Word: haganah
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...their synagogues, the Jews celebrated Purim. In the place of honor, beside the reader, sat a uniformed Haganah militiaman...
...picture was reminiscent of the terrible black & white mass of photographs that had illustrated the war and the war-crimes trials. It also recalled the fierce word pictures of how Old Testament warriors dealt with their enemies. It showed the mutilated bodies of 35 young Haganah fighters who had been ambushed by Arabs at Kfar Etzion, in the lonely hills of Hebron...
...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...
Zionists, who needed not only arms but men, were split on methods of getting able-bodied new immigrants. Dr. Moshe Sneh, Polish-born member of the Jewish Agency Executive and leader of the Zionist underground Haganah during most of World War II, urged a speedup of immigration, including refugees from Communist-dominated Eastern Europe. Last week, two ships sailed from a Bulgarian port for Palestine with 15,000 Jewish refugees (including, said a London "authoritative source," Communist fifth columnists). The Jewish Agency, to avoid trouble, tried to stop the sailing. Promptly leftist Sneh resigned. Cried he: "The infamous Anglo-American...
...Orthodox Jew, an old scarf. One house's door hung slantwise on a twisted hinge, as though its occupants had plunged wildly through it in mad haste. On the rooftops were British sentries with Bren guns. Also to be seen were rooftop Jewish guards-young Haganah members; technically illegal, they were unarmed, but they kept arms within hand's reach...