“With this absurd resolution passed by the United Nations, god has granted you an opportunity to obtain success in this world and dignity in the hereafter; an opportunity which you have been missing and longing for; so why hesitate, why hold back when the breeze of paradise is blowing and carries the scent of martyrdom?” […]
“Thirteen of its Jewish passengers are brutally murdered.” Source: Shavit, Ari. My Promised Land.
Following the U. N. Partition Resolution, the Jews of Aden City were attacked and a reign of terror instituted. Seventy-six Jews were killed and seventy-eight wounded. Two thirds of the Jewsih sectons of the city were burned and looted. Fifteen hundred Jews fled to safety in a former Italian prisoner of war camp outside of […]
Immediately following the adoption of the U.N. Partition Resolution, some 30,000 persons, constituting the wealthier Arab families, deserted Jerusalem, Haifa, and Jaffa, taking their movable possessions with them. Source: 73, pp. 237-238.
Fariz el Khouri of Syria states that the UN has been “murdered” in the eyes of the Arabs after the vote for partition of Palestine. “But before they [Arab delegates] entered their limousines they announced that they would have absolutely nothing to do with the United Nations Commission for Palestine, nothing to do with the […]
“On November 30, seven Jews were killed in an attack near Ramleh when traveling from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem. During the following few days most non-Arabs vehicles passing along this road were subject to attacks near Ramleh by snipping and ambush.” Source: United Nations Palestine Commission, February 24, 1948
“The U.N. votes to partition Palestine, until then a British mandate. The Jews accept; the Arabs don’t. Civil war erupts.” Source: Newsweek, January 19, 2006.
“The Lydda airport (e.g. Ben Gurion Airport) originally contained in the Arab state was assigned to the Jewish state.” Source: New York Times, November 12, 1947
“The Arab exodus from the areas that became the Jewish State at the end of the War occurred over the space of 20 months, from the end of November 1947 to July 1949… The exodus of the rich from Jaffa and Haifa over December 1947 to March 1948 was vastly different from the mass urban […]
