A Day of Mourning Then and Now (Terror attacks in Israel)

INN ^ | 8/18/11

[Nachum]

Today’s Hebrew date became a day of mourning 83 years before Thursday's terror attacks with the 1929 Jerusalem and Hebron massacres.

Today’s Hebrew date became a day of mourning 83 years before Thursday afternoon’s terror attacks in southern Israel added another tragic story to the saga of Israel’s return to its land., because it is also the anniversary of the 1929 Jerusalem and Hebron massacres.

There was no IDF, no “occupation” in 1929, not even a partition plan to reject, no independent Jewish state in sight despite the Balfour and San Remo Declarations to that effect, but there was terror and murder of defenseless Jews in the Holy Land. Why? Because they were Jews.

The bodies of the tens of Jews murdered in the horrific pogrom that broke out on Friday night, 17 Av (August) 1929 in the Nisan Bak neighborhood of Jerusalem, a short distance north of the Old City’s Damascus Gate, were laid in the morgue over that Sabbath for burial on Saturday night, most to be placed in a mass grave due to the condition of their mutilated bodies.

[Nachum]

"he anniversary of the 1929 Jerusalem and Hebron massacres"

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