Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last spring, when the highly volatile Arab League embarked on a Holy War against the infant state of Israel, the entire civilized world shuddered. In blunt and savage terms, the Arabs dedicated themselves to the complete extermination of the new Jewish nation. It was to be a grisly purge and there were grave fears in the United Nations that an explosion in Palestine would wreck the fragile postwar peace...
...Decent Character. His father was a bluff, warmhearted German-Jewish immigrant who had achieved his principal ambition-to become an American. Julius Oppenheimer had also made a very considerable success as a Manhattan textile importer: the Oppenheimers had a country house at Islip, N.Y., a sunny, nine-room apartment on Riverside Drive with three Van Gogh originals hanging in the living room. Julius doted on his son, took him to Europe four times and asked only that the boy be "a decent character...
Curtis ("Buzzy") Boettiger, who recovered from a mild attack of polio six weeks ago, and his boss, Henry Morgenthau, who are making a tour of Israel for the United Jewish Appeal, were all right (except for possible jangled nerves) after a few minutes under mortar fire in Negeb...
...Count Bernadotte made a ruling on the hotly contested supply routes in the northern tip of the Negeb desert. The Egyptian army, he said, could use the roads for six hours each afternoon to supply their forces in the interior across an east-west road running under Jewish guns. The Jews, in turn, would have six hours each morning to supply their settlements in the Negeb across a north-south road blocked by Arab troops. When the Egyptians rejected the ruling, it became a dead letter. Since then, the Jews have supplied their settlements by night airlifts to secret landing...
Land fell on Gaza (seat of the Mufti's new Arab government in Palestine). Arab forces opened up on Jewish settlements in the Negeb with 100-pound guns. Both sides rejected a U.N. cease fire order...