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| c. 1927 |
| | | British archaeologist Leonard Woolley discovers the treasures of the royal cemetery at Ur | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Arabs in the Palestinian town of Hebron turn on their Jewish neighbours and murder sixty-seven | |
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| c. 1930 |
| | | A pregnant female hamster, captured in Syria, becomes the ancestor of every pet hamster in the world | |
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| 1931 |
| | | Irgun, a new Jewish paramilitary group, is set up by Haganah commanders frustrated by the older organization's policies | |
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| 1932 |
| | | After gaining control of most of the Arabian peninsula, Ibn Saud gives his kingdom a new name, Saudi Arabia | |
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| 1938 |
| | | The first shipload of oil is exported from Saudi Arabia to the USA after the discovery of commercially viable resources in Dhahran | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Avraham Stern forms the Stern Gang, a new Jewish terrorist group in Palestine and an offshoot of Irgun | |
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| 1942 |
| | | Yitzhak Shamir becomes leader of the terrorist Stern gang in Palestine | |
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| c. 1943 |
| | | The Ba'th party is founded by Michel Aflaq and others in Syria, with a pan-Arab political agenda | |
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| 1943 |
| | | Future Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin becomes leader of the underground terrorist group Irgun | |
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