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Archive for February, 2018
“Most of the fighting between November 1947 and mid-May 1948 occurred in the areas earmarked for Jewish statehood … and where the Jews enjoyed demographic superiority. Almost no fighting occurred in the almost exclusively Arab-populated central and upper Galilee and Samaria …” Source: Morris, Benny. 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War. New Haven [Conn.]: […]
Economic strictures against the Jews were initiated through the issuance of the so-called Company Law No. 138 of 1947. The law was officially published on August 4, 1947 and provided that within three months 75 percent of the white collar workers, 90 percent of the laborers and 40 percent of the boards of directors of […]
His Excellency, the Vice-President of the Council of Lebanon: “ … Gentlemen, the Arab countries which have been together for thousands of years, free from anything which marred their harmony, will not allow the imposition of a home that will menace their close relationship. They will therefore defend themselves by defending Arab Palestine and by […]
Kuwait Airways The U.S. Department of Justice found that Kuwait illegally discriminated against prospective Israeli passenger and issued a cease-and-desist notice to the airline, which has indicated it will refuse to comply. “Kuwait and Israel are in a state of war, lack diplomatic relations and the state of Kuwait does not and cannot recognize Israeli […]
As late as May 1947, Arab representatives reminded the United Nations in a formal statement, “Palestine is a … part of the Province of Syria … Politically, the Arabs of Palestine were not independent in the sense of forming a separate political entity.” Source: Howe and Gershman, Ed., ISRAEL, THE ARABS AND THE MIDDLE EAST; […]
“My letters [to the European countries, requesting them not to allow Jews to leave] had positive and useful results for the Palestinian problem … That is the reason why a complaint was made against me to the UN in 1947, according to which my letters had prevented the immigration of hundreds of thousands of Jews […]
Letter to the King of Saudi Arabia “The Government and the people of the United States have given support to the concept of a Jewish national home in Palestine ever since the termination of the First World War, which resulted in the freeing of a large area of the Near East, including Palestine, and the […]
“THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT LAST WEEK CONCEDED THE DEMAND OF THE PALESTINE ARAB LEADERS WHO, UNDER THE ADVICE OF THE FORMER MUFTI OF JERUSALEM, DEMANDED IMMEDIATE STOPPAGE OF JEWISH IMMIGRATION AND DEPORTATION OF JEWS WHO WERE ALREADY IN HAIFA HARBOR, AS A CONDITION FOR ATTENDING A ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE WHICH THE GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO CONVENE” […]
“In August 1946, the British began to intern (e.g. Illegals) those they caught trying to enter Palestine in camps on Cyprus. Approximately 50,000 people were detained in the camps, 28,000 of whom were still imprisoned when Israel declared independence on May 15, 1948.” Source: Aharon Cohen, Israel and the Arab World, (NY: Funk and Wagnalls, […]
In the summer of 1946, the inflow of “illegal Jewish” immigrants reached such dimensions that it was no longer possible to accommodate them in camps in Palestine. It was therefore decided in August, that future shiploads would be transferred on arrival to British ships and taken to camps in Cyprus. Source: The Political History of […]