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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cloth, still tried to entice customers in the bazaars of King David's Street. But the vendors were wary and sharp-eyed. Any sudden movement of police or soldiers was likely to bring the clang of rung-down iron shutters, a scurrying for cover. For in Jerusalem (or Haifa or Tel-Aviv or Jaffa) sudden action might mean an exchange of shots. "It is our worst year," said one Arab. "There is no spirit for Ramadan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Promised Land | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

Operation Igloo. From the simple massiveness of Government House in the New City, Lieut. General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, K.C.B., C.B., D.S.O., M.C., liberator of Ethiopia, High Commissioner of Palestine, looked out over his capital toward the bustling half-Jewish, half-Arab port of Haifa, 75 miles away. There the long arm of British policy, of which Sir Alan was but the firm hand, wrought its most arresting works last week. There Operation Igloo was in progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Promised Land | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...preserves as the British moved them to barbed-wire pens aboard British troopships. At the Henrietta Szold, the soldiers threw smoke bombs to quiet the Jews. The Jews tossed them, back. At last the screaming cargoes were embarked. Sympathizers ashore tried to aid them. About a thousand Jews from Haifa defied the British curfew, tried to crash through the barbed wire to the docks. Tommies fired; three Jews were killed, seven more wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Promised Land | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

Then two more ships arrived in Haifa with 1,500 more refugees. This time Haifa Jews set up their own barbed-wire enclosure, gathered inside to hear underground leaders urge them to protest the deportation of "our flesh and blood." But again resisting refugees were transferred to British ships, again the transports sailed for Cyprus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Promised Land | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...vast airfield. It flanks the Suez Canal. Its soil is crossed by oil; 42% of the world's proved oil reserves are puddled below the deserts of Iraq, Persia and Saudi Arabia. One of the vital pipelines from the British-controlled Iraq fields stretches across Palestine to Haifa. A convenience in peacetime, the pipelines are a vital necessity in wartime. Britain has no intention of jeopardizing them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Promised Land | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

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