Word: negev
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...midday of May 14, Egyptian forces had advanced deep into the southern Negev. An Iraqi column moved toward the Jordan river. The Transjordanian Arab Legion was arrayed along the river. On the upper reaches of the Jordan, a Syrian brigade was ready to attack the villages in the valley. Apart from the impetuous Egyptians who had already printed stamps to commemorate their "imminent victory," the Arab governments were awaiting the Mandate's last official hour before launching their attack...
...future." When the Aziz family set up a small T shirt-printing shop in 1989, the Israeli occupation authorities imposed taxes she says they could not afford to pay. In 1991 Anwar was arrested as a suspected Islamic Jihad supporter, and spent two years in prison in the Negev desert. He was released only last April...
...dwindling after numerous allied strikes, the Iraqis resorted to "an odd bit of desperation," according to a U.S. War College analyst. They launched a Scud missile at Israel that was topped with a 700-lb. chunk of concrete as its "warhead." The dud Scud buried itself harmlessly in the Negev desert...
...Palestinians tell their own version of the war. An Iraqi Scud missile slammed into Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, killing 400 Soviet Jewish immigrants just off the plane. Thousands of Israelis were slaughtered by the Scuds, and the Dimona nuclear complex in the Negev lies in ruins. The Americans lost 100,000 soldiers in battle. Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait was only tactical, designed to lull the allies, while Saddam Hussein waited for the right moment to incinerate the Jewish state. "Every Palestinian knows that Saddam will emerge victorious," said Abdul Majeed Shahin as he discussed the war with...
...Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea and from Rosh Hanikra to Eilat" (1980). "The war of attrition against the Zionist enemy will never cease" (1983). "O heroic sons of Gaza Strip, O proud sons of the [West] Bank, O heroic sons of the Galilee, O steadfast sons of the Negev:...the fires of revolution against these Zionist invaders will not fade out...until our land--all our land--has been liberated from these usurping invaders...