June 1-2, 1941 The Farhud - How the Arab Leader in Palestine attacked Jews in Iraq

[rylah]

I think it has to do with shattering the "it's not about Jews" slogan,
and the poor kitten face they try to perpetuate for the Jihadi maniacs.

Pretty hard to do so when facts show that Arabs in Palestine were directly active in massacres of Jews before and outside of Israel.

Farhoud shatters all those big lies, and more, in one instance.

Arab Hate started around 460 AD . Nothing to do with Israel

But according to team Palestine, before Israel, Arabs were the world's leading liberals who couldn't hurt a fly, until evil Jews turned them into poor mistreated Jihadis

The silence on this thread is the loudest confirmation that everyone here knows - given the chance and ability Jews would face the same destiny in the middle east as in Europe, and the Arabs wouldn't even blink.

After all the shit you do it in Palestina I might not blink either.

How many Arab pogroms against Palestinian Jews before a Zionist ever shot a bullet?
Arabs are responsible for the majority of life and property loss in this conflict.

So easy to leave You speechless.

Let's talk about reparations,
cause I haven't seen my quota of Palestinian running ducks for today

 

[Ecocertifmrl]

Arab Hate started around 460 AD . Nothing to do with Israel

But according to team Palestine, before Israel, Arabs were the world's leading liberals who couldn't hurt a fly, until evil Jews turned them into poor mistreated Jihadis

The silence on this thread is the loudest confirmation that everyone here knows - given the chance and ability Jews would face the same destiny in the middle east as in Europe, and the Arabs wouldn't even blink.

After all the shit you do it in Palestina I might not blink either.

How many Arab pogroms against Palestinian Jews before a Zionist ever shot a bullet?
Arabs are responsible for the majority of life and property loss in this conflict.

So easy to leave You speechless.

Let's talk about reparations,
cause I haven't seen my quota of Palestinian running ducks for today

I don't speak duck.

And yes, you do have a talent for leaving me speechless.

 

[rylah]

But according to team Palestine, before Israel, Arabs were the world's leading liberals who couldn't hurt a fly, until evil Jews turned them into poor mistreated Jihadis

The silence on this thread is the loudest confirmation that everyone here knows - given the chance and ability Jews would face the same destiny in the middle east as in Europe, and the Arabs wouldn't even blink.

After all the shit you do it in Palestina I might not blink either.

How many Arab pogroms against Palestinian Jews before a Zionist ever shot a bullet?
Arabs are responsible for the majority of life and property loss in this conflict.

So easy to leave You speechless.

Let's talk about reparations,
cause I haven't seen my quota of Palestinian running ducks for today

I don't speak duck.

And yes, you do have a talent for leaving me speechless.

Comes easy when You come unprepared to talk about Arab pogroms,
especially those predating Zionism.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Escape from Baghdad: Moshe Kahtan's story

 

[Sixties Fan]

Earlier this year Fathom’s Grant Goldberg interviewed Lyn Julius about her new book, Uprooted, which documents 3,000 years of Jewish civilisation in the Arab world and explains how and why that civilisation vanished in a single generation in the middle of the 20th century. Julius describes what brought Nazi Germany, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem into an alliance and how this impacted Jews in the Middle East and the formation of the State of Israel. Download a PDF version here.

(full article online)

‘Understanding the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa is the key to understanding the whole Middle East conflict’: an interview with Lyn Julius

 

[Sixties Fan]

[ The Fahroud in 1941, which eventually led to the expulsion of most of Iraq's Jews in 1950 - along with the expulsion of the Jews of many other Muslim conquered lands ]

Top Historian Simon Schama: Remember the Expulsion of Jews From Arab Countries

 

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The expulsion that backfired: When Iraq kicked out its Jews

 

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Second class citizens

Under Arab rule, Jews, Christians and other non-Muslims were considered dhimmis, or second-class citizens. This status meant Jews had to pay a special yearly tax, could not build synagogues or too openly practice their religion. To further reinforce their lower status, dhimmis could not build homes as tall as the Muslims, were required to dress differently, and weren’t allowed to ride horses — only donkeys. Jewish orphans were frequently removed from the community and forcibly converted to Islam. In North Africa, Jewish communities had to live in a ghetto (mellah). For better (and sometimes for worse), Arab rulers weren’t consistent on enforcing these rules.

Demonstrating the precariousness of Jews in the Arab world was the Damascus blood libelof 1840. When a Capuchin friar and his Muslim servant disappeared, a rumor began that the two had been murdered by Jews who wanted to use their blood for Passover. Several Jews were arrested, some of whom died under torture while others “confessed.” The remaining detainees were saved thanks to the intervention of Sir Moses Montefiore and others. However, Mitchell Bard explains, the affair left behind a bitter, lasting legacy:

The idea that the ritual murder case had been conclusively proved in Damascus and the prisoners only released for political reasons or because of bribery now became a key theme repeated at length in an extensive series of antisemitic journals and books,

Despite their “otherness,” Jews still managed to contribute to Arab culture and politics. Some of the notable personalities included:

• Ya’qub Bilbul: the father of the Iraqi novel and short story.
• Togo Mizrahi: an Egyptian director, actor, producer, and screenwriter.
• Saleh and Daoud Al-Kuwaity: brothers whose songs are considered Arab classics.
• Sir Sassoon Eskell: statesman and financier instrumental in establishing the Kingdom of Iraq.
• Alphonse Halimi: world champion boxer from Algeria.
• Sheikh El Afrit (Issim Israel Rozzio): one of Tunisia’s most prolific songwriters.

By the early 1900s, much of the Arab world was ruled by the European powers. On one hand, this opened doors for Jews to advance in education, business and government. But it also placed them between the forces of European colonialism and restless Arab nationalism.

(full article online)

The Forgotten Jewish Refugees From Arab Lands | HonestReporting

 

[The Original Tree]

I believe many German Nazi soldiers
Impregnated many Arab women in WW II so that Nazism and Antisemitism Literally flows in the blood of Arabs.

[ Which Arab Clan became the leader of the Arabs in Mandate for Palestine, post the Ottoman Empire defeat, shows what a difference power and leadership makes.
One clan wanted to live with the Jews in the recreation of their ancient Nation, the other wanted all Jews gone. The latter one fought, killed or expelled the leaders of the clans who were against his plans. The consequences to the Mandate for Palestine, the Jews and the Arabs themselves have been catastrophic for both sides.
His reach and influence in delaying the Jewish dream until 1948 can be seen from the riots he created in 1920 to later efforts even outside the Mandate for Palestine ]


Jews had thrived in Iraq for 2,700 years, a thousand years before Muhammad. But all that came to end when the mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, led the broad Arab-Nazi alliance in the Holocaust that produced a military, economic, political, and ideological common cause with Hitler. Although Husseini spearheaded an international pro-Nazi, anti-Jewish Islamic movement from India to Central Europe to the Middle East, it was in Baghdad — a 1,000-kilometer drive from Jerusalem — that he launched his robust coordination with the Third Reich.

In 1941, Iraq still hosted Britain’s Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which controlled the region’s oil. Hitler wanted that oil to propel his invasion of Russia. The Arabs, led by Husseini, wanted the Jews out of Palestine and Europe’s persecuted Jews kept away from the Middle East. Indeed, Husseini persuasively argued to Hitler that Jews should not be expelled to Palestine but rather to “Poland,” where “they will be under active control.” Translation: send Jews to the concentration camps. Husseini had visited concentration camps. He had been hosted by architect of the genocide Heinrich Himmler, and the mufti considered Shoah engineer Adolf Eichmann not only a great friend, but a “diamond” among men.

Nazi lust for oil and Arab hatred of Jews combined synergistically June 1–2, 1941, burning the Farhud into history. Arab soldiers, police, and hooligans, swearing allegiance to the mufti and Hitler, bolstered by fascist coup plotters known as the Golden Square, ran wild in the streets, raping, shooting, burning, dismembering, and decapitating. Jewish blood flowed through those streets and their screams created echoes that have never faded.

The 1941 Farhud massacre, which was launched in tandem with an attempted takeover of the British oil fields and London’s airbase at Habbaniya, set the stage for the Mufti-Hitler summit and the establishment of three Islamic and Arab Waffen SS divisions in central Europe under Himmler’s direct sponsorship. After the State of Israel was established in 1948, mufti adherents and devotees throughout the Arab world, working through the Arab League, openly and systematically expelled 850,000 Jews from Morocco to Lebanon. Penniless and stateless, many of those refugees were airlifted to Israel where they were absorbed and became almost half the families of Israel.

(full article online)

Why International Farhud Day Stymies Invented Palestinian History



The Farhud, Baghdad, 1941. Photo: Jewish Museum London

 

[Sixties Fan]

Documentary on how Arabs mistreated Jews in Arab countries ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

 

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[Iraqis are actually dreaming that any Jew would want to return to Mesopotamia. Under Muslim control. Ha ! ]

Iraqi Officials: Restoration of Citizenship Does Not Extend to Iraqi Jews Living in Israel

 

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Commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of the Farhud​

Sunday, May 30, 2021 • 19 Sivan 5781​

12:00 PM - 1:30 PMVIA ZOOM - Registration required


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Commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of the Farhud - Event - Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue of Montreal

www.thespanish.org

 

[Sixties Fan]

The Farhud, 2016 - Yvonne Green

In 2016 I was commissioned to write a poem for the anniversary of The Farhud, the dispossession of Iraqui Jews in Baghdad on June 1–2, 1941.

yvonnegreenpoet.com

Baghdad massacre poem read in Knesset

Yvonne Green reads her poem at the Lauderdale Road synagogue commemoration for the Farhud massacre in Baghdad. She later travelled to Jeru...

jewishrefugees.blogspot.com

 

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Jews in Iraq once numbered 160,000. Up until 1948, Baghdad’s population was 40% Jewish. Today, only four Jews remain in Iraq. The Iraqi Jews were ethnically cleansed through murders, hangings, rapes, torture and terror. Now their history is being erased and they are being denied their precious Iraqi Jewish Archive except for a digital sampling developed for exhibition purposes and not for research and scholarship.

(full article online)

First came the Farhud: The 2-stage ethnic cleansing of Iraqi Jewry

Eighty years after slaughter, rape and robbery, after expulsion and dispossession, Iraqi Jews are denied access to a precious archive of their communal history

blogs.timesofisrael.com

 

[surada]

[ Here is a background of how Al- Husseini went from becoming the Mufti of Jerusalem and his attacks on Jews during the Mandate, to leading the attacks on Jews in Iraq]

Born in 1893 under Ottoman Rule

1914-1917

Husseini’s First Taste of Jihad

Allegiance to Ottoman Empire

Amin Al Husseini: Ottoman Empire Officer

Amin Al-Husseini swears allegiance to the Ottoman Empire during the Armenian genocidehttp://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com/amin_en.html#_edn1 .[ii] He is an officer stationed in Smyrna and participates first-hand in the Armenian genocide. One and a half million Christians are slaughtered under the sword of Islamic Jihad by the Ottoman Army. Allegiance to Ottoman Empire and Islamic world take-over will be echoed by Osama Bin Laden in his post-September 11th declaration[iii]

Amin Al Husseini: Father of Jihad, Al Qaeda, Arafat, Saddam Hussein and the Muslim Brotherhood

Arafat wasn't related to the Mufti.. Hitler's plan to control oil from the Caspian to the Persian Gulf was called Plan Orient.. and he gave it up by November 1941 after Mussolini bombed Bahrain and Dammam One.

By 1939 every Arab state had signed on with the Allies. You must be Israeli.The Mufti met Hitler for ten minutes in 1941,

 

[surada]

Jews in Iraq once numbered 160,000. Up until 1948, Baghdad’s population was 40% Jewish. Today, only four Jews remain in Iraq. The Iraqi Jews were ethnically cleansed through murders, hangings, rapes, torture and terror. Now their history is being erased and they are being denied their precious Iraqi Jewish Archive except for a digital sampling developed for exhibition purposes and not for research and scholarship.

(full article online)

First came the Farhud: The 2-stage ethnic cleansing of Iraqi Jewry

Eighty years after slaughter, rape and robbery, after expulsion and dispossession, Iraqi Jews are denied access to a precious archive of their communal history

blogs.timesofisrael.com

Shame really but that's what the Zionists wanted. There were still Jews in Tripoli in 1973.. and there are still Jews in Bahrain.

 

[surada]

1929

Hebron Massacre

Amin Al-Husseini organizes more riots in Palestine. He spreads false rumors to further turn the local Muslims against the Jews. Random murdering of Hebron Jews begins. Hebron Jewish community was over 2,000 years old. [Actually 3000]

Amin Al Husseini: Father of Jihad, Al Qaeda, Arafat, Saddam Hussein and the Muslim Brotherhood

Hebron was strictly an Arab city until 1500 when a handful of Jews arrived from Spain and Portugal. They settled in without incident. Hebron has an Arab majority now.

 

[Sixties Fan]

1929

Hebron Massacre

Amin Al-Husseini organizes more riots in Palestine. He spreads false rumors to further turn the local Muslims against the Jews. Random murdering of Hebron Jews begins. Hebron Jewish community was over 2,000 years old. [Actually 3000]

Amin Al Husseini: Father of Jihad, Al Qaeda, Arafat, Saddam Hussein and the Muslim Brotherhood

Hebron was strictly an Arab city until 1500 when a handful of Jews arrived from Spain and Portugal. They settled in without incident. Hebron has an Arab majority now.

[ You are strictly a rewriter of history. Keep the rewriting to yourself. History always prevails ]

Hebron has a long and rich Jewish history. Numbers 13:22 states that (Canaanite) Hebron was founded seven years before the Egyptian town of Zoan, i.e. around 1720 BCE, and the ancient (Canaanite and Israelite) city of Hebron was situated at Tel Rumeida. The city’s history has been inseparably linked with the Cave of Machpelah, which the Patriarch Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite for 400 silver shekels (Genesis 23) as a family tomb. This was the first parcel of land owned by the Jewish people in their Promised Land. As recorded in Genesis, the Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the Matriarchs Sarah, Rebekah and Leah, are buried there, and — according to a Jewish tradition — Adam and Eve are also buried there.

Hebron is mentioned 87 times in the Bible and is the world’s oldest Jewish community. Joshua assigned Hebron to Caleb from the tribe of Judah (Joshua 14:13-14), who subsequently led his tribe in conquering the city and its environs (Judges 1:1-20). As Joshua 14:15 notes, “the former name of Hebron was Kiryat Arba...”

Following the death of King Saul, God instructed David to go to Hebron, where he was anointed King of Judah (II Samuel 2:1-4) and reigned in the city for seven years before being anointed King over all Israel (II Samuel 5:1-3). One thousand years later, during the first Jewish revolt against the Romans, the city was the scene of extensive fighting. Jews lived in Hebron continuously throughout the Byzantine, Arab, Mameluke and Ottoman periods and it was only in 1929 that the city became temporarily “free” of Jews as a result of an Arab pogrom in which 67 Jews were murdered and the remainder forced to flee. After the 1967 Six-Day War, the Jewish community of Hebron was re-established.

The city was part of the united kingdom and — later — the southern Kingdom of Judah, until the latter fell to the Babyloniansin 586 BCE. Despite the loss of Jewish independence, Jews continued to live in Hebron (Nehemiah 11:25), and the city was later incorporated into the (Jewish) Hasmonean kingdom by John Hyrcanus. King Herod (reigned 37-4 BCE) built the base of the present structure — the 12 meter high wall — over the Tomb the Patriarchs.

The city was the scene of extensive fighting during the Jewish Revolt against the Romans (65-70, see Josephus 4:529, 554), but Jews continued to live there after the Revolt, through the later Bar Kochba Revolt (132-135 CE), and into the Byzantine period. The remains of a synagogue from the Byzantine period have been excavated in the city, and the Byzantines built a large church over the Tomb of the Patriarchs, incorporating the pre- existing Herodian structure.

Tel Hebron

In October 2018, a new archaeological site opened at Tel Hebron where the walls of the city from the Early and Middle Bronze Age were excavated, as well as buildings from the Early Roman period, including pottery vessels, jewelry and coins. Workshops from the First Temple period, including wine and olive presses, pottery kilns and huge vessels to produce wine and oil were also discovered. Other findings include a four-chamber house, jars bearing ancient Hebrew inscriptions with words “to the king of Hebron” and a section of the city wall.

Jews continued to live in Hebron after the city’s conquest by the Arabs (in 638), whose generally tolerant rule was welcomed, especially after the often-harsh Byzantine rule. The Arabs converted the Byzantine church at the Tomb the Patriarchs into a mosque.

Upon capturing the city in 1100, the Crusaders expelled the Jewish community, and converted the mosque at the Tomb back into a church. The Jewish community was re-established following the Mamelukes’ conquest of the city in 1260, and the Mamelukes reconverted the church at the Tomb of the Patriarchs back into a mosque. However, the restored Islamic (Mameluke) ascendancy was less tolerant than the pre-Crusader Islamic (Arab) regimes — a 1266 decree barred Jews (and Christians) from entering the Tomb of the Patriarchs, allowing them only to ascend to the fifth, later the seventh, step outside the eastern wall. The Jewish cemetery — on a hill west of the Tomb — was first mentioned in a letter dated to 1290.

The Ottoman Turks’ conquest of the city in 1517 was marked by a violent pogrom which included many deaths, rapes, and the plundering of Jewish homes. The surviving Jews fled to Beirut and did not return until 1533. In 1540, Jewish exiles from Spain acquired the site of the “Court of the Jews” and built the Avraham Avinu (“Abraham Our Father”) synagogue. (One year — according to local legend — when the requisite quorum for prayer was lacking, the Patriarch Abraham himself appeared to complete the quorum; hence, the name of the synagogue.)

Despite the events of 1517, its general poverty and a devastating plague in 1619, the Hebron Jewish community grew. Throughout the Turkish period (1517-1917), groups of Jews from other parts of the Land of Israel, and the Diaspora, moved to Hebron, joining the existing community, and the city became a rabbinic center of note.

In 1775, the Hebron Jewish community was rocked by a blood libel, in which Jews were falsely accused of murdering the son of a local sheikh. The community — which was largely sustained by donations from abroad — was forced to pay a crushing fine, which further worsened its already shaky economic situation.

Despite its poverty, the community managed, in 1807, to purchase a 5-dunam plot — upon which the city’s wholesale market stands today — and after several years the sale was recognized by the Hebron Waqf. In 1811, 800 dunams of land were acquired to expand the cemetery. In 1817, the Jewish community numbered approximately 500 and, by 1838, it had grown to 700, despite a pogrom which took place in 1834, during Mohammed Ali’s rebellion against the Ottomans (1831-1840).

In 1870, a wealthy Turkish Jew, Haim Yisrael Romano, moved to Hebron and purchased a plot of land upon which his family built a large residence and guest house, which came to be called Beit Romano. The building later housed a synagogue and served as a yeshiva, before it was seized by the Turks. During the Mandatory period, the building served the British administration as a police station, remand center, and court house.

In 1893, the building later known as Beit Hadassah was built by the Hebron Jewish community as a clinic, and a second floor was added in 1909. The Hadassah organization contributed the salaries of the clinic’s medical staff, who served both the city’s Jewish and Arab populations.

During World War I, before the British occupation, the Jewish community suffered greatly under the wartime Turkish administration. Young men were forcibly conscripted into the Turkish army, overseas financial assistance was cut off, and the community was threatened by hunger and disease. However, with the establishment of the British administration in 1918, the community, reduced to 430 people, began to recover. In 1925, Rabbi Mordechai Epstein established a new yeshiva, and by 1929, the population had risen to 700 again.

The Massacre​

On August 23, 1929, local Arabs devastated the Jewish community by perpetrating a vicious, large-scale, organized, pogrom. According to the Encyclopedia Judaica:

The assault was well planned, and its aim was well defined: the elimination of the Jewish settlement of Hebron. The rioters did not spare women, children, or the aged; the British gave passive assent. Sixty-seven were killed, 60 wounded, the community was destroyed, synagogues razed, and Torah scrolls burned.

A total of 59 of the 67 victims were buried in a common grave in the Jewish cemetery (including 23 who had been murdered and dismembered in one house alone), and the surviving Jews fled to Jerusalem. (During the violence, Haj Issa el-Kourdieh — a local Arab who lived in a house in the Jewish Quarter — sheltered 33 Jews in his basement and protected them from the rioting mob.)

[Here is why Hebron has a majority Arab population today]

Following the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, and the invasion by Arab armies, Hebron was captured and occupied by the Jordanian Arab Legion. During the Jordanian occupation, which lasted until 1967, Jews were not permitted to live in the city, nor — despite the Armistice Agreement — to visit or pray at the Jewish holy sites in the city. Additionally, the Jordanian authorities and local residents undertook a systematic campaign to eliminate any evidence of the Jewish presence in the city. They razed the Jewish Quarter, desecrated the Jewish cemetery and built an animal pen on the ruins of the Avraham Avinu synagogue.

(full article online)

History & Overview of Hebron

Encyclopedia of Jewish and Israeli history, politics and culture, with biographies, statistics, articles and documents on topics from anti-Semitism to Zionism.

www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org

 

[surada]

Second class citizens

Under Arab rule, Jews, Christians and other non-Muslims were considered dhimmis, or second-class citizens. This status meant Jews had to pay a special yearly tax, could not build synagogues or too openly practice their religion. To further reinforce their lower status, dhimmis could not build homes as tall as the Muslims, were required to dress differently, and weren’t allowed to ride horses — only donkeys. Jewish orphans were frequently removed from the community and forcibly converted to Islam. In North Africa, Jewish communities had to live in a ghetto (mellah). For better (and sometimes for worse), Arab rulers weren’t consistent on enforcing these rules.

Demonstrating the precariousness of Jews in the Arab world was the Damascus blood libelof 1840. When a Capuchin friar and his Muslim servant disappeared, a rumor began that the two had been murdered by Jews who wanted to use their blood for Passover. Several Jews were arrested, some of whom died under torture while others “confessed.” The remaining detainees were saved thanks to the intervention of Sir Moses Montefiore and others. However, Mitchell Bard explains, the affair left behind a bitter, lasting legacy:

The idea that the ritual murder case had been conclusively proved in Damascus and the prisoners only released for political reasons or because of bribery now became a key theme repeated at length in an extensive series of antisemitic journals and books,

Despite their “otherness,” Jews still managed to contribute to Arab culture and politics. Some of the notable personalities included:

• Ya’qub Bilbul: the father of the Iraqi novel and short story.
• Togo Mizrahi: an Egyptian director, actor, producer, and screenwriter.
• Saleh and Daoud Al-Kuwaity: brothers whose songs are considered Arab classics.
• Sir Sassoon Eskell: statesman and financier instrumental in establishing the Kingdom of Iraq.
• Alphonse Halimi: world champion boxer from Algeria.
• Sheikh El Afrit (Issim Israel Rozzio): one of Tunisia’s most prolific songwriters.

By the early 1900s, much of the Arab world was ruled by the European powers. On one hand, this opened doors for Jews to advance in education, business and government. But it also placed them between the forces of European colonialism and restless Arab nationalism.

(full article online)

The Forgotten Jewish Refugees From Arab Lands | HonestReporting

The Arab Jews would still be living all over the Arab world if not for European Zionism.

There really was no Arab Nationalism until the Zionistts showed up.. Hebron was an Arab city for 1500 years.

Israeli settlers attack shepherds, storm houses in Hebron-district village

english.wafa.ps

Hebron - Wikipedia

Hebron - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

In 1820, it was reported that there were about 1,000 Jews in Hebron. In 1838, Hebron had an estimated 1,500 taxable Muslim households, in addition to 41 Jewish tax-payers. Taxpayers consisted here of male heads of households who owned even a very small shop or piece of land. 200 Jews and one Christian household were under 'European protections'. The total population was estimated at 10,000. In 1842, it was estimated that about 400 Arab and 120 Jewish families lived in Hebron, the latter having been dimi…