Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighting commenced formally, like a duel. The Israeli Foreign Office handed a warning to the U.N. Commission. A few hours later the Israeli army announced it was taking "steps to prevent the Egyptians from continuing aggressive action." The evening of the same day Jewish forces attacked Gaza from the sea; the following day they attacked it from the air, bombed Egyptian outposts in the southern Negeb desert...
Gershwin at Half-Stance. The orchestra members took the jolts and hard wooden seats good-naturedly, joked as they steered clear of roadside minefields, gazed across 2½ miles of sand at Egypt's main base, Gaza...
Other results of the eight days' fighting were the decisive defeat of the Egyptian army (now reduced to half a dozen pockets), the encirclement of Gaza, chief Arab supply base on the coast, and the flight of the Mufti's Arab Palestine government from Gaza to a Cairo suburb, where it declared itself ready to cede "its" territory to Transjordan's King Abdullah. By routing the Egyptians and their stooge, the Mufti, the Israelis had greatly strengthened the hand of Abdullah, the one Arab leader with whom they thought they might successfully talk peace. By the same...
...week's end the U.N.'s third truce in Palestine was being vigorously violated by both sides. The Jews stood accused by the U.N. Truce Commission of reopening hostilities in the Negeb and at Gaza. The Egyptians were fighting desperately to escape from their pockets. On the northern front, in Galilee, which had seen no major fighting since July 18, the Lebanese and Syrians opened a belated offensive...
...week's end Ben-Gurion was beaming. For the first time since May, Israel had a wide, firm land corridor to her settlements in the Negeb. Israeli forces were also hammering closer & closer to Gaza, chief Arab supply base on the coast. Politician Ben-Gurion also hoped that U.N. delegates in Paris, now discussing Palestine, would agree with Israel that the best solution was an old formula: possession is nine points...