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Article: Next year in Jerusalem.(One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate by Tom Segev)
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- January 1, 2002
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One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate, by Tom Segev, translated by Haim Watzaman; Little, Brown, 2000, $65.
AT THE CLOSE of 1917 General Allenby captured Jerusalem from the weakened remnant of one of the longest surviving empires in world history: thirty years later, in May 1948, the British left Palestine. When they arrived they had been welcomed as liberators by 56,000 Jews and 650,000 Arabs: when they left both peoples accused them of betrayal. The population had increased to 600,000 Jews and a million Arabs: shortly afterwards, once "God Save the King" had stopped droning out at the Edison Cinema, as it does in the opening chapter ...
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