORT EGYPT IN PLOT TO KILL SAUD
The dispatch said wholesale deportation of Egyptians and PALESTINIANS have been going on since the raids, apparently because the king preferred such actions to prosecutions which would embitter relations between the Arab countries
10. 9 OCTOBER 1957
Gettysburg Times Gettysburg Pennsylvania
REPORT SEIZURE OF ARMS IN PALESTINE
Nablus is a center of discontented PALESTINIANS and Arab refugees from Israel.
11. 15 OCTOBER 1957
Chronicle Telegram Elyria Ohio
NEAR EAST KEY TO WAR OR PEACE
Or if King Hussein of Jordan...should be assassinated by Syrian or PALESTINIAN agents...
"Nablus
is a center of discontented PALESTINIANS and Arab refugees from Israel" SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE
1958
1. 14 FEBRUARY 1958News Frederick Maryland
IRAQ, JORDAN JOINED IN FEDERATION
There still was the possibility, however, that pressure from the million Palestine Arabs living in Jordan - more than 15 percent of the new federation's total population - would force Iraq out of the pact. The PALESTINIANS generally agree with the Egyptian-Syrian contention that the Baghdad Pact is a threat to Arab unit.[y]
2. 23 MAY 1958
Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge Alberta
BEHIND LEBANON'S STRIFE
The army deported scores of PALESTINIANS, Syrians and Egyptians suspected of being under orders to exploit Lebanon's internal troubles for the benefit of Nasser's United Arab Republic
3. 21 JULY 1958
Appleton Post Crescent Appleton Wisconsin
WEST'S CONTROL OF OIL SHAKEN IN IRAQ; NOW WITHIN POLITICAL GRASP OF NASSAR
And his expanded educational facilities and governmental system are heavily staffed by Egyptians and Cairo oriented PALESTINIANS.
4. 23 JULY 1958
Lancaster Eagle Gazette Lancaster Ohio
NASSAR VIRTUALLY CALLS FOR HUSSEIN'S DEATH
Nasser pointedly referred to the late King Abdullah, Husseion's grandfather, and the year 1951 in which Abdullah was assassinated by Arab PALESTINIANS.
5. 4 AUGUST 1958
Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts
JORDAN, ISOLATED IN EMBROILED MIDEAST, WAS CREATED BY CHURCHILL, BACKED BY BRITAIN
In 1950 this area was formally incorporated in the Kingdom of Jordan and at one stroke the population of the kingdom was doubled by 750,000 dispossessed and disgruntled PALESTINIANS.
6. 29 AUGUST 1958 Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts
PALESTINIAN ARAB TO ADDRESS ROTARY
Isa Mushawar, a Palestinian Arab, will speak on the Middle East and its problems at a meeting of the Rotary Club.
PALESTINIAN Arab is still predominantly
used to describe the Arab inhabitants of the region.
1959
1. 13
JANUARY 1959 Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts ARAB REFUGEES CALLED KEY TO ISRAEL-JORDAN PEACE
In refugee settlements in Jordan, some of which Mr Adams visited, live some 700,000 Palestinian Arabs, who left Israel during the 1948 fighting.
2. 19 MARCH 1959
Gettysburg Times Gettysburg Pennsylvania
THE DAY CHRIST DIED
Ironically this group of PALESTINIANS had now turned the political table askew so that they appeared to be more loyal to the cause of Tiberius than Caeser's hand- appointed governor.
3. 28 MARCH 1959
Nevada State Journal Reno Nevada
REDS ATTEMPT TO TAKE OVER WHOLE NATION
PALESTINIANS, suspected of pro-Nasser sympathies, are trying to get out quickly.
4. 21 JULY 1959
Appleton Post Crescent Appleton Wisconsin
FOREIGN STUDENTS TALK AT MEETING OF ALLENVILLE GRANGE
He is a PALESTINIAN Arab refugee
5. 31 AUGUST 1959
Reno Evening Gazette Reno Nevada
ARAB LEAGUE AND REFUGEES
...and one of the principal subjects for the conference is the problem of the Arab PALESTINIAN refugees.
6. 26 SEPTEMBER 1959
The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts
FRENCH WALKOUT AT U.N. FOLLOWS ARABIAN BLAST
But members of the French delegation returned at the conclusion of a vitriolic speech by Ahmad Shukairy, 51, a PALESTINIAN Arab...
In going over the
1950's, and reading the actual news articles on the
number of Palestinian Arab refugees, I keep reading different figures
that range from 130,000 to 1,000,000