August 13, 1946 British Restrict Jewish Immigration to Palestine “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 […]
1947 The Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin Husseni, Yasser Arafat, Mahmud Abbas “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 […]
February 1947, Arab Murder, Mayhem, and Massacre – Lydda, Ramleh, Ben Shemen In February 1947, four hundred students of the youth village are evacuated from the Lydda valley in a sad convoy of buses, escorted by British armored vehicles. Dr. Lehmann is heartbroken. By April, the youth village is a besieged military post.” Source: Ari […]
Palestine shall be divided in to four areas, an Arab Province, a Jewish Province, a District of Jerusalem and a District of the Negev. The Jewish Province would include the great bulk of the land on which Jews have already settled and a considerable area between and around the settlements. Source: Palestine No. I (1947) […]
The British Delegation cannot accept the contention of the representatives of the Jewish Agency that the rate of Jewish immigration into Palestine as a whole should be determined by the Jews alone. Nor can they accept the demand of the Arab Delegations that all Jewish immigration into Palestine should cease forthwith. They do not contemplate […]
February 18, 1947 India, Muslims, and Oil “His Majesty’s Government have …been faced with an irreconcilable conflict of principles. There are in Palestine about 1,200,000 Arabs and 600,000 Jews. For the Jews the essential point of principle is the creation of sovereign Jewish State. For the Arabs, the essential point of principle is to resist […]
March 24, 1947 Arab Murder, Mayhem, and Massacre In 1947, in Aleppo, Syrian Jews were butchered, and 150 homes and four large and fourteen smaller synagogues were burned. A pogrom in Aden left 82 dead and two-thirds of the Jewish shops looted and burned. In 1948, Egypt, Syria, and Iraq took Jewish property and imposed […]
April 15, 1947 “Ismail Safwat Pasha, Commander in Chief of Arab Liberation armies, was said to be en route from Cairo, Egypt, to Jenin after Fawzi el-Kawukji, the field commander had narrowly escaped capture yesterday. But there was no confirmation from Arab quarters here of this news broadcast by the Cairo radio… While the main […]
June 10, 1947 “A note was filed by the British with Mr. (e.g. Trygve) Lie requesting that member states do all in their power to discourage illegal immigration of Jews into the Holy Land. This note was mysteriously withdrawn before any action could be taken by the Secretary General apparently as a result of pressure […]
June 11th, 1947 “Secretary General Trygve Lie has refused to transmit to all fifty five nations a protest letter from the Jewish Agency for Palestine that criticizes his action in circulating to all the United Nations Governments an earlier British request asking all nations to discourage ‘illegal immigration’ to Palestine. The note, it was pointed […]