Exodus

by Leon Uris

“There wasn’t much to it,” Mark said. “Tom was a marine and he went in to take a beach with ten thousand other marines. A bullet hit him and he died. No hero, no medals ... no time to say, ‘tell Kitty I love her.’ Just got hit by a bullet and died ... that’s it.”

The only kingdom that runs on righteousness is the kingdom of heaven. The kingdoms of the earth run on oil. The Arabs have oil.”

All of us ... people ... nations ... live by need and not by truth.”

Sutherland arose. “I sometimes think,” he said, “that it is almost as much a curse being born an Englishman as it is being born a Jew.”

If Jesus were to return to the earth she was certain He would go to a synagogue rather than a church. Why could people worship Jesus and hate His people?

“Any arguments?” There were none. “I’ll be damned.

he held to the simple theory that acting in a natural manner was the best cover an underground agent had.

Lovely trees, lawns, and flower beds were planted around the buildings which housed the gas chambers.

A can or two of Cyklon B was dropped into each “shower room” and it was all over in ten or fifteen minutes.

Often a well-shaped skull would be taken for sale to the German guards as paperweights.

His architects had blueprinted elaborate expansion plans. One was for a gas chamber with a floor that could be lifted hydraulically like an elevator to another level where the crematorium was situated.

“No one said it is easy to be a Jew. We were not born on this earth to live from its fruits. We were put here to guard the laws of God. This is our mission. This is our purpose.”

France was the first country in Europe to grant Jews the full rights of citizenship without qualification.

Jew hating is an incurable disease.

On this land the first all-Jewish city in two thousand years was built. They called it the Hill of Spring: Tel Aviv.

The communal farm was not born of social or political idealism. It was based on the necessities of survival; there was no other way.

Shoshanna, the first kibbutz in Palestine, seemed to be the long-awaited answer for Zionism.

His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object. Thus was born the Balfour Declaration, the Magna Charta of the Jewish people!

Avidan said that the “tower and stockade” farms were a fulfillment of the Biblical story of the rebuilding of Jerusalem with one hand on the spear and one hand on the trowel. The prophet Nehemiah had said ... “half my servants wrought in the work and the other half held the spears.” And so it was that they worked their land and built their homes with a rifleman behind every plow and every carpenter.

Arabs made more and more outrageous claims against the Jews, who paid eighty-five per cent of all the taxes despite the fact that the Yishuv was smaller than the Arab community.

The British pointed out to the Arabs that it would be wise to accept, because the area allotted to the Jews couldn’t hold many more immigrants. But the Arabs wanted nothing more or less than that every Jew be thrown into the sea.

“God asked Abraham to give his son in sacrifice. I suppose we of the Yishuv live in that shadow. We must keep giving Ari so long as God wills it.”