Monday, August 17, 2015

WHO, OR WHAT, IS A 'PALESTINIAN'? A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE


WHO, OR WHAT, IS A 'PALESTINIAN'? A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

 

WHO, OR WHAT, IS A 'PALESTINIAN'? A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

2000

Pal·es·tine
:  Often called "the Holy Land.". :  A historical region of southwest Asia at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea and roughly coextensive with modern Israel and the West Bank. Occupied since prehistoric times, it has been ruled by Hebrews, Egyptians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, and Turks. A British League of Nations mandate oversaw the affairs of the area from 1920 until 1948, when Israel declared itself a separate state and the West Bank territory was occupied by Jordan. The West Bank was subsequently annexed (1950) by Jordan and occupied (1967) by Israel. In 1988 the Palestine Liberation Organization under Yasir Arafat declared its intention of forming an Arab state of Palestine, probably including the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the Arab sector of Jerusalem. The Palestinians achieved limited self-rule in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in 1993 and 1994.

Palestinian:  adj : of or relating to the area of Palestine and its inhabitants; "Palestinian guerrillas"
 n : a descendant of the Arabs who inhabited Palestine


The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition


1988

Palestinian:  
Not listed

Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology

1983

Palestinian: n 1. A native or inhabitant of Palestine
               2. Also called Palestinian Arab, an Arab formerly living in Palestine who advocates the establishment of an Arab homeland.

Random House Dictionary of the English Language 2nd Edition


1976

PALESTINE: 
n A territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, the country of the Jews in Biblical times. 2. part of this territory, exclusive of Trans-Jordan and parts of Syria under a British mandate after WW1: area 10157 sq miles, population 1,900,000, capital Jerusalem, divided into separate independent Arab and Jewish states by action of the United Nation in 1947: cf Israel: biblical name Canaan, also called Holy Land

PALESTINIAN: adj, of Palestine or its people.  n. a native or inhabitant of Palestine

1976 edition Webster's New World Dictionary College Edition

1967
Palestinian: adj of or pertaining to Palestine.  No noun definition listed

Random House Dictionary of the English language

1963
Palestinian: n a native or inhabitant of Palestine: Israel

Webster's Third International Edition



But if we check the 1910 Webster dictionary we get

Palestinian (a.) Alt. of Palestinean
Palestinian (a.) Of or pertaining to Palestine.




I have researched numerous newspaper articles, covering over 150 years, on their use of the word "Palestinian".

Following are the headlines, with links to photocopies of the actual articles. 

Ames Daily Tribune (Ames, Iowa)
Appleton Post Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin)
Atlanta Constitution, The (Atlanta, Georgia),
Bennington Evening Banner, The (Bennington, Vermont)
Berkshire Evening Eagle, The (Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts)
Bluefield Daily Telegraph (Bluefield, West Virginia)
Bridgeport Telegram, The (Bridgeport, Connecticut)
Cambridge Jeffersonian (Cambridge, Ohio)
Charleston Daily Mail, The (Charleston, West Virginia)
Chronicle Telegram (Elyria, Ohio)
Coshocton Tribune (Coshocton, Ohio)
Daily Herald (Delphos, Ohio)
Deming Headlight (Deming, New Mexico)
Edwardsville Intelligencer (Edwardsville, Illinois)
Frederick Post (Frederick, Maryland)
Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, The (Fort Wayne, Indiana)
Gettysburg Times (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
Helena Independent, The (Helena, Montana)
Indiana Evening Gazette (Indiana, Pennsylvania)
Indianapolis Star, The (Indianapolis, Indiana)
Iowa City Press Citizen (Iowa City, Iowa)
Iowa Recorder, The (Greene, Iowa)
Jackson Sentinel, The (Maquoketa, Iowa)
Long Beach Independent (Long Beach, California)
Mansfield News (Mansfield, Ohio)
Marion Star, The (Marion, Ohio)
Montana Standard (Butte, Montana)
Nevada State Journal (Reno, Nevada)
New York Times, (New York, New York),
News (Frederick, Maryland)
Olean Democrat (Olean, New York)
Petersburg Index, The (Petersburg, Virginia)
Reno Evening Gazette (Reno, Nevada)
Sheboygan Press (Sheboygan, Wisconsin)
Stevens Point Daily Journal (Stevens Point, Wisconsin)
Times Recorder, The (Zanesville, Ohio)
Traverse City Record Eagle (Traverse City, Michigan)
Trenton Times, The (Trenton, New Jersey)
Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Texas)


1868-1931
The Petersburg Index, Petersburg Virginia 27 May 1868 FEAST OF PENTECOST.
But the significance of the festival does not end here, but takes a wider scope, for whilst its origin and and institution in one sense are exhibited to us in Scripture, there is another and loftier circumstance connected with its observance, which concerns not Israelites alone, but all mankind, which does not limit itself to Palestinian agriculture and a  successful  reaping of the harvest, but essentially regards the everlasting weal of the whole human race.
1882

Reno Evening Gazette Reno Nevada 14 December 1882 CHANUKKAH

Wednesday evening the Jewish festival of Chanukkah was commenced in the houses of worship and residences in the larger cities.  This feast, beginning with the 25th day in the 9th month (kislav) has eight days and is celebrated in commemoration of the heroic deeds of the priestly family of Hasmoneans, also called Maccabees, after the surname of their greatest hero Judah,,,who secured the freedom of their religious practices and the independence of the Palestinian Jews.
1888

Olean Democrat Olean New York 02 August 1888 RELIGIOUS GLEANINGS

Mr Lawrence Oliphant, of literary fame, but also noted for his advocacy of Palestinian colonization, says that Baron Edmund Rothschild's pet colony cost him 50,000 (pounds).  Mr Oliphants advice is “send nothing to Palestine but save and collect money for the future and its great changes- a contingency which may be more immediate than may be generally supposed.”
1890

Freeborn County Standard Albert Lea Minnesota 20 March 1890 AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY

If, as is said, and we are not yet in a position to speak of it as more than a rumor, the new codex resembles the Sinaitic not only in additional books, that are appended to it- the Epistle of Barnabus and the Shepherd of Hermas- but also in the peculiarities of text, it would seem to  be almost a  duplicate of the Sinaitic, both forming, perhaps, part of an edition issued for the common use of the Palestinian church.
1897

1. Daily Herald Delphos Ohio 21 July 1897 CURRENT MISCELLANY
Mrs Lewis, who discovered the manuscripts of the gospels in a Syriac convent on Mount Sinai, has been exploring the convent again in company with her sister, Mrs Gibson, and has examined two Palestinian Syriac service books of the twelfth century, written in the dialect supposed to have spoken by Christ.
2.  The Atlanta Constitution Atlanta Georgia  19 May, 1897 AMERICAN HEBREWS AND ZIONISM"We are Jews by religion; we are a race with a distinct religious mission. For the rest we are identified with the welfare, the greatness and progress of the people with whom we live, and we give the lie to those who say that in our heart of hearts we are PALESTINIANS."


 
In the first five examples, we have PALESTINIAN being used as an adjective, as the 1910 Webster and the 2000 American Heritage dictionaries define. And all five examples refer to  either Christian or Jewish contexts.
But the last example clearly shows PALESTINIAN as being used as a noun. And it isn't as adescendant of the Arabs who inhabited Palestine.

 
1900

We're in the 20th century now.  Surely we are about to find some more of those elusive "PALESTINIANS".

The Atlanta Constitution Atlanta Georgia  14 October 1900  THE SCRIPTURES IN THE LIGHT OF RECENT ARCHAELOGICAL DISCOVERIES,

"The expedition of the four kings from the east against the five PALESTINIAN kings is confirmed..."

1901
The Trenton Times Trenton New Jersey 04 March 1901  ISRAEL OBSERVES FEAST OF PURIM
The local Zionist will have a mass meeting on Purim night at their hall on South Warren Street, where prominent speakers will address the audience, and Palestinian wine will be served to the public. 

So far we have only one use of PALESTINIAN as a noun, and every example I could find, except one, uses PALESTINIAN in a Jewish context.



 
1903

1. Bluefield Daily Telegraph Bluefield West Virginia 16 JANUARY 1903ADVERTISEMENT THE JEWS DO NOT WANT ZION RESESTABLISHED IN PALESTINE
The greatest blessing in disguise that ever happened to Israel was the overthrow of the Palestinian kingdom and its dispersion throughout the world

2. Delphos Daily Herald Delphos, Ohio 16 October 1903 NEW COLONY FOR JEWS
"We are still Palestinians.  The creation of a community in Palestine is our ultimate goal, and from that purpose we will never depart."
1906 
1. The Atlanta Constitution Atlanta Georgia 29 January 1906 UNITARIAN,
"Jesus was a prophet, not an organizer.  He was a PALESTINIAN Emerson, a truth scatterer, not a creed-builder"

2. New York Times, New York New York 14 APRIL 1906 ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
..while the spirit of the author's later times breathes through his periods and the interest of his own age appear, his work does present to us, in its main outlines, a fairly authentic and exceedingly precious account of the years and deeds of the persons wherein and whereby the Palestinian message of good tidings become a gospel for and in the whole world of men.

3. Washington Post Washington District Of Columbia 24 June 1906 WHAT HEBREWS HAVE ACCOMPLISHED
"They not only became a commercial people, but post PALESTINIAN business forced them to be middlemen in every department"


4. The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette Fort Wayne Indiana 16 SEPTEMBER 1906 EXPLORATION OF FORTY YEARS IN PALESTINE
Here traces of all periods of Palestinian civilization, from the Maccabean age - the castle of Simon Maccabaeus having been discovered- the the neolithic age...
1911
The Washington Post Washington District Of Columbia 17 January 1911 PREHISTORIC PURE FOOD
"Dating back to the period of King Ahab, fully 900 BC, these inscriptions are considered to be one of the greatest finds of the Harvard PALESTINIAN expedition..."

"the first PALESTINIAN records of this nature to be found"

1914
The Atlanta Constitution Atlanta Georgia 19 JULY 1914
MEMORIAL MEETING PLANNED FOR DR HERTZEL

Already through the aid and the work of the Zionists over 100,000 Jews are living in the Palestinian colonies...
 
1915
1. The Washington Post Washington District Of Columbia 11 March 1915ZIONISTS GIVE MUCH AID,
"We believe that such action, taken at this time, would do much toward giving stability to the whole work of PALESTINIAN relief, not only in these troubling times, but in a more traquil future as well."

2. Indiana Messenger Indiana Pennsylvania 08 December 1915 DIVIDED INTO SIX RACES,
"To the northern branch belong the Assyrian and Aramean(or Syrian) and the PALESTINIAN (Hebrew and Phoenician)."

1916
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Fort Wayne Indiana 24 January 1916 PLAN CONGRESS TO SETTLE STATUS OF JEWS IN ALL THE NATIONS.  Sounds like a grand scheme...
"Other resolutions presented to the convention dealt with the PALESTINIAN question and the problem of caring for Jewish immigrants to the United States."

1918
1. The Atlanta Constitution Atlanta Georgia 8 MAY 1918 JUDEANS ARE ALLIES, SAYS ITTAMAR BEN AVI
You owe allegiance to only one flag- the American.  And no one knows it better than I, a Palestinian.
2. The Coshocton Tribune,  Coshocton Ohio 18 July 1918 SOCIAL JUSTICE IN PALESTINE,
"Some time must elapse before it will be possible to organize a self governing PALESTINIAN state and put into effect the plan outlined."

3. Oxnard Courier Oxnard California 30 JULY 1918 HEBREWS FORMING PALESTINE LEGION
"There are scores of Russians in Los Angelos who are warm Zionists...partly because of the Palestinian objective.  The Allied cause is now their cause."

1919
1. The Decatur Daily Review Decatur Illinois 04 September 1919 BIG MEET IN CHICAGO 
we find,
"Dr Chaym Weitzman,...a member of the PALESTINIAN Commission"


2. The Decatur Review Decatur Illinois 23 September 1919 JEWISH NEW YEAR
"A few days after the Day of Atonement, the Feast of Succoth or Tabernacles is celebrated during a period of eight days, in commemoration of the ancient PALESTINIAN harvest festival and the wanderings of the Israelites through the wilderness."

1920

 
1. The Chronicle Telegram Elyria Ohio 05 April 1920 ST ANDREWS EPISCIPAL CHURCH
"The Good Friday offerings amounted to some $35 to be used for relief work in the PALESTINIAN world"

2. Iowa City Press Citizen Iowa City Iowa 26 November 1920 JEWS MEET TO WORK OUT PLANS FOR PALESTINE,
"The supporters of this viewpoint regard the organization as committed to the control by Jews for Jewish people of PALESTINIAN undertakings"

3. The Chronicle Telegram Elyria Ohio 30 NOVEMBER 1920
NEAR EAST ATTRACTS UNITED STATES TRADE

The American council at Jerusalem sends the following information regarding the trade outlook in the Holy Land.

“One of the Palestinian ports will in the future capture a larger part of the trade of the Mediterranean and Western Asia from the Hellespont to Bab-El- Mandeb.
 

1921
1. Gettysburg Times Gettysburg Pennsylvania 03 NOVEMBER 1921 SCHOOLS FOR PALESTINE reports,
"The American University in Beirut, Syria is the only place open to PALESTINIANS seeking higher education"

2. Nevada State Journal Reno Nevada 5 JUNE 1921 ZIONIST DISTRICTS TO HAVE CONVENTION
American leaders, headed by Judge Julian W Mack of New York, contend that the activities of the Keren Hayesod, or Palestine Foundation Fund, be limited to a donation fund, to be paid to the executive of the World Zionist Organization, to be expended by the latter body only in Palestine and only in accordance with the Palestinian budget.
3. The Wichita Daily Times,Wichita Falls, Texas 19 DECEMBER 1921
OBSERVANCE OF JEWISH 'FEAST OF DEDICATION' TO START NEXT SUNDAY

Under the leadership of the aged priest and his sons, of whom Judah is the most famous, the Palestinian Jews threw themselves against the armies of Syria.
1922 
1. The Kingsport Times Kingsport Tennessee 14 March ARABIAN PEOPLE ARE MORE HOPEFUL,
"Their delegates have roamed Europe in an endeavor to influence public opinion in favor of Palestine for the PALESTINIANS"

AFTER ALL THESE YEARS WE HAVE PALESTINIAN BEING USED BY ARABS TO DESCRIBE THEMSELVES.  AND DO YOU NOTICE THAT THEY ARE ALREADY ATTEMPTING TO STEAL THE WORD FOR THEMSELVES.


2. The  Kingsport Times Kingsport Tennesse 1 April ARABS CLASH WITH ZIONIST FANCTIONS we get a glimpse into the ongoing clash that is still occurring in Israel today,
"He pointed to the example of Malta as one in which PALESTINIANS would be glad to emulate"


3. The Kingsport Times Kingsport Tennessee 12 April AMERICAN TOURISTS INFEST PALESTINE (how is that for a title?),
"It is estimated that PALESTINIANS will as a result benefit financially by a sum of not less than $500,000"


4. News Frederick Maryland 11 DECEMBER 1922 FEAST OF DEDICATION
These epochal events in the stirring year 168-165 BC recount the valor and heroism of a few Palestinian Jews...
1923
Reno Evening Gazette Reno Nevada 6 NOVEMBER 1923 THE DISCOVERIES AT BEISAN
The Hebrew writers wrote quite fully upon this subject, but in the days when the Bible was written there existed traditions which were assumed to be known by all.  To some extent these have been preserved in the Talmud, but not all by any means, and it is for this reason that every inscription, every roll of papyrus that alludes to the Palestinian inhabitants
1924
1. Reno Evening Gazette Reno Nevada 13 March 1924  HUSSEIN IS CHOSEN CALIPH BY MEN IN PALESTINE
"A great PALESTINIAN delegation composed of Muftis, cadis, ulemas, sheiks and other notables took part"

2. The Chronicle Telegram Elyria Ohio 29 MAY 1924 WORLD RELIGIOUS NEWS
"The ruins of an old synagogue in Caperneum, the PALESTINIAN village where Jesus first preached"


3. The Washington Post Washington District Of Columbia 15 July 1924  ENTIRE TRIBE SEEKS TO RETURN
"An entire tribe of Bedouins...has applied to the PALESTINIAN government to help it return to Judaism"


4. Indianapolis Star Indianapolis Indiana 06 JULY 1924  MOTOR TRANSPORT HIGHLY DEVELOPED reportsMotor traffic, insignificant in Palestine before the war, is today more developed than in most European countries, due to the system of excellent roads constructed by the British government and the Palestine Foundation fund, according to a report from Jerusalem...

Recently motor connections were established between Haifa, Palestine's principal seaport, and Baghdad...which has opened this vast hinterland to for the sale of Palestinian products.


5. The Washington Post Washington District Of Columbia 23 July 1924  PALESTINIANS OPPOSE ANGLO-HEDJAZ TREATIES,
"PALESTINIAN ARABS"

29 MAY 1924 WORLD RELIGIOUS NEWS
The ruins of an old synagogue in Capernaum, the Palestinian village where Jesus first preached to the Jews...

1925

 
1. The Bridgeport Telegram Bridgeport Connecticut 10 December SYRIAN EMISSARY ASKS LEAGUE TO STOP BLOODSHED,
"One purports to be the copy of a dispatch to the League of Nations from the Syro-PALESTINIAN Congress "

2. Mansfield News Mansfield Ohio 31 DECEMBER 1925 'JESUS NO MYTH, BUT NO MORE THAN MAN, RABBI EXPLAINS IN SPEECH THAT CAUSED JEWS TO CRITICIZE
The third thesis in Klaussner's book, ...is that Jesus was a man and a Jew, that he was a young Palestinian Jew.

1926

1. Coshocton Tribune Coshocton Ohio 23 FEBRUARY 1926 DAILY LETTER (JERUSALEM) BY G. AGRONSKY
Elections to the second Jewish National Assembly were concluded with a decided victory to the Labourites...
Equal suffrage was a unique feature of the polling, thirteen women candidates being returned.  Palestinian women have as yet not learned how to use their vote...

2. The Helena Independent Helena Montana 21 March CONQUERING THE DESERT BETWEEN CAIRO AND JERUSALEM,
"The trip was made in a Studebaker Big Six Duplex_Phaeton by E Hugh Cook, accompanied by Aref, a PALESTINIAN driver..."

3. The Chronicle Telegram Elyria Ohio 25 June REFORMS ORDERED BY MUSTAPHA KEMAL GIVING MODERN TOUCH TO NEAR EAST,
"Constantinople has long been a marraige mart for wealthy PALESTINIAN Musselmens..."


1927


1928
Pennsylvania Clearfield Clearfield Progress 28 February PALESTINE'S COMMON SIGHT SHOW WONDER OF GOSPEL,"Yet these PALESTINIAN peasants represent a wonder of the world...These were the very sort of men who became the twelve apostles."


1929
1. Ironwood Daily Globe Ironwood, Michigan 15 APRIL 1929 PARTY CRUISING DEAD SEA LONG OVERDUE
"The missing numbered 12 in all, and included Harry Sacher, member of the PALESTINIAN Zionist executive committee"

2. Havre Daily News Havre Montana 14 JULY 1929 TWELVE FOUNDATION STONES,
"Twelve foundation stones...were laid with old Jewish observance for the buildings which are to house the Jewish departments of the PALESTINIAN administration"

3. The Morning Call Laurel Mississippi 01 SEPTEMBER 1929 JEWISH EDITOR BLAMES BRITISH FOR ARAB RIOTS,
"The impression was cred through a series of acts by the Palestine government, espcially with reference to the Wailing Wall incident that the PALESTINIAN officials were leaning towards the Arabs"

4. Appleton Post Crescent Appleton Wisconsin 13 SEPTEMBER 1929_LABOR ASKS JEWS OF OTHER PARTIES FOR HOLY WAR AIDWhile the whole world is demanding the early restoration of order in the Holy Land,  the English Labor Party has turned for aid to four prominent British Jews who are members of opposition parties...

Lord Melchett has been much interested in the Zionist colonies in Palestine, and as a great businessman, has especially helped the attempts to establish Palestinian industries.

5. Ironwood Daily Globe Ironwood, Michigan 18 SEPTEMBER 1929 DEFENSE IN PALESTINE
"In the events now taking place in the Near East...is to be found a solid justification of the supervision of PALESTINIAN affairs by a great power"

6. Appleton Post Crescent Appleton Wisconsin 12 October 1929 HUM OF INDUSTRY,
"Major Tulloch, a British engineer, and Novemeysky, a PALESTINIAN chemist"

 
1930
1. Chronicle Telegram Elyria Ohio 05 FEBRUARY 1930 CROWDS GROWING AT U.P. CHURCH MEETINGS
"This evening at 7:30 he will deal with another unconditional covenant that God made with the Jews, 'the PALESTINIAN Covenant'"

2. Chronicle Telegram Elyria Ohio 06 FEBRUARY 1930 MEEKER SPEAKS,
"Reverend Meeker held the attention of his audiance last night...from the start to the finish of his most interesting address on the 'PALESTINIAN Covenant God Made With The Jews and which He will fulfull in His time'"



3. Decatur Daily Review Decatur Illinois 02 DECEMBER 1930  PALESTINE AND PASSFIELD,
"Furthermore, in his estimate of the number of acres of PALESTINIAN acres needed to support each Arab family, he stupidly included the tens of thousands of Arabs,-indeed I believe the hundreds of thousands of Arabs- who dwell in the desert and rarely come to the PALESTINIAN territory"
1931
1. The Charleston Daily Mail Charleston West Virginia 22 FEBRUARY 1931
VIEWS OF EINSTEIN ABOUT ZIONISM ARE PUBLISHED IN BOOK

'The real tragedy from recent Palestinian events is that “they have estranged the two peoples and made it temporarily more difficult for them to approach one another.”

2. The Helena Independent Helena Montana 6 DECEMBER 1931
THE HASKIN LETTER THE TASK OF HADDASSAH

As a part of the educational work, the Hadassah has organized the Palestinian health Scouts among the school children.
1932
1. The Helena Independent Helena Montana 03 January 1932  DR ELLIS SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
"For example, Dr James Montgomery,...has proved, by a study of the words used, that the author must have been  a PALESTINIAN Jew... "


2. Appleton Post Crescent Appleton Wisconsin 13 January 1932 THREE ROBBERS TORTURE RABBI TO FORCE HIM TO SURRENDER MONEY
"Abraham Edwy, a PALESTINIAN rabbi"


3. Chronicle Telegram Elyria Ohio 28 January 1932 MOSLEMS URGE UNIFICATION AT WORLD SESSION
Resolutions finally adopted included: ...to boycott in all Moslem lands Jewish merchandise produced in Palestine factories, to proclaim to the world that Zionism is a catastrophe for Moslems,...and to inform the world that Palestinian Moslems desire independence.


4. Sheboygan Press Sheboygan Wisconsin 20 February 1932  VP CURTIS AND SENATOR WRITE TO LOCAL MAN,
"...in which the writers express their willingness and pleasure to serve upon the American PALESTINIAN Committee"



5. The Charleston Daily Mail Charleston West Virginia 24 February 1932 JEWISH OLYMPICS SET FOR MARCH 29,
"The impetus for the Jewish Olympics come from the organization of 'Maccabi', which in 35 years has become world-wide and numbers more than 35,000 members.  The members of the Maccabi hope to develop athletes of their own and enter them in the international Olympics of 1936 as PALESTINIANS"

1933
1. Mansfield News Mansfield Ohio 08 June   GERMAN JEWS SEEK TO LEAVE,
"Jaffe says that half the Jewish population of Germany is registering with the PALESTINIAN office"



2. The Helena Independent Helena Montana 06 August DR ELLIS SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
"At their recent convention the Junior Hadassah reports for the year a contribution of $35,452.50 toward its three PALESTINIAN projects..."



3. Stevens Point Daily Journal Stevens Point Wisconsin 20 September  HADASSAH REPORTS,
"When frontiers were more open than they are now, it was usage of PALESTINIANS to go 'to the east' as they did in the days of Ruth."

1934
1. Gettysburg Compiler Gettysburg Pennsylvania 10 March 1934  MERRILL HIATT SPEAKS AT FRIENDS MEETING AT FLORA DALE ON SUNDAY,
"he said, explaining that the very poor soil and the long dry season produce a food supply barely sufficient for the scant million population, the greater part is Arab, or PALESTINIAN as they prefer to be called."



2. The Charleston Daily Mail Charleston West Virginia 15 April 1934 MEETINGS SCHEDULED,
"The Charleston chapter of Hadassah and the Charleston chapter of the Zionist Organization will meet at 8 o'clock...The program will include a talk on Zionism...and a group of young boys will sing Palestinian songs."

3. Sheboygan Press Sheboygan Wisconsin 22 May 1934  NOTED ZIONIST LEADER WILL SPEAK AT MASS MEETING
"Dr David Rebelsky, noted orator and one of the foremost leaders in the PALESTINIAN movement."


4. Chronicle Telegram Elyria Ohio 18 July 1934  TODAY IS THE DAY,
"This is...St Symphorosa's Day among Greek Catholics (She was a PALESTINIAN marytr better known as mother of the Macabees)"


5. Montana Standard Butte Montana 28 July 1934  PALESTINIAN ACTORS WORK,
The Palestinian Players, ...are all recruited from the peasants of Palestine...Mme Daganith, one of the principles, was discovered by Moshe Dalevy...


6. Chronicle Telegram Elyria Ohio 17 December 1934  CHRISTMAS IN THE HOLY LAND,
"but I was offered the possibility of seeing Bethlehem and Jerusalem through the guidance of a native PALESTINIAN whose family had lived for eight centuries in Jaffa"

 
1935
1. The Marion Star Marion Ohio 13 MARCH 1935 IMPORTANT BIBLICAL DISCOVERY MADE
...since the names of famous Israelites of that period who are mentioned in the Bible also occur in the tablets.  The find is regarded by Palestinian archaeologists as one of the most valuable ever.
2. Indiana Evening Gazette Indiana  Pennsylvania 10 APRIL 1935 ZIONISTS IN CONFERENCE
...Mr Samuel then began to speak of the growing necessity to strengthen the agency for the redemption of the Palestinian soil, the Jewish National Fund.

3. The Helena Independent Helena Montana 24 DECEMBER 1935 (JERUSALEM)
JEWS IN HOLY LAND IN ROW WITH BRITS

The communique states if any section of the Palestinian population refuses to participate...
1936
1. Sheboygan Press Sheboygan Wisconsin 17 April 1936 NEW SUNDAY ABC PROGRAMS ARE SCHEDULED OVER WHBL
"A new Sunday evening feature is to be found in 'The PALESTINIANS who will present Dramatized Bible Stories from the field og Biblical lore"


2. Deming Headlight Deming New Mexico 26 June 1936 THE DAY OF PENTECOST
" Paul found almost everywhere he went devout Jews who had already wandered far from their Palestinian homeland in pursuit of their various occupations."


3. The Charleston Daily Mail Charleston West Virginia 30 September 1936 TROUBLE IN PALESTINE
" In theory, when Great Britain took over the Palestinian Mandate...it seemed perfectly possible to reconsile the aspirations of the Jews with the welfare of the Arabs."

4. The Iowa Recorder Greene Iowa 11 November 1936  CHRISTIAN FAITH
"There were in Jerusalem at that time certain Jews who had known Paul during his missionary elsewhere and they stirred the animosity of the PALESTINIAN Jews against Paul"


5. The Marion Star Marion Ohio 08 December 1936 JEWISH WOMEN HEAR TALK ON ENGLISH FURORE
"Mrs Fred Johnson spoke to the Marion Council of Jewish Women at a luncheon meeting yesterday at Hotel Harding of the effect of the possible abdication of King Edward on the PALESTINIAN mandate, "

1937
1. Michigan Ironwood Ironwood Daily Globe 27 March  LITTLE HOPE OF PEACE FOR THE HOLY LAND DWELLERS
"Almost from the first difficulties arose.  Prior to the war Arab Christian, Arab Moslems and PALESTINIAN Jews lived in more or less peaceful relations"


2. Reno Evening Gazette Reno Nevada 29 December 1937  PALESTINIAN STRIFE MENACES JEWS FUTURE
"If the British government, in the Palestinian dispute between the Arabs and the Zionist Jews, does not make a settlement agreeable to the Arabs, it is liable to find other Arab lands will expel from their territories the Jews now living there in peace."

1938

1. The Charleston Daily Mail Charleston West Virginia 13 February 1938 JUNIOR HADDASSAHS
"Mrs Miriam Winston...has announced that the local unit will hold a formal dinner-dance...the proceeds to be added to organization's Palestinian fund"

2. The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana 17 APRIL 1938 PALESTINE'S NEW SEAPORT
The new city is thoroughly modern.  It could not be mistaken for the little town of Bethlehem or any typical Palestinian community...

3. Gettysburg Times Gettysburg Pennsylvania 05 July GIANTS OF ANCIENT DAYS
"American studies of college men and women indicate that heighth and size are a matter of food.  With the diets available long ago, these old PALESTINIANS might truly rate as giants "

4. Coshocton Tribune Coshocton Ohio 09 July 1938  TROOPS SPEED TO RESCUE GARRISON
"British troops and Palestinian policemen were dispatched today to the rescue of a police garrison at Sweframr, near Haifa,"

5. Chronicle Telegram Elyria Ohio 26 July 1938  ARABS STRIKE IN PROTEST OF BOMB EXPLOSION
"British soldiers and Palestinian policemen remained on emergency duty"

6. Appleton Post Crescent Appleton Wisconsin 19 October MATERIALISM CAUSE OF EVIL IN WORLD
"Visiting priests crowded the sancristy to watch the Rev Elias Magem of San Antonio, Texas don his vestments for the Mass,which was specially arranged for Syrians and PALESTINIANS of the city"

7. Appleton Post Crescent Appleton Wisconsin 20 October 1938 UNITED STATES IS DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT HOLY LAND
"Thats why President Roosevelt...is endeavoring to find a way to secure a modification of those policies abroad, which, if unchanged, cannot but effect America's relations with Britain, in the case of Palestinian policy..."


8. Sheboygan Press Sheboygan Wisconsin 09 November 1938  BRITISH ABANDON PLAN TO PARTITION PALESTINE
"In addition to Palestinian Arabs,"

9. Chronicle Telegram Elyria Ohio 07 December 1938  TODAY IN HISTORY
"1933-200 ton 'Emmanuel' first ship to fly the PALESTINIAN flag for 2000 years and manned by an all-Jewish crew, arrives at Southampton, England"

10. The Charleston Daily Mail Charleston West Virginia 28 December 1938 PALESTINIAN SCULPTOR


1939
1. Appleton Post Crescent Appleton Wisconsin 15 February 1939 ROLE OF WOMEN IN JEWISH LIFE
"A Palestinian luncheon will precede the program."


2. The Charleston Daily Mail Charleston West Virginia 19 February 1939  THE CASE OF ENGLAND, ARABS AND THE JEWS OF PALESTINE
"The Arab Awakening, by George Antonius,...appears at an opportune moment when a conference has been called to reconsider the Palestinian problem"


3. The Edwardsville Intelligencer 27 FEBRUARY 1939  JEWS DON'T LIKE PALESTINE PLAN
"A British government proposal for a Palestinian state was denounced by Jews today as a violation of British obligations as a mandatory power and a repudiation of the famous Balfour Declaration"


4. Reno Evening Gazette Reno Nevada 01 March 1939  GENERAL STRIKE THREATENED IN PALESTINE
"The Jewish Council called on the British and America peoples and the League of Nations to stop the British government's attempts to "blast the hopes of the ancient Jewish people, weary of exile, and yearning for restoration" of a Palestinian homeland."


5. Reno Evening Gazette Reno Nevada 08 March 1939  BRITAIN NOTIFIES ARABS AND JEWS OF FINAL PLAN
"It was believed therefore that the final plan would not vary much from the British 'suggestion' put to both Jews and Arabs ten days ago, foreshadowing the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in which Jews would form a permanent minority."


6. Chronicle Telegram Elyria Ohio 10 March 1939  ARAB SCHOLAR GIVES TALK AT OBERLIN ON PALESTINE PROBLEM
"The Palestine problem is not a problem of the Palestinian Arabs, but of the entire Arabian world"


7. Appleton Post Crescent Appleton Wisconsin 22 March 1939  PALESTINIAN SONGS, DANCES PRESENTED AT HADASSAH LUNCH
" Palestinian folk songs and dances...were presented by Mrs Evelyn Hattis Fox before 125 women at a Palestinian luncheon...under the auspices of the Appleton chapter of Hadassah, womens Zionist organization."


8. Sheboygan Press Sheboygan Wisconsin 06 April 1939  EASTER FINDS HOLY LAND STILL BEREFIT OF PEACE
"Only a few weeks ago Zionist Jews, Palestinian Arabs and delegates from neighboring Arab states"


9. The Chillicothe Constitution Tribune Chillicothe Missouri 08 April 1939 EASTER FINDS HOLY LAND
"Only a few weeks ago Zionist Jews, PALESTINIAN Arabs, and delgates from neighboring Arab states sat in conference with Colonial Secretary Malcolm McDonald."


10. Reno Evening Gazette Reno Nevada 16 May 1939 PALESTINE PLAN TO BE PRESENTED TOMORROW
"Governmental powrs, one by one, would go to the PALESTINIANS as peace and order were restored."

1940
1. The Charleston Daily Mail Charleston West Virginia 16 January 1940 SENIOR HADASSAH
"Mrs Philip Presser will sing a group of Palestinian songs,..."

2. The Charleston Daily Mail Charleston West Virginia 13 February UNIT OF SECOND AUSTRALIAN ARMY REACH PALESTINE BASE
"The Australians followed a trail blazed by British forces in the near east during the World war.  Some of them were PALESTINIANS who had emigrated to Australia after the world war"

4. The Times Recorder 16 FEBRUARY 1940 (LOCAL COLUMN) DOMER OUTLINE
"The Herodians were descended from Esau instead of from Jacob as were the Palestinian Jews."

5. The Helena Independent 24 FEBRUARY 1940 SOME NOTES ON WAR AND PEACE
"This collapse (Turkish Empire) had been promoted by the encouragement of a Arab rebellion and a Zionist campaign; these two measures of war had involved somewhat contradictory promises to the Palestinian Arabs and the Zionist Jews."

6. Appleton Post Crescent Appleton Wisconsin 12 March 1940 LENTEN THOUGHTS FOR TODAY
" Surely the psalmist had been walking through little fields in early Palestinian spring when he made this song about the meaning and promise of a furrow (PSALM 65: 9-13)"

7. Gettysburg Times Gettysburg Pennsylvania 21 March 1940  ANNOUNCE CAST FOR PAGEANT
"The characters follow Jethro, the father; Anna, the mother; Naomi, a daughter;...
the scenes all take place in the living room of Jethro, a Palestinian merchant"

8. Chronicle Telegram Elyria Ohio 09 April 1940  CLEVELAND RABBI REVIEWS CURRENT BOOK AT TEMPLE
" At that time Rabbi Rudolph Rosenthal of the Tempple of the Heights in Cleveland reviewed 'The Nazarine' by Sholem Asch.  It was very interesting to hear the review from the viewpoint of a rabbi. Later Palestinian movies were shown and refreshments served."

9. The Helena Independent 12 MAY 1940 (LONDON) N.E.A WRITER TELLS WHY PEACE HAS COME TO WORRIED PALESTINE.
"Palestinian Arabs have ceased their war of murder, pillage and terrorism in the Holy Land almost completely because
1. They are busy with their crops.
2. Money from German sources  has ceased to finance the rebellion
3. The European war finds the sympathies of most Arabs, like the Palestian Jews, with the Allies...
Great surprise has been manifested in western countries that a Palestinian army corps was formed in which Jews and Arabs enrolled voluntarily."

10. The Helena Independent 10 OCTOBER 1940 HADASSAH IN PALESTINE
"As a part of the educational work, Hadassah has organized the Palestinian Health Scouts among school children."

11. Appleton Post Crescent Appleton Wisconsin 26 October 1940 ANCIENT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS WILL BE SUBJECT OF LECTURE
"Robertson plays on the silver trumpet of Biblical vintage and carries his audience back 2000 years to the hills of Judea.  The illusion is complete in that he wears an authentic Palestinian  costume during the lecture."
1941
1. Long Beach Independent Long Beach  California  3 JANUARY 1941 VAN PAASAN SAW THREAT OF HITLER, IL DUCE YEARS AGO
Van Paasan is one of the first foreign correspondants to interview Mussolini and Hitler and to see in their rise an ominous threat to the future freedom and welfare of mankind.  He has served time in a Dachau concentration camp, and had his life threatened many times.  It was he who saw Dreyfus in the Sacco and Vanzetti trial and defied the Mufti of Jerusalem to deny his responsibility for the Palestinian riots.


2. 
Sheboygan Press Sheboygan  Wisconsin 5 APRIL 1941(LOCAL COLUMN)
PEOPLE OF JEWISH FAITH TO WELCOME FESTIVAL OF FREEDOM
At the family Seder service in the home Friday evening, April the Jewish people will welcome the advent of passover...
The holiday is observed for seven days by Reform and Palestinian Jews...


3. 
The Marion Star Marion  Ohio  19 APRIL 1941 (LOCAL COLUMN)
CONFERENCE SET IN COLUMBUS ON PALESTINE THEME
Sir Norman Angel, distinguished British statesman, Nobel Peace Prize winner, lecturer and author, together with Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, national chairman of the United Palestine Appeal and one of the most distinguished and illustrious personalities in American Jewish life, will head an imposing program of outstanding figures who will address the Palestine emergency conference in Columbus May 4...
The present crisis in the Balkans must call for even more effort from the Palestinian community to stem the Hitler drive.
5. The Helena Independent Helena  Montana 1 JUNE 1941 BAGHDAD AT LAST HAS  FALLEN TO BRITAIN'S FORCES
Dispatches by way of Lebanon said the suburbs were already occupied and that a Palestinian  motorized  force had driven into the city.
6. Long Beach Independent Long Beach  California 3 JUNE 1941(LOCAL COLUMN)
ON THE RECORD

She refused to arm the Jewish settlers, although they would have raised an army of every Palestinian youth to fight for Britain.
These Palestinian Jews are men who left professions...

7. Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge  Alberta  07 July AMERICANS BELIEVE MAIN REASON IS TO STRENGTHEN INDIA FRONT
"The Army  of the Nile, under his command, was whipped into a fine fighting force out of a great variety of desparate elements- British, Australian, Free French, Greek, East Indian, PALESTINIAN Jews, Poles and others."

8. Iowa City Press Citizen Iowa City  Iowa 13 SEPTEMBER 1941
 JEWISH LEADER SAYS LINDY ATTEMPTS TO INJECT RACIAL ISSUE
Fisher, here on behalf of the National Jewish Fund which seeks to buy Palestinian lands for a Jewish national home...

9. Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge  Alberta  28 October  THAT WICKED BRITISH EMPIRE
"It treated the Arabs so brutally that, the minute war broke out, the Arabs took advantage of a preoccupied Britain to make a truce with the PALESTINIAN Jews"

10. Long Beach Independent Long Beach  California 28 NOVEMBER 1941PALESTINE TO BE TOPIC OF TEMPLE SINAI GUEST
A special program will be given  at 8:00 pm today in Temple Sinai, 2600 East Seventh Street, when Dr Hannah Yarden, a Palestinian educator, lecturer and linguist, will speak to the congregation on Palestine, the Outpost of Democracy.

THE FOLLOWING HEADLINES, AND THEIR LINKS, ARE NOT ALL INCLUSIVE.  THEY ARE  REPRESENTATIVE OF DOZENS OF ARTICLES.
1942

1. 21 OCTOBER 1942  Frederick Post (Frederick, Maryland)
GOVERNOR MAY SPEAK
Governor Oconor said today he was considering an invitation to be the principal speaker at a dinner in New York City November 17 under the auspices of the committee for a Jewish army of stateless and Palestinian Jews.


2. 9 NOVEMBER 1942 The Independent Record Helena Montana
REVIEWING THE WAR BY MAJOR GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT
AGITATION FOR JEWISH ARMY DEBATED

Briefly what is proposed in regard to the Jewish army is this: that a separate force be formed out of stateless and Palestinian Jews now resident in Palestine, to operate as a unit of the United Nations forces under their own colors.


3. 7 DECEMBER 1942  Frederick Post (Frederick, Maryland)
TODAY IN HISTORY
1933- 200 TON 'EMMANUEL', first ship to fly the Palestinian Jewish flag in 2000 years...

1943
1. 11 JANUARY 1943  (The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts)
PEPPER URGES FREE PALESTINE
The United Nations must create a free Palestinian state to protect the 'security and freedom' of the oppressed Jews in Europe, according to U.S. Senator Claude Pepper of Florida, who warns that the Jews face a wave of rising intolerance in this country.



2. 3 AUGUST 1943 (The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts)
NATIVE LINGUIST SERVE AS CLERKS
Each day the supply and administrative services must with British, French, Italian, Greek, Palestinian, Egyptian, Spanish, Syrian, Iraqi, Arabian and persian citizens.


3. 16 AUGUST 1943 (Edwardsville Intelligencer)
REFUGEE HAVENS ARE CONSIDERED
Meanwhile, a delegation representing the emergency committee to save the Jewish people of Europe called on Secretary of State Cordell Hull yesterday.  They presented a program adopted by the committee in New York and urged his cooperation.  The delegation consisted of Peter H Bergson, head of a Palestinian delegation to the United States.
1944

1. 7 MARCH 1944 (The Charleston Daily Mail)
THE LOCAL VIEW
When Field Marshall Rommell rammed the gates of Cairo and Alexandria threatening to close up the Suez, the life stream of the British Empire, where were Ibn-ben-Saud soldiers? Where were his legions to oppose the German hordes?
It was the Jews of Palestine, who gave their lives fighting together with our Allies...
Palestinian Jews, men women and children and even the very old...


2. 9 MARCH 1944 (The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts)
PALESTINE ARABS HAPPY
Palestinian Arab circles were jubilant over what was regarded as the successful first round in the campaign launched by neighboring Middle Eastern governments against the proposed United States Congress resolution favoring a Jewish state.


3. 8 MAY 1944 (The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts)
ON THE RECORD
THE PROBLEM OF THE UPROOTED

But the Palestinian experiment has decisively proved that people who have never been with the land can and will retrain themselves to carry on a highly successful agriculture ...


4. 18 SEPTEMBER 1944 (The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts)
SPORTS ROUNDUP
Besides assorted American GI's, the contestants included British, French, French Moroccans, Palestinians, and Yugoslav partisans.


5. 20 SEPTEMBER 1944(The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts)
JERUSALEM PLANS GARDENS OF THE PROPHETS
This garden, too, will be of great service to research students in Biblical and Talmudical literature and botanists interested in Palestinian flora.

6. 12 NOVEMBER 1944 (The Charleston Daily Mail)
THE POINT OF VIEW
In war, Palestine Jews through dark days and bright,...

1945

1. 2 April 1945 (Oxnard Press Courier Oxnard California)
A JEWISH BRIGADE WARS AGAINST NAZIS
I was told that upwards of 50,000 Palestine Jews, men and women, so far have voluntarily enlisted for armed service in the British army, navy, air force and women's auxillerary service.


2. 1 NOVEMBER 1945 (Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan)   
EXTREMIST JEWS RIOT:
The dead comprised one British soldier, one and possibly two policemen, and two Palestinian railway workers.



3. 20 NOVEMBER 1945 (The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts)
ONE MORE DIFFICULT PROBLEM
(Such as Palestinian Jews have begun already) 

1946
1. 6 May 1946 (The Marion Star Marion Ohio)
HOLY LAND TROUBLE CENTER
Shaded areas are those in which transfer of land by a PALESTINIAN Arab, save to a PALESTINIAN Arab is prohibited


2. 7 MAY 1946 (The Charleston Daily Mail)
BROTHERHOOD MIGHT PREVAIL
The Palestinian Arabs really have nothing to lose.


3. 24 MAY 1946 Gettysburg Times Gettysburg Pennsylvania
NO HOME FOR JEWS IN EUROPE, CHAPLAIN SAYS
Chaplain Honig praised the work of the Palestinian Brigade of the British Eighth Army

4. 13 JUNE 1946 Gettysburg Times Gettysburg Pennsylvania
SPEAKS OUT ON TWO IMPORTANT WORLD ISSUES
"The Jews asked, as I understand it, that in Palestine they should have not merely a home but a Palestinian state...

5. 21 JUNE 1946   Atchison Daily Globe Atchison  Kansas
SIDELIGHTS ON THE PALESTINE PROBLEM
5. 9 AUGUST 1946 (Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan)  
BRITISH SEEK JEWISH SHIPS: 
"British warships and aircraft searched the eastern Mediterranean in record peacetime strength today to clear the seas of Jewish refugee ships sailing toward Palestine.
The London Daily Telegraph said Britain was renewing her requests to Russia to halt departure of ships crowded with illegal Palestine immigrants from Romainian ports."

7. 3 SEPTEMBER 1946  Gettysburg Times Gettysburg Pennsylvania
PALESTINIANS FOUND TO BE PEOPLE TOO
Palestinians are Arabs who...
Palestinians are Jews who...


8. 7 SEPTEMBER 1946 (Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan)
A TROUBLED PEACE COVERS HOLY LAND ON CHRISTMAS EVE
The stutter of machine guns and the crashing roar of exploding mines to which PALESTINIANS have become accustomed...


9. 7 SEPTEMBER 1946  Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City, Michigan
BACK FROM PALESTINE
He asserted that PALESTINIANS are being deprived of life, liberty and property by the British imperial policy


9. 11 DECEMBER 1946 The Independent Record Helena Montana
THESE DAYS
And that is the gist of the Palestinian question

1947
1. 17 JANUARY 1947  Portland Press Herald Portland Maine
LOSS OF DR WEIZMANN
Last July I had advised that American Zionists, schooled in democracy, should take over Zionist leadership from the PALESTINIAN Jews...


2. 13 MARCH 1947  Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan
BANDITS ROB TEL AVIV BANK
The PALESTINIANS were taken back south in military transport, the government said


3. 15 MARCH 1947 (Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan)
PALESTINE TERRORISTS
Effort has been made by conservative elements among Palestinian Jews to bring terroristic activities to an end.


4. 26 MARCH  1947  Pottstown Mercury Pottstown Pennsylvania
300 PALESTINE JEWS RETURN TO HOLY LAND
It was unofficially reported that 150 other Jews still in dentention camps on Cyprus also claimed to be PALESTINIANS...


5. 3 MAY 1947 (The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts)
THE UNITED STATES IS COMMITTED TO WORK FOR A DECISION ON PALESTINE THAT CAN BE ENFORCED BY THE U.N.
It cannot now enforce any decision that required it to crush the opposion of large organized masses of Palestinian Arabs or Palestinian Jews


6. 12 MAY 1947 The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts
IN THE MIDST OF PALESTINE STRIFE, A NEW VILLAGE IS BORN PEACEFULLY
Most of the 'Halutzim' (pioneers)who will live at Maayanoth  are South African ex servicemen.  The rest are PALESTINIANS and Americans.


7. 6 JUNE  1947  Pottstown Mercury Pottstown Pennsylvania
TRUMAN CAUTIONS US GROUPS AGAINST HOLY LAND MEDDLING
"While the British continue to incite PALESTINIANS, we will continue our activities"


8. 8 JUNE 1947  Waterloo Daily Courier Waterloo Iowa
VETERAN OF JEW'S COLONIZATION TELLS OF ITS SUCCESS
With only a few days warning, PALESTINIANS  awoke one morning  to find all communications, transport and  bank deposits frozen.


9. 15 SEPTEMBER 1947 The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts
FLAWS IN MR EDSON'S ARGUMENTS AGAINST PALESTINE PARTITION
A noisy minority of American Zionists along with the anarchist minority in Palestine itself have been as discouraging to the main body of American Zionists and PALESTINIAN Jews...

10. 29 SEPTEMBER 1947 (Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan)
HAIFA POLICE HQ IS BLOWN UP
The dead included four British constables, four Palestinian constables, and one Arab coffee seller.


11. 3 OCTOBER 1947  (The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts)
JEWS CHARGE TEAR GAS USED:
Jewish refugees charged today that a British boarding party used tear gas against them yesterday when the royal navy seized their immigrant ship as it entered Palestinian waters.


12. 13 OCTOBER  1947  Oxnard Press Courier Oxnard California
TROOPS MOVE ON BORDER OF PALESTINE
The Syrian-Lebanese forces, part of the seven nation Arab army the Arab league had threatened to throw against the Jews, were so close to the frontier that the PALESTINIANS could see their campfires twinkling across the desert all night.


13. 15 NOVEMBER 1947   Pottstown Mercury Pottstown Pennsylvania
FIVE MORE DIE AS TERROR GRIPS HOLY LAND AREA
The violence ended about a month and a half of comparative quiet throughout Palestine - a period during which most PALESTINIANS, Jew and Arab, concentrated attention on on the partition plan now before the United Nations.


14. 17 NOVEMBER 1947 Atchison Daily Globe Atchison Kansas
JEWS EVADE BRITISH NET
"Are probably already dressed as workers and housewives and are out in the fields besides Palestinian Jews."

15. 20 NOVEMBER 1947 (Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan)
MONEY NOT EVERYTHING
Tell the Palestinian Arab that a Jewish state will raise his standard of living and he is unmoved.

16. 15 DECEMBER 1947   Portland Press Herald Portland Maine
ARABS DEMAND ARMS IN EGYPT
"Today we are all PALESTINIANS, tomorrow Sudenese, and after tomorrow North Africans," El Azhari said
1948
1. 12 JANUARY 1948 (Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan)   
JEWS DESTROY JORDAN BRIDGE:
The attack was believed made to halt the return of Palestinian Arabs to the Holy Land after receiving military training in Syria.


2. 2 February 1948 (Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan)
ARABS BLOW UP JEWISH PAPER:
The five story building housing of the Palestine Post, the only English language Jewish newspaper in the Holy Land, was blasted and burned to rubble today by Arabs using the Jewish barrel bomb technique.
The blast was the first time in 30 years that Arabs have blown up a building in the center of a Palestinian town.


3. 6 March 1948  Reno Evening Gazette Reno Nevada
ASKS PROTECTION OF UN DELEGATES IN PALESTINE
Cunningham asked PALESTINIANS to accord the secretariat the immunity which civilized nations must 'show to members of this world organization.'



4. 17 MARCH 1948  (Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan)
DISCUSS HOLY LAND PROBLEMS
“In fighting against Jewish immigration the east is fighting against progress and advancement.  Their fight will not succeed because light is always stronger than darkness and justice will certainly win out in the end.”  So spoke Akiva Perel, dynamic Palestinian native


5. 26 MARCH 1948   Gettysburg Times Gettysburg Pennsylvania
JERUSALEM TIRES OF AMERICAN TALK
'We want a democratic Arab government with all PALESTINIANS- that includes Jews- given an equal right to vote..." said an Arab lawyer with the Palestine Arab higher committee

6. 15 MAY 1948
A LONG VIEW OF PALESTINE

They hope and pray even though knowing how irreconcilable the PALESTINIANS are...



7. 17 MAY 1948
DR WEITZMAN ELECTED HEAD OF ISRAEL

All members of the new government except one are PALESTINIANS, who automatically became citizens of Israel upon formation of the new state.


8. 29 MAY 1948 (Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan)          
ARABS CAPTURE OLD JERUSALEM
The (Arab) legion guaranteed the safety of the Jews against screaming, cursing and hooting mobs of Palestinian Arabs who tried to mob the first groups and beat them to death in the streets 

9. 15 JULY 1948  Daily Register Harrisburg Illinois
JERUSALEM'S 'WRONG WAY' EXODUS-70 AMERICAN JEWS LEAVE HOLY CITY FOR U.S.
Most Jewish PALESTINIANS disagree violently with any evacuation scheme

10. 16 OCTOBER 1948 Pottstown Mercury Pottstown Pennsylvania
UN TOLD TIME IS RIPE FOR PALESTINE PEACE BUT FIGHTING BREAKS OUT ANEW IN HOLY LAND
...guarantees of the rights of all PALESTINIANS...


11. 05 NOVEMBER 1948 The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts
STORY OF PALESTINE MOVIE WILL BE SHOWN HERE MAY 11
"To the Jews, Arabs and  PALESTINIANS of all creeds who enacted this film, we are grateful," the author has declared


12. 14 NOVEMBER 1948 Portland Press Herald Portland Maine
UN URGES RELIEF FOR PALESTINIANS
A comittee resolution declared the "alleviation of starvation and distress  among PALESTINIAN refugees...


13. 02 DECEMBER 1948 Atchison Daily Globe Atchison Kansas
SEEK A UNION IN PALESTINE
A dispatch last night from Amman, Abdullah's capital, said Sheik Gaabari had told Abdullah of proposals by the congress and asked him, in the name of all PALESTINIANS, to take steps for the unification of the two countries.


1949

1. 21 FEBRUARY 1949  Portland Press Herald Portland  Maine
ISRAEL OK'S ARMISTICE, IS REPORT
Arab prisoners include 5000 PALESTINIANS...


1. 21 FEBRUARY 1949  Oxnard Press Courier Oxnard California
PALESTINE PACT EXPECTED SOON
One hundred Israelis from the Transjordan prisoner of war camp at Marfraq Bee were released at the same time as 157 PALESTINIAN Arabs and Transjordan legionaires were released.



2. 3 MAY 1949  Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan)       
HOOPER COLT 2 TO 1 FAVORITE
Missing are such derby probables as Greentree's Wine List, Clifford Mooer's Old Rockport and Palestinian, the very serious contender owned by Isador Bieber.
(Isador Bieber is listed in History of Jews In Horse Racing.)


3. 16 JUNE 1949  Nashua Telegraph Nashua New Hampshire
JEWS AND ARABS BOTH
Substitute 'Arab' in this passage for 'Jew" and you have eloquence on behalf of another group of PALESTINIANS.  Both need help.
1950

1. 25 APRIL 1950  The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield Massachusetts
ARAB PALESTINE, TRANS-JORDAN UNITED BY AMMAN PARLIAMENT
The signing came after a stormy session of Parliament at which at least five PALESTINIAN members voted for delay in acting on the union

2. 23 JULY 1950 (The Zanesville Signal)
CENSORSHIP
He was not permitted to mention Palestinian truck-drivers...

3. 18 OCTOBER 1950 (Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan)
THESE DAYS
He (Robert Taft) was responsible for the Palestinian planks in the 1944 and the 1948 Republican platform
(In 1944, for the first time, both political parties had planks endorsing a commonwealth in Palestine. The Republicans called for unlimited Jewish immigration and the establishment of "a free and democratic commonwealth" while the Democrats were more specific and mentioned a "Jewish commonwealth.")


4. 26 OCTOBER 1950  (Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City Michigan)
THESE DAYS
In this they succeeded because of the enormous contribution to Palestinian activities by American Jews out of their private resources.

During the 1940's we have PALESTINIANS being used to describe all inhabitants of the Palestine region, which became the state of Israel.

1. 19 MAY 1951
East Liverpool Review East Liverpool
1 CAR WRECKS LEAVE FOUR HURT
Pennsylvanians and PALESTINIANS injured
(In this instance, the PALESTINIANS are Americans who live in East Palestine, Ohio)


2. 17 JULY 1951
Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City  Michigan EX PREMIER OF LEBANON SHOT
A second man, Mohammed Abdullahtif, a Palestinian, attempted suicide.


3. 23 JULY 1951
The Bridgeport Telegram Bridgeport  Connecticut 
NAB EX MUFTI KIN IN ROUNDUP OF 500 IN ASSASSINATION
The annexation was never popular with PALESTINIAN Arabs


4. The Bridgeport Telegram Bridgeport  Connecticut  26 July
BOY, 16, IN LINE TO MOUNT THRONE AS JORDAN RULER
Political sources in Cairo said Prince Regent Naif's choice of Abul Huda for premier was intended to appease Arab PALESTINIANS.

HERE WE FIND PALESTINIAN BEING USED MAINLY TO DESCRIBE ARABS.  BUT THEY ARE STILL CALLED PALESTINIAN ARABS.


1952
1. 27 MARCH 1952
Iowa City Press Citizen Iowa City  Iowa 
MASONIC ANCESTRY
Pioneer PALESTINIANS in Iowa City who were commandery officers..
(PALESTINIANS here describes members of the Masonic Lodge)


2. 16 JUNE 1952
Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City  Michigan
ABORTIVE MOVEMENTS
The influx of the Jews into Palestine and the consequent migration of many PALESTINIAN Arabs resulted in the formation of the Arab League, comprising the chief Arab Near Eastern states.

3. 19 NOVEMBER 1952
Dixon Evening Telegraph Dixon  Illinois 
REMINDER FOR CHRISTMAS: REMEMBER THE NEEDY ABROAD
"On behalf of 800,000 PALESTINIANS entering their fifth year as refugees"

EDITORIAL NOTE: READ THIS ARTICLE AND SEE HOW IT MENTIONS REFUGEES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.  THIS WAS IN 1952.  WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ALL THOSE OTHER REFUGEES?  AND WHY IS IT THAT THE ONLY THE PALESTINIAN ARAB REFUGEES ARE STILL REFUGEES OVER 50 YEAR LATER?

KOREA= 10 MILLION REFUGEES
CENTRAL EUROPE= HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS


 
1953


1. 15 MARCH 1953
Massachusetts  Lowell  Lowell Sun 
TRAINING STEPPED UP
Jordanians many of them PALESTINIANS driven from their homes...



2. 6 MAY 1953
Traverse City Record Eagle Traverse City  Michigan PHOTO CAPTION
This tattered child is typical of the needy youngsters among the nearly 1 million homeless Palestinian Arab refugees overseas.



3. 7 MAY 1953
Dixon Evening Telegraph Dixon  Illinois
PHOTO CAPTION
A group of elderly Arabs huddle...as they wait patiently to be recognized as refugees at one of the camps housing displaced PALESTINIANS



4. 12 JULY 1953
Massachusetts  Lowell  Lowell Sun 
AMERICAN DOCTOR IS GOODWILL AMBASSADOR IN ANCIENT JERUSALEM
Dr Moll's main mission is to supplement skimpy UN food...alloted to 800,000 Christian and Moslem PALESTINIANS...

WE CONTINUE WITH THE USE OF PALESTINIAN BEING FURTHER DEFINED BY ARAB, CHRISTIAN AND MOSLEM. BUT THE USE OF ONLY PALESTINIAN TO DESCRIBE THE ARABS OF THE REGION IS GAINING USE. HERE IT MUST BE NOTED THAT THE ANCIENT REGION OF PALESTINE INCLUDED THE NEW TRANS-JORDAN (LATER TO CALLED JORDAN) NATION, WHICH WAS ESCLUSIVELY SET UP AS A HOMELAND FOR PALESTINIAN ARABS, AS YOU WIL SEE LATER.


 
1954

1. 7 JANUARY 1954
The Times Recorder Zanesville  Ohio 
INTERPRETING THE NEWS
PALESTINIANS hold half of the ten portfolios in the new government

2. 12 DECEMBER 1954 
The Bridgeport Telegram Bridgeport  Connecticut
COLLECTS CLOTHING
The Lebanon-American will today open a campaign to collect clothing in usable condition for distribution among PALESTINIAN Arab refugees in Lebanon.

AGAIN, WE CONTINUE WITH THE DUAL USE PALESTINIAN ARAB AND PALESTINIAN TO DESCRIBE THESE NON JEWISH INHABITANTS


 

1955
1. 27 APRIL 1955
Ames Daily Tribune Ames  Iowa 
THESE DAYS 
Actually, Israel includes Asiatic and African Jews, native PALESTINIANS, Yemenites, Egyptian and Moroccan Jews, the Fallashas of Ethiopia, the Bnai of India and many others.


2. 4 SEPTEMBER 1955 
The Bridgeport Telegram Bridgeport  Connecticut
FIGHTING RESUMED ON GAZA FRONTIER
Egyptian spokesmen at Gaza Saturday placed Palestinian Arab casualties in that attack at 39 killed and 13 wounded.



3. 24 DECEMBER 1955 
Bennington Evening Banner Bennington, Vermont
LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM
The lives of these people show that Joseph and Mary were not the last Palestinian family to bring a baby into the world in a manger “because there was no room in the inn.”

OOOPS, HOW DID THOSE PALESTINIAN JEWS SNEAK IN THERE?


 

1956
1. 29 JANUARY 1956
The Coshocton Tribune Coshocton  Ohio 
HAMMARSKJOLD IN IRAQ FOR MEETING
Egyptian and Israeli artillery blazed across the border near Kissufim for four hours yesterday in a battle that killed three Israelis and one Arab PALESTINIAN.

2. 6 APRIL 1956
Ames Daily Tribune Ames  Iowa 
MIDDLE EAST NEARER TO ALL OUT WAR
In Cairo, loudspeakers inflamed the populace with reports of the PALESTINIANS killed in the fighting.


3. 12 APRIL 1956
Indiana Evening Gazette Indiana  Pennsylvania 
UNNATURAL CALM IN JERUSALEM LIKE THE LULL BEFORE THE BIG STORM
PALESTINIANS were killed in the latest attacks...


4. 12 APRIL 1956
Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield  Massachusetts
PRESIDENT HAS SELECTED THE BEST AVAILABLE APPROACH TO THE DIFFICULT PROBLEMS FACING US IN THE MIDDLE EAST
The threatened Palestinian war is just the kind of war that the United Nations was designed to prevent.



5. 6 JUNE 1956 
Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield  Massachusetts
THE LIVING DEAD
This is Karamaneh, one of the three camps for the Palestinian refugees that the UN maintains in the region of old Jericho.



6. 2 OCTOBER 1956
Newport Daily News Newport  Rhode Island
UN CAN PREVENT RAIDS
Therefore the various Arab governments bordering on Israel will continue to just as heretofore to arm, instruct and send 'guerrillas' (called former PALESTINIANS) over the Israel border to murder and destroy...


7. 5 DECEMBER 1956 
Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield  Massachusetts
NASSAR CALLS ATTACK '3 POWER CONSPIRACY'
On the Egyptian-Palestinian frontier...
1957

1.16 JANUARY 1957
Newport Daily News Newport  Rhode Island 
THIRD WORLD WAR COULD START IN SOME UNKNOWN THIRD WORLD OUTPOST
A million PALSTINIANS, many of them educated, now seemingly headed for disintegration, may become the object of a Syrian- Iraqi clash.


2. 25 FEBRUARY 1957
Chronicle Telegram Elyria  Ohio  
ISRAELI ENVOY GETS NEW INSTRUCTIONS
The Palestine Arab army is composed of PALESTINIAN refugees attached to the Egyptian army and under Egyptian command.


3. 26 FEBRUARY 1957
Newport Daily News Newport  Rhode Island 
FIVE KILLED IN FIGHT IN CAIRO AREA
At least five persons were killed today when about 500 PALESTINIAN Arab soldiers clamoring for arms attacked an Egyptian police station in the suburb of Maadi.


4. 11 APRIL 1957 
Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield  Massachusetts
JORDAN REORGANIZATION MET WITH CALM
Khalidi, an elderly Palestinian leader, is a political independent and former member of several Jordan cabinets.


5. 15 APRIL 1957
The Chillicothe Constitution Tribune Chillicothe  Missouri
KHALIDI NAMED JORDAN'S NEW PREMIER TODAY
This is important since PALESTINIANS form more than a third of the population.

6. 16 APRIL 1957
Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield  Massachusetts
USING THE LIVING DEAD
Under the mild but brilliant sunshine of the balmy southern Mediterrainean springtime, the big camp of Palestinian Arab refugees a few  Miles south of Gaza town, seemed not to bad  a place.


7. 26 APRIL 1957
Gettysburg Times Gettysburg  Pennsylvania  
JAMES MARLOW REPORTS
About 900,000 are PALESTINIAN Arabs who became Jordanians in 1948 during the Arab - Israeli War when Hussein's grandfather King Abdullah grabbed part of Palestine or because they fled to Jordan from Israel.


8. 27 APRIL 1957
Nevada State Journal Reno  Nevada 
NEIGHBOR STATES CAUTIONED BY US
Although some reports said the 47 year old leader of the turbulant PALESTINIANS in Jordan was in seclusion at home an official said "we are looking for Nabulsi."

9. 4 MAY 1957
Newport Daily News Newport  Rhode Island 
'TIMES' REPORT EGYPT IN PLOT TO KILL SAUD
The dispatch said wholesale deportation of Egyptians and PALESTINIANS have been going on since the raids, apparently because the king preferred such actions to prosecutions which would embitter relations between the Arab countries


10. 9 OCTOBER 1957
Gettysburg Times Gettysburg  Pennsylvania 
REPORT SEIZURE OF ARMS IN PALESTINE
Nablus is a center of discontented PALESTINIANS and Arab refugees from Israel.


11. 15 OCTOBER 1957
Chronicle Telegram Elyria  Ohio 
NEAR EAST KEY TO WAR OR PEACEOr if King Hussein of Jordan...should be assassinated by Syrian or PALESTINIAN agents...

"Nablus is a center of discontented PALESTINIANS and Arab refugees from Israel"  SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE



 
1958
1. 14 FEBRUARY 1958
News Frederick  Maryland 
IRAQ, JORDAN JOINED IN FEDERATION
There still was the possibility, however, that pressure from the  million Palestine Arabs living in Jordan - more than 15 percent of the new federation's total population - would force Iraq out of the pact.  The PALESTINIANS generally agree with the Egyptian-Syrian contention that the Baghdad Pact is a threat to Arab unit.[y]



2. 23 MAY 1958
Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge  Alberta 
BEHIND LEBANON'S STRIFE
The army deported scores of PALESTINIANS, Syrians and Egyptians suspected of being under orders to exploit Lebanon's internal troubles for the benefit of Nasser's United Arab Republic


3. 21 JULY 1958
Appleton Post Crescent Appleton  Wisconsin 
WEST'S CONTROL OF OIL SHAKEN IN IRAQ; NOW WITHIN  POLITICAL GRASP OF NASSAR
And his expanded educational facilities and governmental system are heavily staffed by Egyptians and Cairo oriented PALESTINIANS.


4. 23 JULY 1958
Lancaster Eagle Gazette Lancaster  Ohio 
NASSAR VIRTUALLY CALLS FOR HUSSEIN'S DEATH
Nasser pointedly referred to the late King Abdullah, Husseion's grandfather, and the year 1951 in which Abdullah was assassinated by Arab PALESTINIANS.

 
5. 4 AUGUST 1958
Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield  Massachusetts 
JORDAN, ISOLATED IN EMBROILED MIDEAST, WAS CREATED BY CHURCHILL, BACKED BY BRITAIN
In 1950 this area was formally incorporated in the Kingdom of Jordan and at one stroke the population of the kingdom was doubled by 750,000 dispossessed and disgruntled PALESTINIANS.


6. 29 AUGUST 1958  Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield  Massachusetts
PALESTINIAN ARAB TO ADDRESS ROTARY
Isa Mushawar, a Palestinian Arab, will speak on the Middle East and its problems at a meeting of the Rotary Club.

PALESTINIAN Arab is still predominantly used to describe the Arab inhabitants of the region.


 
1959
1. 13 JANUARY 1959  Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield  Massachusetts
ARAB REFUGEES CALLED KEY TO ISRAEL-JORDAN PEACE
In refugee settlements in Jordan, some of which Mr Adams visited, live some 700,000 Palestinian Arabs, who left Israel during the 1948 fighting.


2. 19 MARCH 1959
Gettysburg Times Gettysburg  Pennsylvania 
THE DAY CHRIST DIED
Ironically this group of PALESTINIANS had now turned the political table askew so that they appeared to be more loyal to the cause of Tiberius than Caeser's hand- appointed governor.


3. 28 MARCH 1959
Nevada State Journal Reno  Nevada 
REDS ATTEMPT TO TAKE OVER WHOLE NATION
PALESTINIANS, suspected of pro-Nasser sympathies, are trying to get out quickly. 


4. 21 JULY 1959
Appleton Post Crescent Appleton  Wisconsin 
FOREIGN STUDENTS TALK AT MEETING OF ALLENVILLE GRANGE
He is a PALESTINIAN Arab refugee


5. 31 AUGUST 1959
Reno Evening Gazette Reno  Nevada 
ARAB LEAGUE AND REFUGEES
...and one of the principal subjects for the conference is the problem of the Arab PALESTINIAN refugees.


6. 26 SEPTEMBER 1959
The Berkshire Evening Eagle Pittsfield  Massachusetts 
FRENCH WALKOUT AT U.N. FOLLOWS ARABIAN BLAST
But members of the French delegation returned at the conclusion of a vitriolic speech by Ahmad Shukairy, 51, a PALESTINIAN Arab...


 
In going over the 1950's, and reading the actual news articles on the number of Palestinian Arab refugees, I keep reading different figures that range from 130,000 to 1,000,000

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