Jerusalem Embattled: A Diary of the City Under Siege, March 25th, 1948, to July 18th, 1948 |
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Page 125
... hamseen days that Jerusalem lies within the great circle of the desert ; the bleak , brooding , immense nothingness just over the border . Lest you forget , comes the hamseen . And to drive it home , come the men of the desert ...
... hamseen days that Jerusalem lies within the great circle of the desert ; the bleak , brooding , immense nothingness just over the border . Lest you forget , comes the hamseen . And to drive it home , come the men of the desert ...
Page 131
... ( Hamseen is breaking . ) Other people had the same idea . One young couple ahead of us , their arms around each other , were singing ; the man was in khaki and had a rifle slung over his shoulder . We noticed , as though it were a new ...
... ( Hamseen is breaking . ) Other people had the same idea . One young couple ahead of us , their arms around each other , were singing ; the man was in khaki and had a rifle slung over his shoulder . We noticed , as though it were a new ...
Page 185
... Hamseen still on , and people's bodies are beginning to smell . The other night we thought back to when we had our last real baths : Ruth and I , in Tel - Aviv , about two months ago ; the Bs . still earlier . When there was water , in ...
... Hamseen still on , and people's bodies are beginning to smell . The other night we thought back to when we had our last real baths : Ruth and I , in Tel - Aviv , about two months ago ; the Bs . still earlier . When there was water , in ...
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Jerusalem Embattled: A Diary of the City Under Siege, March 25th, 1948 to ... Harry Levin No preview available - 1997 |
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Abdullah afternoon Arab Legion Arab villages armoured cars arms Army asked Ataroth attack Bab-el-Wad battle Ben Yehuda Street British building Castel cease-fire convoy crash dark dead Deir Egyptian Etzel Etzion evacuated eyes feeling fighting fire food convoy Galilee girl Government guns Haganah Haifa hamseen hands heard heavy Hebrew hills Holy Iraqis Israel Jaffa Jaffa Road Jerusalem Jewish Agency Jews Judy Katamon killed last night Latrun Legion looked lorries machine-guns Mateh Michael minutes Mishmar months morning mortars moved officer Old City Palestine Palmach plane police Quarter quiet Ramat Rahel ration Rehavia road Ruth says seems settlements Sheikh Jarrah shells shelter shooting shot siege snipers soldiers started stopped street suddenly Syrians talk tanks Tel-Aviv tell thought to-day to-night told Transjordan Truce Commission wadi walked walls week wireless women wounded Yemin Moshe yesterday