Fuad Saba
Fuad Saleh Saba [فؤاد سابا] (born in 1902 in Shafa Amr - died in 1984 in Beirut) was an Atab "Palestinian" economist. He established the first Arab auditing firm in the Middle East. He established his accounting office in Jerusalem in 1926. Then he opened other branches in Haifa, Jaffa, Beirut, Amman and Damascus.[1][2]
He was a leading politician in Mandatory Palestine who attempted to end the Jewish settlement in Palestine. However, he was already termed an Anti-Semite in 1921.[3]
In January 1935, he launched an 'Arab Economic Journal,'[4][5] "devoted to the economic development of Egypt, Palestine, Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi and Yemen and other parts of the Arab peninsula," published his "Arab Publications Co., Ltd."
His "Arabic review" was then published twice monthly.[6]
In June, 1936 he came out with a new Bulletin: Hitlerism. Palestine & Transjordan: A Weekly Review of Political, Economic, Legal & Social Affairs in Palestine, Transjordan & Other Parts of the Arab World. Responsible editor: F. S. Saba. A propaganda publication for men and women in English.[7]
Propaganda for Men And Women
The weekly review, Palestine and Trans-Jordan madle its initial appearance on Saturday. The English weekly, which hs edited by F. S. Saba aimes to deal with political, ecomomie, legal and social affairs in Palestine, Trans-Jordan and other parts of the Arab world.
The first issue conitains an editorial , These Official Enquiries by Jamal Eff. Husseini, President of the Palestine Arab Party.
In an article entitled "Disturbances Recurring in Palestine" the pro Arab sentiments of Lord Islington, Captain Gordon Canning and Dame Louise Mc Ilroy are re-iterated.
Another article, "A Risky Adventure points out that Balfour experiment has proved a failure and that The Jews, who are close adherents of the 'Jericho policy' will find the walls of the Temple of Omar this time much too strong for their bugles. Jericho is muddy wadls are now archaeological remaims. The noise of the Zionists willl not alter facts and cannot establish a 'National Home ' without the consent of the Arabs."
Appeal to Wives.
An appeal to "Every British woman wherever she may be" was issued in pamphlet form in Jerusalem on June 3 by the Arab Women Committee, and was distributed to wives of Senior among Government Officers. The pamphlet states that it is a result of non-stoppage of Jewish immigration by Great Britain, there has been loss of life and property...
The appeal asks that British women understand our cause and appreciate the reasons which moved the Arab women in Palestine to joint the struggle in defence of their country, sharing with their men either death or life...
In this publication where he was the "Responsible Editor," in August 1936, he copied Hitler's propaganda, echoing his line about Treaty of Versailles. On Aug 1936 it awfully blamed Jewry, pushed tropes and justified Hitlerism. It was noted that: "Arab editors borrowed freely from Nazi anti-Semitic clichés."[8]
At "Disturbances" - Arab terror (against Britain, Jews and moderate Arabs) since April-1936, known as the Great Revolt he was the Arab Higher Committee's secretary.[9]
In the beginning of Oct 1937, the AHC was dissolved, its members including Fuad and other agitators were seized,[10] [11] while the Grand Mufti al-Husseini is hiding on Temple Mount, escaping later on to Lebanon.
Since the 1948 - Israel's war of liberation, Fuad Saba was in Lebanon.
See also
- Muhammad 'Izzat Darwazeh
- Darwish Al-Miqdadi
- Munif al-Husseini
- Fuad Isa Shatara
- Amin Ruwayha
- Joseph Francis
- Nazism at Arab Palestinians
References
- ↑ Passia, Saba, Fuad (1902-1984)
- ↑ Seth J. Frantzman; Benjamin W. Glueckstadt; Ruth Kark (2011). "The Anglican Church in Palestine and Israel: Colonialism, Arabization and Land Ownership". Middle Eastern Studies. 47 (1): 106. JSTOR 27920343.
- ↑ Ghandour, Z. B. (2009). A Discourse on Domination in Mandate Palestine: Imperialism, Property and Insurgency. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, p.132
- ↑ Arabs Launch Journal on Trade Development, JTA, January 22, 1935. [1].
- ↑ [https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1935/01/06/01/article/36 The Palestine Post, 6 January 1935]. "In Brief".
- ↑ The Palestine Post, 13 January 1935
- ↑ The Palestine Post, 9 June 1936
- ↑ Palestine & Transjordan: A Weekly Review of Political, Economic, Legal & Social Affairs in Palestine, Transjordan & Other Parts of the Arab World. [Responsible editor: F. S. Saba]. (1937). Jerusalem: Arab Publications Company, p.4.
Sachar, H. M. (2013). The Course of Modern Jewish History. United States: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Ch.18.
Arab editors borrowed freely from Nazi anti - Semitic clichés. One Arab journal declared: Hitlerism is violently but nevertheless truly symptomatic of a world which is sick to death of the pedestrian, materialistic civilisation of the industrial centuries, which gave the subversive activities of Judaism the chance to develop a strangle hold on international economics... whenever Jewry intervenes openly in politics, as today, it is bound to be attacked for what it is... a body incapable of occupying a place within another nation's democracy. As such it can contribute nothing to that nation's "national being", and so on these days of national renaissance it must go.
- Margulies, P. (2005). The Creation of Israel. United States: Greenhaven Press, pp.84-85.
- Hurewitz, J.C. (2022) [1950, 1976]. The Struggle for Palestine. United States : Plunkett Lake Press, p.1692.
- ↑ Marlowe, J. (1946). Rebellion in Palestine. United Kingdom: Cresset Press, p.212
- ↑ British Strike at Palestine Terror; Depose Mufti, Outlaw Arab Body, Seize 4 Leaders, 'JTA, October 3, 1937
- ↑ Newsweek. (1937). United States: Newsweek, Incorporated, [2].
"Palestine. Arab Terrorists Finally Draw Full British Wrath."
...British-controlled neutral zone.
The soldiers seized Dr. Hussein Khalidi, Jerusalem's Mayor; Jamal Husseini, president of the Palestine Arab party;
Fuad Saba, Higher Committee secretary; and Yacoub Hussein, Arab Youth Federation president. Within 48 hours the trouble- makers looked on their native land for the last time; prisoners on the cruiser Sussex, they sailed from Haifa...