Thinking Arabs appreciate from past experience that disorders are always instigated by a third party, which then stands aside while the two antagonists both suffer, the Arab paper, “Aleph Ba” of Damascus writes today, commenting on the rumours current here of possible disturbances occurring in Palestine on Saturday.
The idea of disturbances is very far now from the minds of the Arabs, it declares. The Palestine Arabs are not armed, it claims, and whatever trouble there is in Palestine now is due entirely to resentment at the attitude of the authorities in hanging and imprisoning Arabs because of the outbreak of two years ago.
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