ain could be attacked and vanquished. The most instructive lesson was given to the Arabs by two Israeli youths who were sent by the Stern organization to Cairo to kill the British Minister Resident, Lord Moyne. The two youngsters were captured, brought to trial before an Egyptian court, sentenced to death and executed by the unwilling Egyptians after Winston Churchill expressly ordered them to do so. Speaking in Parliament at the end of February 1945, reporting on the recent Yalta conference, Churchill demanded that death sentences passed in Egypt for political murders should be executed, so as to serve as a warning to others. The stand of the two youngsters in court, however, was most extraordinary. They spoke against imperialism, disclaiming Zionism and declaring themselves patriots of Palestine. In his last statement before sentence was passed, Eliahu Beth-Zuri, one of the two accused, whom I knew in thie Irgun, said: "We, the Hebrews, who are the natural sons of the soil of Israel, fought for Palestine long before the Balfour Declaration.... My ideas are not the ideas of Zionism. We do not fight for the fulfillment of the Balfour Declaration. We do not fight for the National Home. We fight for our freedom." They made a profound impression on the young Egyptians plotting at the time the overthrow of their own British masters in Egypt. One of them, most certainly, was Gamal Abd-el-Nasser. Yet only some of the followers of Stern thought of themselves as fighters against imperialism as such or ever considered the possibility of a great antiimperialist alliance of Arabs and Jews. For the official Zionist leadership and all the other Zionist groups and factions, this idea simply did not exist. Becoming convinced that further cooperation between Britain and Zionism had become impossible, they looked for another foreign ally, and found it in the even more powerful United States.

From the middle Forties onwards, the United States became the main ally of Zionism. For a short time, in

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