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Friday, February 12, 2021

July 1920: Arabic newspaper in Haifa embraces Zionism




A number of newspapers had this story in the summer of  1920, which seems a lot like what happened in the UAE exactly a hundred years later.


Even more remarkably, in 1923 that same newspaper started issuing a weekly Hebrew supplement, "HsShofer." The newspaper said it "hopes thereby to create a better understanding and more friendly relations between the Jews and the Arabs."