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That's how it all started.
The "opening shot" of the Jewish-Arab blood battle for this land was heard on Passover 93 years ago, in the forgotten events of the 19th century - the first significant defining event in the national and religious struggle between the two peoples.
Nadav Shragai. Israel Hayom. 24/3/2013.
[...]. The time was approximately 11:30 a.m., April 4, 1920 (15 Nisan 5680), the first day of the Chol HaMoed of Passover holiday in Jerusalem. The death of a threatening crowd was heard from afar. The Arabs in the nearby markets of the old city rushed to close the shutters of their shops and locked them. Jews in holiday clothes who prayed on the Western Wall square, quickly folded their prayer shawls and ran in a panic, short of breath, towards their homes.
In the square at the foot of the Jaffa Gate, a picture of Faisal was hoisted, that is, he had already crowned himself the king of Greater Syria. The speeches spoke in condemnation of Zionism. Aref al-Aref spoke from his horse: "The land of Israel is our land - the Jews are our dogs." Hebron Sheikh ended his speech by exclaiming: "Atbakho al yahud" (slaughter the Jews) and the Arab mob (some of Hebron), who had arrived in Jerusalem straight from the Nabi Musa celebrations, erupted. Arab thugs equipped with sticks, knives and swords ran amok in the alleys of the old city. They beat, wounded and killed Jews, robbed shops and raped women.
A handful of Jewish defenders tried to escape in those hours to help the Jewish settlement in the old city. Among them were Zvi Nadav and Nehemiah Rabin. The two were wearing white robes with Star of David symbols on them, their hearts were beating strongly and their clothes hid guns. Suddenly a horrifying sight unfolds before their eyes: ransacked shops, bloodied Jews and feathers, lots of feathers, flying in the air. This feather dance reminded Nadav, the man of the second aliyah, of images from another place, the disturbances in Russia. There, too, the feathers were a symbol of the pogrom.
The Jews were shocked. The surprise was almost complete.
The riots lasted five days. Six Jews were murdered, 211 were injured. Later, this occurrence was characterized by the events of the 19th century. This is how the first images of the Jewish-Arab conflict, which continues to this day, appeared. The first discovery of a violent Arab reaction on a relatively wide scale against Zionism, within the borders of the Land of Israel," as the historian Yigal Elam put it with scientific precision; "a defining event in the history of the Palestinian national movement as well," noted Orientalist Prof. Yehoshua Porat...
From the train, on April 19, on his way to the San Remo Conference, which discussed the distribution of the territories of the Ottoman Empire among the victorious countries, Chaim Weizman, later the country's first president, wrote to his daughter-in-law (his wife, who lives in London): "My dear, a very terrible, very serious thing has happened to us - A pogrom in Jerusalem, with all the side effects and 'charms' of a pogrom. I blame this on the government The actual pogrom, but there is no doubt that they helped him in their passive position... I am tired, shattered, broken and the whole world was for me... If it weren't for the bayonets of the English that got in the way, we would have overcome the Arabs on the very first day: but the English But the English unloaded our weapons of self-defense, arrested our people, including our Vladimir Yevgenievich (Jabotinsky; N.S.) - everything is like with us (in Russia)... and Ruchka, Girl, don't pay attention to the news in the newspapers, they lie. I have all the facts and evidence, and I will publish them. I was interviewed by The Times. But I don't know if they will print the interview!..."...
The events of the 1920 pogrom began far from Jerusalem, at the Nabi Musa Mosque in the Judean Desert. In the background were the Balfour Declaration given about two and a half years earlier, the Arabs' fears of the growth of the Zionist movement and the identification of many of the country's Westerners with the struggle for the establishment of Greater Syria, and Queen Faisal bin Hussein, who wanted to see in the Land of Israel part of it.
In Nabi Musa is found, according to Muslim tradition, the tomb of Moses, one of the prophets who, according to Islam, preceded Muhammad. The celebrations at the place were practiced as early as the time of Saladin, always before the Christian Easter. The goal was to create a Muslim presence there and to block any possibility that the Christian crusaders who were defeated in the battle with Saladin would try to harness the arrival of the multitudes of pilgrims arriving in Jerusalem at that time, in favor of another assault on the city.
"The holiday of Nabi Musa is a political holiday and not a religious holiday..." admitted in his diary ("That's who I am, gentlemen") Khalil a-Sahakhini, an intellectual man and writer, one of the fiercest opponents of Zionism, who lived in Jerusalem in those days, "the religious nature of the holiday, it is only intended to attract the masses to participate otherwise they would not have come." Amin al-Husseini, later the Grand Mufti and Hitler's accomplice, also understood this. In April 1920, Husseini was a young man of about 25 years old, the man who inflamed the crowds in Nabi Musa with inciting chants against the Jews and against the plan to establish a national home for them in the Land of Israel. This was the beginning of a "miraculous" career that Husseini built for himself on the backs of the Jews and the Arabs. The immediate result was 5680 riots [1920].
Prof. Yehoshua Porat, one of the leading orientalists in Israel, who studied the growth of the Palestinian national movement, points out that before the events of Nabi Musa (the events of 1920), the Arab national movement in the Land of Israel still tried to differentiate between the old Jewish residents of the land - mainly the old Yishuv and the Sephardim - and the Zionist immigrants "But in the events of April 1920 in Jerusalem, the Arab crowd rioted without distinguishing between old Jews to the Zionists, and harmed the circles of the old Yishuv that lived in the Old City," explains Porat. "Husseini, who after the disturbances fled to Damascus, effectively erased these differences, and through the mosques on the Temple Mount, which he exalted and used for his political purposes, he laid with his own hands the religious foundation for the conflict between the Jews and the Arabs".
From the balcony of the New Grand Hotel, near the Jaffa Gate, a British officer and his wife watched the first results of the porridge cooked by Husseini. The tumult of the crowd that came from Nabi Musa increased from moment to moment, as did the growing calls of incitement from the Muslim clerics. "The first thing we saw was an old Jew of about 70 who had his head chopped off with an Arab sword and when he fell he was stoned," the officer later described what happened, in a letter to Colonel John Henry Patterson, the commander of the two Hebrew battalions. "For a few moments they did the same to a few more Jews. By that time the crowd had already dispersed and burst into the Old City to scorn and murder. A few hours later, he began to lead away wounded Jews."
In his book "Yeme ha-kalaniyot" [One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate], Tom Segev describes another horrifying moment: "Thugs attacked Hana Yaffe's courtyard, not far from the 'Hutta Gate', one of the gates of the Temple Mount in the Muslim Quarter. Three Jewish families lived in the courtyard and were under a kind of siege. Finally, the attackers broke the courtyard doors, broken in... and the tenants were beaten. Moshe Lifshitz was beaten on the head with an iron rod and the children were also beaten. Lifshitz's sisters were raped one by one. One is married, 25 years old. The other is 15 years old..."
The “New York Times” Finds New Ways to Distort the History of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict. Mosaic Magazine. Feb. 28 2024.
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...an Arab mob attacked, murdered, and wounded Jews or that the crowd of perpetrators chanted "nashrab dam al-yahud" ("we will drink the blood of the Jews")... “Mohammad’s religion was born with the sword,” according to the eyewitness Khalil al-Sakakini, a Christian Arab educator.
Morris, B. (2011). Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001. United Kingdom: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, p. 95
That's how it all started.
The "opening shot" of the Jewish-Arab blood battle for this land was heard on Passover 93 years ago, in the forgotten events of the 19th century - the first significant defining event in the national and religious struggle between the two peoples.
Nadav Shragai. Israel Hayom. 24/3/2013.
[...]. The time was approximately 11:30 a.m., April 4, 1920 (15 Nisan 5680), the first day of the Chol HaMoed of Passover holiday in Jerusalem. The death of a threatening crowd was heard from afar. The Arabs in the nearby markets of the old city rushed to close the shutters of their shops and locked them. Jews in holiday clothes who prayed on the Western Wall square, quickly folded their prayer shawls and ran in a panic, short of breath, towards their homes.
In the square at the foot of the Jaffa Gate, a picture of Faisal was hoisted, that is, he had already crowned himself the king of Greater Syria. The speeches spoke in condemnation of Zionism. Aref al-Aref spoke from his horse: "The land of Israel is our land - the Jews are our dogs." Hebron Sheikh ended his speech by exclaiming: "Atbakho al yahud" (slaughter the Jews) and the Arab mob (some of Hebron), who had arrived in Jerusalem straight from the Nabi Musa celebrations, erupted. Arab thugs equipped with sticks, knives and swords ran amok in the alleys of the old city. They beat, wounded and killed Jews, robbed shops and raped women.
A handful of Jewish defenders tried to escape in those hours to help the Jewish settlement in the old city. Among them were Zvi Nadav and Nehemiah Rabin. The two were wearing white robes with Star of David symbols on them, their hearts were beating strongly and their clothes hid guns. Suddenly a horrifying sight unfolds before their eyes: ransacked shops, bloodied Jews and feathers, lots of feathers, flying in the air. This feather dance reminded Nadav, the man of the second aliyah, of images from another place, the disturbances in Russia. There, too, the feathers were a symbol of the pogrom.
The Jews were shocked. The surprise was almost complete.
The riots lasted five days. Six Jews were murdered, 211 were injured. Later, this occurrence was characterized by the events of the 19th century. This is how the first images of the Jewish-Arab conflict, which continues to this day, appeared. The first discovery of a violent Arab reaction on a relatively wide scale against Zionism, within the borders of the Land of Israel," as the historian Yigal Elam put it with scientific precision; "a defining event in the history of the Palestinian national movement as well," noted Orientalist Prof. Yehoshua Porat...
From the train, on April 19, on his way to the San Remo Conference, which discussed the distribution of the territories of the Ottoman Empire among the victorious countries, Chaim Weizman, later the country's first president, wrote to his daughter-in-law (his wife, who lives in London): "My dear, a very terrible, very serious thing has happened to us - A pogrom in Jerusalem, with all the side effects and 'charms' of a pogrom. I blame this on the government The actual pogrom, but there is no doubt that they helped him in their passive position... I am tired, shattered, broken and the whole world was for me... If it weren't for the bayonets of the English that got in the way, we would have overcome the Arabs on the very first day: but the English But the English unloaded our weapons of self-defense, arrested our people, including our Vladimir Yevgenievich (Jabotinsky; N.S.) - everything is like with us (in Russia)... and Ruchka, Girl, don't pay attention to the news in the newspapers, they lie. I have all the facts and evidence, and I will publish them. I was interviewed by The Times. But I don't know if they will print the interview!..."...
The events of the 1920 pogrom began far from Jerusalem, at the Nabi Musa Mosque in the Judean Desert. In the background were the Balfour Declaration given about two and a half years earlier, the Arabs' fears of the growth of the Zionist movement and the identification of many of the country's Westerners with the struggle for the establishment of Greater Syria, and Queen Faisal bin Hussein, who wanted to see in the Land of Israel part of it.
In Nabi Musa is found, according to Muslim tradition, the tomb of Moses, one of the prophets who, according to Islam, preceded Muhammad. The celebrations at the place were practiced as early as the time of Saladin, always before the Christian Easter. The goal was to create a Muslim presence there and to block any possibility that the Christian crusaders who were defeated in the battle with Saladin would try to harness the arrival of the multitudes of pilgrims arriving in Jerusalem at that time, in favor of another assault on the city.
"The holiday of Nabi Musa is a political holiday and not a religious holiday..." admitted in his diary ("That's who I am, gentlemen") Khalil a-Sahakhini, an intellectual man and writer, one of the fiercest opponents of Zionism, who lived in Jerusalem in those days, "the religious nature of the holiday, it is only intended to attract the masses to participate otherwise they would not have come." Amin al-Husseini, later the Grand Mufti and Hitler's accomplice, also understood this. In April 1920, Husseini was a young man of about 25 years old, the man who inflamed the crowds in Nabi Musa with inciting chants against the Jews and against the plan to establish a national home for them in the Land of Israel. This was the beginning of a "miraculous" career that Husseini built for himself on the backs of the Jews and the Arabs. The immediate result was 5680 riots [1920].
Prof. Yehoshua Porat, one of the leading orientalists in Israel, who studied the growth of the Palestinian national movement, points out that before the events of Nabi Musa (the events of 1920), the Arab national movement in the Land of Israel still tried to differentiate between the old Jewish residents of the land - mainly the old Yishuv and the Sephardim - and the Zionist immigrants "But in the events of April 1920 in Jerusalem, the Arab crowd rioted without distinguishing between old Jews to the Zionists, and harmed the circles of the old Yishuv that lived in the Old City," explains Porat. "Husseini, who after the disturbances fled to Damascus, effectively erased these differences, and through the mosques on the Temple Mount, which he exalted and used for his political purposes, he laid with his own hands the religious foundation for the conflict between the Jews and the Arabs".
From the balcony of the New Grand Hotel, near the Jaffa Gate, a British officer and his wife watched the first results of the porridge cooked by Husseini. The tumult of the crowd that came from Nabi Musa increased from moment to moment, as did the growing calls of incitement from the Muslim clerics. "The first thing we saw was an old Jew of about 70 who had his head chopped off with an Arab sword and when he fell he was stoned," the officer later described what happened, in a letter to Colonel John Henry Patterson, the commander of the two Hebrew battalions. "For a few moments they did the same to a few more Jews. By that time the crowd had already dispersed and burst into the Old City to scorn and murder. A few hours later, he began to lead away wounded Jews."
In his book "Yeme ha-kalaniyot" [One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate], Tom Segev describes another horrifying moment: "Thugs attacked Hana Yaffe's courtyard, not far from the 'Hutta Gate', one of the gates of the Temple Mount in the Muslim Quarter. Three Jewish families lived in the courtyard and were under a kind of siege. Finally, the attackers broke the courtyard doors, broken in... and the tenants were beaten. Moshe Lifshitz was beaten on the head with an iron rod and the children were also beaten. Lifshitz's sisters were raped one by one. One is married, 25 years old. The other is 15 years old..."
The “New York Times” Finds New Ways to Distort the History of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict. Mosaic Magazine. Feb. 28 2024.
The NYT Misrepresents the History of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict
A welter of factual errors and misleading judgments has produced a distorted description of the 1948 War.
web.archive.org
...an Arab mob attacked, murdered, and wounded Jews or that the crowd of perpetrators chanted "nashrab dam al-yahud" ("we will drink the blood of the Jews")... “Mohammad’s religion was born with the sword,” according to the eyewitness Khalil al-Sakakini, a Christian Arab educator.
Morris, B. (2011). Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001. United Kingdom: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, p. 95
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