The Times · 18 February 1948
CP-1948-127
Jews Kill ‘Foreign’ Arabs in Mass Push
Over 30 Non-Palestinian Arabs Killed In Attack on Jewish Galilee Village
United Press
Transcribed from the clipping
“JERUSALEM, Feb. 17—(UP)—From 30 to 57 ‘foreign’ Arab raiders were killed yesterday by Jewish settlers defending the colony of Tirat Tsevi, in the Lake Galilee area little more than a mile from the Trans-Jordan border, reports from the north said today.
An official British announcement on the attack, one of the bloodiest in the Palestine fighting, said that 30 Arabs were killed. Jewish casualties were set at one killed and two seriously wounded. A communique issued in Tel Aviv by Haganah, the Jewish militia, said that 57 Arabs were killed and three wounded while other Arab casualties were carried back across the border.
Arabs and Jews clashed early today in the old city of Jerusalem. Three Arabs were reported killed and three British soldiers wounded seriously. Jewish dynamiters blew up an Arab house alleged to have been used by snipers. When a British patrol investigated, Arab guards opened fire from a rooftop post, wounding the soldiers.
Haganah gave additional details of the fighting, according to the Jewish viewpoint. The communique said the first attack was made at 3 a.m. by a band of 300 ‘foreign Arabs.’”
Context added by this archive
The other half of the same habit. By February 1948 the word has been narrowed enough that a paper can coin its opposite: Non-Palestinian Arabs, in the deck, for Arabs from across the Trans-Jordan border. Two counts of the dead are printed side by side and neither is chosen — the British say 30, the Haganah communiqué says 57.
On the same page, the Southern Governors Committee is seeking concessions on racial issues from the national Democratic Party.
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"Jews Kill ‘Foreign’ Arabs in Mass Push," The Times, 18 February 1948. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-127. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-127
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