O Jerusalem
Publisher: Pocket
Published: October 2, 1980
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 637
ISBN-13: 9780671836849
Subjects: Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949; History - General History; Siege, 1948; General; Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Israel; Non-Classifiable; Palestine; History; Jerusalem
First sentence: IN THE AFTERNOON of Saturday, November 29, 1947, in a cavernous gray building that had ounce housed an ice-skating rink, in Flushing Meadow, New York, the delegates of fifty-six of the fifty-seven members of the General Assembly of the United Nations were called upon to decide the future of a silver of land set on the eastern rim of the Mediterranean.