Although not at the front fighting the Turks, they did participate in operations against hostile Arabs, including two punitive expeditions from Nasiriyeh in March 1918.

In June 1918, the battalion again saw action around hostile Arabs around Rumaithah.

Israelis counter that the real aim of the right of return is to suffocate their state by flooding it with hostile Arabs - a sort of Trojan horse.

The little Jewish state, circled by hostile Arabs, like a pioneer wagon train, draining swamps and dancing the hora.

Since the 40,000 Syrian residents fled the Golan Heights in 1967, the Israelis there have not had to rule over hostile Arabs.

'Well, they had been besieged by these hostile Arabs in their desert fort for months, see, and they was bloody starving.'

Who the enemy barbarians were is left unclear, though they could have been hostile Arabs.

We don't want people running amok just because we happen to be sitting on a hilltop in Babylon surrounded by hostile Arabs.

David Raziel, commander of Irgun, said that violent reaction will bring an end to the Arab terrorism, because the hostile Arabs "understand power only":

Palestinian police officers and Israeli soldiers appear to be working in harmony to keep the peace, serving as barriers between the hostile Arab and Jewish populations.