Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...berets clamped a cordon around Tel-Aviv, flower of Zionism, while patrol boats sealed the harbor. The all-Jewish population of 200,000 was put tinder a 22-hour curfew. Then the troops moved in with tanks and armored cars, and searched every house, every person for evidence of terrorist activity. In Tel-Aviv hospitals, army doctors X-rayed plaster casts to make sure their wearers were not faking...
...Contempt & Loathing." In Jerusalem, where the final death toll in the terrorist-wrecked King David Hotel had reached 91, barbed-wire barricades bristled in the streets. Lieut. General Sir Evelyn Barker had issued instructions to British troops to boycott Jewish homes and stores: "Without the support, actual or passive, of the Jewish public, the terrorist gangs . . . would soon be unearthed, and in this measure the Jews in the country are accomplices and bear a share of the guilt. I am determined that they shall. . . be made aware of the contempt and loathing with which we regard their conduct. . . . The troops...
British troops searched for bodies in the wreck of Jerusalem's King David Hotel where 80 had died in a Zionist terrorist explosion. British statesmen in London groped for something solid in the rubble of their Palestine policy. World sympathy for Zionism, though not yet a ruin, was beginning to crumble. The Arabs, who seemed to profit most by last week's events in the Holy Land, sat tight...
...deceived by the "strategy of camouflage" to which the regime had turned after the failure of Germany in the Ardennes. It was still the same old spotted cat. "By its brutal use of force and terrorist methods to strike down all opposition from the Argentine people* the military regime has made a mockery of its pledge to the United Nations 'to reaffirm faith in human rights' in the dignity and worth of the human person...
...Jews were bitter. Publicly they protested the return of the "terrorist leader" who had instigated the bloody prewar riots of 1936-1939. That night Jews marked his homecoming with another of those terrorist gestures that punctuate Palestine's current history...