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Friday, May 05, 2023

The Jews had every reason to fear genocide in 1948

There is an interesting thread by Yair Wallach, from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, where he minimizes any threats made by Arabs towards Jews in 1948, and says that Jews exaggerate those threats in order to pursue their goal of Jewish supremacism:So many people are attached to the "they wanted to throw us into the sea" myth based on extremely...

Pogroms, bombings, concentration camps: How Egypt treated its Jews in 1948

AP reported on the Egyptian and other Arab states' reaction to Israeli independence in 1948: "The weekly Akhbar el Yom said 600 persons, mostly Zionists, were rounded up and sent to concentration camps."Yes, only three years after the Holocaust, Jews were being rounded up again. Reports of Jews in Egyptian and Iraqi concentration camps trickled into the media during 1948.In...

75 years ago, Arabs used the "sacred" Mamilla Cemetery as a base to fire at Jews

Back in 2010, Palestinians were screaming that Israel planned to build the Museum of Tolerance on top of graves at the Mamilla Cemetery in Jerusalem. How dare Israel disrespect this holy site, with ancient Muslim figures?They were lying - there were no graves being disturbed;; they had been moved years beforehand. At the time, I discovered that the Supreme Muslim Council...

75 years ago: Jewish heroes saving lives - and getting killed for it

Heroes Haim Graf and Mordechai KomornikThere were two interesting and related articles in the Palestine Post of March 22, 1948, on events that happened 75 years ago today, that were both about Jewish heroes.The first real heroes were two guards, Haim Graf and Mordechai Komornik, who saw smoke coming out of the abandoned vehicle outside the Solel Boneh building...

75 years ago: Arabs bomb the Jewish Agency using a US Consulate car, killing 13

75 years ago, on March 11, 1948, a huge explosion shook Jerusalem as a car bomb detonated outside the Jewish Agency.13 Jews were killed, including the head of the Agency, Leib Jaffe, 71, who had attended the First Zionist Congress in Basel in 1898.A Christian Arab employee of the US Consulate took the car, with the US flag, into the compound and the Jewish Agency guards...

75 years ago: Huge terror attack in Jerusalem kills 50

Today's news has uncomfortable echoes in the events of 75 years ago.On February 22, 1948, three trucks filled with explosives were exploded by Arabs in British Army uniforms on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem. Over 50 people were killed, including several children.The "Army of the Holy War" led by Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni took responsibility for the attack several days...

75 years ago: War crimes by the Arab Legion, with full knowledge and encouragement of the British

Starting in 1947, the Arab Legion was placed in Jewish areas by the British. They used this opportunity to attack and murder random Jewish civilians.From the Palestine Post, February 16, 1948:A particularly horrific story happened the next day. Three Jews were shot at in their car, injured, forcibly pulled from their car - and then executed.From the Palestine Post, February...

75 years ago: A forgotten Arab war crime

Palmach soldiersThe Palestine Post, February 13, 1948, describes a despicable war crime in Jerusalem that has been all but forgotten.A group of four Haganah members in Jerusalem were arrested by a British Army patrol that was manned by Arabs. Hours later, their bodies were found, riddled with bullets.Their names were Eliyahu Kessler, Shimon Nissani, Naftali...

75 years ago: "Kill the Jew!"

From the Palestine Post, February 12, 1948:Notice the Arabs didn't shout "Kill the Zionist." They shouted "Kill the Jew." Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! &nbs...