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...news of the U.N. vote reached Tel Aviv, cheering crowds danced the traditional hora. In Jerusalem and Haifa, jubilant thousands paraded the streets waving the blue & white Zionist flag. Even British Tommies joined in the fun. Jews began debating the name for their promised state. Most likely choice: New Judea, although ironically the tentative borders (see map) exclude from Jewish control most of ancient Judea...
...church calendar, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, commemorating the killing, by order of King Herod of Judea, of Bethlehem's children under the age of two years. Herod's aim: to kill the newborn Jesus Christ, heralded as the new King of the Jews...
Lawrence of. ... Wingate made his name in strange operations. Given the job of catching the Arab marauders who in 1937 were regularly cutting the Haifa-Mosul oil line, he mixed Jewish and British patrols, beat the Arabs at their own game of ambush, won the title of "Lawrence of Judea" (which his cousin, who fought for the Arabs, might have resented). In 1941, in the British campaign against the Italians in Ethiopia, Wingate directed a strategy of bluff, propaganda and native revolt. With 1,000 Sudanese and 2,000 Ethiopians, he effectively snarled up some 40,000 Italians...
Harry Zinder spent Christmas Day in Bethlehem in Judea, watching the thousands of pilgrims (so many of them American boys and girls in uniform this year) who flock to worship above the manger where Christ was laid when there was no room for Mary and Joseph...
...when an antiSemitic, Romanizing Emperor, the Lord and God Domitian (Dominus ac Deus Domitianus, "D.D.D." to his friends), destroys the very basis of Josephus' verbal internationalism, destroys his prestige, his son, his life. At last the broken and aging Jew, thrown back on simple nationalism, is killed in Judea by ignorant Roman horse troopers while he is trying to reach a band of Jewish rebels like those he repudiated in his youth. He is buried in his native earth, but his grave is unknown. Paradoxically, all that remains of Josephus is his internationalism-the histories in which he labored...