“In Jerusalem, as elsewhere in Palestine, the Haganah's basic strategy reflected a philosophy propounded by David Ben-Gurion. What the Jews had, they must hold. No Jew was to leave his home, his farm, his kibbutz, his office without permission. Every… — Larry Collins Copy Share Image
“Heirs to the philosophy of a Zionist zealot named Vladimir Jabotinsky, they clung to the dream of a Jewish state running from Acre to Amman, from Mount Hermon to the Suez Canal. For them, Churchill's decision to create the emirate… — Larry Collins Copy Share Image
“For the Arabs, and the above all for the 1.2 million Arabs of Palestine, the partitioning of the land in which they had been… — Larry Collins Copy Share Image
“our investigation led us to discover was that at the peak of the battle the Jewish soldiers owed their success less to their courage… — Larry Collins Copy Share Image
“Arab-Jewish relations in the Old City had always been good. Most of the property in the quarter was Arab-owned, and one of its familiar… — Larry Collins Copy Share Image
“In Jerusalem, as elsewhere in Palestine, the Haganah's basic strategy reflected a philosophy propounded by David Ben-Gurion. What the Jews had, they must hold.… — Larry Collins Copy Share Image
“Heirs to the philosophy of a Zionist zealot named Vladimir Jabotinsky, they clung to the dream of a Jewish state running from Acre to… — Larry Collins Copy Share Image
“Their excesses were largely responsible for the anti-Jewish sentiment which permeated the British forces in Palestine. Those excesses had produced other fruits, however. They… — Larry Collins Copy Share Image
