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Last week the Israelis sent water-the most precious commodity in the Middle East-coursing into the parched southland. Before a happy crowd of 15,000 at Rosh Haayin, ten miles from modern Tel Aviv-Jaffa, old President Itzhak Ben-Zvi thanked God and pressed a lever. With a roar giant diesel pumps began to send water from the Yarkon River into a 66-in. pipeline that snakes toward the Negev plateau 65 miles away...
...father who said that guards had tied his son to a carpenter's sawhorse while they whipped him with straps. Another parent said that her boy had been whipped with a fan belt split at the end. Addington paid a surprise visit to the reformatory, demanded that Superintendent Jaffa Miller show him the jail, where he had been told that boys were kept on bread and water for days at a stretch. The jail proved to be filthy, airless cells, one containing three emaciated teen-agers stripped to the waist. There was no toilet (only an uncovered...
Saints & Sultans. When the rulers of France, England and Germany led forth the third and greatest of the Crusades, they were playing international politics on the side. England's towering, blond Richard the Lionhearted stormed the supposedly impregnable fortress of Acre, and later fought at Jaffa with such bravery that when his horse fell, the admiring Sultan Saladin sent him two fresh chargers. But Richard himself had backslid so far as to bargain with the infidel, offering to marry his sister to the Sultan's brother in return for access to Jerusalem...
Palestinian Prison. Business on both sides of this divided city is almost dead. The proprietor of Bulos' souvenir shop just inside Jaffa Gate in the Arab section surveyed his empty store and the empty street leading to the gate where Arab Legionnaires, checked kaffiyehs on their heads, blocked the way. "Before the war," he said, "at this time of the morning the street would be jammed with tourists from the King David Hotel. By Sunday night the counters would be empty and the cash register full of those beautiful old Palestinian pounds. Today I've got a store...
...facts . . . You have not pointed to the fact that the Arabs, defying the U.N. partition of Palestine, invaded Israel . . . The Arab propaganda machine bid Palestinian Arabs to leave their homes . . . Helping this situation along was the fact that the British pulled their garrisons out of Haifa and Jaffa a month before the end of the mandate . . . Arabs who were smart enough not to flee from Israel are getting along much better than their fellowmen who fled at Arab instigation-and considerably better than Jews unfortunate enough to still be in Arab countries...