--- DavidMcR at aol.com wrote:
> From: DavidMcR at aol.com
> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 21:35:04 EDT
> To: ariehnyc at prodigy.net, Shomernet at yahoogroups.com,
> FFWI at yahoogroups.com,
> socialistsunmoderated at debs.pinko.net
> Subject: [SOCUNMOD] Re: American Communists and the
> founding of State of Israel
>
> Paul is a reliable historian and I'd trust that
> account, though the
> enclyopedia was made up of a number of assigned
> articles. I have his address
> - but not the energy tonight to look it up (jet lag
> from the week in Japan).
>
> Best,
> David
>
> << Subj: [SOCUNMOD] American Communists and the
> founding of State of
> Israel
> Date: 10/24/01 5:05:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time
> From: ariehnyc at prodigy.net
> To: Shomernet at yahoogroups.com (ShomerNet),
> FFWI at yahoogroups.com (FFWI
> List), socialistsunmoderated at debs.pinko.net
> (Socialists Unmoderated)
>
> Greetings. Just received a puzzling yet intriguing
>
> query from a colleague at a Jewish magazine, who
> wanted to know whether this excerpt from an entry
> in
> the Encyclopedia of the American Left was accurate.
>
> If you can shed light on this matter, I'd
> appreciate
> hearing from you - with reference[s] if possible.
>
> Thanks! >> Arieh Lebowitz / see below
>
> "... Little was said within the Left our outside it
>
> concerning the largest incident of illegal activity
>
> [i.e., of American Communists in the post-WWII
> period -
> A.L.]: the shipment of arms and assorted war
> materiel
> to teh new state of Israel. Shipments formally
> banned
> by American law were vigorously conducted by
> Communists, Labor Zionists, and others within the
> vicinity of the Left. Among those Americans
> wounded
> or killed in battles protecting Israeli gains from
> Arabs, Communists played a prominent role."
>
> [excerpted from "Secret Work," by Paul Buhle, an
> article in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE AMERICAN LEFT, 2nd
> Edition.]
>
> Again, thanks for anyone able to determine if the
> above is accurate or not. >> Arieh
>
> >>
>
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