1800-1899
REDIRECT 1799-1899
Archive for November, 2007
Excerpt from Israel and the Arab World
REDIRECT Excerpt from Israel and the Arab World, Aharon Cohen, W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd., London, 1970.
1. Excerpt from Israel and the Arab World, Aharon Cohen, W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd., London, 1970.
Indeed, in subsequent years, when Transjordanian Arabs visiting the country west of Jordan saw the changes that had taken place there due to Jewish immigration and settlement they often expressed regret (see Chapter Seven) over the failure of the Jews to come to Transjordan. Characteristic of such regret, even though its main object was to […]
Sir John Hope and the Yemenites, Excerpt from The Statistical Bases of Sir John Hope’s Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development in Palestine, Jewish Agency, 1931.
Click here to view the entire document. 51. Sir John Hope Simpson writes, when discussing Jewish immigration (p. 124)- “In many cases persons have been admitted who, if the facts had all been known, should not have received visas. A large number of these cases have been examined. A considerable number concern Yemenite Jews who […]
The Jewish Case Against the Palestine White Paper – Documents Submitted to the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations – 1939.
REDIRECT The Jewish Case Against the Palestine White Paper – Documents Submitted to the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations – 1939, pp.5-35.
The Jewish Exodus from the Arab Countries, and the Arab Refugees, Israel Ministry for Foreign Affairs Information Division, Jerusalem, 1961.
And they shall come that were lost in the land of Assyria, And they that were dispersed in the land of Egypt. Isaiah, 27/13 During the first decade of its independence, Israel gave home and shelter to approximately half a million Jews who were formerly resident in the Arab countries of the Middle East and […]
The Jewish Community in Baghdad in the Eighteenth Century, Zvi Yehuda, Nehardea, Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center, 2003.
For the last few years, interest in the history of the Jewish Community that dwelt in Iraq has increased, especially the community who lived in Baghdad and which was the most significant and numerous of all other Iraqi Jewish communities, just prior to the mass Aliya which spelled the end of the ancient Babylonian Diaspora. […]
The Arabic World and Arab Politics in Palestine, Important Points from Albright, et al, Palestine: A Study of Jewish, Arab and British Policies, Vol. I, Yale University Press, 1947.
• When discussing the “Arab world” or “Arab politics”, it is important to understand exactly who the Arabs are. Citing H.A.R. Gibb in The Arabs, Oxford, 1941, p. 3, Albright, et al, define them as, “All those are Arabs for whom the central fact of history is the mission of Mohammed and the memory of […]
Communities, Attitudes and Arab-Jewish Relations, important points from Albright, et al, Palestine: A Study of Jewish, Arab and British Policies, Vol. I, Yale University Press, 1947.
• Initial differences between Jews and Arabs in Palestine were seen in two very different leaders; Chaim Weizmann and Haj Amin al-Husaini. Chaim Weizmann – Background was more religious and intellectual than political, as were his feelings about the development of a Jewish homeland. Later adapted Theodor Herzl’s political ideas, and included British notions of […]
Arab Denies U.S. Warship Shelled Coast, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle, July 1, 1948.
CAIRO, June 30 (AP)-Abdel Rahman Azzam Pasha, secretary general of the Arab League, said tonight Syrian officials were mistaken when they accused an American warship of shelling Arab positions in Al Barwa along Palestine’s northern coast. Muhsen Al Barazi, Syrian minister of the interior, said Monday his government had protested to the U. S. against […]