Posted on 01/08/2025 6:23:51 PM PST by Freeleesy
The terrible murders and outrages in Palestine last August with the slaughter of harmless women and children, and the burning and destruction of property caused a wave of horror and disgust throughout the world.
The British Goverment, taking the only course possible, appointed a Committee of Investigation into the cause of the outrages; but long before it had a chance to make its report the campaign re-opened in Britain for the Government either to throw up the Palestine Mandate. or for the nation to go back on its pledged word ahd abandon its policy of giving facilities to the Jews to re-establish themselves in their ancestral homeland.
The actual facts, therefore, should be presented.
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This is untrue. The senior ranks of the civil service in Palestine there are 299 Christians, including Arab Christians, 187 Moslems and only 68 Jews. In the junior service the figures are 1220 Christians, 1025 Moslems and 699 Jews.
Thhere were communities of Jews that never left the Land of Israel. They became known as Musta’arabim.
Groups of religious Jews immigrated in the late 1400s, and again in the 1600s, 1700s, and earlier in the 1800s. These Jews were there before political Zionism and intend to stay after the socialist Israeli secular aristocrats go away.
Good find.
AS T.E. Lawrence said in 1917 (and/or in the film “Lawrence of Arabia”, 1962):
So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are.
Cruel is the main point here.
Great reminder
Cheers, Freeleesy. The more things change...
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