Archive for October, 2016
March 25, 1925 Arabs Say No to Jewish Homeland – State of Israel
“A Special Edition in English issued (e.g. aRAB nEWSPAPER La Palestine) on the occasion of the visit to Palestine of Lord Balfour, the statesman with whose name is associated the declaration which to the Arabs signifies the death knell of all the hopes they cherished when the victorious British Armies entered their country in 1918. […]
June 1922, The Shame of Winston Churchill
June 1922 The Shame of Winston Churchill The Royal (Peel) Commision of 1938 The field in which the Jewish National Home was to be established was understood, at the time of the Balfour Declaration, to be the whole of historic Palestine, and the Zionists were seriously disappointed when Trans-Jordan was cut away from that field […]
June 17, 1922 Arabs Say No to Jewish Homeland – State of Israel
Palestine Arab Delegation: “Whereas we see division and tension between Arabs and Zionists increasing day by day and resulting in General retrogression. Because the immigrants dumped upon the country from different parts of the world are ignorant of the language, customs, and character of the Arabs, and enter Palestine by the might of England against […]
March 28, 1921, The Shame of Winston Churchill
March 28, 1921 The Shame of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill visiting the graves of World War I British soldiers in Jerusalem: “You had only to look on your road here this afternoon to see the graveyard of over 2,000 British soldiers, and there are many other graveyards, some even larger, that are scattered about in […]
May 1st, 1921, Palestine Disturbances
A year later, in May 1921, more serious attacks were made by Arabs on the Jews of Jaffa and of five rural settlements. On this occasion 47 Jews were killed and 146 wounded. Source: The Political History of Palestine under British Administration Published (by His Britannic Majesty’s Government presented in July, 1947, to the United […]
April 11, 1921, With Yasser Arafat and Mahmud Abbas
Herbert Samuel British High Commissioner supports the appointment of Haj Amin al-Husseini as the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem “I saw Haj Amin Husseini on Friday 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 […]
Winston Churchill to Prime Minister David Lloyd George
April 2, 1921 The Shame of Winston Churchill “We consider it necessary immediately to occupy militarily TransJordania… As we cannot contemplate hostilities with Abdullah in any circumstances, there is no alternative to this policy. We must therefore proceed in co-operation and accord with him…Abdullah with best will in the world will not be able to […]
March 28, 1921 Arabs Say No to Jewish Homeland – State of Israel
Mousa Kasem El-Hussaini, President of the Executive Committee of the Arab Palestine Congress, letter to Winston Churchill while in Jerusalem “First: The principle of a National Home for the Jews be abolished. Second: A National Government be created. Which shall be responsible to a Parliament elected by the Palestinian people who existed in Palestine before […]
Jerusalem Conference on March 28th, 1921
March 28, 1921 The Shame of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill at the Jerusalem Conference on March 28th, 1921