In 1929 there were Arab terrorist riots in British Mandate Palestine against the civilian Jewish population that lived there.
“The [1929] riots were accompanied by militant Arab slogans such as... ‘Palestine is our land and the Jews our dogs...’ [and] brutal acts by Arabs...such as the killings in Hebron, where small children were tortured by their murderers before being murdered. ...the Jewish community in Palestine found itself caught up in a wave of violent disturbances that swept with a fury through Jewish settlements and neighborhoods throughout the length and breadth of the country. The danger now appeared to threaten the very survival of the entire Jewish community.”
This was not the first mass racist attack by Arabs against unarmed civilian Jews in British Mandate ‘Palestine,’ nor would it be the last attempted extermination.
Historian Anita Shapira, above, writes in a way that suggests compassion for the Jewish victims of Arab racism.
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/pal_mov.htm
Dear world, why did the Arabs - the Palestinians - massacre 67 Jews in one day in 1929? Could it have been their anger over Israeli aggression in 1967? And why were 510 Jewish men, women and children slaughtered in Arab riots between 1936-39? Was it because Arabs were upset over 1967?
And when you, dear world, proposed a UN Partition Plan in 1947 that would have created a "Palestinian state" alongside a tiny Israel and the Arabs cried "no" and went to war and killed 6,000 Jews - was that "upset" caused by the aggression of 1967? And, by the way, dear world, why did we not hear your cry of "upset" then?
The poor Palestinians who today kill Jews with explosives and firebombs and stones are part of the same people who when they had all the territories they now demand be given to them for their state - attempted to drive the Jewish State into the sea. The same twisted faces, the same hate, the same cry of itbach-al-yahud (Massacre the Jew!) that we hear and see today, were seen and heard then. The same people, the same dream - destroy Israel. What they failed to do yesterday, they dream of today, but we should not "repress" them.
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/e/040120061
I vividly remember the bus ride I took from Hebron to Jerusalem. That day the Arabs were laughing and making slicing motions across their throats as they screamed "Itbach Al-Yahud" (slaughter the Jews). I was originally scheduled to return the day of the massacre (which was a Friday) but since I was sick, I postponed my departure to Sunday. Unfortunately I was never able to return to Hebron, since that Friday and Saturday the massacre took place. Among the 67 Jews brutally murdered were 41 of my fellow yeshiva students. In fact, among the nine yeshiva students with whom I dormed, only one survived - my roommate who hid under the other eight mutilated bodies in a closet and played dead.
I was shocked to later learn that my Arab neighbor Moussa, who I had regularly chatted with, had not only participated in the massacre, but had castrated and gauged out the eyes of a Jewish barber http://www.hebron.com/english/article.php?id=259