Word: border
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...force of 500 Arabs besieged the Jewish settlement of Yehiam in mountainous country near the Lebanese border. Attacking with mortar and machine-gun fire, the khaki-clad Arabs were held off by Jews fighting from the ruins of an ancient crusaders' castle. A British company of the Middlesex Regiment rushed to Yehiam, drove the invaders back...
...Arab attack touched off retaliation and counterretaliation. On the Syrian border, the Haganah dynamited a bridge. Arabs renewed their attacks on Jewish traffic between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, in one ambush killed seven Jews. At week's end, the fighting again abated for a day as Arabs celebrated the birthday of Mohamed. It was an ominous holiday. Throughout the Arab world, mosques reverberated with fiery anti-partition speeches made in the name of the Prophet. On the streets of Damascus, Syrian Boy Scouts sold "Rescue Palestine" buttons. The funds they raised would be used to prepare the full-scale...
...Marines and such other forces as the U.S. had in the Mediterranean? If the Greek army started to lose, for instance, something more than 1,000 Marines would be required to hold the line which the U.S.-and the U.N.-had drawn at the Greek border. And what if Russia or one of her satellites took steps leading to general war? Washington was betting against that chance. The Truman Doctrine, the ERP, and last week's moves in the Mediterranean were all based firmly on the assumption that Russia did not want to go to war-now; that...
Konitsa's Loyalist Colonel Valadas seemed to think that United Nations support was more of a hindrance than a help. "We are fighting this war with our hands tied," he complained. "Our soldiers are not allowed to get closer than two kilometers to the Albanian border, but we have to take losses from shellfire from guns across the frontier. We have to wait for the U.N. people to come and look through their field glasses and scribble down a note. That's a hell of a way to fight...
...orchards and fields of Jewish settlements, and their fisheries line the river. Last week 1,000 Arabs came out of Syria and Lebanon, swooped from the surrounding heights, for 3½ hours besieged the Jewish settlements of Dan and Kfar Szold, wrecked irrigation installations, and withdrew across the border only when British Lancers opened fire on them with mortars and artillery. It was the first large-scale organized raid into Palestine from neighboring Arab states...