Sunday, December 18, 2022
- Sunday, December 18, 2022
- Elder of Ziyon
- 1947, Arab antisemitism, British Mandate, Egypt, Hitler, jihad, kill jews, League of Nations, Lebanon, Life Of Jews In Arab Lands, Muslim antisemitism, Partition Plan, Syria
Friday, December 02, 2022
- Friday, December 02, 2022
- Elder of Ziyon
- 1947, Arab League, British Mandate, Death to Israel, Egypt, history, incitement, jew hatred, jihad, kill jews, League of Nations, Muslim antisemitism, Muslim Brotherhood, pogrom
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Tuesday, November 29, 2022
- Tuesday, November 29, 2022
- Ian
- 1947, American antisemitism, bbc, blood libel, British Mandate, CAMERA, Campus antisemitism, Good news, Kanye West, Linkdump, MSNBC, Palestinian refugees, Partition Plan, rejectionist, Trump, Ukraine, ZOA
What happened to the 1947 UN Partition Plan?
Today, Nov. 29, 2022, is the 75th anniversary of the 1947 UN Partition Plan – UN General Assembly resolution 181 - which divided the geographical area to the west of the Jordan River, into two states: A Jewish state and an Arab state. In its essence, the Partition Plan was a fundamental breach of the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, which placed that entire area under the governance of Great Britain, for the sole purpose of creating a Jewish state on all of the land.The Failed British Double-Cross of Israel
The 1922 Mandate for Palestine had already taken the entire geographical area then referred to as “Palestine” and divided it in two: The eastern part of Palestine - the Arab country - was placed under the rule of the Hashemite family and changed its name to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The western part of Palestine was to become the Jewish state.
Despite the breach of the Mandate, the Jewish leadership of the day – represented by David Ben Gurion - accepted the plan. The Arab leadership and countries, on the other hand, rejected the plan and immediately started planning how to eradicate the Jewish state before it even came into existence.
75 years later, speaking at the UN, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has now decided to accept the plan and even demand its implementation:
“Therefore, I present today to this UN organization, the title of international legitimacy in this world, with a formal request to implement General Assembly resolution 181, which formed the basis for the two-state solution in 1947…”
[WAFA, English edition, Official PA news agency, Sept. 23, 2022]
In making this demand, Abbas ignores a number of fundamental realities.
First, Abbas is demanding the implementation of a plan that has been defunct for 75 years. Living up to their promises, even before the British Mandate came to an end on May 14, 1948, the Arab countries attacked the nascent Jewish state.
[Boston Evening Globe, May 1, 1948]
While Israel managed to survive and expand in a war in which 6.000 Israeli men, women, and children were killed, a full 1% of the population most of the areas allocated for the Arab state - Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip - were occupied by Jordan (which was not yet recognized by the UN as a state) and Egypt, respectively.
In its original charter from 1965, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which is now headed by Abbas, disavowed its connection to the areas provisionally allocated for the Arab state openly declaring:
“This Organization [The PLO] does not exercise any territorial sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, on the Gaza Strip or in the Himmah Area”.
Indeed, while Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip and Jordan controlled Judea and Samaria (which it renamed “The West Bank”), from 1948 to 1967, they and the other Arab countries refrained from creating what could have been the “Palestinian” Arab state.
When the warrior poet Avraham “Yair” Stern founder and leader of Lohamei Herut Israel (Lehi, “Fighters for the Freedom of Israel”) who believed that the British had to be forced out with assassinations and bombs and would never leave voluntarily, was killed after being captured and handcuffed by British detectives on Feb. 12, 1942, no Jew could celebrate his death.I Was Robbed of 70% of the Land of Israel
But the leaders of the Jews of British Mandatory Palestine, already then led by David Ben-Gurion, viewed Stern’s death as a gain for the national cause rather than a loss—and not only because the poet and his followers were reckless political dilettantes: Some fantasized alliances with Mussolini, even the Nazis, as well as Arab nationalists in a common anti-British cause.
At a time of maximum danger—Rommel seemed to be on the verge of conquering Egypt, with Palestine next—Ben-Gurion and his allies doggedly pursued cooperation with the British in spite of bitter disappointments. Perhaps the worst of these was the May 1939 White Paper which limited the immigration of Jews to 75,000 over five years, sentencing countless European Jews to death at the hands of the Nazis. Yet Ben-Gurion believed, and rightly so, that the British were the least-bad allies the Jews could have.
Nor did Ben-Gurion have much choice. The Americans had refused to enter the war even after the Germans had conquered most of Europe. They still refused to act when the Germans seemed on the verge of defeating Russia, which would soon mean Britain’s defeat, too. On Dec. 2, 1941, German tanks were 14.7 miles from Moscow’s Red Square. America was only at war when Stern died in 1942 because the Japanese had attacked them.
It was unimaginable that the Americans would intervene on behalf of the Jews in the distant Middle East—indeed the U.S. only lifted its total weapons embargo on Israel in August 1962!—to allow the sale of defensive antiaircraft missiles, seven years after the Soviets had agreed to deliver bombers to Nasser’s Egypt (part of a huge Soviet weapons gift package misrepresented as “Czech” at the insistence of the CIA to avert hostility from their own man Nasser: That always-wrong agency was betting on Nasser’s mighty Arab nationalism rather than on seemingly puny Israel).
When Avraham Stern was killed, the communists still gave all their loyalty to Stalin. According to Ben-Gurion and the majority of Jewish leaders in Palestine, Churchill was still the best bet the Jews could have, even after the exposure of his crass duplicity toward the Yishuv. Having vehemently condemned the May 1939 White Paper to please his Jewish benefactors while out of office and short of ready cash, Churchill refused to change the policy once he became prime minister—thus denying escape from death to millions, and incidentally preventing my father, mother, two brothers, and myself from leaving Arad, Romania, to reach safety by a comfortable Orient Express ride to Istanbul and thence Haifa. A 5-inch-by-2-inch Palestine entry slip was enough to obtain Bulgarian and Turkish transit visas, but the British refused to issue them, even in 1944—by which point detailed eyewitness accounts and impeccable documentation of the operation of every part of the Nazi killing machine had reached London and Washington.
In spite of all that, on the evidence available at the time, Ben-Gurion was still mostly right and Avraham Stern was still mostly wrong. The British did eventually, and very reluctantly, agree to the U.N.’s termination of their mandatory rule on May 15, 1948, thus allowing the Jews to fight for their state. The qualifier is necessary because a factor in the British decision was the terrorist attacks inspired by Stern, including the July 22, 1946, bombing of the British headquarters in the King David Hotel whose 91 killed set a deadliest-attack record that lasted for decades.
Jordan ruled over Judea and Samaria, Egypt ruled over Gaza and Syria ruled over the Golan Heights. For those that do not understand the importance of the sentence above, it means that all the lands that the Arabs call “occupied” were under Arab control between 1948-1967! Was there peace?
It was Jordan, Egypt, and Syria that built the refugee camps and stuck their own Arab brothers and sisters in them to create a refugee problem in order to bash Israel. If creating a new State called Palestine was the goal and all the Arab countries are in favor of such a State, why didn’t Jordan Egypt and Syria help the “Palestinian” Arabs start a State during those 19 years (1948-1967).
Israel liberated Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, Gaza and the Golan from Arab States occupation and it has nothing to do with an Arab people who call themselves (since 1964) Palestinians. We never occupied an Arab place called Palestine and there never was an Arab place called Palestine before Israel that could have been occupied.
You are probably saying this is enough to completely destroy the anti-Israel propaganda, but it gets much better (or worse). Today, Jordan is ruled by a king.
Over 75% of Jordan’s population are Arabs who call themselves “Palestinians”! So why hasn’t the majority of “Palestinians” taken over? Because Jordan does not give them full rights!
In fact, Jordan has the largest “Palestinian” refugee camps!
Where is the UN? Where is UNWRA? Where are the SJWs? Where are all the Leftists who care about Human Rights?
Just to sum up, Jordan sits on 77% of British Palestine and has a majority of over 75% of Arabs who call themselves “Palestinians”. Why aren’t the Arabs, who so want to create a Palestinian State, not fighting over 77% of the Land where they are a 75% majority? Why are they fighting over a small sliver of 23% where they are the minority? The answer is simple.
This has never been a struggle to build a new state called Palestine, it’s a struggle to destroy the one called ISRAEL.
Now, can we start fighting for truth and stop giving into false diplomacy that is based on lies?
#OTD in 1947, Jews around the world celebrated as the @UN adopted Resolution 181 in favor of creating independent Jewish and Arab states.
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) November 29, 2022
These are all of the countries that voted in favor:
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Find out why UN Resolution 181 remains very relevant today for 3 critically important reasons????https://t.co/IbF6B2PsZX
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) November 29, 2022
Thursday, October 20, 2022
- Thursday, October 20, 2022
- Elder of Ziyon
- "pro-Palestinian", 1922, 1948, British Mandate, England, history, Tomer Ilan, UK, White Paper
By Tomer Ilan
Recently, there’s a
wave of demands from Palestinian Arabs to the United Kingdom to apologize for
alleged abuses during the British Mandate period.
Munib al-Masri, a rich
Palestinian businessman submitted a dossier of evidence alleging abuses by the British between 1917 and 1948. Masri is
planning to present the file to the UK government later this year and is
reportedly demanding a formal acknowledgement and apology.
Separately, a Palestinian Arab is seeking
an apology from the Royal Ulster
Rifles for a 1938 incident in
Mandatory Palestine in which he alleged the British troops forced civilians to
drive over a landmine after a roadside bomb placed by Arabs killed two British
troops.
The Jews have a right
to demand an apology from Britain as well.
The Jews deserve an
apology from the British for systematically discriminating against the Jews, in
terms of official policy against Jewish immigration and Jewish land purchase
and settlement in contradiction to international law, namely the Mandate of
Palestine. The British government was also deeply involved in the illegal Arab
invasion of Israel in the 1948 war.
The first major
anti-Jewish move by the British government came in 1922, when The League of
Nations, at Britain’s request, modified the mandate by withdrawing Transjordan from the area intended to provide a national
home for the Jews. With a stroke of a pen, the Jews lost 78% of the national
home promised to them by Britain and the League of Nations.
Then, as a response to
Arab violence, including the 1920 Nebi Musa riots and the 1921 Jaffa riots,
Britain published a series of White Papers with new anti-Jewish policies that
contradicted the legally-binding League of Nations Mandate for Palestine that
Britain was supposed to follow.
The Mandate resolution (Article 6) requires Britain to “facilitate
Jewish immigration under suitable conditions and encourage, in co-operation
with the Jewish agency referred to in Article 4, close settlement by Jews on
the land, including State lands and waste lands not required for public
purposes”. The Mandate states that this shall be done “while ensuring
that the rights and position of other sections of the population are not prejudiced”.
However, in a series
of White Papers published between 1922 and 1939, the British Administration restricted
Jewish immigration and settlement rather than “facilitate” and “encourage” it
as required in the Mandate resolution.
Initially, the 1922
White Paper vaguely stated that Britain would limit future immigration to
"the economic capacity of the country". The 1930 White Paper called
for stricter controls to be placed on Jewish immigration and land purchase.
The worst White Paper
was published in 1939, on the eve of World War 2, with millions of Jews trying
to escape from the Nazi threat in Europe, the paper severely limited
Jewish immigration to just 15,000 a year for 5 years and made subsequent
immigration to require Arab
approval. Jewish purchase of land from Arabs was forbidden in 95% of
Palestine.
In effect, the White
Paper prevented the escape of millions of Jews from Europe before and during
WW2. Six million of those Jews were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust. If
the British had not imposed the 1939 White Paper immigration restrictions, many
of those Jews could have been saved.
The McDonald White Paper of 1939 was explicitly racist and openly discriminated
against Jews. Jewish immigration was severely restricted, while Arab
immigration was not. Jewish land purchase was forbidden in 95% of the land,
while Arab land purchase was allowed in 100% of it. The language of the White
Paper was explicit and racist: “Transfer of land save to a Palestinian Arab
prohibited” (see map).
In today’s terms, it
would be called an “apartheid” White Paper. Anti-Jewish apartheid.
British Land transfer Regulations
of 1940 based on the
White Paper of 1939
Starting from 1939,
the British Authorities also restricted Jewish settlement on Jewish-owned land
in direct contradiction to the Mandate resolution requiring them to “encourage
close settlement by Jews on the land”. The Jews, however, found a way to
establish new settlements anyway, the famous “Tower and Stockade”
method.
In the 1948 War of
Independence, Britain was deeply involved in favor of the Arab side. The Arab
Army of Transjordan, more commonly known as the Arab Legion, was financed by
Britain and commanded by British officers. The Legion was armed, trained and
commanded by British officers and was considered the most effective Arab force
in the 1948 war.
The British-backed
Arab Legion illegally invaded Palestine in 1948 and helped Jordan illegally
occupy eastern Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria between 1948 and 1967.
In 1948, Britain had
dominant influence over Egypt, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon as well. Those countries
would not invade Palestine to fight the Jews, without British involvement.
This is confirmed by Dr. Ezra Nishry’s research. His 2016 doctoral thesis (English Abstract – p. 510) based mainly on the documents of the British National Archives (as well as Israeli and American documents and previous research literature) confirms that the British organized, armed and pushed the Arab countries to invade Israel in the War of Independence.
Nishry shows that the
British government used covert action and pushed for the Arab invasion that was
actually carried out on May 15, 1948. According to British sources quoted in
the research, the senior British leadership in London determined the end date
for the evacuation of the British forces from Palestine, brought it forward,
and returned to the original date according to the changing needs of the
invasion plans which changed according to the circumstances on the ground. There
was a direct connection between planning the timing of the Arab invasion and
planning the timing of the British evacuation.
His findings were published in a book “The British Trojan horse in the Israeli War of liberation : 1947-1948”.
In many cases during
the 1948 war, the British troops themselves helped the Arabs.
One of the worst
incidents was at Radar Hill (near Jerusalem) on 23 April 1948. A Jewish force
who tried to evacuate wounded Jewish troops in the Many Jewish fighters were
killed and wounded in the Nebi Samuel battle, encountered British fire from
Radar Hill which killed and wounded a number of Jews. The wounded Jews were
collected by the British and handed over to the Arabs who murdered them.
A sign at Radar Hill mentions the battle on 23 April 1948 in which British troops handed wounded Jewish troops to the Arabs who murdered them.
Another example of British involvement against the Jews was in the Etzion Bloc. On 4 May 1948, the Arab Legion aided by the British and by a large number of local Arabs launched a major attack on the Etzion Bloc in which 12 Jewish defenders were killed. A few days later, the Kfar Etzion Massacre was committed and the Bloc was ethnically cleansed from Jews until it was resettled in 1967.
Great Britain should
apologize to the Jews for:
- · Giving 78% of the Jewish National Home to the Arabs in 1922
- · Restricting Jewish immigration just before WW2, preventing the escape of millions of Jews from the Holocaust
- · Imposing anti-Jewish “apartheid” laws restricting land purchase by Jews in most of Palestine
- · Opposing the establishment of new Jewish settlements on Jewish-owned land.
- · Britain backing the Arab Legion in 1948 leading to the illegal Jordanian occupation the Old City of Jerusalem and Judea & Samaria until 1967.
- · Britain pushing other Arab states to invade Israel an attempt to annihilate her in 1948.
- ·
British troops fighting against the Jews in the 1948 war.
These British policies and actions went against their commitment to the League of Nations and against the Mandate for Palestine, i.e. against international law.
The British have more
reasons to apologize to the Jews than they do to the Arabs.
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Thursday, July 07, 2022
- Thursday, July 07, 2022
- Elder of Ziyon
- 1920, 1921, anti-Zionist, antisemitism, Arab antisemitism, British Mandate, dogs, Haj Amin al-Husseini, Herbert Samuel, incitement, Israel, Jerusalem, Mufti of Jerusalem, Muslim antisemitism, Nebi Musa, Palestine
I saw Haj Amin Husseini on Friday [April 8] and discussed with him at considerable length the political situation and the question of his appointment to the office of grand Mufti. Mr. Storrs was also present, and in the course of conversation, he declared his earnest desire to cooperate with the government and his belief in the good intentions of the British Government towards the Arabs. He (e.g. Haj Amin al-Husseini) gave assurance that the influence of his family and himself would be devoted to maintaining tranquility in Jerusalem and he felt sure that no disturbances need be feared this year. He said that the riots of last year were spontaneous and unpremeditated. If the government took reasonable precautions, he felt sure they would not be repeated.
He was referring to the 1920 Nebi Musa riots which killed 5 Jews - and which Husseini had himself provoked.
Although we were less than a mile away from the place where the procession first came into sight several hours elapsed before they passed the place where we stood. The procession of which the mufti of Jerusalem, who had but recently been inducted into office, and other Moslem dignitaries made up the rear, moved so slowly because dozens of circles composed of dervishes moved forward ahead of the mufti only as the dancing circle advanced. Terrible fanaticism was discernible in their distorted faces as they danced. In the characteristically Oriental rhythmic song, or call, repeated in chorus after their leader, they called out sentences that they were interpreted to me as follows: "This place has been conquered by the sword. Jerusalem is the city of Allah. Our banner enters into it. Get out, you dogs, you Jews, you Zionists. Our banner enters Medina. We will draw the sword against any one that opposes us."While they spoke these threatening words a dervish who as lifted on the shoulders of others frantically brandished two swords over his head. Last year a number of Jews were killed at this festival. (The Evening Kansan-Republican, July 5, 1921)
Samuel's quote above was made on the following day. It is unclear if he was aware of the blatant incitement that the Mufti was provoking.
What is clear is that this appointment resulted in the deaths of thousands of Jews at the hands of the Mufti's own people as well as his followers during the 101 years since. The Jew-hating Mufti is still considered an "icon" of Palestinian history and is universally venerated by all Palestinians.
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Monday, June 13, 2022
- Monday, June 13, 2022
- Elder of Ziyon
- 1919, British Mandate, Dr. I. Kligler, malaria, Malaria World Journal
After the defeat by the British Army of the Turkish Army in 1918, in the final year of World War I, Palestine was administered by the British Mandate, in effect a colony-like structure. It is little appreciated today that Palestine was then thinly populated or even uninhabitable in many areas. Indeed, Palestine was then almost empty. It is also usually not appreciated that if malaria had not been eliminated in Palestine, it is doubtful the State of Israel could ever have come into existence.The following brief extract from a previous paper may assist in appreciating the severity of the malaria that existed in Palestine 100 years ago.In 1919, Dr. Manson-Bahr, a future director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, described Palestine as one of the most highly malarious countries in the world. He knew the conditions in Palestine as in 1918, in the final months of WWI, whilst an officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps with the British Army in Palestine, he had witnessed a force of 40,500 men lose 20,427 men in 9 weeks due to malaria. Of the 100,000 Turkish prisoners-of-war taken after their defeat in 1918 by the British Army in Palestine, 20 per cent had to be hospitalised immediately, suffering from malaria....For many years, historical narratives have been promoted providing a hostile account of the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 from out of Palestine. These narratives have often assumed the form of the Emperor’s New Clothes, misleadingly omitting reference to the malaria which devastated the country. Such narratives for years have thereby provided an incorrect impression that malaria in Palestine 100 years ago did not exist. In effect, it may have been an attempt to make the disease invisible!The world has been done a great disservice by the failure before now to declare ‘the emperor is wearing nothing at all’, to call out that Palestine 100 years ago was drenched in malaria, that it was accordingly uninhabitable in many areas. Palestine, in fact, had become desolate and neglected in many areas, and was then almost empty of inhabitants. The method and approach begun by the Zionists in 1922 to eliminate malaria in Palestine were successful, there was much to learn from the method, and the lessons from that malaria elimination are still relevant around the world and could still be applied today.Due to the omission of reference to malaria in these misleading narratives, today’s malaria-community is likely to be unaware of the steps taken in the successful malaria elimination in Palestine all those years ago and which experience could be saving lives today. Sadly, it is likely such misleading narratives by these malaria omissions will have done harm, costing many lives over the years throughout the world today wherever malaria has existed.
But before such instruction or education could take place, it was necessary firstly to interest the inhabitants in malaria control or elimination, to cause the inhabitants to realise that a death from malaria was not just a fact of life. Instead, the inhabitants had to realise that such a death was a tragedy. The inhabitants had to believe malaria was not inevitable, therefore fatalism had to be overcome. The commencement of the successful Zionist malaria elimination in Palestine 100 years ago was a demonstration of an effective engagement with the community. Palestine was one of the first places to throw off some of the world’s old colonial attitudes which it did by engaging with dignity and respect all the inhabitants (both Arabs and Jews). This resulted in an extraordinarily strong and resilient cooperation by the inhabitants, Jews and Arabs, in the necessary anti-malaria works, lasting for years and years, and which cooperation was to rid the country of the disease.I ponder the point and ask the question to the malaria-community: Are inhabitants today truly treated with respect and dignity? Is the approach and engagement with inhabitants the same that each one in the malaria community would honestly want for themselves? Is there a whiff of old-style patronage about the malaria community’s approach?
Tuesday, June 07, 2022
Just as Jewish merchants moved between Jerusalem, Damascus, Halab, and Beirut during the days of the Ottoman Empire, citizens of Mandatory Palestine – both Jews and Arabs – continued to visit their northern neighbors while living under British rule. The local tourist industry in particular, flourished during this period. Lebanon was considered a fascinating and attractive destination: its southern shores, the vibrant metropolis of Beirut and the beautiful snow-capped mountains – a rare sight in the Middle East. The Hebrew press and bulletin boards were filled with advertisements appealing to the Jewish readers to come and relax in Lebanon.They show advertisements to visit Lebanon, Syria and Transjordan:
The YWHA sponsored many of these trips, and also went to Egypt (1933):
It is possible for Israeli Jews to visit two of those countries, at least.
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Monday, April 18, 2022
- Monday, April 18, 2022
- Elder of Ziyon
- "Al-Aqsa is in danger!" lie, 1922, Al-Aqsa Mosque, Arab antisemitism, British Mandate, Herbert Samuel, incitement, jew hatred, Mufti of Jerusalem, propaganda
Monday, May 31, 2021
- Monday, May 31, 2021
- Elder of Ziyon
- "Al-Aqsa is in danger!" lie, 1929, antisemitism, Arab antisemitism, British Mandate, Haj Amin al-Husseini, jew hatred, Mufti of Jerusalem, Muslim antisemitism, PEZ, The Protocols
That answer is revealing. Unlike later Palestinian leaders who denied that the Temple was ever in Jerusalem, the Mufti based his entire libel that Jews planned to destroy Al Aqsa on the fact that the Temple was there and the Jews would want to rebuild it!
Thursday, November 03, 2011
- Thursday, November 03, 2011
- Elder of Ziyon
- 1927, 1948, Arabic, British Mandate, Hebrew, lost in translation, Palestinian propaganda, Poster, propaganda, revisionist history
The same series of stamps included Jewish and Christian shrines, as the British tried to make them as even-handed as possible. But you will have to look long and hard to find any Palestinian Arab textbook that includes, say, this stamp from the same time period:
Oh, sorry, I forgot: for the past few years the Palestinian Arabs have pretended that Rachel's Tomb is a mosque, not a Jewish holy site.
And the guardians of culture and history at UNESCO have enthusiastically supported this complete fabrication of history.