We felt proud and exultant to arrive with the Jewish flag a… - I. F. Stone

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We felt proud and exultant to arrive with the Jewish flag at our mast. The refugees looked for the first time upon the Holy Land with wondering and often tear-filled eyes. This was the sight for which they had longed with all their hearts, the sight for which they had risked their lives crossing one illegal border after another and on the high seas.

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About I. F. Stone

Isador Feinstein Stone (December 24, 1907 – June 18, 1989), better known as I. F. Stone, was a politically progressive American investigative journalist, writer, and author. He is best remembered for I. F. Stone's Weekly (1953–71), a newsletter ranked 16th among the top hundred works of journalism in the U.S., in the 20th century, by the New York University journalism department, in 1999; and second place among print journalism publications.

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