Fuad Saleh Saba (Fouad Saba) [فؤاد سابا] (born in 1902 in Shafa Amr - died in 1984 in Beirut) was an Arab "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]
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]
Arab Terror "disturbances" (against Britain, Jews and moderate Arabs) 1936-1939 known as the "Great Revolt," began in April 1936 with the murder of two Jews, passengers.[9]
Fuad Saba was the Arab Higher Committee's secretary.[10]
On September 26, 1937, Lewis Yelland Andrews (1896-1937), the British District Commissioner for the Galilee during the British Mandate for Palestine, was assassinated by Arab gunmen. Thus, "Terrorism in the Holy Land reached a climax." On Oct 1 "British crushed Arab terror in Jerusalem."[11]
The AHC was dissolved, its members including Fuad and other agitators were seized,[12] [13] while the Grand Mufti al-Husseini is hiding on Temple Mount, escaping later on to Lebanon.
The four were deported to the Seychelles.[14]
By 1939 he was among eight Arab representatives in London.[15]
He was active in 1946.[16]
Following the 1948 Israeli War for Independence, Saba was naturalized Lebanese,[17] lived there since.[18]
See also
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].
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Palestine - The Arab Revolt | Britannica.
The revolt began with spontaneous acts of violence committed by the religiously and nationalistically motivated followers of Sheikh Izz al-Din al-Qassam, who had been killed by the British in 1935. In April 1936 the murder of two Jews led to escalating violence, and Qassamite groups initiated a general strike in Jaffa and Nablus. At that point the Arab political parties formed an Arab Higher Committee presided over by the mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini. It called for a general strike, nonpayment of taxes, and the closing of municipal governments (although government employees were allowed to stay at work) and demanded an end to Jewish immigration, a ban on land sales to Jews, and national independence. Simultaneously with the strike, Arab rebels, joined by volunteers from neighboring Arab countries, took to the hills, attacking Jewish settlements and British installations in the northern part of the country. By the end of the year, the movement had assumed the dimensions of a national revolt, the mainstay of which was the Arab peasantry. Even though the arrival of British troops restored some semblance of order, the armed rebellion, arson, bombings, and assassinations continued.
- ↑ Marlowe, J. (1946). Rebellion in Palestine. United Kingdom: Cresset Press, p.212
- ↑ The Day Oct 1, 1937. "British Crush Arab Terror In Jerusalem."
The Vancouver Sun Oct 1, 1937, p. 7.
"Britain Hits At Terrorism In Holy Land."
By Associated Press.
Jerusalem. Oct 1. -- Great Britain struck with mailed fist today to crush a new wave of terrorism in the Holy Land.
On sweeping measures the authorities outlawed the Arab Higher Committee and started rounding up Its influential members. With telephone communication from the city suspended, and roads heavily guarded, police carried out their large-scale operations before dawn.
Silently they surrounded houses of Arab leaders, searching one after vhe other. Dr. Hussein Khalidl, mayor of Jerusalem, and Fuad Saba, secretary of the Higher Committee, were reported arrested and taken aboard H.M.S. "Sussex" at Haifa.
The manager of an Arabian bank was taken into custody.
Leaders caught in the police dragnet may be deported to Perim Island in the Red Sea.
Terrorism in the Holy Land reached a climax on Sunday, when the British Commissioner for Galilee and his bodyguard were assassinated ao they left the Anglican Church at Nazareth.
All of Palestine's land frontiers are guarded, and troops are on duty at Allenby bridge and other crossings over the River Jordan.
The swift action to suppress the disorders climaxed four months of terrorism and assassinations, in which the British proposal to partition the Holy Land into separate Jewish and Arab states injected new strife.
It followed quickly on British rejection of Arab demands for release of 200 prisoners seized in connection with the slaylngs at Nazareth.
The action taken against the Mufti deprived him of the president of the Supreme Moslem Council, the Higher Committee which administers Moslem religious affairs.
There was a report in Cairo, Egypt that the Mufti had taken refuse at the nosque of Omar and defied police to take him. - ↑ 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... - ↑ The Windsor Daily Star Mar 4, 1938. "Exiled Arab Heads Refused Visitors"
- ↑ The Glasgow Herald Jan 17, 1939, p.3.
- ↑ Marlowe, J. (1946). Rebellion in Palestine. United Kingdom: Cresset Press, p.212. <bloockquote>...if the British Government were prepared to negotiate at all under such conditions, it should have insisted on negotiations with the Mufti direct. The Arab Higher Committee, which reconstituted itself as such in Beirut, arrived at an agreement with the Mufti as to the personnel of the delegation that should proceed to London. Jamal Husseini was to lead the delegation as the Mufti's representative. The rest of the delegation was to consist of Auni Bey Abdul Hadi, Hussein Khalidi, Alfred Rock, Musa al Alami, with George Antonius and Fuad Saba as secretaries as secretaries. The first four named were all members of the old Higher Committee, Musa al Alami had been a Government official, Fuad Saba had been secretary of the Higher Committee, George Antonius was a scholar...</blockquote>
- ↑ Dictionnaire historique de comptabilité des entreprises. (2016). France: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, p.303.
- ↑ The Arab Economist. (1977). Lebanon: Center for Economic, Financial and Social Research and Documentation, p.22.
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