Evening star., 1951-07-26
First Of Two Articles

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with Abdullah. I also know that
many people, including those who
most deplored it. believed then
that his life hung on string. I
think myself that he was just as
anti-Zionist as any Arab leader.
But l think (from my conversa-
tion with him, in which he was
extremely reserved, but neverthe-
less partly revealing) that he was
perfectly willing to use Israel. in
sofar as he could, to accomplish
his primary purpose. His atti-
tude, as far as I could gauge it,
was, first unite Arabia (under me)
and then we will consider what
to do about Israel.
But the real story is as I have
written it, the story of the violence
let loose by 80 years of dividing,
ignoring. and insulting the Arab
world, and of Israel's gangs them
selves setting the example of ter
roriSm. 1t must always be remem-
bered that Israel appeared in the
Arab world with the claim to rep
resent higher stage of progress
and culture.
Neither First Nor Last.
The assassination of King Alb
dullah of the HaShemite Kingdom
OF Jordan is not the first political
murder to occur in Jerusalem, nor
Is it likely to be the last. No
words, can describe the tension
that prevails in the reduced Arab
part of this preposterously divided
city, into which tens of thousands
OF Arabs are herded, across barbed
wire from their visible former
homes.
Every emotion is intensified by
the fact that within a few hun
dred square yards are concen-
trated the religious memorials of
the sects of half the world:
The rock of Abraham's sacrifice.
sacred to all Orthodox Jews is
proximate to the rock of Omar.
from which the prophet Mahomet
aScended in the belief of Islam,
into heaven.
The mosque of Omar which
covers it was. in Jewish belief, the
site OF the temple of Solomon, and
in Moslern" apprehension-Will
one day be reclaimed and thus
violated by the Jews.
The Jewish wailing wall is
across from Calvary and the Gar
den of Gethsemane. And it, is as
though the very stones absorbed
and reflected back, with added
intensity, the fanaticisns and
pieties of the centuries, in the
surcharged atmosphere of sus-
pended. but not repressed, politi-
cal violence.
Word Comes From Arabic.
Assassination and violence are
not unknown to the Arab world.
The very word assassin" comes
from the Arabic, and was origi-
nally used to describe a fanatical
but heretical moslem sect active
during the time of the crusades.
Cts descendants today are mostly
in India and Arabia and ac-
knowledge as their living God
the Aga Khan
But the peculiar modern form
ON political murder introduced
the Arab world to form of argu-
ment which was not natural to
It. The unpuniShed murder of
Count Bernadotte. embodying in
his person the very idea of the
United Nations. and unpunished
because the Jewish masses warm
ly sympathized with the act, was
not lost on the Arabs, especially
as it was committed by those de-
scribed as members of a superior
Western culture.
Individual terrorism-the sys-
tematic picking out for elimina-
ton, first specific personalities
and eventually almost any one
was developed as a theory by the
late Jabotinsky, head of the Zion
list revisionists. On this theory
the Stern gang and the Irgun
developed their tactics. The late
Lord Lloyd was a victim; so was
Count Bernadotte; so were many
British soldiers, including the two
garrotted British sergeants who
were waylaid after dining with
Jewish friends. Terroristic tao
tics are epidemic. Jews used
them against Jews as well as
Arabs, and Arabs against Arabs
as we'll as Jews.
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