Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Palestine last week. The hit-&-run raids, the bombings and the skirmishes were giving way to something bigger. Now there were pitched battles, between thousands of men in organized bands, for definite objectives. A prime objective for both Arabs and Jews: control of Jerusalem...
Ever since U.N. voted partition, Arabs have been tightening their grip on the lifeline of Jerusalem's 100,000 Jews-the road to Tel Aviv, which twists from the city through the rocky Judean hills to the coastal plain. The city's Jewish population, which used to buy 80 to 90% of its food from neighboring Arabs, now depends on food convoys from the Jewish settlements along the coast. One strongpoint on that road is the village of Kastel, a cluster of dirty stone huts, one big house and a mosque. Jewish Haganah fighters, after seizing it, held...
...Jewish Agency warned that Jerusalem would become a battlefield when the British withdrew. Said a spokesman: ". . . In any battle for Jerusalem we would be most anxious to respect the holy places but, in practice, it will be impossible...
Next day, with the British army as intermediary, the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem negotiated the surrender with representatives of the Arab Higher Committee. A battalion of the Suffolk Regiment of the British army came up to enforce the surrender terms which had been radioed to the beleaguered Jews. When Arabs attacked, British soldiers crouched in a circle around the house, fired shots over the Arabs' heads. When the Jews surrendered, the British searched them; several of the Zionist militia-women had hidden ammunition in their blouses...
Americans Are Faster. Neither in Jerusalem, nor London, nor Washington nor Lake Success was there any sign last week of solid planning toward a set-up in Palestine that would prevent...