Omaha World-Herald · Omaha, Nebraska · 1 June 1919
CP-1919-003
Arabs Violently Opposed to Zionism
Despite Statements of Emir Feisul, Head of Hedjaz Delegation to Peace Conference, Relations With Jews in Palestine Strained to Breaking Point—British, Ever Watchful, Take Precautions to Prevent Bloodshed
Transcribed from the clipping
“during my three months’ travels in Palestine, fellaheen and effendis, peasants and landowners. I have had long conversations with members of the leading families, with educated Arabs, not only in Palestine, but in Damascus and in Beirut.
I have spent much time here in Cairo with a member of Emir Feisul’s own staff and with one of the officers in his army, both educated, both coolheaded.” And, under the subhead “Wild Rumors in Palestine”: “I have never found a single Arab, Moslem or Christian, who looks with the deepest sympathy upon the Zionist movement.”
Context added by this archive
Three months of reporting, and the correspondent lists the society she moved through: peasants, landowners, leading families, educated Arabs, Muslim and Christian. The unanimity is the finding. So is the fact that somebody went and asked.
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"Arabs Violently Opposed to Zionism," Omaha World-Herald, 1 June 1919, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1919-003. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1919-003
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