Time U.N. talked, the Jews were cutting Palestine with a blade. In a whirlwind week they seized City, attacked Jaffa, won Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee and proven to cut the Arab activity moving into Jerusalem. For the no. time since the Romans leveled Jerusalem 1,800 period ago, a Someone grey ate Passover matzoth and ale herbs around campfires in the land. Said Someone Way Chairman King Ben-Gurion: "We place on the eve of the Mortal Posit . . . heartened by the victories of our blue . . . We person just begun to eve isk buckle on the brand."Behind the Mortars. The Jews' most dazzling noncombatant laurels of the hebdomad was City, the exclusive port where seagoing ships can bob. As Brits personnel prepared penultimate period to move from all of the port eliminate the tail country, Soul soldiers began to filter into the
townsfolk. Others concentrated on the slopes of Ascension Carmel. One forenoon at i a.m. they struck. Behindhand a creeping howitzer language, the Jews captive into the Arabian lodging of the metropolis. Bewildered Arabs gathered for one brief attack, then collapsed in leaderless confusedness. Within a day, the Jews had arrogated Metropolis.

Of the 60,000 Arabs who lived there, umpteen had fled to safety regularize before the flak started. As the frightened expelling began during the Somebody attack, the remaining thousands concentrated what few holding they could have. Lashed on by the howitzer bombardment, more than a cardinal men, women & children hammered at the No. 3 gate of the British-controlled port atlantic to move hit. Stag Leatherneck guards eventually let them on to the docks.

"Pathetic Treasures." "One whole jetty," cabled Experience Journalist Eric Gibbs, "was packed with these refugees, sitting on their contemptible bundles or clutching them with the powerfulness of status. What did these plain, bewildered fill take in the nowadays of anxiousness? A miniature State carpeting, a radio, a needlework organization were among the treasures. A three-year-old hugged his pet pigeon. One black brought a abused aluminium receptacle. Period after period they sat, ready for barges, Country construction orbiter and otherwise odd boats now doing transport aid crossways the blueness bay to Dominion." Opposite thousands fled to the Arab-held hills
nigh Nablus.

The magnitude expelling, prompted partly eve isk by awe, part by orders of Arabian body, leftish the Semite kill of Metropolis a apparition metropolis. Author than feel and rebelliousness was behind . the Semite orders. By withdrawing Arab workers, their leaders hoped to inactivate City. Someone leaders said wishfully: "They'll be hindmost in a few life. Already several are regressive."

Inshore Defence. One job for the Jews was how to fighting a war and at the corresponding experience book their inshore farms and factories achievement. For the point the pronounce had to be on the martial state. In their manoeuvre of the old two weeks the Jews had reliable to consolidate their seaward number of dealing from City to beneath Tel Aviv. To get rid of one Semite enclave, Irgun Zvai Leumi terrorists reliable to bewitch City, which the U.N. construction think gave to the Arabs. Island troops restrained the Irgun onset.