Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hereafter, said Mr. MacDonald, Jews will be prohibited from buying more land in all the hill country and in the southern districts of Beersheba and Gaza. This is more than half the country. Furthermore, Jews will be allowed land purchases only "by special permission" in other large restricted areas around Haifa, Lake Tiberias and Ramleh. Jews can still buy land in municipal areas, in the Haifa industrial zone and in a 50-mile stretch of the Maritime Plain between Tantura and Ramleh, practically all owned by them already...
...Aldous Huxley whose early books so skillfully anatomized human viciousness and human hopelessness is no more. With Eyeless in Gaza he turned to painful self-searchings. With Ends and Means he grew stonily didactic. One of the gifted moral satirists of modern times, he had become, by logical development, a definitely religious man. He still is, but in his new book he turns to his earlier technique: uses once more the light realistic fantasy and the sharp surgical analysis which first made him famous, but uses them to say the most serious things he has ever...