In late 1915 Indian Army units were sent up to Tigris valley from Basra, where they were protecting Britain’s oil interests on the Persian Gulf, on the assumption that they could soon capture Baghdad and redeem the shame of Gallipoli. Instead tough Turkish resistance and the collapse of supply lines forced 13,000 troops to surrender […]
Foreign Office to Sir F. Clare-Ford Affront: Ottoman Prohibition of Jewish Land Purchases in Palestine FO 78/4476 – No. 146 Draft F.O. 14 June 1893 Sir, y. Excl’s despatch no 199 of the 17th ult. Enclosed copies of petitions addressed to the consul at Jerusalem by certain British subjects of the Jewish faith, in which […]
After 1870, “the [Turkish] forward policy included… the planting of Circassian colonies in the country.” Source: Smith, CG in Studies on Palestine During the Ottoman Period, Jerusalem, 1975, p. 93.
The Jewish women in Jerusalem who are involved in selling wine are arrested. After paying a ransom the women are freed. Source: http://iloveisrael-lior.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-ottoman-period1517-1769.html
Rabbi Israel Yaakov Hagiz, returned from Morrocco to Jerusalem, and together with Rabbi Gelanti II establishes the Beit Yaakov Yeshiva with support from the Vega family of Livorno Italy. Source: http://iloveisrael-lior.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-ottoman-period1517-1769.html
The Ashkenazi rabbi of Jerusalem is Kalamn Kalonymas of Brisk. From his name it can be learned that he was a descendent of the famous Kalonnymus family, who were invited by the Frankish kings to move from Italy to Germany from which the Ashkenazi Jews emerge in the 9th Century. Source: http://iloveisrael-lior.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-ottoman-period1517-1769.html
March 7, 1911 Arabs Say No to Jewish Homeland – State of Israel General Lowther to Sir Edward Grey about Anti-Zionist Resentments in Turkey FO 371/1245 – No. 146 Confidential Pera, March 7th, 1911 Sir, In Mr. Marling’s despatch No. 992 Confidential of December 27th 1909, my 621 of August 31st 1910 and my No. […]
June 1914 Arabs Say No to Jewish Homeland – State of Israel Raghib al-Nashashibi, resident of Jerusalem to the Ottoman Parliament in Constantinople: “If I am elected as representative, I shall devote all my strength, day and night, to doing away with the threat of the Zionists and Zionism.” Source: Shafir, Gershon. Land, Labor, and […]
March 20, 1921 The Shame of Winston Churchill The Palestine Mandate is Reduced by 75% Winston Churchill: “I created Transjordan with the stroke of a pen on a Sunday Afternoon in Cairo” Source: O Jerusalem!, Lapierre Collins, Simon & Schuster (1972) March 21th, 1921: The Shame of Winston Churchill The Palestine Mandate is Reduced by […]
Primary Sources Autumn 1903, Lydda, Ramleh, Ben Shemen 1914, Haqqi Bey al-Azm, secretary of the Arab nationalist group Secondary Sources April 4,1920, Nebi Mussa Riots in Jerusalem May 1st, 1921, Palestine Disturbance 1834 Christian Pilgrim George Jones June 14, 1893 Sir F. Clare-Ford Affront Ottoman Prohibition of Jewish Land Purchases in Palestine 1903 Lydda, Ramleh, […]