Thank you for the kind and, surely, open minded comments. It is true that the situation in Israel should have its own thread if one wants to start one---this one is about Uris who, as said, wrote about other situations and ethnic problems in the fiction genre.

As to other suggestion re: a different thread. I only offered it because in the nob-fiction world I had the privilige of interviewing Micahel Oren the author of Six Days of War (historical piece re: 1967 war in Israel and what lead up to it). Additionally, I was one of the younger ones glued to the radio for the U N vote on Israeli Statehood---and, also, knowledgeable in the dealings of Ben = Gurion vis a vis keeping check on his own terrorists (Begin and The Stern Gang). Anyway---that is for another thread.

The respect for the Brits never wavered. It did, however, have friction.   But, in the end, as all things political nations ally themselves for their own interests. Remember it was Israel, UK, and France together in the Suez Crisis and it was the U S that broke that well intentioned operation up.

Bill Hahn