The New York Times · New York, NY · 7 October 1938

CP-1938-019

60 Arabs Are Slain in Palestine Drive

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“Palestine Government military forces, including airplanes, killed sixty Arab rebels today and wounded many more without suffering any casualties themselves.”

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Joseph M. Levy, wireless from Jerusalem via Cairo. The sentence carries its own arithmetic: sixty dead on one side, none on the other, stated in the same breath and left there. The nineteen Jews killed at Tiberias four nights earlier are named as a massacre; the sixty are a drive.

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"60 Arabs Are Slain in Palestine Drive," The New York Times, 7 October 1938. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1938-019. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1938-019

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