The Arizona Republic · Phoenix, Arizona · 18 June 1967
CP-1967-004
The Arabs' View of the conflict's history (Toynbee)
Prof. Arnold J. Toynbee, written for UPI
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The last line of the Israelis’ view, as Toynbee sets it out: “…time by a Western people, the Germans, in Europe. We are not going to let the Arabs commit the same crime of genocide against us here, in our own land of Israel.”
Then: “THE ARABS’ VIEW of the conflict’s history: In 1918, 90 per cent of the population of Palestine was Arab, and Palestine had been ours since we wrested it from the Romans in the Seventh Century A.D. Since 1918, a militant and aggressive foreign body has been thrust into the heart of our Arab world.
This has been done, against our protests, by force of arms — British force until, under the protection of British bayonets, the Zionist Jewish intruders had built up sufficient force of their own to be more than a match for our Arab strength. Then the British scuttled, and left us to our fate.
Our fate has been that 900,000 Palestinian Arabs (there are more than a million of these now) have been forcibly deprived of their homes and property and have been turned into refugees, living on a dole. Any Palestinian Arab refugee who tries to return home and resume possession of his property is shot by the Israelis, who have robbed us of our country and our property.
The Palestinian Arabs who have not lost their homes are being treated by the Israelis, under whose rule they have fallen, as penalized second-class citizens. The Arab territory that the Israelis have seized by force stretches from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea at Elath. This foreign-occupied territory cuts the Arab world in two.”
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A second clipping from the same Arizona Republic page as the Toynbee feature. The word genocide appears in the Israeli case, set out immediately above the Arab case, and the Arab case is printed at the same length.
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"The Arabs' View of the conflict's history (Toynbee)," The Arizona Republic, 18 June 1967, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1967-004. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1967-004
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