Palestine War

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Palestine War

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Post by Globalization41 » 14 Mar 2004, 11:33

The New York Times, Sunday, December 7,
1941:
A resolution urging the United States to
join with Great Britain in furthering the
development of Palestine as a national
homeland for the Jews was adopted Sunday by
600 Jewish leaders at a Palestine War
Emergency Conference
in the Hotel Plaza.
The conference was called by the Greater New
York United Palestine Appeal. The resolution
called upon President Roosevelt to instruct the
Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees to
explore possibilities for future large-scale
colonization of Palestine.

Time Magazine, Volume XLIII, Number 14,
April 3, 1944. ... Just before midnight, the
dread Hagana struck. [Time footnotes,
"Hagana is Hebrew for 'Defense,' the title
assumed by illegally armed Zionist
extremists who believe in 'direct action' to
further a Jewish homeland."]
In ultramodern
Tel Aviv, hallowed Jerusalem, bustling Haifa,
and old Jaffa the outlawed Jewish terrorists
attacked British police stations, exploded
bombs [and], fought running gun battles.
When the violence waned, six British
policemen lay dead, a dozen injured. ...
Palestine's peaceable Jewish majority
promptly condemned the outrages [and],
talked of vigilante drives against the outlaws.
Palestine's British High Commissioner
promptly took action: for Tel Aviv and the
Jewish quarters of Jerusalem, Haifa, and Jaffa,
a twelve-hour curfew beginning at 5pm; for
sabotage and terror, the death penalty.
Palestine, home of half a million Jews and a
million Arabs, already one of the world's most
thoroughly policed lands,
now felt more heavily
than ever the tread of law & order. ... Jews and
Arabs both knew that the Zionist outlaws were
hitting at Britain's pro-Arab policy. The British
knew it, too, but their first concern was to hold
their place in the oil-rich, strategically important
Arab world of the Middle East. Tensely all
factions awaited a crucial decision: whether
the British, Mr. Roosevelt's implied promise
notwithstanding (Time, March 20), would soon
stop Jewish immigration to Palestine, as
provided by the White Paper of 1939.

Jerusalem, Special to The New York Times,
By Clifton Daniel, Friday, April 18, 1947: In
broad daylight the Jewish underground opened
its counteroffensive against the British forces
today in apparent reprisal for Wednesday's
hanging of four convicted terrorists. ... At the
same time the Irgun Zvai Leunrai, terrorist
organization, warned that it would fight any
United Nations-sponsored regime for Palestine
"other than Hebrew." ... In the first wave
of hit-and-run attacks this afternoon in
Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Nathanya, midway
between Tel Aviv and Jaffa, one British soldier
was killed, two British policemen were
wounded, and four Jewish pedestrians were
injured. Bombs and gunfire did the damage.
... After confining most of Jerusalem's Jews to
their homes for two successive nights the
authorities lifted the house curfew in the Holy
City this morning in time for the Jewish
Sabbath. No part of the country is now under
curfew except that the roads are barred to
traffic during the hours of darkness. ... This
relaxation of the restrictions leaves the
underground forces free to move inside the
cities, and Palestine is waiting to see whether
there will be a more disastrous assault on the
British forces than those of today. ... The two
young Jews whose death sentences were
confirmed by the British commanding general
yesterday are not expected to be executed
immediately because of the custom here against
hanging on holy days
-- Friday for Moslems,
Saturday for Jews, and Sunday for Christians.

[Stay tuned for late breaking war bulletins.
... Globalization41.]

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