The Daily Tribune · 5 November 1938
CP-1938-008
Great Britain Is Caught Between Arab “Devil” and Jewish “Deep Blue Sea”
Wartime Promises to Antagonistic Peoples Come Back to Haunt England’s Diplomats
By Milton Bronner
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Under the watchful eye of a British soldier in the background, Arabs of the village of Hebron, in Palestine, are forced to remove a rock barrier placed across the road by a guerrilla band of their revolting countrymen. General harassment of this sort plus a rapidly mounting casualty list from violent Arab raids has forced Britain to put a major punitive force in Palestine.
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The body sets the two cases in alternating paragraphs, headed The Arabs and The Jews, including the argument over who owns the land. The Jews: Fifty-three per cent of the 320,000 acres we hold have been bought from absentee landlords and 25 per cent from rich Arab landholders. The Arabs: The Jews, with their money, are buying the choice lands and making Arabs poor and landless. The caption is the reason this clipping is here: Hebron, in Palestine, twenty-one years after the British took it.
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"Great Britain Is Caught Between Arab “Devil” and Jewish “Deep Blue Sea”," The Daily Tribune, 5 November 1938. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1938-008. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1938-008
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