Word: jerusalems
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...guessed it. It was the British Lion. He must have run off to help the Arabs destroy Jerusalem...
...small party walked down the wide, deserted, battle-shattered street, one side of it small shops, the other the high, massive south wall of the Old City, into the Jewish quarter. I half expected to encounter Eric Gibbs, but he was at Haganah headquarters in the New City of Jerusalem awaiting the unusually heavy Jewish attack on four of the Old City's gates which opened up as night fell...
...taken place outside Israel's borders as fixed by U.N., that Syrian and Lebanese troops had been driven from northern Palestine, that the Egyptians were hard-pressed south of Tel Aviv, and that the Jews had not been able to open the road to Jerusalem. Mediator Bernadotte might be helped by the fact that both Jews and Arabs seemed reluctant to throw their full strength into the fight. "Being by nature an optimist," said Bernadotte, "I haven't become a pessimist...
...Aviv road, at a point 18 miles west of Jerusalem, raged the real battle. If Arabs held the road, they could eventually starve out the 100,000 Jews in the new city of Jerusalem...
...DeMille needs no sense of history, and little sense of taste; he has the film sense. All the picture's best scenes-the English army blurting through Marseille streets, the gnashing assault on Acre, the churning battle before Jerusalem-are masterly affirmations of cinema's first law: keep it moving...