The strike of Arab shopkeepers here, started because of the arrest, imprisonment and exile of a number of boycott inciters, continues, but it is not spreading to other cities. The agitators apparently have not the courage to call off the shopkeepers’ strike and seem terrified at having overshot their mark.
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