Accounts of the disorders in Syria are featured in today’s German newspapers in such a way as to give readers the impression that a revolution is under way in that French-mandated territory.
Even the conservative Frankfurter Zeitung declares that “it is believed serious disorders” will occur in Palestine as well as Syria in the near future.
The official German news agency reports from Jerusalem that “Palestine is watching developments in Syria with growing anxiety.”
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