The Kurds are a non-Arabic ethnic group and speak a ...

A Sunni Arab from Hama who had ably led a division of volunteer troops in Palestine during the 1948 war, Shishakli was keenly aware of the growing Arab nationalist sentiment among Syrians that Za`im ignored and often belittled. ... The Arab countries would be only too pleased to absorb them but it was not sufficient simply to set them down on ... ................
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