Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make partition stick without all-out Arab-Jewish war would require military intervention. Where was it to come from? The U.S. would not send its own troops. It did not want an international force-that would include Russian troops...
...profits and hysterical over the possibility of Soviet infiltration, the oil interests failed to consider the effect of a U.S. reversal on the Jews and its subsequent repercussions in the U.N. According to the current rules of the game, it will be perfectly all right for Arabs to slaughter Jewish settlers as long as they stay within reasonable bounds and do not constitute a threat to the peace. The concessionaires are quite willing to swap a human life for a tankful...
...series of reprisal attacks, they killed nine British soldiers, wounded at least as many. Jerusalem was all but paralyzed as armed bands of Britons, Arabs and Jews prepared for more fighting. Said the terrorist group Irgun Zvai Leumi: "As from today all British personnel, military and police, entering Jewish sections, will be subject to execution...
...their side, the Jewish Agency laid before the U.N. Palestine Commission detailed charges against British rule in Palestine. Britain, said the Jews, had "persistently yielded" to Arab violence and had helped to arm the Arabs, but had hamstrung Jewish defense efforts by searching out arms caches and disarming Jewish defense forces. "A swift assertion of lawful authority," said the statement, "can nip the evil in the bud and prevent violent movements from gathering momentum...
Love, Mercy & Respect. Though retaining his Jewish faith and socialist belief, Gollancz has here written a fiery, almost transported plea for a return to the ways of the early Christians. Political salvation is possible, he thunders, only if based on a union of traditional religious ethics and the secular humanist tradition of the West. A way of life based on unswerving devotion to love, mercy and respect for human personality is the only vision that can save modern man from total destruction...