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That's how it all started. The "opening shot" of the Jewish-Arab blood battle for this land was heard on Passover 93 years ago, in the forgotten events of the 19th century - the first significant defining event in the national and religious struggle between the two peoples. Nadav Shragai. Israel Hayom. 24/3/2013. [...]. The time was approximately 11:30 a.m., April 4, 1920 (15 Nisan 5680), the first day of the Chol HaMoed of Passover holiday in Jerusalem. The death of a threatening crowd was heard from afar. The Arabs in the nearby markets of the old city rushed to close...

Before October 7, 2023, there was August 24, 1929. On that date in 1929, “3,000 Muslim men armed with swords, axes, and daggers marched through the Jewish quarter of Hebron,” writes Yardena Schwartz. Before the day was over, the streets of the ancient city in British Mandate Palestine ran red with blood; 67 Jewish men, women, and children were murdered, and the rest of the 800-strong Jewish community fled. In her new book, “Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict,” Schwartz examines the day’s violence in forensic detail and argues that the...

Minister of Settlements and National Missions Orit Strock, commented on the shooting attack in Hebron, saying that the terrorist shot at children, and miraculously hit the football, which saved them. Strock: "This damned terrorist, an imam of the age of "not suspected of terrorism", did not shoot "against the settlement in Hebron". He shot from zero range at 2 children, who were going to sleep on the only street allowed for Jewish movement in Hebron. The soccer ball of my neighbor's son, a 5th class student, I will bring tomorrow to the cabinet meeting. Football took a bullet instead of...

A terrorist opened fire toward the Jewish settlement in Hebron on Saturday afternoon while hiding in the nearby Muslim cemetery and was neutralized by security forces. No injuries were reported. The IDF Spokesperson reported that the forces are searching for additional terrorists in the area. Footage from the incident shows the terrorist, Sheikh Mahmoud Nofel, holding a Kalashnikov rifle and firing at the Jewish settlement from behind a gravestone while being shot and wounded himself. Over the past week, soldiers from the Duvdevan Unit apprehended 16 terrorists in Judea and Samaria. Duvdevan soldiers, under the guidance of the Shin Bet,...

Hebron, New York (WCSO) – According to Sheriff Jeffrey J. Murphy, on April 15, 2023 at approximately 9:53 PM, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a female that had possibly been shot near Cemetery Road in the Town of Salem. As patrols responded to the scene, additional 911 calls came in reporting that shots had been fired from a residence on Patterson Hill Road in the Town of Hebron. Upon arriving at the first scene on Cemetery Road, Deputies discovered a female who had been in a vehicle and was a victim of a gunshot wound....

Rabbi Sholom Ber Goldshmid, the last remaining member of the of the Chabad community to survive the Hebron Massacre of 1929, passed away November 10. He was 86 years old. Born March 28, 1925 in the city of Lahojsk, Belarus, a shtetl near the city of Minsk, Sholom Ber was raised in a home imbued with spirit of the Chabad Chasidic tradition. In 1927, his father, Rabbi Moshe Goldshmid, a ritual slaughterer or shochet, was sent by the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, to Hebron, Israel. There, in addition to working as a shochet, Rabbi Moshe would serve...

UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Association, announced a number of resolutions just before the weekend started. One, submitted by the Russian Federation, called for defining UNESCO’s role in safeguarding and preserving Palmyra and other Syrian World Heritage sites. Another was about “Enhancing UNESCO’s contributions to promote a culture of mutual respect and tolerance.” A third was simply entitled “Occupied Palestine” and addressed the Jerusalem Old City hotspot that Jews refer to as the Temple Mount and Muslims call Haram Al-Sharif, the Noble Sanctuary. Except that the Jewish link to the site, considered the holiest place for Jews,...

Another Arab "Palestinian" Jihadist praising Hitler amal_Ja @Amal213456Ja Arab "Palestinian" Jihadist His profile carries a banner - a Hamas theme. His profile photo - blurred... Hir profile reads: "This path, and there is no alternative to the path of the Mujahid, will not be betrayed." At location, he states he is in Hebron and calls it "Palestine". and then rambles something about the very Israeli left. Then, 6 minutes later, at 3:14 PM · Jun 2, 2022, he responds [this one suddenly] in Hebrew to YuvalEylon "Hitler was [he tweeted] right." And even posts a picture of Hitler. amal_Ja...

clipAnother obvious play by two Arab "Palestinian" women "mourning/lamenting" solely for the cameras. One "cries" and ger fruend "hold her", while a third woman waves with her hands all inflamed, supposedly. Checking if the cameraman is still there... He isn't. The trio stops in an instance. The show. Abu Ali @Abualiexpress Tweeted :Hebron and the art of the mourning/lamenting .... Possible dubbing of the 10th second in the video: The photographer has already left? Can one stop mourning/lamenting? turned out good? Dec 28, 2021https://twitter.com/Abualiexpress/status/1475837265607802886 A Tweeter (N.P.) replied:Reminds me that I was in Hebron at the police checkpoint 'Chasam Shoter'....

Wassim Assayed, a Palestinian resident of Hebron, was arrested between 2018-2015 for ISIS activity. A few months after his release he was arrested again for incitement and membership in the organization, and sent to prison for two and a half years. He was released about a month ago and immediately committed another murder. "I decided to murder Jews for myself and for Allah," he said during his interrogation Shlomi Heller, 14/04/2022 The suspect in a number of murders and attempted murders in Jerusalem is Wassim Assayed, an ISIS terrorist who has been arrested and released several times, and has acted...

Nekuda. Issues 248-258, 2002. p. 10. ... The teacher - (Nazi) German. ... And his disciples - the Arabs. ... In a large mosque in Hebron, the preacher asked: "What does Allah want from us, why did he bring millions of infidel Jews to Palestine, give them a state, give them weapons and power...... When I see the parade of suicide bombers who are ready to explode so that Jewish infidels will also go with them and then I hear in the mourning arbor their parents say they will be happy if their children follow the martyrs, I ask:... And...

Beit Ummar: Arabs waved a large Nazi flag. The video shows an IDF soldier removing him by shooting it down.

Mahmoud Abbas originally thought it was a good idea. There was a new administration in Washington, one most favorably inclined to the Palestinians. The Biden people were ready to undo what the “unfriendly” Trump Administration had done. Trump had closed the PLO office in Washington, Biden promised to open it. Trump had folded the consulate to the Palestinians in east Jerusalem into the Embassy in Jerusalem; Biden promised to reopen it. Trump had ended both direct aid to the Palestinians and American contributions to UNRWA. Biden announced that he was again turning on the spigot of aid, starting with a...

Six people were killed Saturday, after they fell into a cesspool in the Hebron area, the Palestinian Authority’s security department reported. The remains of five people, all members of the same family, were pulled out of a cesspool in the village of Deir al-Asal, west of Hebron in the Judea area, PA police spokesperson Loai Irzeiqat said Saturday. A sixth person was pulled from the cesspool alive but in critical condition. The sixth victim was evacuated to an Israeli hospital, but was later declared dead. Palestinian Authority officials said that the immediate circumstances of the deaths were not clear, adding...

Ninety years ago, late August, 1929, the U.S. Beatrice Daily Sun (Beatrice, Nebraska), proclaimed, “MOSLEMS SATE BLOOD LUST. Even Little Children Die By Knife in Jehad” (Aug. 29, 1929; p.8). This brief report conveyed with grisly accuracy the Arab Muslim ...depredations.... ..... In stark contrast to the evocative drawings of Palestinian Jewish artist Nachum Gutman, less than a week after the 1929 jihad carnage ended on August 29th, “Morning Freiheit”, the New York City-based, official Communist party Jewish [Yiddish] language newspaper, published the first of two vicious Der Stürmer-like cartoons (Sept. 4, 1929; the second appearing Sept. 19th) condemning the...

The founding fathers and mothers of Judaism are almost all buried in Hebron in the Tomb of the Jewish Patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca and Leah, making it the second holiest location for Jews. Their presence motivated Jews thousands of years ago to establish a large presence in the city and factored into King David’s decision to begin his rule there for the first seven years of his reign (Samuel II 2:1-11).Cave of the Jewish Patriarchs in Hebronwith building atop attributed to King HerodHebron’s long Jewish history and religious shrine kept Jews living and visiting the city. In the...

Israel Police estimates that, in 2017, some 80% of property crimes, such as burglaries and car thefts, were committed by Arab residents of Judea and Samaria, Israel Hayom reported Friday. Police data also shows that 80% of the property crime cases that were closed because the identity of the offender was unknown – said offender resides in Judea and Samaria. This despite the check post and the costly so-called security fence. Of the burglary cases police did solve, 47% involved PA Arabs, as well as in 40% of car theft cases. According to findings from the police Hawkeye system, which...

John Haller is in Facebook prison. Clearly, he must be saying the right things. Help spread the word and get his message out. We may be experiencing to advent of two classic novels in our lifetime. Were Orwell and Rand modern day prophets? Consider this: In the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, the Thought Police (Thinkpol) are the secret police of the superstate Oceania, who discover and punish "thoughtcrimes" which are defined as personal and political thoughts unapproved by "the Party." Thinkpol used criminal psychology and omnipresent surveillance to monitor and arrest all citizens of "Oceania" who would commit...

Settlers call for an end to discriminatory land purchase practices in Judea and Samaria, particularly in Hebron, as they rallied Sunday evening next to two structures they bought but are barred from entering in that West Bank city. "Jews can buy homes anywhere in the world, in France, in Turkey and even in Iran," said Shlomo Levinger a spokesman for some 20 Jewish families who want to move into the buildings. "Just in Judea and Samaria there is a racist edict that prevents Jews from purchasing a home," he said. "We are demanding an end to this discriminatory practice," he...

Macron to rule like a "Roman god." 1st Genderless Baby born. Germany raids homes of citizens who posted social media that opposed the government's idea of appropriate. And then, there's Hebron, what is possibly a future flash point in prophecy, which UNESCO just determined should be a protected Palestinian area. Confusion reigns supreme in the world but John tries to keep us on the straight and narrow on these and other impacting issues with this week's update entitled "Event Overdrive."