Word: faluja
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lone Pocket. As the Israelis withdrew into Palestine, the Egyptians threw in the sponge. The two-week campaign, by Israeli claims, had cost the Egyptians 2,500 casualties (including 700 prisoners) and the loss of almost all their remaining toeholds in Palestine. Faluja, the one Egyptian pocket left within Israeli-held territory, had become a joke in Tel Aviv. Cracked cocky Israelis (who were being pressed for higher taxes and war loan contributions) : "We must turn the conduct of the war over to Finance Minister Kaplan-he knows how to empty pockets...
...halt, and the Jews once more were the victors. In ten days they had driven the last Egyptian from the territory assigned them by the original U.N. partition plan, and occupied almost all the southern desert up to Egypt's border. Only at Gaza and the Faluja pocket were the Egyptians able to hold...
...they arrested two U.N. observers, explaining that they had been "found wandering around" near the front without their Jewish liaison officer and had simply been "deposited at the bar in their hotel." When the U.N. requested permission for the Egyptians to send food convoys to troops trapped in the Faluja pocket, the Jews stalled. Said one government official: "They are there as a result of their aggression. If they need supplies, we will be willing to accept their surrender...