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Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Arabic media claim Kfar Saba is purely Arab. A Talmudic-era mosaic says otherwise.

The Palestinian Safa news site writes about Kfar Saba, which it claims is a purely Arab town that had been taken over by Jews who are fabricating a Jewish history there.I always enjoy researching stories like this, because I learn things - and almost invariably, what I learn is that there is a far deeper Jewish connection to everywhere in Israel than an Arab one.The most impressive...

75 years ago: Just like today: False accusations of Israeli massacres along with real Arab terrorism

From the Palestine Post, August 12, 1948:There was a different version of the story reported by wire services:Jews have burned 28 Arab villagers alive at Eltera, near Haifa, according to a telegram which is reported to have been sent to the UN Security Councll by the Secretary-General of the Arab League (Azzan Pasha).The telegram declared that during the present cease-fire...

The UN's history of the "Question of Palestine" omits every single Palestinian attack on Jews

The UN has a webpage where it shows a timeline on the "Question of Palestine."It is biased as hell. It starts with "1885 – The term 'Zionism' first coined by the Viennese writer, Nathan Birnbaum."There is no mention of Jewish history in the region for thousands of years. No mention of Jewish kingdoms. No mention of the centrality of Eretz Israel and Jerusalem to Judaism. ...

Iraqi radio to Palestinian Arabs 75 years ago against their return: "Choose death over the Jews!"

The Palestine Post, July 26, 1948, reported:A commentator on the Baghdad Radio strongly criticized the refugees in the Arab States for their complaints about their treatment. Arabs who said they wished they had stayed in Palestine with the Jews should he shot as spies. he urged. "The Jews will make you their slaves, if you return to them." the commentator said. "They...

75 years ago: An Israeli government minister does all he can to help Arabs

From the Palestine Post, July 22, 1948:Israel had a Minister of Minorities in 1948 whose job as to advocate for the Arab minority population. This hardly fits in with the narrative of the Israeli leaders doing everything they could to expel Arabs. The ministry only existed for a year, and its minister had conflicts with other government institutions, particularly...

75 years ago: Another Egyptian air raid on Tel Aviv kills 18

From the Palestine Post, July 14, 1948:By the next day, the death toll reached 18:This attack is not even mentioned in Wikipedia's list of major attacks on civilians during the war.Egypt had been bombing civilian areas in Tel Aviv nearly continuously since Israel declared independence on May 14, and the total casualties of innocent Jews was much higher than I had realized....

The British didn't leave Palestine on May 15, 1948 - but on June 30

The last British soldiers did not leave Palestine until six weeks after Israel declared independence.The British continues to control Haifa's port until June 30, when they finally left and Israel took over.And within hours of the withdrawal, Israel introduced its new navy. (London Daily Herald, July 1 1948)It was so small that United Press put the word "navy" in scare...

In the middle of a Haaretz article on humanitarian issues in Jenin, we see:Another resident of the camp, who prefers to remain unnamed, refused to leave his home with his family of eight. "We will not leave our home even if it falls on our heads," he said. "Our forefathers left in 1948 and were told to come back after a week, and that week has been 75 years. We will not make...

Arabic media has been calling Israel weak and about to disappear since 1948

You can see daily articles in Arabic-language media about Israel's weakness and imminent demise, often with graphics like the one above.This has been a theme since 1948.The June 23, 1948 Palestine Post has two articles that discuss how Arab claims on the weakness of the new Jewish state spread quickly, even to the West, and how they were all baseless. The first comes...

How the Haganah fought in 1948 (from an embedded American war correspondent)

Keith Wheeler, a Chicago Sun-Times correspondent, reported on how the Jews fought War of Independence in this article published by the Palestine Post on June 14, 1948.He found that the Haganah soldiers were very informal with their own officers; rank meant little besides authority. Most Arab towns at that point were captured with very little fighting; the Arab fighters...

75 years ago: Arab leaders considered Palestinian refugees in 1948 to be "fifth columnists"

During the War of Independence in 1948, on a few occasions the Palestine Post could not publish the newspaper properly. The editors nearly always managed to get something out, even if it was typewritten.That is what happened on June 7, 1948.But one of the stories includes an important quote that I have not seen elsewhere, possibly because of the newspaper looking the way it...

75 years ago: Arab propaganda claims Jews would be safe under their rule - while they oppress their Jews

The Palestine Post reported on June 1, 1948 that Arab airplanes were dropping propaganda leaflets on northern Israel urging Jews to surrender and assuring them that Jews are treated wonderfully in Arab countries - better than anywhere else in the world.At the same time, Iraq - which had troops in Palestine - started forcing their Jews to pay huge sums:In Egypt, the government...