| 75 years ago: Another forgotten massacre of Jews noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 10 Jan 05:45 AM From The Palestine Post, January 11, 1948, referring | | From The Palestine Post, January 11, 1948, referring to events from the previous Friday, January 9: Eleven Jews were killed in a planned massacre when Arabs attacked a party of 23 unarmed agricultural workers on Friday morning as they went to work in Jewish orange groves near Sukreir village . After killing the Jews, the Arabs stripped them of their clothing and decapitated one of the bodies. The dead so far identified are all of Rishon Le Zion ; Zvi Hayn, 33; Yechiel Danzigcr, 23; Yoel Weisseltier , 22 ; Michael Abrahamov, 18; Josef Okashi, 18; Pinhas Kaufman, 22 ; Zeharia Tabib, 18 ; and Avraham Feldklein, 18 . The bodies of the other three men are still missing. During Friday night, well motors in four Jewish orange groves near Sukreir were blown up . It looks like the dead were not orange grove workers but a Haganah patrol. There is a garden in Rishon LeTzion in their memory (sign above.)
In Benny Morris' Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, he reports that the Haganah leveled the village of Sukreir (Suqrir) on January 11 in retaliation after the entire village evacuated. * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! ...Read More |
From Ian: 'The great unpunishment': How, why so many Holocaust perpetrators got away with it After spending 18 years bringing "Getting Away With Murder(s)" to fruition, British filmmaker David Wilkinson faced wall-to-wall rejections when he shopped the documentary to global broadcasters and subscription services such as Netflix. Clocking in at three hours, Wilkinson's film is a detailed indictment of the so-called "great unpunishment" faced by nearly all of the Holocaust's perpetrators. The film focuses on specific German war criminals — and non-German collaborators — to explain how so many mass murderers avoided accountability. "The lack of justice for the victims of the Holocaust is the greatest miscarriage of justice in the history of mankind," Wilkinson told The Times of Israel. "The world needs to know this," he said. "Getting Away With Murder(s)" will finally land on several US streaming platforms on January 27, which is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The film has been airing in 11 European countries since July, said Wilkinson. "It has been a slog all the time with this documentary," said Wilkinson, who has produced or distributed 125 films in a career spanning more than four decades. "In some ways, 'Jews Don't Count' should have been the name of this film," said Wilkinson, who had to fund much of the documentary himself, along...Read More |
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Ralph Wilde, an associate professor at the Faculty of Laws, University College London, writes in OpinioJuris that Israel's presence anywhere beyond the 1949 armistice lines is illegal - not the settlements, but the "occupation" of every square centimeter.
It is a classic case where the opinion precedes the evidence, and the evidence is then shoe-horned into the argument.
There is a great deal of garbage there, but here's an argument that I had never seen before, that is profoundly stupid. Neither United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, nor the so-called Oslo Accords, provide an alternative legal basis for the existence/continuation of the occupation. Indeed, the Oslo Accords are themselves violative of international law, because 'consent' to them by the PLO was coerced through the illegal use of force, and, relatedly, they conflicted with norms of international law that have a special non-derogable/jus cogens status (the prohibition on the use of force other than in self-defence, and the right of self-determination). According to Wilde, the Oslo Accords were illegal because the PLO was coerced to sign them by Israel. No one to my knowledge has made that claim, ever. Not during the Oslo process from 1993-2000, not during the...Read More |
From Ian: Mark Dubowitz: Obama's Anti-Imperialist Fantasy Bears Bitter Fruit Unsurprisingly, Iran often seemed to exist for Obama not as a threat to U.S. interests but as a historical victim of Western imperialism, which supposedly overthrew a "democratically elected" Iranian prime minister and installed the shah. Iran's repressive theocratic regime seemed less notable for its blatant offenses against its own people, or its efforts to destabilize neighboring states, than for its role as the bête noire of warmongering neoconservatives in the United States, who supported a regional structure that put America on the side of troublemakers such as Israel and Saudi Arabia. Faced with the choice between the Islamic Republic and its enemies, Obama found it surprisingly easy to take the side of the mullahs—putting himself and the United States crossways both to U.S. interests and the hopes and dreams of the Iranian people. Obama's big Iran play, which continues to shape U.S. regional policy to this day, was therefore neither "values-driven" nor purely pragmatic. His apparent goal was to extricate the United States from a cycle of endless conflict—one of whose primary causes, as he saw it, was Western imperialism. In doing so, Obama sought to be the first anti-imperialist American president since Dwight Eisenhower, who had backed Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser...Read More |
The website of the Jordanian Royal Committee for Jerusalem Affairs includes a brief English-language history of the city originally published in 2005.
It glosses over any historic Jewish connection to the city by framing Jews as one of many invaders: 3000 B.C. :
The Arab Canaanites established the city in the third millennium B.C., as archeologists state. 1879 B.C. :
in the Egyptian Tablets, called the Texts of the Curse, the name Ur Salim (the city of peace) was mentioned as the name for the city . The name reoccurred in the year 1300 B.C. in the Tal Al- Amarnah Tablets. At that time, the city was inhabited by the Arab Yabusites. 1300 – 63 B.C. :
The city suffered invasion, occupation and destruction. It witnessed important events during this period . It was occupied by the Egyptians, the Jews, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians and the Greeks. 63 B.C – 636 A.D. :
This was the era of the Roman rule, which lasted around 700 years. The most important events during this period were : – The appearance of Jesus Christ (the Messiah) around the first year B.C.
– 70 The city was destroyed by the Roman Emperor Titus. The Canaanites were not Arabs. There is no mention of Jewish kingdoms, Kings David or Solomon, the Temples, or even the Bible. Even the Quran says far more about Jews in the land than this commission does. Well, there is an indirect mention of the Temples when it discusses...Read More |
From Times of Israel: About 400 items believed to have been hidden in the ground by their Jewish owners during World War II have been accidentally uncovered during home renovation work in a yard in Lodz in central Poland. History experts say that the objects found in the city's Polnocna Street include Hanukkah menorahs and items used in daily life, TVN24 reported. Another Polish media outlet, o2.pl, said that perfume bottles and cigarette holders were also found in the trove, located some 70 centimeters underground. The stash was found in December, and two of the menorahs were lit on December 22 during Hanukkah celebrations organized by the city's Jewish community. Some of the items were found wrapped in Polish, Yiddish, and German language newspapers, which were dated to around October 1939, Israel's Ynet news site said. Gazecie Wyborczej, an archaeologist in Lodz, said that the items appeared to have been buried in a hurry, likely when the owners were ordered to appear in the Lodz Ghetto. According to Wyborczej, the site of the building used to be a synagogue. The items are mostly silver-plated tableware, menorahs and glass containers for cosmetics, according to the regional office for the preservation of historic objects. The office's experts said on Facebook last week that the objects will be handed over to the city's archaeology museum. This...Read More |
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