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¾Æ¶óºñ¾ÆÀΰú ±×µéÀÇ µ¿Á¶ÀÚ´Â ¼ö½Ã·Î 1948³â¿¡ ÆÈ·¹½ºÅ¸ÀÎ »ç¶÷µé¿¡°Ô ±×¸®°í Àü¿¡ ÀÏ¾î³ ´ëÇл쿡 ´ëÇØ¼ À̾߱âÇÏ°í ½Í´Ù. À̽º¶ó¿¤ ¾Æ¶óºñ¾ÆÀÎ Ãæµ¹ÀÇ ¿ª»ç¸¦ °¡Áø »ç¶÷µé Ä£±¸´Â Deir Yassin¿¡ °üÇÏ¿© µé¾î È®½ÅÇÑ´Ù - ÆÈ·¹½ºÅ¸ÀÎ »ç¶÷ÀÇ Á¤¼ö À¯ÅÂÀÎ "´ëÇлì"ÀÌ´Ù. 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.
Tags:Arab Muslim World , deir yassin , massacres , suicide attacks , terrorist groups
Finding the Lost Tribes of Israel
July 9th, 2007
We would like to share the story of Pashtun-historian from India Dr. Navras Jaat Aafreedi, as written by Alexander Maistrovoy. The article can be found in our guest writer section, or directly (¡°I love Israel, for my forefathers were most probably Israelites¡±).
Comments will be fed back to Dr. Aafreedi and Mr. Maistrovoy. To submit your own articles for publication, please contact using our contact form.
Tags:bnai israel , indian jews , Jewish World , lost tribes of israel , pashtun jews
Who Governs the Palestinians?
June 18th, 2007
The events of the last week make us ponder the above question. According to the Khaleej Times, an English-language newspaper in Dubai (UAE), the ¡°international community has signalled its support for (Mahmoud) Abbas and its intention to isolate Hamas¡±. Hamas, elected in January 2006, to run the Palestinian Legislative Council took to the streets in the past week and killed a number of high-ranking Fatah officials. Now, Abbas has sworn in a ¡°12-member emergency cabinet led by moderate prime minister Salam Fayyad as he sought to restore his authority, and swiftly took aim at Hamas by declaring its militia�s illegal.¡±
These event beg the question - who governs the Palestinians? There are two main factions in Palestinian politics - Hamas and Fatah. Fatah, considered by most to be moderate (feelings not shared by us who run this website), lost the 2006 election to Hamas (by a margin of 74-45), but retained the presidency. Now, Abbas doesn¡¯t like what he¡¯s seeing, so he¡¯s asserting his authority to undermine Hamas.
Our personal view of what will come of this is a situation similar to what happened to Pakistan in 1971. Between 1955 and 1971, East Pakistan (now know as Bangladesh) was a province of Pakistan. As we know from history, the only people that Muslims hate more than the infidels is each other, and thus East Pakistan broke off and became an independent country. Given that Gaza is primarily Hamas territory, it will be virtually be impossible for Fatah to assert control over it. The West Bank is primarily Fatah territory and given recent events, will likely maintain it¡¯s allegiance. We don¡¯t believe that these two rival parties will ever be able to reconcile and will effectively break ties in the not too distant future, leaving the West Bank to be governed by Fatah and Gaza to be governed by Hamas.
The above events are likely to be viewed as negative by the Arab world, Palestinian activists and the UN, the events could be a great victory for Israel, given that previous peace agreements with the Palestinians stipulated that Israel would have to give the Palestinians a way to move between Gaza and the West Bank, which would surely cause security issues for Israel. Should these two territories be ruled by different parties for an extended period of time, this demand will not be realistic and Israel will not have to put itself in a terrible position. Time will tell whether our prediction is correct, but given the events of the past week, this scenario is looking more and more realistic as time passes.
Tags:Arab Muslim World , arab government , arab world , fatah , gaza , hamas , israeli security , palestinian authority , United Nations
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