Word: haganah
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...Jews have a large publicity mill, with little real grist. Haganah, hard-pressed by the Arabs and taunted by the Irgun and Stern groups, is terrified of news which might affect "security" or show Haganah in anything but glorious victory...
...Forget Thee . . ." In the battle for the Jerusalem roads (TIME, April 19), the Jews scored a victory. Guarded by 1,000 Haganah soldiers, a convoy of 300 trucks with 1,000 tons of food managed to reach Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. On one truck was printed a Biblical pledge: "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its cunning...
...north, on the edge of the Plain of Megiddo (Armageddon), Fawzi Bey Ka-wukji's Arab Army of Liberation had attacked the Jewish settlement of Mishmar Haemek. The Jewish Haganah, hoping to smash the Arab army, had thrown about 2,000 men into the battle. Kawukji sent an anxious appeal to the Arab League Political Committee, meeting in Cairo. Ka-wukji's army, it turned out, had suffered less than 100 casualties. But the Jews had driven the Arabs back, seized nearby Arab villages, firmly blocked the road into Arab Haifa from the southeast. Some Jews disguised...
...confused close-in fighting at the end, two of these Britons heard a shout from the Jewish side: 'Come on, you Arab bastards!' They recognized the man as another police deserter and shouted back: 'Bastard yourself! What are you doing over there?' As the Haganah Briton went to throw a hand grenade in reply, one of the Arabized Britons killed him with his Bren...
...village's 700 dwellers surrendered or fled to caves in the nearby hills. For the first time, the Irgun and Stern terrorists were fighting against Arabs as a tactical force. While the Zionist General Council was accepting the Irgun's offer to serve under general Haganah direction, the Jewish Agency denounced the terrorists for the Deir Yesin massacre. It called on them to "realize the depth of the shame you have inflicted on Jewry, to whom such acts are utter abomination...