-
decisions than took them .. .
(Continued from Page .16)
fully would require a series of Attlee, Trygve Lie, Truman,
lectures, and a book reviewer Nokrashy and Azzam drifted
would need several sessions from one position to the next
with an interested audience... to until they had drifted into
go over all the historic details war and British abdication
so well told in this great work. from Palestine."
* * *
* *
Of
major
importance in the
The
h ' "The Clash of
Destinies" is a valuable adden- Kimches' book is their ciescrip-
dum to the Joseph book. While tion of the battles conducted by
it is significantly important by Israel, their defeats and heavy
itself, it assumes added interest losses in manpower, the blunders
when studied ........that were made by both armies
and the good fortune that befell
Joseph story.
both Arabs and Jews when truces
Having been in Palestine dur- were ordered by the UN.
ing the Israeli war of independ-
The battle for the Negev makes
ence. the Kimches speak au-
interesting
reading. Israeli troop
thoritatively. They, too, show
how obstructionist the British managed to acquire the sout
ar
territory. The fortunes o
were.
dan.
gave the Hebron Hills to
They pay tribute to the vision A footnote of interes
elating
of Ben-Gurion who, in time of to the capture . of
ersheba,
crisis, was able to arrive at the reads:
proper decisions.
e Minister
"The Egyptian P
*
*
man to dis-
Nokrashy was in
Sir Alexander Cadogan acted cuss concerted me
es to drive
badly at the United Nations. His the Israelis from t
Negev with
role at the Security Council the other Arab
•miers and
during the debates on the ques- I rulers. He was outli
his pro-
tion of sanctions against Israel posals when King Abs•n-
surely places him in a position terrupted him to tell him that
of antagonism against ewry. The Beersheba had fallen to the
Kimches assert emphatically that Israelis. Nokrashy would not be-
"it was known, of course, to all lieve it."
members of the Security Council
* * *
that the British government was
The Kimche brothers state
opposed o any form of sanctions that Ben-Gurion was "in a class
against the Arab states, and that by himself," and pay him this
it would take its position to the compliment:
point of exercising the right of
"His role in the Palestine
veto." The Soviet bloc delegates
continued, at that time, to aid conflict is probably still inade-
Israel's position. Britain remained quately appreciated. For in
this conflict, he ..-as possibly
its antagonist.
the man whose ideas crystal-
* * *
lized more quickly and more
Some of General Glubb's sharply than those of anyone
statements are challenged here. else. Once he had become con-
The reader gains a better un- vinced, in the late autumn of
derstanding of Abdullah. He 1945, that there was no
learns much of the role that chance of an agreed settle-
was played by Montgomery who ment with the British, his
pressed for martial law in an mind began to push ahead,
all-out effort to destroy the way ahead of his colleagues
Jewish underground forces. and of his opponents. For
There are interesting accounts extraordinary feature of
of the activities of the Jewish establishment of Israe
army officers and of the devo- the suddenness with
tion with which the Jewish de- the full measure of th
fenders of Israel and the Israeli came to most people
population joined forces for were involved in it. Only a
freedom.
very few had anticipated it,
and none more so than Ben-
The Kimches, too, are criti-
Gurion. Had he not done so,
cal of some of the America
the Palestinian Jews would
actions. They state, for ex-
have been politically and
ample: "President Truman
practically, let alone militari-
himself more often avoided
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• • •
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On the other hand,
Portables
& Standards
ah,
just
new
Min'
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of
Posts.
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The
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before the Rhodes c
moving
in or-
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an Israel-Egyptian
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"Th
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the entir' war, for,
their
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opinion, Eg
have been fo
to ask for an
eir army had still
armistice •
off from their country.
be
nd. had the Egyptians gone to
Rhodes with the Israeli wedge
still n place, the talks could have
led to a proper peace settlement,
irrtead of a mere armistice.
"Ben - Gurion was convinced
that too much was at stake to
take so great a risk. For if the
argument of Alon and his friends
turned out to be mistaken they
might lose all they hac-1 gained.
And this risk Ben-Gurion would
not take. He was content with
the achievement of the campaign.
It was important to know when
one had to stop. This was one
such moment."
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17 - THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, September 16, 1960
Dov Joseph's 'The Faithful City ., Kimches'
`Clash of Destinies' Explain Battles for.
Jerusalem, Israe•s Independence Struggle