Austin American Statesman · Austin, Texas · 5 August 1967
CP-1967-013
The story of a 2,000-year crisis
Palestine saga of blood and sand
Transcribed from the clipping
A bitter legacy of the war was the expulsion of several hundred thousand Palestine Arabs from their villages to slums on the outskirts of cities in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan and to the Gaza strip. Natural increase brought the refugee population to over 1,000,000—fertile soil for fanatical anti-Israel agitation by Arab nationalism.
Context added by this archive
A full-page history primer — Herzl, Balfour, Wingate, Irgun, Bernadotte’s assassination, Suez — run in a Texas daily in 1967. The word is expulsion.
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"The story of a 2,000-year crisis," Austin American Statesman, 5 August 1967, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1967-013. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1967-013
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