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Israel hielt permanent Gaza in Geiselhaft und okkupierte Teile des Westjordanlandes, durch seinen Mauerbau, international ungeahndet, illegal seit den frühesten Anfängen; und gemutmaßt: die globale Finanzkrise 2008/2009, war eindeutig US - gemacht und initiiert; wobei „gemutmaßt" eindeutig eine simple Verharmlosung darstellt.,...
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In der arabischen Welt entfacht sich die Wut gegen die militärische Antwort Israels und gegen den Westen, dessen Authentizität und Glaubwürdigkeit zu Wünschen übrig läßt.
Aber genau das war immer das Ziel der Bilderberger. Den islamischen Einfluss (Flüchtlingsströme) in das christliche Europa zu forcieren um ethnische Spannungen zu generieren, welche zur Destabilisierung der Region führt. Ganz im Sinne der geheimen Weltregierung, die Welt in einem permanenten Zustand der Unruhe zu halten. - Jetzt folgt zivilisatorische Zerstörung.
Es war eine eindeutige UNO Abstimmung am 27. Oktober.,...
- Wohlgemerkt, 120 Staaten votierten in der UN-Generalversammlung für eine von Jordanien eingebrachte Resolution, für eine sofortige und dauerhafte Waffenruhe.
Nur 14 Staaten stimmten dagegen, darunter Israel und natürlich die Vereinigten Staaten.
Dass die Bundesrepublik (Stimmenthaltung) sich mit 44 anderen enthielt, obwohl die verbreitete Erklärung eher eine Ablehnung nahelegte, mag vor allem der Überlegung geschuldet sein, die Gesprächskanäle zu all jenen, die Israels Krieg gegen den Gazastreifen kritisch sehen, nicht abreißen zu lassen.
Die in Deutschland multimedial verbreitete Sicht, Israel freie Hand für jegliches Vorgehen gegen die Hamas zu geben, ist im globalen Maßstab jedenfalls eindeutig minoritär. Angesichts der unmenschlichen Grausamkeiten vom 7. Oktober, wollte der politische Westen, in gewohnter Manier, die Antwort darauf als "Kampf gegen den Terrorismus" framen. https://www.bpb.de/system/files/dokument_pdf/politisches_framing_bpb.pdf
Dies kann schon jetzt als gescheitert angesehen werden. Denn spätestens seit den grausamen Bildern der Explosion im Al-Ahli-Al-Arabi-Krankenhaus in Gaza-Stadt, ist die arabische Welt in Aufruhr.
Ungeachtet dessen, dass der Ursprung dieses Unheils, welches vermutlich hunderte Menschenleben kostete, weiterhin umstritten ist, war dies der Funke, der die Straßen von Algier bis Amman, von Beirut bis Bagdad, in Brand setzte.
Hunderttausendfach gingen die Menschen auf die Straße, in den sozialen Netzwerken explodierten die Solidaritätsbekundungen für Palästina.
Jene arabischen Staatschefs, die sich bis dahin in einem diffizilen Balanceakt versuchten zwischen dem ungeliebten, doch mittlerweile akzeptierten jüdischen Staat auf der einen und der als Befreiungsbewegung getarnten Terrororganisation (ganz nach CIA Manier) auf der anderen Seite, waren nun gezwungen Farbe zu bekennen. In einem beispiellosen diplomatischen Paukenschlag, schlug der jordanische König dem US-Präsidenten die Tür ins Gesicht und sagte einen Vierergipfel mit den palästinensischen und ägyptischen Staatsoberhäuptern ab.
Er sähe keine Grundlage, „Krieg und Massaker zu beenden“, Israel bringe die Region „an den Rand des Abgrunds“. (Thomson Reuters/Woodbridge Company)
Es ist hauptsächlich, die als extrem brutal angesehene Kriegsführung der Israelis, die dazu beitrug, das Mitgefühl für die Opfer des 7. Oktobers, einer Welle der Empörung weichen zu lassen.
Satellitenaufnahmen legen nahe, dass die israelische Luftwaffe in Gaza Flächenbombar - dements betreibt. Die Bilder sind absolut eindeutig. Laut UN-Angaben sind 1,4 der 2,3 Millionen Menschen zu Binnenflüchtlingen geworden, 45 Prozent der Wohnquartiere sind zerstört oder beschädigt.
Nach drei Wochen Krieg zählen die palästinensischen Behörden, deren Angaben sich nicht unabhängig überprüfen lassen, die aber eine Liste mit allen Opfern vorgelegt haben, über 8000 Tote, darunter mehr als 3400 Kinder – das sind über dreimal so viele Minderjährige wie in anderthalb Jahren, dem russischen Angriffskrieg, in der Ukraine zum Opfer gefallen sind.
Urplötzlich, scheint sich die geopolitische Lage im Nahen Osten,
komplett gedreht zu haben.,...
Die martialischen Äußerungen israelischer Politiker tragen ein Übriges dazu bei, im globalen Diskurs die Wahrnehmung einer Kollektivbestrafung zu forcieren. Verteidigungsminister Joav Gallant sieht das Land im Kampf gegen „menschliche Tiere“. Staatspräsident Herzog mag keine „unschuldigen Zivilisten in Gaza“ mehr erkennen, sieht „eine gesamte Nation, die verantwortlich ist“.
Auch Premierminister Netanjahu benutzt wiederholt biblische Referenzen, die ideologische Vorstellungen eines "heiligen Krieges" mit Vernichtungswillen hervorrufen.
Urplötzlich, hat sich die geopolitische Lage im Nahen Osten komplett gedreht. So sah es vor etwas mehr als vier Wochen noch danach aus, als stünde die Annäherung zwischen Israel und der arabischen Vormacht Saudi-Arabien kurz vor dem Durchbruch. Es wäre ein beispielloser Triumpf gewesen für Premier Netanjahu und sein Versprechen, den Konflikt mit den Palästinensern nicht nur „managen“ zu können, sondern an ihm vorbei Frieden zu schließen mit den arabischen Potentaten. (also jene Personen mit polit.- und oder militärischer Macht)
In Washington und einigen europäischen Hauptstädten träumten manche Politiker gar von einem israelisch-arabisch-amerikanischen Bündnis gegen Irans „Achse des Widerstandes“. Auch diese Illusion hat sich in Luft aufgelöst. Statt israelisch-arabischer Annäherung konferiert der saudische Kronprinz lieber mit dem iranischen Staatspräsidenten. Zur für den Westen bitteren Wahrheit gehört, nicht die Islamische Republik Iran ist derzeit isoliert, sondern Israel.
Nirgends sonst wird dies so deutlich, wie am gescheiterten Versuch, Hamas aufgrund der Gräueltaten als Wiedergänger des sogenannten Islamischen Staats zu entlarven. Während der Kampf gegen den IS ( IS war CIA finanziert, ganz im Sinne der Bush - Neocons), eine global unterstützte Anti-Terror-Koalition hervorbrachte, ist ähnliches derzeit kaum ersichtlich. Außerhalb Israels und der westlichen Kernstaaten USA und Deutschland lässt sich kaum jemand auf die Erzählung Netanjahus vom „Kampf zwischen den Kindern des Lichts und den Kindern der Dunkelheit“ ein.
Netanjahus Vorstellungen sind eine Absurdität sondersgleichen. Genauso wie jene seinerzeit, am 13.09.2001 um 16:29 Uhr bei CNBC geäußerte Vorstellung, die WTC Türme in New York wären mit einer konventionellen 350 Tonnen Bombe zum " Einsturz " gebracht worden. Das wären 35 Bomben des Typs MOAB (GBU-43/B) gewesen. - Aber so wurden die 3 Gebäude WTC 1, WTC 2 und WTC 7 (The Salmon Brothers Building) nicht pulverisiert.
Stattdessen ist es, der in Deutschland medial so hart angegangene UN-Generalsekretär Guterres, der mit seiner Kontextualisierung den Nerv der globalen Mehrheitsmeinung trifft. Nicht der Terror steht plötzlich im Fokus, sondern das ganze Elend des ungelösten Nahostkonflikts und die daraus resultierende zivilisatorische Katastrophe.
("In diesem Zustand lassen wir medial erzeugten „Hass und Ausrottungswillen” unwidersprochen und nehmen nun sogar die Möglichkeit eines Nuklearkrieges weitgehend apathisch hin",... Prof. Dr. Rainer Mausfeld, über Bruch der Zivilisation)
- Die medial etablierte herrschende Meinung bezeichnet er schlichtweg als „kollektiven Wahnsinn”; und hat damit Recht. Hybris und Nemesis (geplante Herausgabe: Herbst 2023)
Dass dieser so ungeliebte, bereits marginalisiert geglaubte Urkonflikt des Nahen Ostens, sich nun mit einem Riesenknall zurück ins Zentrum der Weltaufmerksamkeit katapultiert, bedroht direkt die Glaubwürdigkeit des Westens. Sieht sich dieser doch, nicht zuletzt in seiner Verteidigung der angegriffenen Ukraine, in einem globalen Kampf für eine regelbasierte, "liberale Weltordnung".
Die bedingungslose Solidarität (!) mit Israel konterkariert in den Augen vieler im Globalen Süden diese Mission. Trotz aller Unterschiede der Konflikte, die es gibt, ist in der arabischen Welt und in weiten Teilen des globalen Südens, der Verweis auf Doppelstandards allzu präsent.
Was für die Ukraine noch galt, scheint - interessanterweise heute - für die Palästinenser nicht mehr zu gelten.
Was gestern noch für die Ukraine galt, all jenes, scheint heute für die Palästinenser nicht mehr zu gelten: Das Recht auf nationale Selbstbestimmung, die Freiheit von ausländischer Besatzung, die Notwendigkeit das humanitäre Völkerrecht einzuhalten sowie das Verbot der Bombardierung von Wohnquartieren.
Die israelische Ankündigung, die Zivilbevölkerung von Wasser, Strom und Nahrung abzuschneiden, führte zu keinerlei Verurteilung seitens des Westens, obgleich EU-Kommissionspräsidentin Von der Leyen russische Attacken auf die ukrainische Infrastruktur ein Jahr vorher noch als „Akte puren Terrors“ gegeißelt hatte.
Hängen bleibt bei vielen im Globalen Süden vor allem eins: Dass, wie es der jordanische König beschreibt, die Anwendung des humanitären Völkerrechts optional sei sowie, dass Menschenrechte für manche gelten, für andere jedoch nicht. Eine Ambivalenz, die gemessen am Völkerrecht nicht nachvollziehbar ist - und eine Rhetorik, derer sich sonst überwiegend die USA, innerhalb ihres Exeptionalismus und ihrer geopolitischen Ausrichtung, bedient.
Der Vorwurf der systematischen Anwendung von Doppelstandards ist dabei nicht erst auf die jüngste Bombardierung Gazas zurückzuführen. Er rührt viel tiefer. Seit Jahrzehnten betreibt Israel in den besetzten Gebieten, wozu laut UN- und offizieller deutscher Definition auch der Gazastreifen zählt, ein Besatzungsregime, das die palästinensische Bevölkerung systematisch entrechtet, gängelt und demütigt. Während die Augen der Weltöffentlichkeit auf den Gazastreifen gerichtet sind, setzt sich dies aktuell mit Wucht in der Westbank fort.
In den letzten anderthalb Jahrzehnten hat sich herauskristallisiert, dass die Besatzung keine temporäre Maßnahme auf dem Weg zu einer Zweitstaatenlösung mehr ist. Als erklärtem Gegner jeder palästinensischen Staatlichkeit beruht die Vision Netanjahus und seiner rechtsradikalen Koalitionspartner darauf, dieses Regime in alle Ewigkeit zu perpetuieren.
Sprich: from the river to the sea, soll es wie derzeit nur einen einzigen Staat geben, mit (mehrheitlich jüdischen) Bürgern, für die demokratische Rechte gelten und Millionen rechtloser (durchweg palästinensischer) Untertanen, die durch Israel beherrscht werden, aber keinerlei Mitspracherechte erlangen. Ganz offen werden mittlerweile selbst Pläne „ethnischer Säuberung“ kultiviert – nicht mehr nur in den Parteiprogrammen der Rechtsradikalen, sondern sogar in offiziellen Regierungsdokumenten.
Es kristallisiert sich dennoch klar heraus: Der Terror der Hamas ist nicht ursächlich auf diese Perspektivlosigkeit zurückzuführen. Mörderischer Islamismus und Antisemitismus, das zeigt sich auch anderswo, brauchen keine Besatzung als Geburtshelfer. Wohl aber hat Hamas vor allem dann Zulauf bekommen, als die moderaten, verhandlungsbereiten Kräfte an die Wand gedrückt wurden – eine Politik, die Netanjahu sogar ganz offiziell so betrieben hat.
In ihrer Ablehnung eines gerechten Friedens, sind Israels Rechte und die Islamisten, seit jeher vereint.
Es sind gerade die Kernstaaten des Westens, die eine besondere Innigkeit zu Israel an den Tag legen.
Für den politischen Westen müsste dies allein kein Problem darstellen, kultiviert er doch auch intensive Beziehungen zu einer Reihe anderer Staaten mit durchaus eigensinnigen Verständnissen von politischer Partizipation und Minderheitenschutz. Im Gegensatz zu Israel handelt es sich bei diesen Staaten allerdings um Autokratien verschiedenster Spielart und nicht um eine selbsterklärte Demokratie, die, als Teil einer sich auch als "Werte- gemeinschaft" verstehenden Gruppe, an entsprechend höheren Standards in puncto Menschenrechte gemessen wird.
Es sind gerade die Kernstaaten des Westens, Amerika und Deutschland (Deutsche Annalen), die eine besondere Innigkeit zu Israel an den Tag legen – die Beziehung zum jüdischen Staat ist nachgerade konstituierend für ihr politisch-staatliches Selbstverständnis („Staatsräson“). Es sind im Übrigen auch jene beiden Länder, die am lautesten eine Wertebindung ihrer Außenpolitik behaupten, mithin vorgeben, dass sich ihre Politik an "übergeordneten Idealen" und keineswegs nur schnöden Interessen orientiert. Daran misst diese zunehmend auch die Welt.
Die faktische Unterstützung der israelischen Besatzungspolitik, die gegen jegliche der hochgehaltenen Prinzipien verstößt, ist eine eitrige Wunde in der argumentativen Flanke des „Wertewestens“, genau wie jene des 11. Septembers 2001 und dem damit etablierten Narrativ und der durch Medien präsentierten Bush - Phrase: "War on terror". - Schon von Zbigniew Brzezinski https://www.globalresearch.ca/terrorized-by-war-on-terror/5186 wurde dieser als eine "etablierte Kultur der Angst" entlarvt, und auch vom damaligen Umweltminister, Michael Meacher, seinerzeit unter Premierminister Tony Blair, wurde der "Krieg gegen den Terror", als Vorwand bezeichnet. "This war on terror is bogus"!
Der nun hochkochende Krieg ist somit ein Geschenk an all jene, vornehmlich in Peking und Moskau, welche die durch den Westen verteidigte regelbasierte und "liberale Weltordnung" ohnehin als Heuchelei denunzieren. Und die sich nun als Champions des palästinensischen Selbstbestimmungsrechts, mithin als Anführer jener Mehrheit an 138 UNO-Mitgliedsstaaten aufführen dürfen, die den Staat Palästina anerkannt haben. Was sich andeutet in der öffentlichen Weltmeinung, ist möglicherweise ein veritabler Großkonflikt zwischen dem Westen und dem Globalen Süden. (Entwicklungs- & Schwellenländer)
Anders als im Fall der Ukraine, wo in den aufstrebenden Staaten Lateinamerikas, Afrikas und Asiens eher das Ressentiment gegen die moralisch überhöhte Selbstgerechtigkeit des Westens dominierte – eine Art Trotz –, ist der Nahostkonflikt anders gelagert. Er ist ein wahrhaftiger Nord-Süd-Konflikt. Hier steht also mitnichten die „zivilisierte Welt“ gegen die Teheraner Terrorachse, sondern es ist eine globale Auseinandersetzung, die an den Grundfesten der vom Westen verkündeten Werte rührt.
Es wird keinen Ausweg geben, für die Zivilbevölkerung Gazas. (Gaza umzingelt)
Angesichts dessen sollten die Verantwortlichen in Washington und den europäischen Hauptstädten sich gut überlegen, Israel weiterhin eine carte blanche (Blankovollmacht) für das Trugbild einer rein militärischen Lösung zu geben.
Der von Israel nun angekündigte monatelange Krieg könnte in einem Desaster enden. Nicht nur, weil er sich militärisch womöglich als Himmelfahrtskommando entpuppt. Sondern weil er die humanitäre Krise auf die Spitze triebe. Für die Zivilbevölkerung Gazas gibt es keinen Ausweg, Hunderttausende werden zwischen die Fronten geraten. Die Bilder des tausendfachen Leids, millionenfach verbreitet in den sozialen Netzwerken, die ein solcher Krieg nach sich zieht, werden global die Ressentiments gegen Israel zum Kochen bringen.
Ein Sturm der Entrüstung gegen den gesamten Westen wäre die Konsequenz. Die massive Mobilisierung im globalen Süden, aber auch in den westlichen Hauptstädten, die scharfen Äußerungen führender Staatsoberhäupter wie beispielsweise Erdogan und Lula, die diplomatischen Erschütterungen in Lateinamerika, deuten darauf hin, dass hier etwas zu zerbrechen droht zwischen dem Westen und dem Rest der Welt.
Hinzu kommt: Dieser Krieg könnte auch global eine ganze Generation radikalisieren. Israel glaubt, es könne die Hamas mit Gewalt zerschlagen. Stattdessen droht womöglich eine neue Terrorwelle, die auch durchaus gewünscht ist, aus Sicht der Machteliten.
Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt und noch ist es nicht zu spät, die Notbremse zu ziehen (!) Nicht zuletzt um einen regionalen Flächenbrand zu vermeiden, welcher der ganzen Region droht, mit womöglich unkontrollierbaren Auswirkungen auf den Weltfrieden. Denn das Kalkül, eine solche Eskalation durch Abschreckung und die durch die Amerikaner betriebene massive Verlagerung von Militärgerät in den Nahen Osten, zu verhindern, könnte sich selbstverständlich als Fehlkalkulation herausstellen.
Doch, wie realistisch ist die Annahme, dass Terrororganisationen deren ganze ideologische raison d’être im Kampf gegen Israel besteht, das sich anbahnende Gemetzel in Gaza aussitzen werden ??? ¿,...
Dass regionale Alliierte dem sich hochschaukelnden Volkszorn ohne Folgen für ihre eigene Stabilität widerstehen? Dass Peking und Moskau dem ganzen nur zuschauen werden? Es ist ein Vabanque-Spiel mit extrem hohem Einsatz bei gleichzeitig bescheiden "ausfallendem Gewinn". Vabanque-Spiel mit einem Atomkrieg.
Mögliches Horrorszenario eines Flächenbrands ist unausweichlich. Denn um es zu verhindern, braucht es Seitens der USA und Israels die Einsicht, dass sich dieser Konflikt nicht militärisch lösen lässt. Dass der Versuch einer rein militärischen Lösung vielmehr den Nährboden bereitet für noch mehr Hass, für noch mehr Gewalt, für ein im globalen Maßstab beispielloses Zerwürfnis.
Somit ist es jetzt Zeit für bittere Wahrheiten. Und eine davon lautet:
Die Grundursache für den Nahostkonflikt heißt nicht Hamas. Aber es ist Hamas, die den Konflikt zum Leben braucht, es ist Hamas, die den großen Krieg will.
Eine weitere lautet:
So lange es die Möglichkeit hat, die Besatzung aufrechtzuerhalten, wird Israel diese nicht räumen. Denn Netanjahu und Israels Rechte wollen das ganze Land, sie wollen keinen palästinensischen Staat.
Das Scheitern von Oslo und die demonstrierte Unfähigkeit beider Konfliktparteien, sich im Rahmen einer in ihren Grundzügen bereits lange ausformulierten Zweitstaatenlösung auf einen gerechten Frieden zu einigen, sollte sowohl im Westen als auch in der Arabischen Welt den Blick schärfen.
"Gleichberchtigung und Versöhnung",...Lichtjahre von einander entfernt,...
Es kristallisieren sich jetzt zwei Optionen heraus: Möchten sie den regionalen Flächenbrand "riskieren" (bewusst herbeiführen), dann lassen sie das Heft des Handelns in den Händen der Konfliktparteien. Möchten sie aber den Frieden wahren, und einen gerechten und dauerhaften Frieden erst möglich machen, so müssen sie ihn selbst durchsetzen. Gegen verdeckt opperierende terroristische Zinonisten und Israels Rechtsradikale.
Realistische Einschätzung:
Zu spät kann es immer nur sein, wenn der Sachlage keine Alternativen vorausgehen. Doch der "Untergang des Nahen Ostens" ist "alternativlos" und Teil des Plans, Henry Kissingers ("The Plan") & die Umsetzung der letzten Bilderberg Konferzenz, die genau auf dieses Horrorszenario abzielt - mit weitreichenden Folgen für uns Europäer,...(!)
Wir werden aller Tagträumereien und Sentimentalitäten entkleidet! Das Unbekannte kann der "Kampf gegen den Terror" sein.,...gegen X,...
In seinem jüngsten Interview verweist Prof. Dr. Rainer Mausfeld auf das einzige Mittel, das uns aus dem Sog der massenmedialen Manipulation befreit: „bewusstes Nachdenken”.
Auszug:
"Die Folgen eines kollektiven Wahnsinns zu prognostizieren ist naturgemäß kaum möglich. Nur dass er zumeist in eine zivilisatorische Katastrophe mündet.
(…) Die Bevölkerung ist durch einen rigorosen Kampagnenjournalismus und eine zur Perfektion entwickelte Narrativkontrolle in einer so tiefgehenden und umfassenden Weise indoktriniert, wie dies wohl nie zuvor in der Geschichte des Medienwesens der Fall war.
Die Bevölkerung ist der Möglichkeit einer eigenständigen Urteilsbildung weitestgehend beraubt und schart sich hochemotionalisiert, teils verängstigt und apathisch, teils fanatisch und im Russenhass vereint, um ihre Führer. Da zudem gegenwärtig jede Form von Dissens sofort aggressiv geächtet, diffamiert und repressiv bekämpft wird, wird es vermutlich noch längere Zeit gelingen, aufkeimenden Protest durch Diffamierungskampagnen zu spalten und zu neutralisieren.
(…) Meinungen und Einstellungen lassen sich nicht so einfach fakten- oder vernunftwidrig manipulieren, weil wir normalerweise über ein natürliches psychisches Immunsystem gegen Manipulation verfügen. Wir bemerken also, dass man uns manipulieren will, und wenden uns von dem vergifteten Vermittlungsmedium ab. Wenn aber unser natürliches Immunsystem gegen Manipulation unterlaufen oder in seiner Funktionsweise beeinträchtigt wird, sind wird einer Manipulation schutzlos ausgeliefert. Genau darauf zielen, wie ich ja an anderer Stelle ausführlicher aufzeige, moderne Indoktrinationstechniken.
Dafür gibt es im Prinzip zwei Wege. Der eine Weg ist struktureller, der andere psychologischer Natur. Der strukturelle Weg besteht darin, durch eine Medienkonzentration in den Händen mächtiger politischer und wirtschaftlicher Eliten eine Art Informationsmonopol zu schaffen. Auf diese Weise werden die Massenmedien, wie dies ja gegenwärtig in beängstigender Weise erkennbar wird, in ihrem Meinungsspektrum extrem homogenisiert, und der öffentliche Debattenraum wird auf die politisch gewünschten Meinungen verkürzt. Damit wird natürlich der Demokratie überhaupt die Grundlage entzogen.
Hier nun kommt ein wichtiger psychologischer Effekt ins Spiel:
Psychologische Experimente haben gezeigt, dass einer Behauptung subjektiv ein höherer Wahrheitswert zugeschrieben wird, je häufiger man sie präsentiert. Dieser Effekt zeigt sich selbst dann, wenn diese Behauptung zuvor als eindeutig falsch markiert wurde. Allein durch dauernde Wiederholung steigt tendenziell der gefühlte Wahrheitsgehalt. Das ist schlicht eine Eigenschaft der Funktionsweise unseres Geistes. Man kann sich, wenn überhaupt, vor ihren nachteiligen Folgen nur durch bewusstes Nachdenken schützen. Wenn also eine fakten- oder vernunftwidrige Behauptung von allen großen Medien verbreitet wird, so dass ein politisch interessierter Bürger sie in SZ, SPIEGEL, FAZ, taz oder Tagesschau wiederfindet, so erlebt er sie tendenziell auch dann als richtig, wenn sie nachweislich falsch ist. Dieser Effekt funktioniert so zuverlässig wie die optischen Täuschungen in der Wahrnehmung.
Wenn nun derartige Wiederholungen sich durch alle meinungsbildenden Instanzen, wie Schulen, Universitäten und kulturellen Bereiche ziehen, werden sie zu gefühlten Wahrheiten, die als kaum hinterfragbare Selbstverständlichkeiten empfunden werden. Genau darauf zielt der zweite, psychologische Weg einer Tiefenindoktrination. Das längerfristig angelegte Ziel einer Tiefenindoktrination ist die stabile Formung politischer und gesellschaftlicher Weltbilder und Wertesysteme. Diese Weltbilder oder „Narrative“ werden kognitiv und affektiv so tief verankert, dass sie uns gar nicht mehr als ideologische Weltbilder bewusst sind, sondern uns als Selbstverständlichkeit erscheinen. Sie sind uns so selbstverständlich wie dem Fisch das Wasser.
In dem Maße, wie uns ein ideologisches Weltbild nicht mehr als solches bewusst ist, sind wir auch unfähig gemacht worden, überhaupt noch einen Außenstandpunkt zu ihm einzunehmen. Wir reagieren im Gegenteil ausgesprochen aggressiv auf jeden, der die behauptete Selbstverständlichkeit der vorherrschenden politischen Rahmenerzählung infrage stellt. Eine Tiefenindoktrination hat also für die Mächtigen den Vorteil, dass die von ihnen vermittelte Rahmenerzählung sehr stabil und weitgehend gegen Fakten und Kritik immun ist.
(…) Dies kann mittlerweile sehr viel leichter erreicht werden, weil die Techniken der Indoktrination enorm verfeinert und optimiert wurden – dazu hat besonders die Psychologie entscheidende Beiträge geleistet. Wenn Menschen erst einmal daran gewöhnt sind, vernunftwidrige Behauptungen zu akzeptieren, ist, wie aus psychologischen Studien bekannt ist, insgesamt ihre Befähigung beeinträchtigt, überhaupt noch in rationaler Weise Überzeugungen ausbilden zu können – was für die Machtausübenden natürlich ein gewaltiger Vorteil ist.
Heute ist die massive Indoktrination für die Menschen, die ihr ausgesetzt sind, nahezu unsichtbar gemacht worden. Zwar ist, wie schon Joseph Goebbels wusste, seit jeher bekannt, dass Indoktrination nur wirken kann, wenn sie nicht als solche bemerkt wird. Denn damit ist unser natürliches Immunsystem gegen Manipulation weitgehend ausgehebelt. Die Wirksamkeit moderner Formen der Indoktrination übersteigt, was der Öffentlichkeit kaum bekannt ist, bei weitem die aller traditionellen Formen von Propaganda. Das zeigt sich nicht zuletzt darin, dass der überwiegende Teil der Bevölkerung zutiefst überzeugt ist, in einer Gesellschaft zu leben, die im Großen und Ganzen frei von Indoktrination ist – einer der spektakulärsten Erfolge der Propaganda überhaupt. Die Lüge hat sich also, in Günther Anders Worten, längst wahrgelogen.
(…) "Die Verantwortlichen haben genau so gedacht, wie es der politische Zeitgeist der sogenannten „Zeitenwende“ von ihnen erwartet. Sie haben das aus dieser Perspektive Selbstverständliche gedacht und getan. Insofern sie den herrschenden Zeitgeist in vorauseilendem Opportunismus lediglich zu seinem konsequenten Ende gedacht haben, stellt sich für sie die Frage einer Verantwortlichkeit gar nicht. Denn dies würde die Möglichkeit voraussetzen, überhaupt noch einen Außenstandpunkt einnehmen zu können. Genau das ist aber gar nicht mehr möglich".
Der Frage nach einem Ausweg aus diesem Teufelskreis begegnet Mausfeld mit nüchternem Realismus. Gleichzeitig setzt er jedoch auch auf das innerste Potential, das uns Menschen immanent ist: Den Willen zur Freiheit und eine „natürliche Befähigung zur Moralität”:
"Diese Frage [nach einem Entkommen, A.d.V.] kann ich nicht, zumindest nicht in befriedigender Weise, beantworten. Und ich wüsste auch nicht, wer sie in seriöser Weise beantworten könnte. Zugleich ist es aber die wichtigste und drängendste Frage, vor der wir stehen. Unzählige Menschen in aller Welt suchen mit großem Engagement nach Antworten und nach Auswegen aus dem Indoktrinationsgewölbe.
(…)
Von einer solchen Wahrnehmung sind wir noch weit entfernt, trotz wachsender Empörung in zunehmend größer werdenden Teilen der Bevölkerung. Die Status-quo-Beharrung, die politische Apathie und die moralische Gleichgültigkeit haben durch Konsumismus, Unterhaltungsindustrie, Überflutung mit Nichtigkeiten durch Medien und durch eine tiefgreifende soziale Atomisierung einzigartige Ausmaße erreicht.
Zugleich zeigt die Geschichte, dass immer wieder über kurz oder lang geeignete Formen von Gegenmacht der gesellschaftlichen Basis entstanden sind. Der Grund liegt darin, dass wir als Menschen ein natürliches Bedürfnis haben, nicht dem Willen anderer unterworfen zu werden. Und dass wir über eine natürliche Befähigung zur Moralität verfügen. Dazu gehören Abscheu gegen Ungerechtigkeit und Unrecht, und Mitleid mit denen, die Leid und Unrecht erfahren. Diese natürlichen Befähigungen gehören zur Beschaffenheit des Menschen. Sie sind die psychologischen Quellen allen emanzipatorischen Fortschritts. Auf diesem Fundament können wir unsere Hoffnung gründen.
(…)
Ein gesichertes Fundament dabei ist die Einsicht, dass der Mensch als einziges Lebewesen über ein geradezu unerschöpfliches kreatives Potential verfügt – und zwar sowohl im Destruktiven wie im Konstruktiven".
Transformation der"repräsentativen Demokratie"zum autoritären Sicherheitsstaat
Those People in Gaza: Where Do They Come From, And Why Are They So Mad ?
"We tend to believe abroad that Palestine is nowadays almost completely deserted,
- a noncultivated wilderness,...
Diese Leute in Gaza: Woher kommen sie und warum sind sie so verrückt ?
"Wir neigen im Ausland dazu zu glauben, dass Palästina heutzutage fast völlig verlassen ist,
- eine nicht kultivierte Wildnis.
Palästina war “schon” ein Garten bevor das “auserwählte Volk” dort eintraf . Es war schwierig, dort überhaupt unkultiviertes Land zu finden. Die Palästinenser hatten ihre internationalen Märkte bereits aufgebaut, die dann von den Israelis 1948 mit der Nationalisierung übernommen wurden.
Die Bilder schienen uns interessant im Kontrast zu den immer wiederholten zionistischen Lügen , die universell wie Gold gehandelt werden. Und Heute: Afghanistan ist nach wie vor Kampfgebiet, der Nahe Osten unbefriedet, Israel hält immer noch Gaza in Geiselhaft und okkupiert Teile des Westjordanlandes durch seinen Mauerbau, international ungeahndet, illegal seit eh und je. –
Palästina war „schon“ ein Garten bevor das „auserwählte Volk“ dort eintraf . Es war schwierig, dort überhaupt unkultiviertes Land zu finden. Die Palästinenser hatten ihre internationalen Märkte bereits aufgebaut, die dann von den Israelis 1948 mit der Nationalisierung übernommen wurden. Es gab staatliche Schulen, Fussballmannschaften, Nationalgefühl, Pfadfinder, volle Märkte und einen differenzierten Arbeitsmarkt.
Sehr alte Fotos aus Palästina !
«Ein Volk ohne Land für ein Land ohne Volk» *
Die zionistische Propaganda wiederholt seit einem Jahrhundert, dass Palästina vor dem Eintreffen der Zionisten quasi unbewohnt war. Dieses Foto aus Jaffa vom Juli 1908 zeigt eine riesige Menschenmenge. vor dem Büro der Lokalregierung (Grand Serai), die den Erfolg der Revolution der Jungtürken und die Absetzung des ottomanischen Sultans Abdul Hamid in Istanbul feiern.
Offenbar gab es da doch ein wenig Bevölkerung
Der lebendige und überfüllte Markt (bazar) von Jaffa 1896
Sicht auf Jaffa vom Meer, Aufnahme zwischen 1898 und 1914
Die türkische Revolution entfachte in Palästina, das eine Provinz des osmanischen Reichs war, große Hoffnungen auf Parlamentswahlen und eine verfassungsgemäße Regierung.
Eine saubere und zivilisierte palästinensische Stadt voller Aktivität, die damals 70.000 Einwohner hatte, sämtlich Araber. Gesamtsicht auf die Pflanzungen von Jaffa , aufgenommen vor 1914.
Es sieht tatsächlich so aus, als ob Palästina bereits ein Garten war vor der Ankunft der Auserwählten. In Wahrheit gab es mit Ausnahme von Dünen und Felsen kaum unkultiviertes Land. Obst- und Gemüseplantagen, Olivenhaine und Palmen gab es rund um Städte und Dörfer, dank einer intensiven und spezialisierten Landwirtschaft.
«Die Zionisten haben eine Wüste vorgefunden und daraus einen Garten gemacht» so wurde verkündet.
ERNTE Kollektion Matson (1898-1914)
Obst- und Gemüseplantagen, Olivenhaine und Palmen gab es rund um Städte und Dörfer, dank einer intensiven und spezialisierten Landwirtschaft.
ERNTE Kollektion Matson (1898-1914) / Frühe 1920er Jahre: Sortierung der Ernte
Die Kisten mit Obst und Gemüse erreichen auf Booten die Frachtschiffe, die im Hafen von Jaffa ankern für den Export ins Ausland.
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Bereits im frühen 19.Jahrhundert waren Südfrüchte das Hauptexportgut Palästinas.
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Orangen, Limonen und Pampelmusen aus Jaffa waren alltägliche Gegebenheiten auf den Frühstückstischen des British - Empire.
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Die Früchte werden in leichtes Papier eingewickelt für den Vertrieb
Gesamtsicht auf die Pflanzungen von Jaffa , aufgenommen vor 1914.
Es sieht tatsächlich so aus, als ob Palästina bereits ein Garten war vor der Ankunft der Auserwählten. In Wahrheit gab es mit Ausnahme von Dünen und Felsen kaum unkultiviertes Land.
«Erst die Zionisten, hätten wertvolle Pflanzenkulturen und fortschrittliche Technik eingeführt, so wurde es dargestellt.»
Die Palästinenser hatten ihre Märkte gut organisiert
– dies ist auch der Grund, weshalb der zionistische Staat die Landwirtschaft „nationalisierte“
– was nichts anderes bedeutete als es den Palästinensern zu rauben –
– und daraus das Hauptexportgut des neuen Staats Israel machte.
«Rückständige Beduinen, die ohne Zivilisation in Zelten leben »wurde verkündet !
Eine Grundschulklasse der christlich-orthodoxen Nationalschule im Jahr 1938.
Offenbar wurden die christlichen Schulen auch von muslimischen Kindern gerne besucht, weil man dort eine ausgezeichnete Schulbildung erhielt.
Die Schüler der christlich-orthodoxen Schule hatten natürlich auch ein Orchester….
«Es gab niemals einen palästinensischen Staat» so die Inschrift auf der Tür
Wer wenig lernt, hat auch später wenig Bedeutung
Die Lehrerschaft der staatlichen Oberschule in Jaffa 1923 (Lyzeum und technische Schule)
Der Professor in der Mitte, westlich gekleidet mit Krawatte, aber mit Fez ist Salim Katul, Autor zahlreicher arabischer Bücher mit wissenschaftlichen Inhalten.
Wenn es niemals einen Staat gab, wieso gab es dann eine staatliche Schule ???
»Halbwilde, die nur die Sprache der Gewalt verstehen»
Die Tischlerklasse der Sekundarstufe an dieser staatlichen Schule im Jahr 1924.
Die Fussballmannschaft der Schule im Jahr 1923
Pfadfinder und „Wölfchen“ der Sekundarstufe im Jahr 1924
«Sie hatten keinerlei Nationalbewusstsein…..vorher….»
Berittene britische Polizisten vertreiben am 27. Oktober 1933 auf dem zentralen Platz von Jaffa, eine Protestkundgebung gegen die englische Politik, welche die jüdische Einwanderung vorantreibt.
Am gleichen 27. Oktober, verprügelt hier die britische Polizei den allseits respektierten palästinensischen Politiker Muza Kazim Pasha al-Husseini, während einer Protestkundgebung gegen die jüdische Einwanderung.
Dieser stirbt 6 Monate später 81-jährig an den Folgen dieser Schläge, von denen er sich niemals mehr erholt hatte.
Der Beginn der „arabischen Revolte“ gegen die philo-zionistische englische Politik. Die englische Polizei sieht sich auf dem zentralen Platz von Jaffa arabischen Demonstranten gegenüber.
Englische Truppen durchsuchen Passanten am „Lungomare“ von Jaffa während des arabischen Aufstands 1936.
«Sie hassen uns für unsere Freiheit»
Englische Repressalien gegen den arabischen Aufstand 1936:
Englische Soldaten riegeln mit Stacheldraht die Altstadt von Jaffa ab; dies ist das Vorspiel für die „Straf“-Zerstörung von Häusern der arabischen Bevölkerung.
Das Ergebnis der Strafmaßnahme: die von den Engländern in Trümmern zurückgelassene Altstadt von Jaffa 1936.
So gesehen haben die Israelis lediglich eine Tradition fortgeführt.,...
«Das sind alles Terroristen, es gibt keinen mit dem man verhandeln kann.»
Die Trümmer des Gouverneurspalastes (Grand Serai) , zerstört durch ein Attentat der „Lohemai Herut Israel“, besser bekannt als «Stern-Bande».
–Am 4. Januar 1948 parkten Mitglieder der Sternbande einen Lastwagen mit Explosivmunition verborgen unter Orangen vor dem Palast.
–Das Gebäude wurde bis auf die Grundmauern zerstört, darüberhinaus wurden 26 palästinensische Zivilisten getötet.
So gab es niemanden mehr, mit dem man verhandeln konnte.
24. April 1948:
militante Zionisten der Irgun dringen durch Breschen in palästinensische Häuser ein, die sie zuvor mit Sprengstoff verursacht hatten. An diesem Tag beginnt die israelische Geheimarmee unter dem Kommando von Menachem Begin einen Angriff, der 4 Tage und 4 Nächte dauert, gegen das von Tel Aviv umgebene Wohnviertel Manshiyeh am Meer mit wahllos abgefeuerten Mörsergranaten.
Die Auswirkungen des zionistischen Bombardements gegen Manshiyeh. Der offizielle Bericht vor dem britischen Parlament spricht am 5. Mai 1948 von: «Wahllosen Mörserangriffe mit dem offensichtlichen Ziel, Panik unter der Zivilbevölkerung hervorzurufen». Die englischen Streitkräfte gingen mit Luftangriffen dagegen vor, so dass die Israelis sich im Lauf des Nachmittags zurückzogen auf ihre vorhergehenden Positionen (…) Am Abend des 30. April wurde der (von den Briten) verordnete Waffenstillstand von israelischer Seite gebrochen (…). Nach einer Schätzung sind 30.000 Araber aus Jaffa geflüchtet und weitere werden folgen. Der arabische Bürgermeister ist noch in Jaffa und die öffentliche Aufgaben werden - wenn auch mit Schwierigkeiten - erfüllt.» (Hansard, House of Commons, 5 Mai 1948, Seite 1.238)
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– man beachte auf dem Foto den christlich orthodoxen Kirchturm
Ende April 1948:
Tausende Araber flüchten vor dem zionistischen Angriff auf Jaffa auf dem Seeweg, nachdem die Straßen von orthodoxen Terroristen der ’Haganah blockiert werden; sie erreichen Gaza, Ägypten, den Libanon als Flüchtlinge.
«Endlich kann ein Volk ohne Land sich in einem Land einrichten, in dem es keine Bevölkerung mehr gibt» Aufgrund Völkermord und Völkervertreibung
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Glücklich lächelnde jüdische Einwanderer aus Europa.
Those People in Gaza: Where Do They Come From, And Why Are They So Mad ?
"We tend to believe abroad that Palestine is nowadays almost completely deserted,
a noncultivated wilderness.,...
Diese Leute in Gaza: Woher kommen sie und warum sind sie so verrückt ?
"Wir neigen im Ausland dazu zu glauben, dass Palästina heutzutage fast völlig verlassen ist,
eine nicht kultivierte Wildnis.,...
Jaffa, Palestine: Palestinians gather at the Grand Serai (local government offices) in July 1908, to celebrate the al-Hurriyah Revolution (i.e. the Young Turks Revolution) against Sultan Abdul Hamid and in favor of the restoration of the constitution and the holding of Parliamentary elections. (via Walid Khalidi, Before Their Diaspora). A noncultivated wilderness, eine nicht kultivierte Wildnis,... - Aha,...
Jaffa, Palestine: General view of the city from the sea looking east, pre-1914. (Matson Collection, 1898-1914).
and anyone can come there and buy as much land as his heart desires.
Jaffa, Palestine: Street scene in the old city next to the Jaffa's famous Clock tower, pre-1914 (Matson Collection).
But in reality this is not the case.
Jaffa, Palestine: The bazaar in 1896.
It is difficult to find anywhere in the country Arab land which lies fallow;
Jaffa, Palestine: General view of Jaffa and its orange groves, facing south; before 1914. (Matson Collection)
the only areas which are not cultivated are sand dunes or stony mountains,
Jaffa, Palestine: Harvesting the oranges. (Matson Collection)
which can be only planted with trees,
Jaffa, Palestine: Sorting and packing citrus fruits, 1920's.
and even this only after much labor and capital would be invested
Jaffa, Palestine: Oranges being wrapped for sale. (Matson Collection).
in clearance and preparation...
Jaffa, Palestine: Boxed Jaffa oranges being loaded for export, early 1920's. Jaffa oranges were Palestine's leading export. After 1948, Jaffa's nationalized orange groves and the established markets for their products provided the major source of income for the new state of Israel.
We tend to believe abroad that all Arabs are desert barbarians,
Jaffa, Palestine: The staff of the Government Secondary Boys' School (al-Ameiryah High School) in 1923. Seated center is Salim Katul, author of a series of textbooks in Arabic on the natural sciences.
an asinine people who does not see or understand what is going on around them.
Jaffa, Palestine: Elementary school pupils at the National Christian Orthodox School (1938).
This is a cardinal mistake...
Jaffa, Palestine: Carpentry class at the Government Secondary Boys' School, 1924. The inscription over the door reads, "The least worthy of you are the least learned".
[When] the day will come in which the life of our people in the Land of Israel
Jaffa, Palestine: The band of the National Christian Orthodox School (1938)
will develop to such a degree that they will push aside the local population by little or by much,
Jaffa, Palestine: Wolf Cubs and Boy Scouts with camping gear, at the Government Secondary Boys' School, 1924.
then it will not easily give up its place...
Jaffa, Palestine: The Government Secondary Boys' School first XI (Soccer) in 1923.
One thing we certainly should have learned from our past and present history,
Jaffa, Palestine: Palestinians demonstrate in Jaffa's central square against the plans of the British government to increase Zionist immigration into Palestine, 27 October 1933.
and that is not to create anger among the local population against us...
Jaffa, Palestine: British Soldiers clubbing Palestinian dignitary Musa Kazim Pasha al-Husseini at the 27 October 1933 demonstration against British policy on Zionist immigration into Palestine. Musa Kazim Pasha al-Husseini died six months later, 27 March 1934, at the age of eighty-one, having never recovered from the effects of this beating. (via Walid Khalidi, Before Their Diaspora).
We have to treat the local population with love and respect, justly and rightly.
Jaffa, Palestine: The beginning of the Arab Revolt of 1936-39. British riot police clash with Palestinian demonstrators protesting Britain's pro-Zionist policies (specifically increasing Zionist immigration into Palestine), Central Square, Jaffa, 12 June 1936. (via Walid Khalidi, Before Their Diaspora).
And what do our brethren in the Land of Israel do? Exactly the opposite!
Jaffa, Palestine: British soldiers search one of Jaffa's residents during the Arab Revolt, 1936.
[T]hey behave toward the Arabs with hostility and cruelty,
The Punishment of Jaffa, Palestine: British soldiers cordon off Jaffa's old city in preparation for the punitive demolition of Palestinian buildings in reprisal for the Arab Revolt against British policy in Palestine; 1936.
infringe upon their boundaries,
The Punishment of Jaffa, Palestine: British soldiers carry out punitive demolitions in the old city, in reprisal for the Arab Revolt against British policy in Palestine; 1936.
hit them shamefully without reason, and even brag about it.
Jaffa, Palestine: The ruins of the Grand Serai (local govt offices, see the first photo in this post). A truck loaded with explosives covered with oranges was parked outside the entrance on 4 January 1948 by members of the Zionist militant organization, Lohemai Herut Israel (the Stern Gang). The resulting explosion destroyed the building and killed 26 Palestinian civilians. (via Walid Khalidi, Before Their Diaspora)
Jaffa was the most advanced city in Palestine, and had approximately 70,000 Palestinian inhabitants. The U.N. assigned Jaffa to Arab Palestine in UNGAR 181 of 29 November 1947. But Jaffa was always going to be vulnerable to Zionist attack as it was an Arab enclave surrounded by Jewish Palestine, and abutted Tel Aviv, which contained the greatest concentration of Jewish population anywhere in Palestine. In the last four months of British rule, contemporary British Palestine Police and British Army records report the following Zionist attacks on the citizens of Jaffa. I have excluded from the list attacks against military targets:
1 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 1200 hours, Jaffa. An explosion occurred in an Arab owned block of flats in Suq El Yehud, near Manshieh Police Station. The flats were completely demolished and slight damage was caused to the police station. Mohammed Ahmed Ismail, aged 20 of Manshieh Quarter, was slightly injured in the hand by glass splinters and was discharged after treatment. An Arab has reported to police that earlier he had seen four Jews carrying a barrel-shaped object. CO 537/3855
1 JANUARY 1948 During the afternoon of 1 January, a bunch of Irgun Z'vai Leumi thugs dressed in battledress and steel helmets drove at speed through Jaffa and fired at Arabs sitting outside a cafe. They killed two and wounded nine others before crashing through an Arab road block and disappearing into Tel Aviv. To emphasize the illusion that the British are responsible for all disorder in the country, they were wearing the flashes of the Royal Irish Fusiliers. WO 275/64
1 JANUARY 1948 Small party of Jews entered block of flats 40 yards in rear Shell Petrol Station, Jaffa, and placed a bomb which demolished the block of flats. So far, 1 Arab injured by flying debris. WO 275/64
4 JANUARY 1948 At 12:25 p.m. two Jewish terrorists, one driving a truck loaded with time bombs and the other driving a jeep, both as usual in British uniforms, drove to the end of a lane between the Arab welfare and relief centre in Jaffa housing children and the Barclay's Bank. The truck was driven in the lane and left there, and the driver was picked up by the jeep driver who was waiting for him. As they drove away, the whole town was rocked by a powerful explosion and many distant buildings were damaged by the concussion. The welfare centre was demolished. Seventeen Arabs were killed in this coldblooded murderous attack and 106 were wounded. Among those killed and seriously wounded were women and children. (United Nations Security Council Official Records, Supplements - 1948).
4 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 1240 hours, Jaffa. The Old Serrai in Clock Tower Square which houses the offices of the Arab National Committee, was completely destroyed by an explosion which killed 15 and injured 98 persons. Buildings nearby including Barclay's Bank, the Central Police Station and several shops and houses were also extensively damaged. Full details of how the attack was carried out are not yet available, but it is believed the attackers arrived at the scene in two vehicles? a 3-ton truck laden with orange boxes and a saloon car. Proceeding up Bustros Street towards Clock Tower Square?
The truck turned left into the narrow lane between Barclay's Bank and the Old Serrai. The saloon car was seen to park some 20 metres north of Central P.S. near the road leading to the port area. The truck was parked at a point about 20 yards along the above mentioned lane. Two persons, dressed as Arabs, were seen to alight from the truck and walk across the square. They got into the waiting car which drove off in the direction of the Ajami Quarter. Almost immediately following the departure of the car, the explosion occurred. Tons of masonry from the Old Serrai building completely blocked the land running beside it, A fire subsequently broke out in Barclay's Bank but was extinguished. A strong-room situated in the upper storey of the bank was blown in and a considerable amount of money was salvaged and taken into police custody. The entire area was wired off to facilitate salvage operations and to prevent looting. It is reported from TeI Aviv that Irgun Z'vai Leumi have claimed responsibility for this outrage. Tension has risen to a high pitch in Jaffa as a result of this attack, and a certain degree of anti-Government feeling has been expressed.
Details of the casualties are as follows:- Dead: 1) Mohammed Abdul Hallak (aged 12); 2) Abudul Sattah Wahab Jaber (20); 3) Ali Kastika; 4) Mohammed Said Abu Hassan (40); 5) Ahamad Derdanji (45); 6) Ahmad Hawari; 7) Yusef Abu Sheikh (25); 8) Ahmad Faris Shehadi (25); 9) Sa'ad Abil Majid Zein (25); 10) 15 unidentified. Injured: 1) Said Kheber Said (25) - serious; 2) Abed Ahmad Duknak ( 10) - serious; 3) Abed Mahmoud Shulayeh (17) - serious; 4) Ashraf Tewfik Lufti (28) - serious; 5) Naji Said Mughrabi - serious; 6) Mohammed Ibrahim Mughrabi - serious; 7) Taha Abu Rabah (35) - serious; 8) Mohammed Hassan Ibrahim (20) - serious; 9) Rasmiyeh Saba (22) - serious; 10) Abed Mustafe Abu Wazni (30) - serious; 11) Hishan Alami (35) - not serious; 12) Ibrahim Mustafa Najar (25) - not serious. All the above named are in the Dajani Hospital. 13) Huda Abu Labm (20) - not serious; 14) Said Afif Atout (19) - not serious; 15) Rafik Salami (27) - not serious; The above three are in the Government Hospital, 16) Ahmad Mahmoud Taher (30) - serious; 17) Ahmad Ahmad Nel(25) - serious; 18) Ali Hassan Ashoura (20) - not serious; 19) Ahmad Ismail Abu Shabayeh (22) - not serious; 20) Rais Hassan Abu Chouleh (70) - not serious. The above-mentioned five are in the French Hospital. Seventy-eight other persons were treated in hospitals for slight injuries but were not detained.
CO 537/3855
8 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 0245 hours, Jaffa. Unknown persons placed a bomb against the house of Haj Abed El Jaber Lahloub, situated at the western side of Beit Dajan village. The bomb exploded causing extensive damage to the house? but no casualties.
CO 537/3855
9 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 0730 hours, Jaffa. Near Jaffa Railway Station; two 'buses conveying Arab railway employees to Lydda were fired upon from automatic weapons from Jewish houses overlooking their station. Hassan Hilu of Jaffa sustained a slight bullet wound in the leg, and two other Arabs were slightly injured by glass splinters.
CO 537/3855
10/11 JANUARY 1948 Gaza, 2130 hours. Shots are reported to have been fired from a passing vehicle into an orange grove on Sawafir Sharki lands near the main GadJaffa road. At 0800 hours on 11 January, 1948, the body of a labourer, Abdul Khader Mohammed En Nasri of Jaffa, was found in the grove. He has sustained bullet wounds.
CO 537/3855
14 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 0730 hours, Jaffa. Abdul Fattah Hassan Khalil, an employee of the Palestine Railways, was shot and injured in the foot while walking in Jaffa Railway Station. The bullet came from the direction of a house occupied by Jews and situated north of the station. He was removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa. His condition is not serious. CO 537/3855
14 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 1000 hours, Jaffa. Two unidentified Arabs were shot and killed by unknown persons in Arlin Street, Manshieh Quarter.
CO 537/3855
20 JANUARY 1948 1430 hours, Jaffa. On the Manshieh beach, Abed Mohammed Jerieh (25) and Khader Mohammed El Jaber (201, both of Manshieh, were hit by bullets fired from the direction of Tel Aviv. The first named was removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa, but was found to be dead on arrival. Jaber was admitted to the Dajani Hospital in serious condition.
CO 537/3855
20 JANUARY 1948 1430 hours, Jaffa. On the Manshieh beach, Abed Mohammed Jerieh (25) and Khader Mohammed El Jaber (201, both of Manshieh, were hit by bullets fired from the direction of Tel Aviv. The first named was removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa, but was found to be dead on arrival. Jaber was admitted to the Dajani Hospital in serious condition.
CO 537/3855
20 JANUARY 1948 1630 hours, Jaffa. In Salameh Road, a woman, Sisteh Nesrameh (33, of Jaffa, was hit in the arm by a bullet fired from the direction of Tel Aviv. She was admitted to the Government Hospital, Jaffa. Her condition is not serious.
CO 537/3855
21 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 0001 hours, Jaffa. A party of Jews opened fire on the Municipal Slaughter House on the Jaffa/Jerusalem road, causing no known casualties or damage. A quantity of first aid kit and bottles containing what is believed to be an incendiary liquid were left behind by the attackers.
CO 537/3855
21 JANUARY 1948 0900 hours, Jaffa. Following a report that armed Jews, who had arrived in a truck, had been seen digging holes north of Jaffa Railway Station, police found four gun emplacements and an unexploded mortar bomb.
CO 537/3855
21 JANUARY 1948 1100 hours, Jaffa. Ten Arab houses in Arlin Street were blown up by Jews, the explosions being followed by heavy firing. No casualties have been reported.
CO 537/3855
21 JANUARY 1948 Jewish terrorists were seen trying to enter certain Arab houses in the border area of Jaffa-Tel Aviv.
22 JANUARY 1948 1100 hours, Bassa Lands, Jaffa. The following persons were shot on BassaLands by Jewish snipers, believed to have been positioned in the vicinity of the Spirit Factory in Abu Kebir on the JaffaIJerusalem road: Dead - Sulieman Hassan Nattar (25), of Trans-Jordan. Seriously injured - 1) Abdul Khadar Nattar (28), of Trans-Jordan; 2) Harned Naher Saleh Tadder (25), of Trans-Jordan; 3) Mohammed Hajeh Hijaz, of Bassa; 4) Mohammed Zafer Hijazi, of Bassa.
CO 537/3855
22 JANUARY 1948 1800 hours, Jaffa. The body of Abdul Natif Omar (25), of Nablus, was admitted to the Government Hospital, Jaffa. He had been shot dead by Jewish snipers near the Spirit Factory in the Abu Kebir area.
CO 537/3855
23 JANUARY 1948 1345 hours, Jaffa. At Salama village, Sheikh Ibrahim Moghrabi, aged 21, of Salama, sustained severe bullet wounds in the back when fired upon by Jewish snipers.
CO 537/3855
23 JANUARY 1948 1511 hours, Jaffa. Arab traffic was fired upon from one of the Miqveh Israel Colony orange groves, and the fire was returned by the crew of an armoured car. No casualties have been reported.
CO 537/3855
25 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 1145 hours, Jaffa. Two Arab houses in Arlin Street, Manshieh Quarter, were blown up by Jews and completely destroyed. No casualties have been reported.
CO 537/3856
25 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 1300 hours, Jaffa. The body of Mohammed Khalil Khalaf, aged 20 of Manshieh Quarter, who is stated to have been killed by a bomb thrown from the Manshieh Quarter during the morning, was admitted to the Government Hospital, Jaffa.
CO 537/3856
25 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 1700 hours, Jaffa. The following casualties were caused when a bomb exploded in an Arab house in Jabaliya Quarter: Dead - Shafic El Asfar (25); Sami El Asfar (30).
CO 537/3856
27 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 1745 hours, Jaffa. In Manshieh Quarter, Mohammed Khalil Omar, aged 20 of Qalqiliya, was seriously wounded in the stomach by a bullet fired by a Jewish sniper from the direction of Tel Aviv.
CO 537/3856
1 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1645 hours, Jaffa. Hula1 Salim (451, of Jaffa, was admitted to the Government Hospital with a bullet wound in his side. His condition is serious. He was shot from the direction of Tel Aviv while walking on Bassa Lands.
CO 537/3856
1 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1700 hours, Jaffa. Ismail Salmi Hussein (43, of Jaffa, was shot on Bassa Lands by a bullet from the direction of Tel Aviv. He was removed to the Government Hospital, where his condition is not serious.
2 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. Approximately 1645 hours, Jaffa. Unknown persons blew up the houses of Mohammed Natour and Ali Sambo, the bakeries of Abu Sbuhi El Asfour and Subhi El Asfour and an Arab Girls' School, all situated in Hassan Bey Street. Damage is roughly estimated at LP, 70,000.
CO 537/3856
4 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 0730 hours, Jaffa. Whilst walking near an Arab road block on the Jerusalem road on the outskirt of Jaffa, Ibrahim Hanna Bamdah, aged 20 of Jaffa, and a thirty-yearold Arab woman from Jaffa named Hameeni were shot and killed by unknown persons.
CO 537/3856
8 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1450 hours. In the Manshieh Quarter, Naif Yusef Saleh Ed Din of Syria, who was living in Jaffa, was shot and slightly wounded by snipers. He was removed to the Government Hospital where his condition is reported to be not serious.
CO 537/3856
10 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. The house of Mohammed Salim Kalha in the Manshieh Quarter of Jaffa was burnt and completely destroyed by Jews. The damage is estimated at LP.8,000.
CO 537/3856
11 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 2200 hours, Jaffa. In Ajami Road, Jaffa, Yousef Salah Ed Din (30) of Beit Rima, Ramallah Sub-District, was shot in the head and killed by unknown persons.
CO 537/3856
12 FEBRUARY 1948 Cemeteries of all the Christian communities in Jaffa are grouped in one locality, each having its own guard. Zionist terrorists from the neighbouring Jewish settlement of Bath Yom opened fire and hurled hand grenades on the Christian cemeteries. Five Christian Arabs were killed, including three girls aged five, eight and eleven.
United Nations Security Council Official Records, Supplements - 1948.
12/13 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. Night, 12/13 February, 1948, Jaffa. It is reported that the house of Eid Hasim Esh Shatra in Jebaliya Quarter was destroyed by Jews. The damage is estimated at LP. 7,200.
CO 537/3856
13 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1030 hours, Jaffa. A party of Jews directed fire from three mortars at the Jaffa Railway Station Goods Yard. The bombs exploded causing no damage or casualties. The attack was accompanied by small arms fire for approximately five minutes.
CO 537/3856
13 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1300 hours, Jaffa. The following persons were ! injured when a mortar bomb struck their house in Jabaliya Quarter: Seriously Injured - Fattah Sawan (20). Slightly injured - Othman Sawan (12); Ina'am bint Mahmoud Sawan; Mafeedem bint Mahmoud Sawan (10). All were removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa.
CO 537/3856
15 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1230 hours, Jaffa. Three of four mortar bombs, believed to have been fired from Tel Aviv, exploded in the area of Jaffa Railway Station. There were no casualties. Municipal Police replied with rifle fire with no known results. CO 537/3856
16 FEBRUARY, 1948 Lydda. 1500 hours, Jaffa. In the Jabaliya Quarter, Ihsan Said Masri (35) of Jaffa was shot dead by a Jewish sniper from Holon.
CO 537/3856
17 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 0030 to 0600 hours, Jaffa/T.A. border area. Numerous explosions and automatic fire were heard from the Abu KebirJSalameh Road and Tel Er Rish areas. No casualties were reported. Jews were alleged to be firing from the Hatiqva Quarter to Holon under cover of this fire.
CO 537/3856
20 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 21 30 hours, Jaffa. Abdul Mahdi El Azzar (23) of Jebeliya Quarter was shot and killed by Jewish snipers.
CO 537/3856
22 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1130 hours, Jaffa. In Manshieh Quarter, Ali Abu Adwan (35) of Manshieh Quarter was shot in the head by a Jewish sniper firing from Tel Aviv. He died in the French Hospital at 1430 hours.
CO 537/3856
22 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1200 hours, Jaffa. At Tel Er Rish, Kassim Mohammed Saleh (20) of Tel Er Rish was shot by a Jewish sniper and died from his wounds upon admission to the French Hospital.
CO 537/3856
22 FEBRUARY 1948 1230 hours, Arab bus fired on between Jaffa and Ramle. 2 Arabs wounded.
WO 261/573
22 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1500 hours, Jaffa. Mohammed Othman Khalil Boutanji (22) of Dura village was shot and slightly wounded by unknown persons on Bassa lands. He was removed to the Dajani Hospital.
CO 537/3856
22 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1600 hours, Jaffa. In Manshieh Quarter, Amneh bint Sulieman El Ashi (12) of Manshieh Quarter was shot in the abdomen and seriously wounded by unknown persons. She succumbed to her injuries at 2130 hours in the Dajani Hospital.
CO 537/3856
23 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 0930 hours, Jaffa. In the Jabaliya Quarter, Hassan Hussein Saleh (3 1) of Jabaliya was wounded in the right hand by a bullet from the direction of Bat Yam brewery. He was slightly injured and discharged after treatment at the Govemment Hospital, Jaffa.
CO 537/3856
23 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1515 hours, Jaffa. In Jaffa Port, Abed Abdullah Halabi (30) of Jaffa was shot and slightly wounded in the leg by unknown persons. He was removed to the Government Hospital. His condition is not serious.
CO 537/3856
25 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 2200 hours, Jaffa. The body of Samis Khorub (27) of Jabaliya Quarter was admitted to the Government Hospital. He had been killed when a mortar bomb exploded in the Jabaliya Quarter. Two other Arabs were at the same time admitted to the hospital, suffering from shock caused by the same explosion.
CO 537/3856
1 MARCH 1948 Lydda. Morning, Jaffa. In Tel Er Rish, Ahmed Mustafa Ahmed (27) of Tel Er Rish was shot and killed by unknown persons. His body was taken to the French Hospital, Jaffa.
CO 537/3856
2 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 0940 hours, Jaffa. Jewish snipers positioned in a house between the Migdem Chocolate Factory and a distillery on the Assem Bey Road commenced firing into the area between the Jaffa/Jerusalem road and the Abu Kebir track. An Arab woman, Aisha Hassan Sadem (45) of Jaffa, was seriously wounded. She was removed to the Government Hospital. A military armoured car in the vicinity was fired on. A police armoured car returned the fire with no known result.
CO 537/3856
2 MARCH 1948 Lydda, Jaffa. Ahmed Taher of Manshiya Quarter, complains that during recent disturbances, his house and shop in Carmel Street were blown up and completely destroyed. The value of the property is estimated at LP. 5,500.
CO 537/3856
4 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 0200 until 0230 hours, Jaffa. Several explosions and heavy firing were heard from the Bassa lands area. It was subsequently revealed that an Arab owned textile factory on Salameh Road was blown up and completely destroyed. There were no known casualties.
CO 537/3856
5 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1645 hours, Jaffa. A police armoured car patrolling the Abu Kebir area reported that a low-flying monoplane opened fire with automatic weapons into Abu Kebir. Arab witnesses state that this machine also dropped two grenades in the vicinity of the Iron Foundry on the JaffaIJerusalem road.
Mohammed Ibrahim Berbasi was admitted to the Dajani Hospital with a bullet wound in the thigh which he stated was caused by fire from a low-flying plane over Tel Arish. A later account described the 'plane as being light grey or white with R.A.F. markings on both wings, and the letters 'VOL' and some figures on the fuselage.
CO 537/3856
8 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 0700 hours, Jaffa. Ahmed Arhan Abu Fammad (32) of Tell Er Rish, who was admitted to the French Hospital at 0500 hours, suffering from wounds received from an exploding mortar bomb in the Tell Er Rish quarter, succumbed to his injuries. The bomb is said to have been fired from the direction of Holon.
CO 537/3856
8 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 0930 hours, Jaffa. Mohammed Abdullah Yanani (30) of Jaffa, was shot and fatally injured in Arlin Street, Manshieh, by a Jewish sniper. The body was removed to the Dajani Hospital.
CO 537/3856
8 MARCH 1948 Lydda. Approximately 2200 hours, Jaffa. Hassan Khalil Sarkoury (26) of Jebeliya Quarter was injured in the right shoulder when a bomb was thrown by Jews on the Bat Yam/Jebeliya border. He was removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa. His condition is not serious.
CO 537/3856
9 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 0930 hours, Jaffa. In the Jabaliyeh Quarter, Shafiq Ahmed (22) was wounded in the head by splinters believed to have been caused by a mortar bomb. He was removed to Government Hospital, condition not serious.
CO 537/3856
10 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1510 hours, Jaffa. Arabs employed at the iron foundry situated on the JaffaIJerusalem road near Holon were fired upon by Jews from the direction of Miqve Israel colony. The Arabs returned the fire, which ceased when police armoured cars appeared on the scene. There were no casualties.
CO 537/3856
13/14 MARCH 1948 Jerusalem. Night, Jaffa. On Bassa lands, the ice factory of Hassan Tewfic Abu Ghazaleh, of Jaffa, was attacked by Jews, with mortars and small arms fire. The factory watchman, Ibrahim Getani (22) of Jaffa, was slightly injured and removed to the Dejani Hospital. The building was partly demolished, damage being estimated at approximately LP. 6,000.
CO 537/3856
14 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 0130 hours, Jaffa. In the Abu Kebir Quarter, Ali Hassan el Weish (23) of that quarter was killed by snipers. His body was removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa.
CO 537/3856
16 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1530 hours, Jaffa. In Tel er Rish Yousef Ali Abdul Khalil(26), of Mi'ilya village, was shot and fatally wounded by snipers from the Holon area. His body was removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa.
CO 537/3856
18 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1430 hours, Jaffa. On Bassa lands, Ahmed Hussein Tustani (35), of Hebron, was shot and fatally wounded by a sniper from the direction of Tel Aviv. The body was removed to the Dajani Hospital.
CO 537/3856
18 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1500 hours, Jaffa. The body of Said Butros (25) of Tel er Rish was admitted to the French Hospital in Jaffa. He had been killed by snipers' bullets in Tel er Rish.
CO 537/3856
18 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1630 hours, Jaffa. Jews blew up eight unoccupied Arab houses in Arlin Street, Manshieh Quarter. They also fired at the Manshieh Police Station and at a police armoured car which approached the scene. The fire was returned by the police, but there were no known casualties.
CO 537/3856
19 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1030 hours, Tel Aviv. A Jewish snipers' position in Abu Kebir Quarter directed moderate automatic fire into Salama Road, Jaffa. A police arrnoured car proceeded to the scene at approximately 1 100 hours, and the area then became quiet. No casualties have been reported.
CO 537/3856
22/23 MARCH 1948 Lydda. Between 2350 hours 22 March, 1948, and 0145 hours 23 March, 1948, Jaffa. Jebeliya Quarter was attacked by Jews. During the course of the attack, eleven houses and a small mosque were demolished, believed by mortars. The following casualties were admitted to the Government Hospital from the quarter on the morning of 23 March, 1948: Seriously Injured- Dahiel Eissa Ed Dibis (45); Mohammed Marouf El Kaban (35); Abdul Fattah Samara (27).
CO 537/3857
23 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1130 hours, Jaffa. Jewish snipers near Bassa lands commenced firing into King George Avenue, Jaffa. Two Arabs were killed, Ali Darwish Wazieh (12) of Jaffa and Hassan Muharram (30) of Jaffa. At approximately 1230 hours, the Jewish snipers post was silenced by military using two pounders.
CO 537/3857
24 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 0230 hours, Jaffa. Several heavy mortar bombs fired from the direction of Tel Aviv in the area of the Hassan Bey Mosque. Some damage was caused to the surrounding wall of the Mosque and to a nearby house. No casualties have been reported.
CO 537/3857
24 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1500 hours, Jaffa. Ahmed Sabri el Rehawi (20) of Syria, was slightly wounded in the leg by a bullet fired by unknown persons near the Bat Yam Mental Home. He was admitted to the Government Hospital.
CO 537/3857
24 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1935 hours, Jaffa. Jews from Abu Kebir opened fire with mortars on the flour mill in Salama Road. Arabs replied and firing was still continuing at 2000 hours. No further details are yet available.
CO 537/3857
25 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1600 hours, Jaffa. Ali Morffi el Rahidi (35) of Egypt was admitted to the Government Hospital suffering from a bullet wound in the back which he sustained when a Jewish armoured car fired at him in Zarmuqa village. His condition is serious.
CO 537/3857
25 MARCH 1948 Lydda, Jaffa. The house of Farid Jaber in Karton Quarter was destroyed by fire in unknown circumstances. The damage caused is estimated at L.P. 5,000. On the same day at Jaber's orange grove, situated in Salameh village, damage estimated at L.P. 13,000 is stated to have been caused by Jews using explosive charges.
CO 537/3857
1 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 0955 hours, Jaffa. A mortar bomb, believed to have been fired from Bat Yam, exploded on the house of Assad El Dejani, near Ajami P.S. Slight damage was sustained by the building, but no casualties were caused.
CO 537/3857
1 APRIL 1948 Lydda, Jaffa. Salim Rajab Sha'aban El Moghrabi reports that his house on the Bat YamlJebeliya border was demolished by Jewish mortar fire.
CO 537/3857
2 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 1700 hours, Jaffa. Ali Abu Hajas (30), of Manshieh Quarter, was shot and seriously wounded by Jewish snipers in Arlin Street. He was removed to the Dajani Hospital.
CO 537/3857
3 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 0700 hours, Jaffa. Mohammed Ahmed Eissa (291, of Egypt, was shot and slightly injured by Jewish snipers in the Karm Et Tut area. He was removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa.
CO 537/3857
3 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 1100 hours, Jaffa. Four mortar bombs, believed to have been fired from Tel Aviv area, and one mine exploded in the Suq El Yehud causing damage to unoccupied property. The exploding of the mine is believed to have been detonated by one of the bombs. No casualties have been reported.
CO 537/3857
3 APRIL 1948 Lydda. Night, Jaffa. An Arab house, situated in the Jebaliyeh Quarter of Jaffa, was blown up and extensively damaged by Jews and an occupant, Fathmi Shlean (68), was killed.
CO 537/3857
3 APRIL 1948 Lydda, Jaffa. Mohammed Ahmed Eissa, of Kami Et Tut, was shot and seriously injured, by unknown persons, whilst in his village. He was removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa, where he died shortly after admission.
CO 537/3857
6 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 1630 hours, Jaffa. Jews opened fire on swimmers near the Jaffa Club. The following casualties were caused: Dead - Subhi Ibn Adib Jabour (27), of Jaffa. Serious - Mohammed Ibn Akawi (12), of Jaffa. Slight - Mohammed Mahmoud Kana'an (20), of Jaffa. CO 537/3857
8 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 0 100 hours, Jaffa. Jews opened mortar fire on the Manshieh Quarter and bombs fell near the Manshieh Police Station and in the Jaffa railway yard. A municipal policeman, No. 1 13, Abdullah Eissa Salim (26), of Jaffa, was slightly injured by splinters whilst on duty in the Suq el Yehud. A house in the railway yard was destroyed, and Hassan Abu Shimes (35), of Manshieh, was seriously injured. Three mortar bombs exploded in the vicinity of the C.S. Jaffa, and the following two Arabs were injured: Deeb Ahmed Hamed (60), of Jaffa - serious; Yousef Abu Jabrin Bader (25), of Jaffa - not serious.
CO 537/3857
10 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 1445 hours, Jaffa. Ahmed Abu Kalim (23), of Manshieh Quarter, was shot and seriously wounded by Jewish snipers whilst in Qaswan Street. He was removed to the Dajani Hospital.
CO 537/3857
10 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 1730 hours, Jaffa. Moussa Madon (23), of Ajami Quarter, was shot and killed and Lutfi Ghawi (25), also of Ajami, was slightly wounded while they were walking in El Lisaf Street. Both were hit by shots fired from the direction of the Railway Station and were removed to the French Hospital.
CO 537/3857
10 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 1810 hours, Jaffa. Mohammed Abdul Rahman Jainaf (55), of Jaffa, was shot and slightly injuredin Manshieh Quarter by a Jewish sniper. He was removed to the French Hospital, Jaffa.
CO 537/3857
14 APRIL 1948 0230 hours to 0600 hours, 14 April, Jews mortared Jaffa, particularly Manshiya Quarter. No known casualty.
WO 275/66
25 APRIL 1948 Irgun Z'vai Leumi attack Jaffa. Army intervenes and fighting stops. Approximately fifty Arab casualties. Jews blow two gaps in the bridge at Jisr al Majami. Army reoccupies Sheikh Jarrah, meeting initial resistance from Hagana, but later a truce is negotiated and both sides ordered cease fire. Two Jews killed and two wounded. Four British Soldiers slightly wounded. Jews attack At Tireh, south of Haifa.
WO 261/574
26 APRIL 1948 1030 hours, 26 April, 2 R IR F road block at Jaffa congested by Arab lorries and buses carrying refugees. Congestion cleared and traffic passing road block estimated at rate of 20 vehicles per hour. Refugees fired on by Jewish sniper as they moved off. No casualty.
WO 275/66
26 APRIL 1948 At 1135 hours, 26th April, there was heavy mortaring of Manshieh Quarter, Jaffa, and Manshieh Police Station was attacked by Jews with arrnoured cars, grenades and small arms. No casualties yet reported.
CO 733/477
26 APRIL 1948 Tel Aviv-Jaffa. Jews attacked Arab quarter Jaffa with mortars and automatics and penetrated as far as the railway station. The Mayor of Tel Aviv was told that unless attack was stopped, military would employ force. This had the desired effect, and the situation is now quiet. Fifty Arab civilians are believed killed.
CO 537/3875
Our brethren are right when they say that the Arab honours only those who show valour and fortitude;
On 24 April 1948, the Irgun militant Zionist organization opened an attack on the Manshiyeh residential quarter of Jaffa, a narrow Palestinian suburb located beside the sea and largely surrounded by Tel Aviv. For four days and nights, under the direction of Menachem Begin, the Irgun indiscriminately shelled the quarter with mortars.
Hansard, the official record of proceedings in the U.K. Parliament, reported:
"On the 5th of May, 1948, the question of the attack by the Irgun Z'vai Leumi on Jaffa was raised. The Secretary of State for the Colonies was asked whether he had any statement to make on the present situation in Jaffa. Mr. Rees-Williams, the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies answered as follows:
In the early hours of 28th [sic] April a heavy attack on the Arab town of Jaffa was made by the Irgun Zvai Leumi, the method adopted being an indiscriminate mortar bombardment, apparently designed to create panic among the civilian inhabitants. British forces intervened, supported by aircraft, and in the course of the afternoon the Jews retired to their original positions. By nightfall the border was quiet except for occasional sniping. A cease-fire was ordered for both sides by the military commander and was observed. British troops then occupied a line between Arabs and Jews on the Tel-Aviv- Jaffa border. On the evening of 30th April, the cease-fire order was broken by fire from the Jewish side, which was quickly silenced by military action. Latest reports indicate that the town is now quiet. As a rough estimate, some 30,000 Arabs left Jaffa and more are leaving. The Arab mayor is still in Jaffa and municipal services are functioning, although with difficulty... ". (Hansard, House of Commons Debates, May 5, 1948, p. 1238).
The day after the Irgun offensive began, Haganah troops launched Operation Chametz against Jaffa, to isolate and conquer the city.
Jaffa, Palestine: Irgunists moving through holes blasted in Palestinian houses. (via Walid Khalidi, Before Their Diaspora)
but this is the case only when he feels that the other side has justice on his side.
Jaffa, Palestine: The ruins of the Manshiyeh quarter, after indiscriminate bombardment by the Irgun.
It is very different in a case when [the Arab] thinks that his opponent's actions are iniquitous and unlawful;
Jaffa, Palestine: Palestinian residents salvage whatever possessions they can carry as they flee the city. (via Walid Khalidi, Before Their Diaspora)
By the end of April, the combined Haganah-Irgun offensive had completely encircled Jaffa. Three weeks earlier, the Irgun had attacked the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin. The civilian population of Jaffa was well aware of what had happened to the inhabitants of Deir Yassin when the Irgun overran their village, and fear that the same would happen at the fall of Jaffa was influential on the decision of many residents to flee: "We all heard about the massacre. I remember that I read extensive coverage of the horrors in our press, which republished a story from the New York Times. Besides this terrifying news, the Arabs in Jaffa feared they would not be able to defend their honour if they were attacked by the Jews. They were afraid that their women would be subject to the humiliation of Deir Yassin. I was young, but I sensed just how much this worried the people in Jaffa. Having four sisters was enough reason for us to leave, as the Jews considered everything and everyone in the villages they invaded as theirs".
in that case he may keep his anger to himself for a long time,
Jaffa, Palestine: Palestinians driven into the sea at Jaffa Harbor, late April 1948. With the land routes cut off by the Haganah, tens of thousands of the citizens of Jaffa and neighboring villages fled by boat: south to Gaza and Egypt, and north to Lebanon. (via Walid Khalidi, Before Their Diaspora)
but it will dwell in his heart
Jaffa Harbor, Palestine: Palestinian refugees flee Jaffa by boat for Gaza, Apr-May 1948. By the time Jaffa finally fell on 13 May 1948, fewer than 4,000 of its 70,000 residents remained.
and in the long run he will prove himself to be vengeful and full of retribution.
Jaffa, Israel: Jewish refugees from Europe are resettled in ethnically-cleansed Jaffa, 1949.
Sources:
1. The text, "We tend to believe abroad...", is from the work of the Zionist writer Ahad Ha'Am, (Truth from the Land of Israel, 1891). Reproduced in Complete Works of Ahad Ha'am, (Tel Aviv, 1946), pp. 24-29. (h/t Angry Arab)
2. Unless otherwise noted, the photos are from Palestine Remembered, and should not be reused without attribution to that site.
3. Details of attacks on Jaffa, Jan to Apr 1948, are taken from the Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem; available on-line here. The alphanumeric reference number at the end of each report refers to the file number under which the original source material is archived at the U.K. National Archives (formerly the Public Records Office) in Kew, London:
- CO 537/3855 = Confidential reports from the British Criminal Investigation Dept (C.I.D.) to the U.K. Colonial Office on Outrages in Palestine, 1947-48.
- CO 537/3856: Confidential reports from the British Criminal Investigation Dept (C.I.D.) to the U.K. Colonial Office on Outrages in Palestine, Feb-Mar 1948.
- WO 261/573: Confidential quarterly reports from British Army H.Q. in Palestine to the U.K. War Office, Jan-Mar 1948.
- WO 275/64: Confidential fortnightly newsletters from the H.Q. of the British Sixth Airborne Division in Palestine to the U.K. War Office, Mar 1947-May 1948.
- CO 537/3857: Confidential reports from the British Criminal Investigation Dept (C.I.D.) to the U.K. Colonial Office on Outrages in Palestine, Mar-Apr 1948
Those People in Gaza: Where Do They Come From, And Why Are They So Mad ?
"We tend to believe abroad that Palestine is nowadays almost completely deserted,
a noncultivated wilderness.,...
Diese Leute in Gaza: Woher kommen sie und warum sind sie so verrückt ?
"Wir neigen im Ausland dazu zu glauben, dass Palästina heutzutage fast völlig verlassen ist,
eine nicht kultivierte Wildnis.,...
Jaffa, Palestine: Palestinians gather at the Grand Serai (local government offices) in July 1908, to celebrate the al-Hurriyah Revolution (i.e. the Young Turks Revolution) against Sultan Abdul Hamid and in favor of the restoration of the constitution and the holding of Parliamentary elections. (via Walid Khalidi, Before Their Diaspora). A noncultivated wilderness, eine nicht kultivierte Wildnis,... - Aha,...
Jaffa, Palestine: General view of the city from the sea looking east, pre-1914. (Matson Collection, 1898-1914).
and anyone can come there and buy as much land as his heart desires.
Jaffa, Palestine: Street scene in the old city next to the Jaffa's famous Clock tower, pre-1914 (Matson Collection).
But in reality this is not the case.
Jaffa, Palestine: The bazaar in 1896.
It is difficult to find anywhere in the country Arab land which lies fallow;
Jaffa, Palestine: General view of Jaffa and its orange groves, facing south; before 1914. (Matson Collection)
the only areas which are not cultivated are sand dunes or stony mountains,
Jaffa, Palestine: Harvesting the oranges. (Matson Collection)
which can be only planted with trees,
Jaffa, Palestine: Sorting and packing citrus fruits, 1920's.
and even this only after much labor and capital would be invested
Jaffa, Palestine: Oranges being wrapped for sale. (Matson Collection).
in clearance and preparation...
Jaffa, Palestine: Boxed Jaffa oranges being loaded for export, early 1920's. Jaffa oranges were Palestine's leading export. After 1948, Jaffa's nationalized orange groves and the established markets for their products provided the major source of income for the new state of Israel.
We tend to believe abroad that all Arabs are desert barbarians,
Jaffa, Palestine: The staff of the Government Secondary Boys' School (al-Ameiryah High School) in 1923. Seated center is Salim Katul, author of a series of textbooks in Arabic on the natural sciences.
an asinine people who does not see or understand what is going on around them.
Jaffa, Palestine: Elementary school pupils at the National Christian Orthodox School (1938).
This is a cardinal mistake...
Jaffa, Palestine: Carpentry class at the Government Secondary Boys' School, 1924. The inscription over the door reads, "The least worthy of you are the least learned".
[When] the day will come in which the life of our people in the Land of Israel
Jaffa, Palestine: The band of the National Christian Orthodox School (1938)
will develop to such a degree that they will push aside the local population by little or by much,
Jaffa, Palestine: Wolf Cubs and Boy Scouts with camping gear, at the Government Secondary Boys' School, 1924.
then it will not easily give up its place...
Jaffa, Palestine: The Government Secondary Boys' School first XI (Soccer) in 1923.
One thing we certainly should have learned from our past and present history,
Jaffa, Palestine: Palestinians demonstrate in Jaffa's central square against the plans of the British government to increase Zionist immigration into Palestine, 27 October 1933.
and that is not to create anger among the local population against us...
We have to treat the local population with love and respect, justly and rightly.
Jaffa, Palestine: The beginning of the Arab Revolt of 1936-39. British riot police clash with Palestinian demonstrators protesting Britain's pro-Zionist policies (specifically increasing Zionist immigration into Palestine), Central Square, Jaffa, 12 June 1936. (via Walid Khalidi, Before Their Diaspora).
And what do our brethren in the Land of Israel do? Exactly the opposite!
Jaffa, Palestine: British soldiers search one of Jaffa's residents during the Arab Revolt, 1936.
[T]hey behave toward the Arabs with hostility and cruelty,
The Punishment of Jaffa, Palestine: British soldiers cordon off Jaffa's old city in preparation for the punitive demolition of Palestinian buildings in reprisal for the Arab Revolt against British policy in Palestine; 1936.
infringe upon their boundaries,
The Punishment of Jaffa, Palestine: British soldiers carry out punitive demolitions in the old city, in reprisal for the Arab Revolt against British policy in Palestine; 1936.
hit them shamefully without reason, and even brag about it.
1 JANUARY 1948 During the afternoon of 1 January, a bunch of Irgun Z'vai Leumi thugs dressed in battledress and steel helmets drove at speed through Jaffa and fired at Arabs sitting outside a cafe. They killed two and wounded nine others before crashing through an Arab road block and disappearing into Tel Aviv. To emphasize the illusion that the British are responsible for all disorder in the country, they were wearing the flashes of the Royal Irish Fusiliers. WO 275/64
1 JANUARY 1948 Small party of Jews entered block of flats 40 yards in rear Shell Petrol Station, Jaffa, and placed a bomb which demolished the block of flats. So far, 1 Arab injured by flying debris. WO 275/64
4 JANUARY 1948 At 12:25 p.m. two Jewish terrorists, one driving a truck loaded with time bombs and the other driving a jeep, both as usual in British uniforms, drove to the end of a lane between the Arab welfare and relief centre in Jaffa housing children and the Barclay's Bank. The truck was driven in the lane and left there, and the driver was picked up by the jeep driver who was waiting for him. As they drove away, the whole town was rocked by a powerful explosion and many distant buildings were damaged by the concussion. The welfare centre was demolished. Seventeen Arabs were killed in this coldblooded murderous attack and 106 were wounded. Among those killed and seriously wounded were women and children. (United Nations Security Council Official Records, Supplements - 1948).
4 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 1240 hours, Jaffa. The Old Serrai in Clock Tower Square which houses the offices of the Arab National Committee, was completely destroyed by an explosion which killed 15 and injured 98 persons. Buildings nearby including Barclay's Bank, the Central Police Station and several shops and houses were also extensively damaged. Full details of how the attack was carried out are not yet available, but it is believed the attackers arrived at the scene in two vehicles? a 3-ton truck laden with orange boxes and a saloon car. Proceeding up Bustros Street towards Clock Tower Square?
The truck turned left into the narrow lane between Barclay's Bank and the Old Serrai. The saloon car was seen to park some 20 metres north of Central P.S. near the road leading to the port area. The truck was parked at a point about 20 yards along the above mentioned lane. Two persons, dressed as Arabs, were seen to alight from the truck and walk across the square. They got into the waiting car which drove off in the direction of the Ajami Quarter. Almost immediately following the departure of the car, the explosion occurred. Tons of masonry from the Old Serrai building completely blocked the land running beside it, A fire subsequently broke out in Barclay's Bank but was extinguished. A strong-room situated in the upper storey of the bank was blown in and a considerable amount of money was salvaged and taken into police custody. The entire area was wired off to facilitate salvage operations and to prevent looting. It is reported from TeI Aviv that Irgun Z'vai Leumi have claimed responsibility for this outrage. Tension has risen to a high pitch in Jaffa as a result of this attack, and a certain degree of anti-Government feeling has been expressed.
Details of the casualties are as follows:- Dead: 1) Mohammed Abdul Hallak (aged 12); 2) Abudul Sattah Wahab Jaber (20); 3) Ali Kastika; 4) Mohammed Said Abu Hassan (40); 5) Ahamad Derdanji (45); 6) Ahmad Hawari; 7) Yusef Abu Sheikh (25); 8) Ahmad Faris Shehadi (25); 9) Sa'ad Abil Majid Zein (25); 10) 15 unidentified. Injured: 1) Said Kheber Said (25) - serious; 2) Abed Ahmad Duknak ( 10) - serious; 3) Abed Mahmoud Shulayeh (17) - serious; 4) Ashraf Tewfik Lufti (28) - serious; 5) Naji Said Mughrabi - serious; 6) Mohammed Ibrahim Mughrabi - serious; 7) Taha Abu Rabah (35) - serious; 8) Mohammed Hassan Ibrahim (20) - serious; 9) Rasmiyeh Saba (22) - serious; 10) Abed Mustafe Abu Wazni (30) - serious; 11) Hishan Alami (35) - not serious; 12) Ibrahim Mustafa Najar (25) - not serious. All the above named are in the Dajani Hospital. 13) Huda Abu Labm (20) - not serious; 14) Said Afif Atout (19) - not serious; 15) Rafik Salami (27) - not serious; The above three are in the Government Hospital, 16) Ahmad Mahmoud Taher (30) - serious; 17) Ahmad Ahmad Nel(25) - serious; 18) Ali Hassan Ashoura (20) - not serious; 19) Ahmad Ismail Abu Shabayeh (22) - not serious; 20) Rais Hassan Abu Chouleh (70) - not serious. The above-mentioned five are in the French Hospital. Seventy-eight other persons were treated in hospitals for slight injuries but were not detained.
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8 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 0245 hours, Jaffa. Unknown persons placed a bomb against the house of Haj Abed El Jaber Lahloub, situated at the western side of Beit Dajan village. The bomb exploded causing extensive damage to the house? but no casualties.
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9 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 0730 hours, Jaffa. Near Jaffa Railway Station; two 'buses conveying Arab railway employees to Lydda were fired upon from automatic weapons from Jewish houses overlooking their station. Hassan Hilu of Jaffa sustained a slight bullet wound in the leg, and two other Arabs were slightly injured by glass splinters.
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10/11 JANUARY 1948 Gaza, 2130 hours. Shots are reported to have been fired from a passing vehicle into an orange grove on Sawafir Sharki lands near the main GadJaffa road. At 0800 hours on 11 January, 1948, the body of a labourer, Abdul Khader Mohammed En Nasri of Jaffa, was found in the grove. He has sustained bullet wounds.
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14 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 0730 hours, Jaffa. Abdul Fattah Hassan Khalil, an employee of the Palestine Railways, was shot and injured in the foot while walking in Jaffa Railway Station. The bullet came from the direction of a house occupied by Jews and situated north of the station. He was removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa. His condition is not serious. CO 537/3855
14 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 1000 hours, Jaffa. Two unidentified Arabs were shot and killed by unknown persons in Arlin Street, Manshieh Quarter.
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20 JANUARY 1948 1430 hours, Jaffa. On the Manshieh beach, Abed Mohammed Jerieh (25) and Khader Mohammed El Jaber (201, both of Manshieh, were hit by bullets fired from the direction of Tel Aviv. The first named was removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa, but was found to be dead on arrival. Jaber was admitted to the Dajani Hospital in serious condition.
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20 JANUARY 1948 1430 hours, Jaffa. On the Manshieh beach, Abed Mohammed Jerieh (25) and Khader Mohammed El Jaber (201, both of Manshieh, were hit by bullets fired from the direction of Tel Aviv. The first named was removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa, but was found to be dead on arrival. Jaber was admitted to the Dajani Hospital in serious condition.
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20 JANUARY 1948 1630 hours, Jaffa. In Salameh Road, a woman, Sisteh Nesrameh (33, of Jaffa, was hit in the arm by a bullet fired from the direction of Tel Aviv. She was admitted to the Government Hospital, Jaffa. Her condition is not serious.
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21 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 0001 hours, Jaffa. A party of Jews opened fire on the Municipal Slaughter House on the Jaffa/Jerusalem road, causing no known casualties or damage. A quantity of first aid kit and bottles containing what is believed to be an incendiary liquid were left behind by the attackers.
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21 JANUARY 1948 0900 hours, Jaffa. Following a report that armed Jews, who had arrived in a truck, had been seen digging holes north of Jaffa Railway Station, police found four gun emplacements and an unexploded mortar bomb.
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21 JANUARY 1948 1100 hours, Jaffa. Ten Arab houses in Arlin Street were blown up by Jews, the explosions being followed by heavy firing. No casualties have been reported.
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21 JANUARY 1948 Jewish terrorists were seen trying to enter certain Arab houses in the border area of Jaffa-Tel Aviv.
22 JANUARY 1948 1100 hours, Bassa Lands, Jaffa. The following persons were shot on BassaLands by Jewish snipers, believed to have been positioned in the vicinity of the Spirit Factory in Abu Kebir on the JaffaIJerusalem road: Dead - Sulieman Hassan Nattar (25), of Trans-Jordan. Seriously injured - 1) Abdul Khadar Nattar (28), of Trans-Jordan; 2) Harned Naher Saleh Tadder (25), of Trans-Jordan; 3) Mohammed Hajeh Hijaz, of Bassa; 4) Mohammed Zafer Hijazi, of Bassa.
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22 JANUARY 1948 1800 hours, Jaffa. The body of Abdul Natif Omar (25), of Nablus, was admitted to the Government Hospital, Jaffa. He had been shot dead by Jewish snipers near the Spirit Factory in the Abu Kebir area.
CO 537/3855
23 JANUARY 1948 1345 hours, Jaffa. At Salama village, Sheikh Ibrahim Moghrabi, aged 21, of Salama, sustained severe bullet wounds in the back when fired upon by Jewish snipers.
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23 JANUARY 1948 1511 hours, Jaffa. Arab traffic was fired upon from one of the Miqveh Israel Colony orange groves, and the fire was returned by the crew of an armoured car. No casualties have been reported.
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25 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 1145 hours, Jaffa. Two Arab houses in Arlin Street, Manshieh Quarter, were blown up by Jews and completely destroyed. No casualties have been reported.
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25 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 1300 hours, Jaffa. The body of Mohammed Khalil Khalaf, aged 20 of Manshieh Quarter, who is stated to have been killed by a bomb thrown from the Manshieh Quarter during the morning, was admitted to the Government Hospital, Jaffa.
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25 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 1700 hours, Jaffa. The following casualties were caused when a bomb exploded in an Arab house in Jabaliya Quarter: Dead - Shafic El Asfar (25); Sami El Asfar (30).
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27 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 1745 hours, Jaffa. In Manshieh Quarter, Mohammed Khalil Omar, aged 20 of Qalqiliya, was seriously wounded in the stomach by a bullet fired by a Jewish sniper from the direction of Tel Aviv.
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1 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1645 hours, Jaffa. Hula1 Salim (451, of Jaffa, was admitted to the Government Hospital with a bullet wound in his side. His condition is serious. He was shot from the direction of Tel Aviv while walking on Bassa Lands.
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1 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1700 hours, Jaffa. Ismail Salmi Hussein (43, of Jaffa, was shot on Bassa Lands by a bullet from the direction of Tel Aviv. He was removed to the Government Hospital, where his condition is not serious.
2 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. Approximately 1645 hours, Jaffa. Unknown persons blew up the houses of Mohammed Natour and Ali Sambo, the bakeries of Abu Sbuhi El Asfour and Subhi El Asfour and an Arab Girls' School, all situated in Hassan Bey Street. Damage is roughly estimated at LP, 70,000.
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4 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 0730 hours, Jaffa. Whilst walking near an Arab road block on the Jerusalem road on the outskirt of Jaffa, Ibrahim Hanna Bamdah, aged 20 of Jaffa, and a thirty-yearold Arab woman from Jaffa named Hameeni were shot and killed by unknown persons.
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8 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1450 hours. In the Manshieh Quarter, Naif Yusef Saleh Ed Din of Syria, who was living in Jaffa, was shot and slightly wounded by snipers. He was removed to the Government Hospital where his condition is reported to be not serious.
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10 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. The house of Mohammed Salim Kalha in the Manshieh Quarter of Jaffa was burnt and completely destroyed by Jews. The damage is estimated at LP.8,000.
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11 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 2200 hours, Jaffa. In Ajami Road, Jaffa, Yousef Salah Ed Din (30) of Beit Rima, Ramallah Sub-District, was shot in the head and killed by unknown persons.
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12 FEBRUARY 1948 Cemeteries of all the Christian communities in Jaffa are grouped in one locality, each having its own guard. Zionist terrorists from the neighbouring Jewish settlement of Bath Yom opened fire and hurled hand grenades on the Christian cemeteries. Five Christian Arabs were killed, including three girls aged five, eight and eleven.
United Nations Security Council Official Records, Supplements - 1948.
12/13 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. Night, 12/13 February, 1948, Jaffa. It is reported that the house of Eid Hasim Esh Shatra in Jebaliya Quarter was destroyed by Jews. The damage is estimated at LP. 7,200.
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13 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1030 hours, Jaffa. A party of Jews directed fire from three mortars at the Jaffa Railway Station Goods Yard. The bombs exploded causing no damage or casualties. The attack was accompanied by small arms fire for approximately five minutes.
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13 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1300 hours, Jaffa. The following persons were ! injured when a mortar bomb struck their house in Jabaliya Quarter: Seriously Injured - Fattah Sawan (20). Slightly injured - Othman Sawan (12); Ina'am bint Mahmoud Sawan; Mafeedem bint Mahmoud Sawan (10). All were removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa.
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15 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1230 hours, Jaffa. Three of four mortar bombs, believed to have been fired from Tel Aviv, exploded in the area of Jaffa Railway Station. There were no casualties. Municipal Police replied with rifle fire with no known results. CO 537/3856
16 FEBRUARY, 1948 Lydda. 1500 hours, Jaffa. In the Jabaliya Quarter, Ihsan Said Masri (35) of Jaffa was shot dead by a Jewish sniper from Holon.
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17 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 0030 to 0600 hours, Jaffa/T.A. border area. Numerous explosions and automatic fire were heard from the Abu KebirJSalameh Road and Tel Er Rish areas. No casualties were reported. Jews were alleged to be firing from the Hatiqva Quarter to Holon under cover of this fire.
CO 537/3856
20 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 21 30 hours, Jaffa. Abdul Mahdi El Azzar (23) of Jebeliya Quarter was shot and killed by Jewish snipers.
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22 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1130 hours, Jaffa. In Manshieh Quarter, Ali Abu Adwan (35) of Manshieh Quarter was shot in the head by a Jewish sniper firing from Tel Aviv. He died in the French Hospital at 1430 hours.
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22 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1200 hours, Jaffa. At Tel Er Rish, Kassim Mohammed Saleh (20) of Tel Er Rish was shot by a Jewish sniper and died from his wounds upon admission to the French Hospital.
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22 FEBRUARY 1948 1230 hours, Arab bus fired on between Jaffa and Ramle. 2 Arabs wounded.
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22 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1500 hours, Jaffa. Mohammed Othman Khalil Boutanji (22) of Dura village was shot and slightly wounded by unknown persons on Bassa lands. He was removed to the Dajani Hospital.
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22 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1600 hours, Jaffa. In Manshieh Quarter, Amneh bint Sulieman El Ashi (12) of Manshieh Quarter was shot in the abdomen and seriously wounded by unknown persons. She succumbed to her injuries at 2130 hours in the Dajani Hospital.
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23 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 0930 hours, Jaffa. In the Jabaliya Quarter, Hassan Hussein Saleh (3 1) of Jabaliya was wounded in the right hand by a bullet from the direction of Bat Yam brewery. He was slightly injured and discharged after treatment at the Govemment Hospital, Jaffa.
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23 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1515 hours, Jaffa. In Jaffa Port, Abed Abdullah Halabi (30) of Jaffa was shot and slightly wounded in the leg by unknown persons. He was removed to the Government Hospital. His condition is not serious.
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25 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 2200 hours, Jaffa. The body of Samis Khorub (27) of Jabaliya Quarter was admitted to the Government Hospital. He had been killed when a mortar bomb exploded in the Jabaliya Quarter. Two other Arabs were at the same time admitted to the hospital, suffering from shock caused by the same explosion.
CO 537/3856
1 MARCH 1948 Lydda. Morning, Jaffa. In Tel Er Rish, Ahmed Mustafa Ahmed (27) of Tel Er Rish was shot and killed by unknown persons. His body was taken to the French Hospital, Jaffa.
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2 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 0940 hours, Jaffa. Jewish snipers positioned in a house between the Migdem Chocolate Factory and a distillery on the Assem Bey Road commenced firing into the area between the Jaffa/Jerusalem road and the Abu Kebir track. An Arab woman, Aisha Hassan Sadem (45) of Jaffa, was seriously wounded. She was removed to the Government Hospital. A military armoured car in the vicinity was fired on. A police armoured car returned the fire with no known result.
CO 537/3856
2 MARCH 1948 Lydda, Jaffa. Ahmed Taher of Manshiya Quarter, complains that during recent disturbances, his house and shop in Carmel Street were blown up and completely destroyed. The value of the property is estimated at LP. 5,500.
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4 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 0200 until 0230 hours, Jaffa. Several explosions and heavy firing were heard from the Bassa lands area. It was subsequently revealed that an Arab owned textile factory on Salameh Road was blown up and completely destroyed. There were no known casualties.
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5 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1645 hours, Jaffa. A police armoured car patrolling the Abu Kebir area reported that a low-flying monoplane opened fire with automatic weapons into Abu Kebir. Arab witnesses state that this machine also dropped two grenades in the vicinity of the Iron Foundry on the JaffaIJerusalem road.
Mohammed Ibrahim Berbasi was admitted to the Dajani Hospital with a bullet wound in the thigh which he stated was caused by fire from a low-flying plane over Tel Arish. A later account described the 'plane as being light grey or white with R.A.F. markings on both wings, and the letters 'VOL' and some figures on the fuselage.
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8 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 0700 hours, Jaffa. Ahmed Arhan Abu Fammad (32) of Tell Er Rish, who was admitted to the French Hospital at 0500 hours, suffering from wounds received from an exploding mortar bomb in the Tell Er Rish quarter, succumbed to his injuries. The bomb is said to have been fired from the direction of Holon.
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8 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 0930 hours, Jaffa. Mohammed Abdullah Yanani (30) of Jaffa, was shot and fatally injured in Arlin Street, Manshieh, by a Jewish sniper. The body was removed to the Dajani Hospital.
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8 MARCH 1948 Lydda. Approximately 2200 hours, Jaffa. Hassan Khalil Sarkoury (26) of Jebeliya Quarter was injured in the right shoulder when a bomb was thrown by Jews on the Bat Yam/Jebeliya border. He was removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa. His condition is not serious.
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9 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 0930 hours, Jaffa. In the Jabaliyeh Quarter, Shafiq Ahmed (22) was wounded in the head by splinters believed to have been caused by a mortar bomb. He was removed to Government Hospital, condition not serious.
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10 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1510 hours, Jaffa. Arabs employed at the iron foundry situated on the JaffaIJerusalem road near Holon were fired upon by Jews from the direction of Miqve Israel colony. The Arabs returned the fire, which ceased when police armoured cars appeared on the scene. There were no casualties.
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13/14 MARCH 1948 Jerusalem. Night, Jaffa. On Bassa lands, the ice factory of Hassan Tewfic Abu Ghazaleh, of Jaffa, was attacked by Jews, with mortars and small arms fire. The factory watchman, Ibrahim Getani (22) of Jaffa, was slightly injured and removed to the Dejani Hospital. The building was partly demolished, damage being estimated at approximately LP. 6,000.
CO 537/3856
14 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 0130 hours, Jaffa. In the Abu Kebir Quarter, Ali Hassan el Weish (23) of that quarter was killed by snipers. His body was removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa.
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16 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1530 hours, Jaffa. In Tel er Rish Yousef Ali Abdul Khalil(26), of Mi'ilya village, was shot and fatally wounded by snipers from the Holon area. His body was removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa.
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18 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1430 hours, Jaffa. On Bassa lands, Ahmed Hussein Tustani (35), of Hebron, was shot and fatally wounded by a sniper from the direction of Tel Aviv. The body was removed to the Dajani Hospital.
CO 537/3856
18 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1500 hours, Jaffa. The body of Said Butros (25) of Tel er Rish was admitted to the French Hospital in Jaffa. He had been killed by snipers' bullets in Tel er Rish.
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18 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1630 hours, Jaffa. Jews blew up eight unoccupied Arab houses in Arlin Street, Manshieh Quarter. They also fired at the Manshieh Police Station and at a police armoured car which approached the scene. The fire was returned by the police, but there were no known casualties.
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19 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1030 hours, Tel Aviv. A Jewish snipers' position in Abu Kebir Quarter directed moderate automatic fire into Salama Road, Jaffa. A police arrnoured car proceeded to the scene at approximately 1 100 hours, and the area then became quiet. No casualties have been reported.
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22/23 MARCH 1948 Lydda. Between 2350 hours 22 March, 1948, and 0145 hours 23 March, 1948, Jaffa. Jebeliya Quarter was attacked by Jews. During the course of the attack, eleven houses and a small mosque were demolished, believed by mortars. The following casualties were admitted to the Government Hospital from the quarter on the morning of 23 March, 1948: Seriously Injured- Dahiel Eissa Ed Dibis (45); Mohammed Marouf El Kaban (35); Abdul Fattah Samara (27).
CO 537/3857
23 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1130 hours, Jaffa. Jewish snipers near Bassa lands commenced firing into King George Avenue, Jaffa. Two Arabs were killed, Ali Darwish Wazieh (12) of Jaffa and Hassan Muharram (30) of Jaffa. At approximately 1230 hours, the Jewish snipers post was silenced by military using two pounders.
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24 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 0230 hours, Jaffa. Several heavy mortar bombs fired from the direction of Tel Aviv in the area of the Hassan Bey Mosque. Some damage was caused to the surrounding wall of the Mosque and to a nearby house. No casualties have been reported.
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24 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1500 hours, Jaffa. Ahmed Sabri el Rehawi (20) of Syria, was slightly wounded in the leg by a bullet fired by unknown persons near the Bat Yam Mental Home. He was admitted to the Government Hospital.
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24 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1935 hours, Jaffa. Jews from Abu Kebir opened fire with mortars on the flour mill in Salama Road. Arabs replied and firing was still continuing at 2000 hours. No further details are yet available.
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25 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1600 hours, Jaffa. Ali Morffi el Rahidi (35) of Egypt was admitted to the Government Hospital suffering from a bullet wound in the back which he sustained when a Jewish armoured car fired at him in Zarmuqa village. His condition is serious.
CO 537/3857
25 MARCH 1948 Lydda, Jaffa. The house of Farid Jaber in Karton Quarter was destroyed by fire in unknown circumstances. The damage caused is estimated at L.P. 5,000. On the same day at Jaber's orange grove, situated in Salameh village, damage estimated at L.P. 13,000 is stated to have been caused by Jews using explosive charges.
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1 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 0955 hours, Jaffa. A mortar bomb, believed to have been fired from Bat Yam, exploded on the house of Assad El Dejani, near Ajami P.S. Slight damage was sustained by the building, but no casualties were caused.
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1 APRIL 1948 Lydda, Jaffa. Salim Rajab Sha'aban El Moghrabi reports that his house on the Bat YamlJebeliya border was demolished by Jewish mortar fire.
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2 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 1700 hours, Jaffa. Ali Abu Hajas (30), of Manshieh Quarter, was shot and seriously wounded by Jewish snipers in Arlin Street. He was removed to the Dajani Hospital.
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3 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 0700 hours, Jaffa. Mohammed Ahmed Eissa (291, of Egypt, was shot and slightly injured by Jewish snipers in the Karm Et Tut area. He was removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa.
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3 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 1100 hours, Jaffa. Four mortar bombs, believed to have been fired from Tel Aviv area, and one mine exploded in the Suq El Yehud causing damage to unoccupied property. The exploding of the mine is believed to have been detonated by one of the bombs. No casualties have been reported.
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3 APRIL 1948 Lydda. Night, Jaffa. An Arab house, situated in the Jebaliyeh Quarter of Jaffa, was blown up and extensively damaged by Jews and an occupant, Fathmi Shlean (68), was killed.
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3 APRIL 1948 Lydda, Jaffa. Mohammed Ahmed Eissa, of Kami Et Tut, was shot and seriously injured, by unknown persons, whilst in his village. He was removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa, where he died shortly after admission.
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6 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 1630 hours, Jaffa. Jews opened fire on swimmers near the Jaffa Club. The following casualties were caused: Dead - Subhi Ibn Adib Jabour (27), of Jaffa. Serious - Mohammed Ibn Akawi (12), of Jaffa. Slight - Mohammed Mahmoud Kana'an (20), of Jaffa. CO 537/3857
8 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 0 100 hours, Jaffa. Jews opened mortar fire on the Manshieh Quarter and bombs fell near the Manshieh Police Station and in the Jaffa railway yard. A municipal policeman, No. 1 13, Abdullah Eissa Salim (26), of Jaffa, was slightly injured by splinters whilst on duty in the Suq el Yehud. A house in the railway yard was destroyed, and Hassan Abu Shimes (35), of Manshieh, was seriously injured. Three mortar bombs exploded in the vicinity of the C.S. Jaffa, and the following two Arabs were injured: Deeb Ahmed Hamed (60), of Jaffa - serious; Yousef Abu Jabrin Bader (25), of Jaffa - not serious.
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10 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 1445 hours, Jaffa. Ahmed Abu Kalim (23), of Manshieh Quarter, was shot and seriously wounded by Jewish snipers whilst in Qaswan Street. He was removed to the Dajani Hospital.
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10 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 1730 hours, Jaffa. Moussa Madon (23), of Ajami Quarter, was shot and killed and Lutfi Ghawi (25), also of Ajami, was slightly wounded while they were walking in El Lisaf Street. Both were hit by shots fired from the direction of the Railway Station and were removed to the French Hospital.
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10 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 1810 hours, Jaffa. Mohammed Abdul Rahman Jainaf (55), of Jaffa, was shot and slightly injuredin Manshieh Quarter by a Jewish sniper. He was removed to the French Hospital, Jaffa.
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14 APRIL 1948 0230 hours to 0600 hours, 14 April, Jews mortared Jaffa, particularly Manshiya Quarter. No known casualty.
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25 APRIL 1948 Irgun Z'vai Leumi attack Jaffa. Army intervenes and fighting stops. Approximately fifty Arab casualties. Jews blow two gaps in the bridge at Jisr al Majami. Army reoccupies Sheikh Jarrah, meeting initial resistance from Hagana, but later a truce is negotiated and both sides ordered cease fire. Two Jews killed and two wounded. Four British Soldiers slightly wounded. Jews attack At Tireh, south of Haifa.
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26 APRIL 1948 1030 hours, 26 April, 2 R IR F road block at Jaffa congested by Arab lorries and buses carrying refugees. Congestion cleared and traffic passing road block estimated at rate of 20 vehicles per hour. Refugees fired on by Jewish sniper as they moved off. No casualty.
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26 APRIL 1948 At 1135 hours, 26th April, there was heavy mortaring of Manshieh Quarter, Jaffa, and Manshieh Police Station was attacked by Jews with arrnoured cars, grenades and small arms. No casualties yet reported.
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26 APRIL 1948 Tel Aviv-Jaffa. Jews attacked Arab quarter Jaffa with mortars and automatics and penetrated as far as the railway station. The Mayor of Tel Aviv was told that unless attack was stopped, military would employ force. This had the desired effect, and the situation is now quiet. Fifty Arab civilians are believed killed.
CO 537/3875
Our brethren are right when they say that the Arab honours only those who show valour and fortitude;
On 24 April 1948, the Irgun militant Zionist organization opened an attack on the Manshiyeh residential quarter of Jaffa, a narrow Palestinian suburb located beside the sea and largely surrounded by Tel Aviv. For four days and nights, under the direction of Menachem Begin, the Irgun indiscriminately shelled the quarter with mortars.
Hansard, the official record of proceedings in the U.K. Parliament, reported:
"On the 5th of May, 1948, the question of the attack by the Irgun Z'vai Leumi on Jaffa was raised. The Secretary of State for the Colonies was asked whether he had any statement to make on the present situation in Jaffa. Mr. Rees-Williams, the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies answered as follows:
In the early hours of 28th [sic] April a heavy attack on the Arab town of Jaffa was made by the Irgun Zvai Leumi, the method adopted being an indiscriminate mortar bombardment, apparently designed to create panic among the civilian inhabitants. British forces intervened, supported by aircraft, and in the course of the afternoon the Jews retired to their original positions. By nightfall the border was quiet except for occasional sniping. A cease-fire was ordered for both sides by the military commander and was observed. British troops then occupied a line between Arabs and Jews on the Tel-Aviv- Jaffa border. On the evening of 30th April, the cease-fire order was broken by fire from the Jewish side, which was quickly silenced by military action. Latest reports indicate that the town is now quiet. As a rough estimate, some 30,000 Arabs left Jaffa and more are leaving. The Arab mayor is still in Jaffa and municipal services are functioning, although with difficulty... ". (Hansard, House of Commons Debates, May 5, 1948, p. 1238).
The day after the Irgun offensive began, Haganah troops launched Operation Chametz against Jaffa, to isolate and conquer the city.
but this is the case only when he feels that the other side has justice on his side.
Jaffa, Palestine: The ruins of the Manshiyeh quarter, after indiscriminate bombardment by the Irgun.
It is very different in a case when [the Arab] thinks that his opponent's actions are iniquitous and unlawful;
"We all heard about the massacre. I remember that I read extensive coverage of the horrors in our press, which republished a story from the New York Times. Besides this terrifying news, the Arabs in Jaffa feared they would not be able to defend their honour if they were attacked by the Jews. They were afraid that their women would be subject to the humiliation of Deir Yassin. I was young, but I sensed just how much this worried the people in Jaffa. Having four sisters was enough reason for us to leave, as the Jews considered everything and everyone in the villages they invaded as theirs".
in that case he may keep his anger to himself for a long time,
Jaffa, Palestine: Palestinians driven into the sea at Jaffa Harbor, late April 1948. With the land routes cut off by the Haganah, tens of thousands of the citizens of Jaffa and neighboring villages fled by boat: south to Gaza and Egypt, and north to Lebanon. (via Walid Khalidi, Before Their Diaspora)
but it will dwell in his heart
Jaffa Harbor, Palestine: Palestinian refugees flee Jaffa by boat for Gaza, Apr-May 1948. By the time Jaffa finally fell on 13 May 1948, fewer than 4,000 of its 70,000 residents remained.
and in the long run he will prove himself to be vengeful and full of retribution.
Jaffa, Israel: Jewish refugees from Europe are resettled in ethnically-cleansed Jaffa, 1949.
Sources:
1. The text, "We tend to believe abroad...", is from the work of the Zionist writer Ahad Ha'Am, (Truth from the Land of Israel, 1891). Reproduced in Complete Works of Ahad Ha'am, (Tel Aviv, 1946), pp. 24-29. (h/t Angry Arab)
2. Unless otherwise noted, the photos are from Palestine Remembered, and should not be reused without attribution to that site.
3. Details of attacks on Jaffa, Jan to Apr 1948, are taken from the Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem; available on-line here. The alphanumeric reference number at the end of each report refers to the file number under which the original source material is archived at the U.K. National Archives (formerly the Public Records Office) in Kew, London:
- CO 537/3855 = Confidential reports from the British Criminal Investigation Dept (C.I.D.) to the U.K. Colonial Office on Outrages in Palestine, 1947-48.
- CO 537/3856: Confidential reports from the British Criminal Investigation Dept (C.I.D.) to the U.K. Colonial Office on Outrages in Palestine, Feb-Mar 1948.
- WO 261/573: Confidential quarterly reports from British Army H.Q. in Palestine to the U.K. War Office, Jan-Mar 1948.
- WO 275/64: Confidential fortnightly newsletters from the H.Q. of the British Sixth Airborne Division in Palestine to the U.K. War Office, Mar 1947-May 1948.
- CO 537/3857: Confidential reports from the British Criminal Investigation Dept (C.I.D.) to the U.K. Colonial Office on Outrages in Palestine, Mar-Apr 1948
