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...atmosphere of collective equality looks to them more & more oldfashioned. The slogans have disappeared; their leaders have become government bureaucrats with American cars at their disposal; mailmen and railway clerks seem to be just as valuable to the state as "pioneers" who are willing to swelter in the Negev desert to grow tomatoes which could be more cheaply produced in Galilee. Said one young Israeli: "It seems as if Zionism was a sort of Benzedrine which isn't working any more. And we don't know what to take in its place. But we do feel that...
...dread of Moses' eighth plague, which devastated the land of Egypt, ran deeper than political squabbles. In the Negev Desert, Arab Legionnaires and Jewish soldiers, sworn enemies, killed locusts side by side; quarreling India and Pakistan swapped information and coordinated plans. And in Iran, both the U.S. and Russia pitched in, lending airplanes and sprayers (Russia worried about its own adjoining Caspian provinces...
Sixty-mile-an-hour gales shredded tents from Dan to Beersheba, tossed flimsy huts into the air and tore ripening oranges from trees. Thirty-six thousand refugees were homeless in Gaza. Trapped by rising waters, refugees died in Jordan. Part of the Negev desert that had been arid for as long as the oldest inhabitants remembered was suddenly laced with freakish torrents of brown water that cut off a camp and threatened starvation. Soldiers waded waist-deep to isolated camps, tightened sagging guy ropes, improvised drainage canals and dished out hot food. Israeli planes dropped food and medicine...
...long and carefully planned by Jewish groups in Palestine as the next phase of Jewish resistance to the British policy of restricting Jewish immigration and land acquisition, was carried out successfully last night, when more than 1,000 Jewish settlers, including 300 girls, arrived in 200 trucks in the Negev, the southern desort part of Palestine, and established twelve settlements in the strategic district which the British had reserved for themselves under the "federalization plan...