Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rubble of the' Jewish quarter toward Zion Gate. They had come to offer surrender in the name of the Old City's little (1,500) colony of Orthodox Jews and its smaller remaining band (290) of armed defenders who had held out during five months of Arab siege, eleven days of Arab Legion attack...
...rocky plain. Near by is the Ajalon Valley, where Joshua commanded the sun to stand still until the Israelites "had avenged themselves upon their enemies." Last week the moon was not so obliging. Haganah fighters, who are used to night battles, had attacked in its light. But heavy Arab fire stopped them. The morning sun found Jews still in the dusty plain, firing from the cover of rocks...
Haganah officers who had served with the British in the Jewish Brigade in World War II listened grimly to familiar British commands, given in a cool, clipped English voice, over the Arab communication net. With a deadly precision in sharp contrast to the inefficiency of Arab volunteers, the Arab Legion laid down heavy mortar fire. Haganah girls crawled out on the battlefield to bring in the wounded...
Clean Sweep. In northern Galilee, where the Israelis were not opposed by Abdullah's Legion, they had swept out all Arab forces in "Operation Broom." Last week, in Palestine's oldest kibbutz (communal settlement) south of the Sea of Galilee, stood a fire-blackened Syrian tank, which the Jewish defenders had stopped with a homemade Molotov cocktail. A scorched trail led from the tank to the charred torso of an Arab tankman who had died trying to escape the flames...
...tank and the body, four miles inside the Palestine border, were the not-very-high-watermark of the boasted Arab advance in Galilee. By last week the Arab tide had ebbed back to the borders, and beyond...