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To understand the English in Palestine, Eliav reflected, you've got to understand which Englishmen came here. All Slunuel Hacohen could do was to pay more baksheesh to Tabari, and then more, and then still more. r in the large basilica, hidden permanently in the bowels of the earth, stood the everlasting altar of stood the gaunt remains of a Crusader fort, its once-soaring turrets fallen and its walls collapsed.

If the truth were known, Eliav said, I'd bet that even roly- poly Ernie Bevin had hidden somewhere a p Have they such force, these Christians? I saw their armies. When I was a boy doing my first reading about the Cru sades I came upon the two men whose lives sum up the who The only good thing here is the mountain air.