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Arab Massacres of Jews before 1948
18 August 2007Arabs and their sympathizers often like to talk about massacres that happened to the Palestinian people in 1948 and before. People familiar with the history of the Israel-Arab conflict have no doubt heard about Deir Yassin – it is the quintessential Jewish “massacre” of Palestinians. These people would have you believe that the Arabs were totally innocent in this war, but of course, the truth is quite the opposite. Unfortunately, Jews and Israelis have made little of the Palestinian massacres of Jews before 1948 of which there were many. This list contains a number of massacres of Jews by the hands of Arabs only between when the UN partition plan was passed (November 29, 1947), and by May 15, 1948. The list is probably incomplete, so updates are welcome (Source: Seth Frantzman, Jerusalem Post Guest Column).
December 1947 – Small kibbutzim were subjected to attacks – Gvulot, Ben-Shemen, Holon, Safed, Bat Yam and Kfar Yavetz. Sixty-two Jews were murdered by Arabs around Palestine.
December 30, 1947 – 39 Jews were killed by Arab rioters at Haifa’s oil refinery
January 16, 1948 – 35 Jews were killed trying to reach Gush Etzion
February 22, 1948 – 44 Jews were murdered in a bombing on Jerusalem’s Rehov Ben-Yehuda
February 29, 1948 – 23 Jews were killed all across Palestine, eight of them at the Hayotzek iron foundry.
January and February 1948 – Rishon Lezion, Yehiam, Mishmar Hayarden, Tirat Zvi, Sde Eliahu, Ein Hanatziv, Magdiel, Mitzpe Hagalil and Ma’anit were all subjected to attacks. Arab attackers also bombedThe Palestine Post
April 13, 1948 – 35 Jew were murdered during the Mount Scopus convoy massacre
March and April – Assault on Hartuv by 400 Arabs based in the village of Ishwa and an attack on Kfar Darom by members of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Jewish Agency, the Solel Boneh building in Haifa and an Egged bus were bombed.
May 15, 1948 – 127 Jews were massacred at Kfar Etzion, after 30 others had died defending the Etzion Bloc.
During this timespan(November 29, 1947 to May 15, 1948), a total of 1,256 Jews had been killed, most of them civilians. These deaths were caused by Arab militias, gangs, terrorists and army units which attacked every place of Jewish inhabitation in Palestine. During this time, all Jewish villages in the Negev were attacked, and Jews had to go about the country in convoys. In every major city where Jews and Arabs lived in mixed neighborhoods the Jewish areas came under attack. This was true in Haifa’s Hadar Hacarmel as well as Jerusalem’s Old City.
The above list does not include Jews killed and synagogues burned in Arab countries during the timespan in question. However, it is known thatmore than 100 Jews were massacred and synagogues were burned in Aleppo and Aden, driving thousands of Jews from their homes.
February 13th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
[...] “The Philistine” then goes on to give the tired old propagandists rendition of events at Deir Yassin. My linked posts, which quote the book “Aliyah” give another side of the story. It’s up to the readers to decide who’s telling the truth and who bends the truth for political purposes. Another reason Deir Yassin is cited so frequently by the Arab opponents to Israel’s existence is because there really isn’t much else to point to in Israel’s history. Contrast this to the many massacres perpetrated on Israel by the Arab world. By all means, google the topic. I’m confident you’ll be shocked. [...]
March 7th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
And what of the massacre of the Hebronites in 1929? Hebronites who had lived peacefully on the land for generations, who were for the most part fervent ANTI-Zionists…
To the above quote/comment: I know it’s a figure of speech but I HATE when people mistake “PALESTINIAN” (just Arabs) and “PHILLISTINES”… The Phillistines were a non-Sematic sea-faring people of the Aegean. THey are as much related to Palestinian Arabs as the Chinese. The Phillistines were the Jews ancient enemy, Goliath (of David and Goliath) was a PHillistine.
After defeating a Jewish revolt against Roman oppression, Emperor Hadrian enacted an ingenius punishment. His punishment was to ERASE THE JEWISH IDENTITY and HISTORY of the land! They did ‘the usual’, tearing down synogagues and relics however in a very unique act that haunts Israel till this day: they RENAMED THE NATION. Jerusalem became Aelia Capitalina (that name did not stick apparently), and the land of Israel became PALASTINA. The name was to be especially offensive to Jews in that it invoked the name of their ancient enemy.
Make no mistake about it though : the name does not have ANYTHING to do with the Arabs who today call themselves ‘Palestinians’… This is also a grievous misnomer for they are just Arabs, genetically, ethnically, culturally identical to Syrians & Iraqis (incidentally, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia are ‘new’ nations as well)…
April 7th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
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April 19th, 2010 at 4:52 am
“Unfortunately, Jews and Israelis have made little of the Palestinian massacres of Jews before 1948 of which there were many”
That would be a convenient first