camera op-ed: déjà vu in bahrain

Nazis, Islamists and the Making of Modern Middle East, al-Husseini had been wartime spy for British — even helping to recruit Arab fighters for their effort after British backed the re-establishment of Jewish national home.. In August 1921, Arab delegation met with..

jews and arabs together against the nazis

In the first few months of 1942, British authorities began appealing to Arab women, as well. At the end of 1940, some members of the unit took part in British attack in Western Desert and burst through Italian lines at Bardia, on Egyptian-Libyan border. ..

“everyone knows” … but everyone’s wrong -

Palestinian Jews were prepared to accept truncated state, and Palestinian Arabs and Arab nations wanted all the territory to be under Arab sovereignty, and rejected the resolution.. British, exhausted ended Mandate May, 1948, and went home. By the resolution, Jews, educational..

palestine’s left before israel

Budeiri chronicles the heroic attempt by Jewish and Arab communists to build party that opposed British Mandate, and Zionist colonizing project that was endorsed in Mandate.. ... the party perplexed many of its Arab supporters by calling for Jews and Arabs to join..

pakistan, israel and the muslim world

In the 1920s and 1930s, Arab leaders never seemed to settle on whether they wanted to work with British and accept the premise of two communities, Arab and Jewish, Palestine or reject cooperation and lump Jews and British together as colonial interlopers.. ..

israel/palestine

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wwi centennial: central powers in collapse

., American driver, described the spectacular scene of battle surrounding Ypres in the pre-dawn hours of the combined multinational assault by Belgian, French, British ( and American troops on September 28, 1918.. British and Arab at Megiddo, left the way open to Damascus, the..

league criticizes bombing

The two key possibilities, he said, are a combined British-French command or the use of a NATO command. ... CAIRO (WP) -- The Arab League secretary general, Amr Moussa, deplored the broad scope of the U.S...

a democrat looks at foreign policy

Today Commonwealth has not widened conception with the inclusion of new nations such as India, Pakistan and Ceylon even among the core members the events of last fall produced cleavage, when Canada seized the in applying brake against British and French Egypt. Today Arab states alone..

wwi centennial: armistice

European colonial powers faced any number of resistance movements in their acquired territories, including Iraqi Revolt against British rule in 1920, Rif War Spanish Morocco from 1920-27, Great Syrian Revolt against French rule in 1925-27, Greek Cypriot against British rule, and Arab..

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