Extract from the newspaper El Bassaïr on Algerian literature to the aid of martyred Palestine, March 17, 1939
Description
The newspaper El Bassaïr reproduces “a long qacida of Abbas Ben Cheikh El Houssine. He mourns Palestine, denounces the violations of all commitments, blames civilization and urges the Arabs to defend this holy country”:
-On this noble Holy Land fell the most evil and the most vile beings
-The enemy delivered it to fire, bombardment and massacre
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-O God help sacred Palestine. O God help the noble Arabs
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