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Page 135
... leaders would have handed him over to the British for the official leadership did not want the " dissidents " either with or without President Truman - or the street - cleaner in Tel Aviv for that matter . Maybe they had no faith in the ...
... leaders would have handed him over to the British for the official leadership did not want the " dissidents " either with or without President Truman - or the street - cleaner in Tel Aviv for that matter . Maybe they had no faith in the ...
Page 325
... leaders did not arise from ill - will , but from wishful thinking and illusions . The leaders deluded themselves into the belief that partition would be implemented " without undue dislocation . " Even in January , 1948 , when the ...
... leaders did not arise from ill - will , but from wishful thinking and illusions . The leaders deluded themselves into the belief that partition would be implemented " without undue dislocation . " Even in January , 1948 , when the ...
Page 336
... leaders consoled themselves that these were no more than " demon- stration outbursts . " The general assumption was that there was no cause to fear war on a serious scale . The voice of the Irgun warning of war which would grow in ...
... leaders consoled themselves that these were no more than " demon- stration outbursts . " The general assumption was that there was no cause to fear war on a serious scale . The voice of the Irgun warning of war which would grow in ...
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