In a memorandum submitted to Winston Churchill (e.g. Secretary of State for the Colonies) during his visit to Cairo, the Palestine Executive Committee outlined their demands for self-determination and self-rule by an elected government of pre-World War I residents of Palestine, as well as: The dismissal of the policy concerning the Jewish national home. A […]
King Faisal, who was imposed by the British as King of an artificial nation – Iraq, in 1921 – wrote of his unloving subjects: “There is still – and I say this with a heart full of sorrow – no Iraqi people, but unimaginable masses of human beings devoid of any patriotic idea, imbued with […]
This photographic album highlights the horrific wave of ferocious pogroms afflicted upon Jewish communities in the Ukraine from 1918-1921. The publication was issued by Z.S. Ostrovsky on behalf of the Jewish Committee for Aid to Victims of Pogrom. Source: Daniel Kestenbaum & Co.
The six northeastern counties of Ireland are partitioned to create Northern Ireland (Protestant). While the larger portion becomes the republic of Ireland (catholic). Thus begins the armed struggle between the Irish republican army and Great Britain which continues to this day. Source: Wiki
“Palestine, the Holy Land, belongs to the Christian and Moslem worlds and the administration of its affairs should not be entrusted to non-Moslems and non-Christians.” Source: Esco Foundation for Palestine. Palestine, A Study of Jewish, Arab, and British Policies, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1947.
“The great powers, and among all the great powers most especially Great Britain, has freed them, the Arab race, from the tyranny of their brutal conqueror, who had kept them under his heel for these many centuries. I hope they will remember that it is we who have established the independent Arab sovereignty of the […]
40,000 Square Miles from Mediterranean to Iraq
The San Remo Conference outlined the Peace Treaty with Turkey by dividing the former Ottoman Empire. “The mandatory (e.g. Great Britain) will be responsible for putting into effect the declaration (e.g. Balfour) originally made on the 2nd November, 1917, by the British government and adopted by the other allied powers in favour of the establishment […]
During the Muslim celebration of Nebi Musa, thousands of Muslims made pilgrimage to Jerusalem, as is custom for the holiday. Once there, the festivities turned into a political demonstration, then violent. Huge pictures of King Faisal were hoisted, while anti-Jewish remarks were called out. Marchers in the procession then attacked near-by Jews with sticks and […]
In an attack by large numbers of Arabs from the village of Halsa, eight Jews were killed Source: Gilbert, Martin and Martin Gilbert. The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israelii Conflict. London: Routledge, 2002. 10.; http://www.middleeastpiece.com/palestinianviolence.html