On May 30th orders were received from the British Army, seconded officers (e.g. to the Arab Legion) were immediately to leave their commands and withdraw from battle. The reason for this order was that the Security Council, at a meeting o May 29th, had adopted a British resolution calling for a four weeks’ truce in […]
THE ANCIENT JEWISH QUARTER OF THE OLD CITY WAS RAVAGED, 58 JERUSALEM SYNAGOGUES — SOME CENTURIES OLD — WERE DESTROYED OR RUINED, OTHERS WERE TURNED INTO STABLES AND CHICKEN COOPS. SLUM DWELLINGS WERE BUILT ABUTTING THE WESTERN WALL. Source: Teddy Kollek, Jerusalem, DC: Washington Institute For Near East Policy, 1990
Jordanians Destroy 58 Synagogues in Jerusalem and 75% of Tombstones on Mount of Olives Such indifference has a long, dishonorable history. When the Jordanian Legion illegally occupied east Jerusalem and expelled its ancient Jewish community, the world watched unmoved (three years after the Holocaust). It couldn’t be bothered (less than a decade after Kristallnacht) when […]
Andrei Gromyko, delegate of the USSR, told the Security Council: “The Security Council has been receiving almost daily information from the states taking part in the events of Palestine regarding their aggressive actions or intentions.” Source: 73
Arab Leader Who Was Active Axis Agent Now Cooperates with King Abdullah Source: The New York Times, May 19, 1948
Two days after the Arab States entered Palestine, Warren R. Austin, the American delegate, told the Security Council of the United Nations: “Probably the most important evidence we have on that subject is contained in the admissions of the countries whose five armies invaded Palestine that they are carrying on a war … Here we […]
Palestinian acts of terror continue in Israel and in the administered territories – mostly the launching of Katyusha rockets from Lebanon into northern Israeli settlements. In a gesture of goodwill Israel provides medical and humanitarian aid to Christians in southern Lebanon at what come to be called the “Good Fence.”
February 17, 1976 3,200 Years of Documented Presence of the Jewish People in the Land of Israel, Genesis 15:18-21 The second Brussels Conference on Soviet Jewry begins. Jewish representatives from dozens of countries discuss the situation of Soviet Jews and seek ways in which to help them.
Mahmound Abbas/Abu Mazen “THE ARAB ARMIES ENTERED PALESTINE (E.G. 1948) TO PROTECT THE PALESTINIANS FROM THE ZIONIST TYRANNY BUT, INSTEAD, THEY ABANDONED THEM, FORCED THEM TO EMIGRATE AND TO LEAVE THEIR HOMELAND, AND THREW THEM INTO PRISONS SIMILAR TO THE GHETTOS IN WHICH THE JEWS USED TO LIVE.” “The Arab states succeeded in scattering the […]
Hijacking of Airplanes Entebbe, Uganda—An Air France airliner was hijacked with 258 passengers by a joint German/Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine terrorist group, which diverted the flight to Entebbe airport. All non-Israeli passengers were released. On July 4th, Israeli commandos flew to Uganda and rescued the remaining hostages. All terrorists were killed, as well […]