by hadassah | Dec 15, 2024 | British Mandate of Palestine
July 11, 1947 THE SHIP EXODUS July 11, 1947 British Restriction of Jewish Immigration See Movie “Exodus” Exodus was a ship carrying 4,515 Holocaust survivors, that left France on July 11, 1947 with the intent of taking its passengers to Palestine. Most of the...
by hadassah | Nov 14, 2024 | Arabs Say No to Jewish Homeland, Presence in the Land
1903 Lydda, Ramleh, Ben Shemen “In the autumn of 1903, after the Sixth Zionist Congress, the Anglo-Palestine Bank purchased 2,330 dunams of land in the village of Haditha for 80,730 francs. Of that area, 1,946 dunams were fertile and flat, while the remaining...
by hadassah | Nov 1, 2024 | Arab Murder Mayhem Massacre
November 11, 1994 Terror at Netzarim junction November 11, 1994 Islamic Murder, Mayhem, and Mutilation Murder Capt. Yehazkel Sapir, 36, of Kfar Sava; Lt. Yotam Rahat, 31, of Tel-Aviv; and Capt. Elad Dror, 24, of Kibbutz Nachson were killed at the Netzarim...
by hadassah | Mar 26, 2023 | The Arab Revolt
Letter to the Editor of the Wall Street Journal, in reference to “Palestine 1936 Review_ The Storm Before the Storm” (short version), George Blumenthal. In Dominic Green’s review of Palestine 1936 (Wall Street Journal, February 11, 2023), he presents two...
by hadassah | Feb 14, 2021 | Towards Statehood
Conspiracy Against Partition, Lillie Schultz, January 31, 1948. No more cynical veto was ever applied by a major power to a United Nations decision than Great Britain’s refusal to comply with the recommendation of the General Assembly on November 29 that “an...
by hadassah | Feb 14, 2021 | Towards Statehood
Odd World: A Photo Reporter’s Story, John Phillips, 1959. “I’m like a Genoese mercenary. I get paid to do a job. I calculate the risks, and while I may get killed, I’ll never get ulcers.” These words are John Phillips’ own summing up of his quarter of a century...
