Saginaw News · 3 September 1946

CP-1946-003

Under The Sound And Fury Palestinians People, Too

By Carter L. Davidson, The Associated Press, Jerusalem

Transcribed from the clipping

“JERUSALEM — (AP) — Beneath the sound and fury of Palestine’s politico-racial miseries, one thing is often forgotten: Palestine is a land where people live, love, labor and listen to music. The world has a Palestine problem because the Jews and Arabs have religious and racial affinities that transcend national boundaries. But Palestinians are people and they have problems, too. They go to work in the morning, have tea in the afternoon and go to the movies at night. They hear symphony music and opera, they go dancing and gather in taverns. Sometimes they get drunk, they haggle with the butcher and miss buses. Palestine is a little orphan country waiting for its powerful uncles to decide its destiny. But its peoples’ lives go on… Local newspapers in English, Hebrew and Arabic tell Palestine readers of the world’s events that affect this country. They tell it with vitriolic comment and often with little regard for objectivity. The British government scissors out the passages it contends might incite violence.”

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"Under The Sound And Fury Palestinians People, Too," Saginaw News, 3 September 1946. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1946-003. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1946-003

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