The Arabs' View of the conflict's history (Toynbee)

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In 1918, 90 percent of the population of Palestine was Arab... 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... 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... 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.

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"The Arabs' View of the conflict's history (Toynbee)," The Arizona Republic, 18 June 1967. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1967-004. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1967-004

Elsewhere in the archive

A Distinguished Historian Views the Mideast CrisisThe Arizona Republic · 18 June 1967 · the same dispatch, carried by another paper
The Palestinian Refugees…Santa Barbara News-Press · 18 June 1967 · the same dispatch, carried by another paper
Northern Border Secured, Says Israeli EnvoyThe Arizona Republic · 3 February 1985 · the same newspaper
Netanyahu’s 450 ‘security reasons’The Arizona Republic · 11 October 1996 · the same newspaper
Palestinians remember ‘Nakba’The Arizona Republic · 6 July 1998 · the same newspaper
A Solution for Palestinians?Toronto Star · 7 June 1967 · the same year
The Endlessly Embattled Land Of PalestineCalgary Herald · 14 June 1967 · the same year
Under Merciless Sun, River Of SorrowThe Herald Sun · 19 June 1967 · the same year

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