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- Timeline of Zionist Terror
- From a UN committee
- 01 October 1948
- The UN Report Prepared in 1948 for Ralphe Bunche, New UN Commissioner to Palestine
- Foreword: In view of the tragic assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte by identified Jewish terrorists on September 17 of this year, the
- following report has been prepared for the use of Dr. Bunche, Count Bernadotte's immediate replacement.
- This report is a compilation of all identified terrorist attacks on British, American and Arab individuals and entities in the assassination
- of the British Resident Minister in the Middle East on November 6, 1944 by members of the terrorist Jewish Stern gang to the assassination
- of Count Bernadotte on September 17, 1948 by members of this same gang of fanatics.
- This information is compiled from reports of the US Department of State, the British Foreign Office and various American and British press
- services.
- New York, October 1, 1948
- Chronology
- 1944
- 1
- November 6, 1944, Cairo. Lord Moyne, British Resident Minister in the Middle East, and his driver were assassinated outside the minister's
- Cairo residence. Two murderers were involved. One was injured, and both were immediately arrested.
- 1945
- 2
- January 10, 1945, Cairo. The British supreme military court today put on trial Eliahu Bet-Tsours from Tel Aviv and Eliahu Hakim of Haifa,
- both admitted members of the Jewish terrorist Stern gang.
- 3
- January 18, 1945, Cairo. The British supreme military court sentenced the murderers of Lord Moyne to death. Both killers admitted their act
- and also admitted their membership in the Stem gang which they said ordered the killings as a warning to the British not to interfere with
- future Jewish immigration to Jerusalem.
- 4
- March 22, 1945, Cairo. The two convicted Jewish Stern gang terrorists who murdered Lord Moyne and his driver were hanged today in the Cairo
- prison British authorities announced.
- 1946
- 5
- January 12, 1946, Palestine. A train was derailed by Jewish terrorists at Hadera near Haifa by a bomb and robbed of £35,000 in cash. Two
- British police officials were injured.
- 6
- January 18, 1946, Haifa. Over 900 illegal Jewish immigrants were captured off Haifa by the British Royal Navy
- 7
- January 19, 1946, Jerusalem. .Jewish terrorists destroyed a power station and a portion of the Central Jerusalem prison by explosives. Two
- persons were killed by the police.
- 8
- January 20, 1946, Palestine. Jewish terrorists launched an attack against the British-controlled Givat Olga Coast Guard Station located
- between Tel Aviv and Haifa. Ten persons were injured and one was killed. Captured papers indicated that the purpose of this raid was to take
- revenge on the British for their seizure of the refugee ship on January 18. British military authorities in Jerusalem questioned 3,000 Jews
- and held 148 in custody.
- 9
- April 25, 1946, Palestine. Jewish terrorists attacked a British military installation near Tel Aviv. This group, which contained a number of
- young girls, had as its goal the capture of British weapons. British authorities rounded up 1,200 suspects.
- 10
- June 24, 1946, Palestine. The Irgun radio “Fighting Zion” warns that three kidnapped British officers are held as hostages for two Irgun
- members, Josef Simkohn and Issac Ashbel facing execution as well as 31 Irgun members facing trial.
- 11
- June 27, 1946, Palestine. Thirty Irgun members are sentenced by a British military court to 15 years imprison. One, Benjamin Kaplan was
- sentenced to life for carrying a firearm.
- 12
- June 29, 1946, Palestine. British military units and police raided Jewish settlements throughout Palestine searching for the leaders of
- Haganah, a leading Jewish terrorist agency The Jewish Agency for Palestine was occupied and four top official arrested. At the end of June,
- 1946 2,000 were arrested and four Jews and one British soldier were killed.
- 13
- July 1, 1946, Palestine. British officials announced the discovery of a large arms dump hidden underground at Meshek Yagur. 2,659 men and 59
- women were detained for the three day operation in which 27 settlements were searched. For were killed and 80 were injured.
- 14
- July 3, 1946, Palestine. Palestine High Commissioner Lt. General Sir Alan Cunningham commuted to life imprisonment the death sentences of
- Josef Simkhon and Issac Ashbel, Irgun members.
- 15
- July 4, 1946, Tel Aviv. British officers, Captains K. Spencer, C. Warburton and A. Taylor who had been kidnapped by the Irgun on June 18 and
- held as hostages for the lives of Simkohn and Ashbel, were released in Tel Aviv unharmed. At this time, Irgun issued a declaration of war
- against the British claiming that they had no alternative but to fight.
- 16
- July 22, 1946, Jerusalem. The west wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem which housed British Military Headquarters and other
- governmental offices was destroyed at 12:57 PM by explosives planted in the cellar by members of the Irgun terrorist gang. By the 26 of
- July, the casualties were 76 persons killed, 46 injured and 29 still missing in the rubble. The dead included many British, Arabs and Jews.
- 17
- July 23, l946 Jerusalem. The Irgun Zvai Leumi terrorist group takes responsibility for the King David bombing but blames the British,
- calling them “tyrants.”
- 18
- July 24, 1946, London. The British government released a White Paper that accuses the Haganah, Irgun and Stern gangs of “a planned movement
- of sabotage and violence” under the direction of the Jewish Agency and asserts that the June 29 arrest of Zionist leaders was the cause of
- the bombing.
- 19
- July 28, 1946, Jerusalem. The British Palestine Commander, Lt. General Sir Evelyn Barker, banned fraternization by British troops with
- Palestine Jews whom he stated “cannot be absolved of responsibility for terroristic acts.” The order states that this will punish “the race
- … by striking at their pockets and showing our contempt for them”
- 20
- July 29, 1946, Tel Aviv. Police in Tel Aviv raided a workshop making bombs.
- 21
- July 30, 1946, Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv is placed under a 22-hour-a-day curfew as 20,000 British troops began a house-to-house sweep for
- terrorists. The city is sealed off from the rest of Jerusalem and troops are ordered to shoot to kill any curfew violators.
- 22
- July 31, 1946, Tel Aviv. A large cache of weapons, extensive counterfeiting equipment and $1,000,000 in counterfeit Government bonds were
- discovered in Tel Aviv's largest synagogue.
- 23
- July 31, 1946, Haifa. Two ships have arrived at Haifa with a total of 3,200 illegal Jewish immigrants.
- 24
- August 2, 1946, Tel Aviv. British military authorities ended the curfew in Tel Aviv after detaining 500 persons for further questioning. A
- second arms dump was discovered on July 1 in a school building.
- 25
- August 2, 1946, Jerusalem. The Palestine Government disclosed that 91 persons were killed and 45 injured in the King David bombing.
- 26
- August 2, 1946, Jerusalem. Jerusalem police announced the arrest of Itzhak Yestemitsky second man in the Stern gang.
- 27
- August 12, 1946, London. The British Government announced that it will allow no more unscheduled immigration into Palestine and that those
- seeking entry into that country will be sent to Cyprus and other areas under detention. Declaring that such immigration threatens a civil
- war with the Arab population, it charges a “minority of Zionist extremists” with attempting to force an unacceptable solution of the
- Palestine problem.
- 28
- August 12, 1946, Haifa. Two ships carrying a total of 1,300 Jewish refugees arrived at Haifa. The port area was isolated on August 11 by
- British military and naval units. The first deportation ship sailed for Cyprus with 500 Jews on board.
- 29
- August 13, 1946, Haifa. Three Jews were killed and seven wounded when British troops were compelled to fire on a crowd of about 1,000
- persons frying to break into the port area of Haifa. Two Royal Navy ships with 1,300 illegal Jewish immigrants on board sailed for Cyprus.
- Another ship with 600 illegal immigrants was captured and confined in the Haifa harbor.
- 30
- August 26, 1946, Palestine. British military units searched the coastal villages of Casera and Sadoth Yam for three Jews who bombed the
- transport “Empire Rival” last week Eighty-five persons, including the entire male population of one of the villages were sent to the Rafa
- detention center.
- 31
- August 27, 1946, Palestine. During the searches conducted on August 26, an explosive limpet mine similar to the one used on the “Empire
- Rival” was found.
- 32
- August 29, 1946, Jerusalem. the British Government announced the commutation to life imprisonment of the death sentences imposed on l8
- Jewish youths convicted of bombing the Haifa railroad shops.
- 33
- August 30, 1946, Palestine. British military units discovered arms and munitions dumps in the Jewish farming villages of Dorot and Ruhama.
- 34
- September 8, 1946, Palestine. Zionist terrorists cut the Palestine railroad in 50 places.
- 35
- September 9, 1946, Tel Aviv. two British officers were killed in an explosion in a public building.
- 36
- September 9, 1946, Haifa. An Arab constable was killed.
- 37
- September 10, 1946, Palestine. British troops imposed a curfew and arrested 101 Jews and wounded two in a search for saboteurs in Tel Aviv
- and neighboring Ramat Gan. Irgun terrorist group took the action against the railways on September 8, as a protest.
- 38
- September 14, 1946, Jaffa. Jewish terrorists robbed three banks in Jaffa and Tel Aviv, killing three Arabs. Thirty-six Jews were arrested.
- 39
- September 15, 1946, Tel Aviv. Jewish terrorists attacked a police station on the coast near Tel Aviv but were driven off by gunfire.
- 40
- October 2, 1946, Tel Aviv. British military units and police seized 50 Jews in a Tel Aviv cafe after a Jewish home was blown up. This home
- belonged to a Jewish woman who had refused to pay extortion money to the Irgun terrorist gang.
- 41
- October 6, 1944 Jerusalem. An RAF man was killed by gunfire
- 42
- October 8, 1946, Jerusalem. Two British soldiers were killed when their truck detonated a land mine outside Jerusalem. A leading Arab figure
- was wounded in a similar mine explosion in Jerusalem and more road mines were found near Government House.
- 43
- October 31, 1946, Rome. The British Embassy in Rome was damaged by a bomb, believed to have been planted by Jewish terrorists.
- 44
- November 3, 1946, Palestine. Two Jews and two Arabs were killed in clashes between Arabs and a group of Jews attempting to establish a
- settlement at Lake Hula in northern Palestine.
- 45
- November 4, 1946, Rome. Italian authorities released a letter in which the Jewish terrorist gang, Irgun, took credit for the October 31
- embassy bombing.
- 46
- November 5, 1946, Palestine. British authorities released the following eight Jewish Agency leaders from the Latrun concentration camp where
- they had been held since June 29: Moshe Shertok, Dr. Issac Greenbaum, Dr. Bernard Joseph, David Remiz, David Hacohen, David Shingarevsky,
- Joseph Shoffman and Mordecai Shatter. A total of 2,550 Haganah suspects have also been released as well as 779 Jews arrested in the wake of
- the King David bombing.
- 47
- November 7, 1946, Palestine. Railroad traffic was suspended for 24 hours throughout Palestine following a fourth Irgun attack on railway
- facilities in two days.
- 48
- November 9 through November 13, 1946, Palestine. Nineteen persons, eleven British soldiers and policemen and eight Arab constables, were
- killed in Palestine during this period as Jewish terrorists, using land mines and suitcase bombs, increased their attacks on railroad
- stations, trains and even streetcars.
- 49
- November 14, 1946, London. The Board of Deputies of British Jews condemned Jewish terrorist groups who threatened to export their terrorism
- to England.
- 50
- November 18, 1946, Tel Aviv. Police in Tel Aviv attacked Jews, assaulting many and firing into houses. Twenty Jews were injured in fights
- with British troops following the death on November 17 of three policemen and an RAF sergeant in a land mine explosion.
- 51
- Five persons were injured when a bomb exploded in the Jerusalem tax office.
- 52
- December 2 through December 5,1946, Palestine. Ten persons, including six British soldiers, were killed in bomb and land-mine explosions.
- 53
- December 3,1946, Jerusalem. A member of the Stern gang was killed in an aborted hold-up attempt
- 54
- December 26,1946, Palestine. Armed Jewish terrorists raided two diamond factories in Nathanya and Tel Aviv and escaped with nearly $107,000
- in diamonds, cash and bonds. These raids signaled an end to a two- week truce during the World Zionist Congress.
- 1947
- 55
- January 1, 1947, Jerusalem. Dov Gruner was sentenced to hang by a British military court for taking part in a raid on the Ramat Gan police
- headquarters in April of 1946.
- 56
- January 2, 1947, Palestine. A wave of terror swept Palestine as Jewish terrorists staged bombings and machine gun attacks in five cities.
- Casualties were low. Homemade flame-throwers were used in several cases. Pamphlets seized warned that the Irgun had again declared war
- against the British and Arabs of Palestine.
- 57
- January 4, 1947, Jerusalem. British soldiers have been ordered to wear sidearms at all times and were forbidden to enter any cafe or
- restaurant.
- 58
- January 5, 1947, Egypt ,Eleven British troops were injured in a hand grenade attack on a train carrying troops to Palestine. The attack took
- place near Benha, 25 miles from Cairo.
- 59
- January 8, 1947, Palestine. British police arrested 32 persons suspected of being members of the Irgun terrorist gang's “Black Squad” in
- raids on Rishon-el Zion and Rehoboth.
- 60
- January 12, 1947, Haifa. A single terrorist drove a truck filled with high explosives into the central police station and exploded it,
- killing two British policemen and two Arab constables and injuring 140 others. The terrorist escaped. This action ended a 10-day lull in the
- violence and the Stern gang took the credit for it.
- 61
- January 13, 1947, Haifa. British soldiers and police screened 872 persons in Haifa and detained 10 for further questioning as Arabs and Jews
- both condemned the bombing.
- 62
- January 14, 1947, Jerusalem. Yehudi Katz is sentenced to life in prison by a Jerusalem court for robbing a bank in Jaffa in September of
- 1946 to obtain funds for the terrorists.
- 63
- January 21, 1947, London. Dr. Emmanuel Neumann, vice president of the Zionist Organization of America, declared US. Zionists would spend
- “millions” to finance illegal immigration of Jews to Palestine. A Haganah spokesman in Paris claimed that 211,878 Jews entered Palestine
- illegally during the past 15 months.
- 64
- January 22, 1947, Palestine. Sir Harry Gurney, Chief Secretary, stated that the British administration was taxing Palestine $2,400,000 to
- pay for sabotage by the terrorists.
- 65
- January 22, 1947, London. Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones informed the House of Commons 73 British subjects were murdered by
- Palestine terrorists in 1946 and
- “no culprits have been convicted.”
- 66
- January 27, 1947, London. Britain's conference on Palestine, boycotted by the Jews, reconvened. Jamal el Husseini, Palestine Arab leader,
- declared that the Arab world was unalterably opposed to partition as a solution to the problem. The session then adjourned.
- 67
- January 29, 1947, London. It was officially announced that the British Cabinet decided to partition Palestine.
- 68
- January 29, 1947, Jerusalem. Irgun forces released former Maj. H. Collins, a British banker, who they kidnapped on January 26 from his home.
- He had been badly beaten. On January 28, the Irgun released Judge Ralph Windham who had been kidnapped in Tel Aviv on January 27 while
- trying a case. These men had been taken as hostages for Dov Bela Gruner, an Irgun member under death sentence for terrorism. The British
- High Commissioner, Lt Gen.. Sir Alan Cunningham, had threatened martial law unless the two men were returned unharmed.
- 69
- January 31, 1947, Jerusalem. General Cunningham ordered the wives and children of all British civilians to leave Palestine at once. About
- 2,000 are involved. This order did not apply to the 5,000 Americans in Palestine.
- 70
- February 3, 1947, Jerusalem. The Palestine Government issued a 7-day ultimatum to the Jewish Agency demanding that it state “categorically
- and at once” whether it and the supreme Jewish Council in Palestine will call on the Jewish community by February 10 for “cooperation with
- the police and armed forces in bringing to justice the members of the terrorist groups.” This request was publicly rejected by Mrs. Goldie
- Meyerson, head of the Jewish Agency's political department
- 71
- February 4, 1947, Jerusalem. British District Commissioner James Pollock disclosed a plan for military occupation of three sectors of
- Jerusalem and orders nearly 1,000 Jews to evacuate the Rehavia, Schneler and German quarters by noon, February 6.
- 72
- February 5, 1947, Jerusalem. The Vaad Leumi rejected the British ultimatum while the Irgun passed out leaflets that it was prepared to fight
- to the death against the British authority. The first 700 of some 1,500 British women and children ordered to evacuate Palestine leave by
- plane and train for Egypt. British authorities, preparing for military action, order other families from sections of Tel Aviv and Haifa
- which will be turned into fortified military areas.
- 73
- February 9, 1947, Haifa. British troops removed 650 illegal Jewish immigrants from the schooner ‘Negev” at Haifa and after a struggle forced
- them aboard the ferry ‘Emperor Haywood” for deportation to Cyprus.
- 74
- February 14, 1947, Jerusalem. The British administration revealed that Lt Gen. Sir Evelyn Barker, retiring British commander in Palestine,
- had confirmed the death sentences of three Irgun members on February 12 before leaving for England. The three men, Dov Ben Rosenbaum,
- Eliezer Ben Kashani and Mordecai Ben Alhachi, had been sentenced on February 10 to be hanged for carrying firearms. A fourth, Haim
- Gorovetzky, received a life sentence because of his youth. Lt Gen. G. MacMillian arrived in Jerusalem on February 13 to succeed Gen. Barker.
- 75
- February 15, 1947, Palestine. The Sabbath was the setting for sporadic outbreaks of violence which included the murder of an Arab in Jaffa
- and of a Jew in Bne Brok, the kidnapping of a Jew in Peta Tikvah and the burning of a Jewish club in Haifa.
- 76
- March 9, 1947, Hadera. A British army camp was attacked.
- 77
- March 10, 1947, Haifa. A Jew, suspected of being an informer, was murdered by Jewish terrorists.
- 78
- March 12, 1947, Jerusalem. The British Army pay corps was dynamited in Jerusalem and one soldier killed.
- 79
- March 12, 1947, Palestine. British military units captured most of the 800 Jews whose motor ship “Susanna” ran the British blockade and was
- beached north of Gaza on this date. A British naval escort brought the “Ben Hecht,” the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation's first
- known immigrant ship, into Haifa, and its 599 passengers were shipped to Cyprus. The British arrested the crew, which included 18 US.
- seamen.
- 80
- March 13, 1947, Jerusalem. British authorities announced 78 arrests as a result of unofficial Jewish cooperation, but two railroads were
- attacked, resulting in two deaths, and eight armed men robbed a Tel Aviv bank of $65,000.
- 81
- March 14, 1947, Palestine. Jewish terrorists blew up part of an oil pipeline in Haifa and a section of the rail line at Beer Yakov.
- 82
- March 16, 1947, Jerusalem. The Jewish Agency building was bombed.
- 83
- March 17, 1947, Jerusalem. British authorities ended martial law which had kept 300,000 Jews under house arrest for 16 days and tied up most
- economic activity
- 84
- March 17, 1947, Palestine. A military court sentenced Moshe Barazani to be hanged for possessing a hand grenade.
- 85
- March 18, 1947, Palestine. Terrorist leaflets admitted the murder of Michael Shnell on Mount Carmel as an informer.
- 86
- March 22, 1947, Palestine. British officials announced the arrest of five known terrorists and the discovery near Petah Tikvah of the body
- of Leon Meshiah, a Jew presumably slain as a suspected informer
- 87
- March 26, 1947, London. Britain's Privy Council rejected the appeal of the death sentence against Dov Bela Gruner.
- 88
- March 28, 1947, Haifa. The Irgun blew up the Iraq Petroleum Co. pipeline in Haifa.
- 89
- March 29, 1947, Palestine. A British army officer was murdered by Jewish terrorists when they ambushed a party of horsemen near the Ramle
- camp. A raid by terrorists on a Tel Aviv bank yielded $109,000.
- 90
- March 30, 1947, Palestine. Units of the British Royal Navy, answering an SOS, took the disabled “Moledeth” with 1,600 illegal Jewish
- refugees on board under tow some 50 miles outside Palestinian waters.
- 91
- March 30, 1947, Tel Aviv. The Stem gang killed the wife of a British soldier.
- 92
- March 31, 1947, Haifa. Jewish terrorists dynamited the British-owned Shell-Mex oil tanks in Haifa, starting a fire that destroyed a
- quarter-mile of the waterfront The damage was set at more than $1,000,000, and the British government in Palestine has stated that the
- Jewish community will have to pay for it
- 93
- April 2, 1947, Cyprus. The “Ocean Vigour' was damaged by a bomb in Famagusta Harbor, Cyprus. The Haganah admitted the bombing.
- 94
- April 3, 1947, Jerusalem. A court in Jerusalem sentenced Daniel Azulai and Meyer Feinstein, members of the Irgun terrorist gang, to death
- for the October 30 attack on the Jerusalem railroad station. The Palestine Supreme Court admitted an appeal of Dov Bela Gruner's death
- sentence.
- 95
- April 3, 1947. The transport “Empire Rival” was damaged by a time bomb while en route from Haifa to Port Said in Egypt
- 96
- April 7, 1947, Jerusalem. The High Court denied a new appeal against the death sentence of Dov Bela Gruner, and a British patrol killed
- Moshe Cohen.
- 97
- April 8, 1947, Jerusalem. Jewish terrorists killed a British constable in revenge for the Cohen death.
- 98
- April 9, 1947, Palestine. The Palestine Government abandoned “statutory martial law” in the face of unfavorable publicity but granted itself
- military dictatorship powers in “controlled areas” it may impose.
- 99
- April 10, 1947, London. The British Government requested France and Italy to prevent Jews from embarking for Palestine.
- 100
- April 11, 1947, Jerusalem. Asher Eskovitch, a Jew, was beaten to death by Moslems when he entered the forbidden Mosque of Omar.
- 101
- April 13, 1947, Jerusalem. Guella Cohen, Stern gang illegal broadcaster, escaped from a British military hospital.
- 102
- April 14, 1947, Tel Aviv. A British naval unit boarded the refugee ship “Guardian” and seized it along with 2,700 passengers after a gun
- battle in which two immigrants were killed and 14 wounded.
- 103
- April 16, 1947, Haifa. In spite of threats of reprisal from the Irgun, the British hanged Dov Bela Gruner and three other Irgun members at
- Acre Prison on Haifa Bay. Jewish communities were kept under strict curfew for several hours. Soon after the deaths were announced, a time
- bomb was found in the Colonial Office in London but was defused.
- 104
- April 17, 1947, Palestine. Lt Gen. C. Macmillan confirmed death sentences for two more convicted terrorists, Meier Ben Feinstein and Moshe
- Ben Barazani, but reduced Daniel Azulai's sentence to life imprisonment
- 105
- April 18, 1947, Palestine. Irgun's reprisals for the Gruner execution were an attack on a field dressing station near Nethanaya where one
- sentry was killed, an attack on an armored car in Tel Aviv where one bystander was killed and harmless shots at British troops in Haifa.
- 106
- April 19,1947, Haifa. British naval units exploded depth charges in Haifa harbor to prevent an underwater assault by Jewish “frogmen” on
- three British deportation vessels that took the “Guardian's” passengers to Cyprus.
- 107
- April 20, 1947, Tel Aviv. A series of bombings by Jewish terrorists in retaliation for the hanging of convicted terrorist Gruner injured 12
- British soldiers.
- 108
- April 21, 1947, Jerusalem. Meir Feinstein and Moshe Barazani, condemned terrorists, killed themselves in prison a few hours before they were
- scheduled to be hanged. They blew themselves up with bombs smuggled to them in hollowed-out oranges.
- 109
- April 22, 1947, Palestine. A troop train arriving from Cairo was bombed outside Rehovoth with five soldiers and three civilians killed and
- 39 persons injured.
- 110
- April 23, 1947, London. The British First Lord of the Admiralty, Viscount Hall, defended the Labor Government's policy in Palestine and he
- acknowledged in the House of Lords that Britain would not “carry out a policy of which it did not approve” despite any UN action. He blamed
- contributions from American Jews to the Palestine terrorists as aiding terrorism there and cited the toll since August 1, 1945: 113 killed,
- 249 wounded, 168 Jews convicted, 28 sentenced to death, four executed, 33 terrorists slain in battles. Viscount Samuel urged increased
- immigration.
- 111
- April 23, 1947, Palestine. The Irgun proclaimed its own “military courts” to “try” British troops and policemen who resisted them.
- 112
- April 24, 1947, Palestine. Lt. General Sir Alan Cunningham, Palestine High Commissioner flew to Egypt and requested Lt General Sir Miles
- Dempsey, Middle-East land force commander, for more troops to be sent to Palestine.
- 113
- April 25, 1947, Tel Aviv. A Stern gang squad drove a stolen post office truck loaded with explosives into the Sarona police compound and
- detonated it, killing five British policemen.
- 114
- April 26, 1947, Haifa. The murder of Deputy Police Superintendent A. Conquest climaxed a week of bloodshed.
- 115
- May 4,1947, Acre. The walls of Acre prison were blasted open by an Irgun bomb squad and 251 Jewish and Arab prisoners escaped after a gun
- battle in which 15 Jews and 1 Arab were killed, 32 (including six British guards) were injured and 23 escapists were recaptured. The
- Palestine Government promised no extra punishment if the 189 escapees still at large will surrender.
- 116
- May 6, 1947, Jerusalem. former British Commando Sgt Dov Bernard Cohen, head of the Acre bomb squad, was fatally wounded in the attack.
- 117
- May 4, 1947, New York. The Political Action Committee for Palestine ran a series of advertisements in New York newspapers seeking funds to
- buy parachutes for young European Jews planning to crash the Palestine immigration barrier by air.
- 118
- May 8, 1947, Tel Aviv. A Jew was ambushed and shot to death by an Arab group near Tel Aviv, and three Jewish-owned Tel Aviv shops whose
- owners refused to contribute money to Jewish terrorist groups were burned down.
- 119
- May 12, 1947, Jerusalem. Jewish terrorists killed two British policemen.
- 120
- May 12, 1947, Jerusalem. The British authorities announced that 3l2 Jewish political prisoners were held in Kenya, East Africa, 247 in
- Latrun and 34 in Bethlehem, Palestine.
- 121
- May 15, 1947, The Stern gang killed two British lieutenants and injured seven other persons with two derailments and three bridge
- demolitions.
- 122
- May 16, 1947, Palestine. On the fifth day of another terrorist drive, Haifa Assistant Police Superintendent, Robert Schindler, a German Jew,
- was murdered by the Stern gang, and a British constable was killed on the Mt. Carmel-Haifa road near Jerusalem.
- 123
- May 17, 1947, Haifa. The 1,200-ton Haganah freighter “Trade Winds” was seized by the Royal Navy off the Lebanon coast and escorted into
- Haifa, and over 1,000 illegal immigrants were disembarked pending transfer to Cyprus.
- 124
- May 19, 1947, London. The British government protested to the United States government against American fund-raising drives for Palestine
- terrorist groups. The complaint referred to a “Letter to the Terrorists of Palestine” by playwright Ben Hecht, American League for a Free
- Palestine co-chairman, first published in the New York ‘Post” on May 15. The ad said, “We are out to raise millions for you.”
- 125
- May 22, 1947, Palestine. Arabs attacked a Jewish labor camp in southern Palestine, retaliating for a Haganah raid on the Arabs near Tel
- Aviv, May 20. Some 40,000 Arab and Jewish workers united the same day in a one-day strike against all establishments operated by the British
- War Ministry
- 126
- May 23, 1947, Palestine. A British naval party boarded the immigrant ship “Mordei Haghettoath” off South Palestine and took control of its
- 1,500 passengers. Two British soldiers were convicted in Jerusalem of abandoning a jeep and army mail under a terrorist attack.
- 127
- May 27, 1947, Germany. Jewish underground migration officials in Frankfurt-am-Main declared they hoped to transport 1,000,000 Jews from
- Europe to Palestine, 30,000 of them this summer. The Costa Rican ship “Colony Trader” has been detained at Gibraltar under suspicion of its
- use for smuggling illegal immigrants into Palestine. London is investigating reports that non-Jewish Poles and Slavs in DP camps are being
- recruited for the Palestine army. Other investigations are being conducted into persistent reports that Soviet Russia has been supplying
- technical advisors to The Jewish terrorist groups.
- 128
- May 28, 1947, Syria. Fawzi el-Kawukji who spent the war years in Germany after leading the 1936-39 Arab revolt in Palestine, told reporters
- in Damascus that an unfavorable decision by the UN inquiry group would be the signal for war against the Jews in Palestine. “We must prove
- that in case” of an Anglo-American war with Russia, “we can be more dangerous or useful to them than the Jews,” he added.
- 129
- May 28, 1947, Haifa. Jewish terrorists blew up a water main and a shed in the Haifa oil dock areas and made three attacks on railway lines
- in the Lydda and Haifa areas.
- 130
- May 31, 1947, Haifa. The Haganah ship “Yehuda Halevy” arrived under British naval escort with 399 illegal Jewish immigrants, the first from
- Arab territories. They were immediately transshipped to Cyprus.
- 131
- June 4, 1947, London. The terrorist Jewish Stern gang sent letter bombs to high British governmental officials. Eight letter bombs
- containing powdered gelignite explosive were discovered in London. Recipients included Ernest Bevan, Anthony Eden, Prime Minister Attlee and
- Winston Churchill.
- 132
- June 5, 1947, Washington. President Truman asked all persons in the US. to refrain from helping Palestine terrorists. The American Jewish
- Committee and Jewish Labor Committee condemned Ben Hecht's campaign for Palestine terrorist funds.
- 133
- June 5, 1947, Tel Aviv. Jewish terrorist mines wrecked two trains near Tel Aviv and Haifa and the Athlit railroad station but without
- casualties.
- 134
- June 6, 1947, London. Scotland Yard official now acknowledge that a total of 20 letter bombs have been found.
- 135
- June 6, 1947, New York. Secretary General of the UN, Trygve Lie has forwarded a request to all countries a request by the British that they
- guard their frontiers against departure of illegal immigrants bound for Palestine.
- 136
- June 18, 1947, Tel Aviv. Haganah disclosed that one of its men was killed by a booby trap which foiled an Irgun plot to blow up British
- Military Headquarters in Tel Aviv.
- 137
- June 19, 1947, Jerusalem. Major Roy Farran, held in connection with the disappearance of a 16-year-old Jew, escaped from custody in the army
- barracks in Jerusalem.
- 138
- June 28, 1947, Palestine. The terrorist Stern gang opened fire on British soldiers waiting in line outside a Tel Aviv theater, killing three
- and wounding two. Another Briton is killed and several wounded in a Haifa hotel. This action was claimed by Jewish terrorists to be in
- retaliation for British brutality and the alleged slaying of a missing 16 year old Jew, Alexander Rubowitz while he was being held in an
- Army barracks on May 6.
- 139
- June 29, 1947, New York. The UN Committee votes 9-0 to condemn the acts of terrorism as “flagrant disregard” of the UN appeal for an interim
- truce as Stern terrorists wounded four more British soldiers on a beach at Herzila. Major Roy Alexander Farran surrendered voluntarily after
- his escape from custody in Jerusalem on June 19. He had been arrested in connection with the Rubowitz case.
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- June 30, 1947, Jerusalem. The Palestine government permitted oil companies to raise prices of benzene nearly 10% to pay for $1 million
- damage suffered when Jewish terrorists blew up oil installations at Haifa on March 31.
- 141
- July 1, 1947, Jerusalem. The British Government rejected the UN Commission's move to halt the execution of three Irgun members convicted of
- terrorism and also said that the UN Assembly truce resolution of May 15 had no bearing on “the normal processes of the administration of
- justice” in Palestine.
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- July 2, 1947, Haifa. Irgun members robbed a Haifa bank of $3,200 while both the Stem gang and the Irgun warned the British that their
- “provocative” acts in Palestine must end before a truce can be effected. The Guatemalan and Czech members of the UN Commission visited two
- Jewish convicts in Acre Prison. In Pretoria, South Africa, Prime Minister Smuts, who was a party to the Balfour Declaration, said “the
- promise of a national home in Palestine never meant the whole of Palestine.” He favored partition into Arab and Jewish states.
- 143
- July 12, 1947, Jerusalem. Dr. Ariem Altman, president of the United Zionist Revisionists, told a party rally in Jerusalem that the
- Revisionists would settle for nothing less than an unpartitioned free Jewish state in Palestine and Trans-Jordan. Irgun announced in
- Jerusalem that two British sergeants kidnapped in Nathanaya are being held in Tel Aviv and have been sentenced to death by Irgun
- court-martial.
- 144
- July 14, 1947, Nathanya. The British imposed martial law and placed the 15,000 inhabitants of Nathanya under house arrest. They made 68
- arrests and sentenced 21 persons to 6 months each in the Latrun detention camp.
- 145
- July 17, 1947, Nathanya. The Irgun in five mine opera-lions against military traffic to and from Nathanya killed one Briton and injured 16.
- 146
- July 17, 1947, Nethanya. Mines killed a second Briton and injured seven.
- 147
- July 18, 1947, Haifa. The American-manned Haganah refugee ship “Exodus 1947” (formerly the ‘President Warfield”) was escorted into Haifa by
- British naval units after a battle in which the American first mate, William Bernstein and two immigrants were killed and more than 30
- injured. The blockade runner itself was badly damaged. The remainder of the 4,554 passengers, the largest group of illegal immigrants to
- sail for Palestine in a single ship, were put aboard British prison ships for removal to Cyprus. The American captain, Bernard Marks, and
- his crew were arrested. The ship sailed from France.
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- July 19, 1947, Haifa. Rioting, quickly suppressed, broke out among the passengers of the “Exodus 1947” when they learned they were to be
- returned to France
- 149
- July 19, 1947, Jerusalem. The Palestine Government charges that a Jewish “campaign of lawlessness, murder and sabotage” has cost 70 lives
- and $6 million in damage since 1940.
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- July 21, 1947, Jerusalem. Before officially admitting that 4,529 passengers of the “Exodus 1947” who had been transferred to three British
- ships, were being sent not to Cyprus but back to France, the Palestine Government took the precaution of first placing Jerusalem's 90,000
- Jews under nightly house arrest.
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- July 23, 1947, Haifa. Haganah sank the British transport “Empire Lifeguard” in Haifa harbor as it was discharging 300 Jewish immigrants who
- had officially been admitted to Palestine under quota. Sixty-five immigrants were killed and 40 were wounded. The British were able to
- refloat the ship.
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- July 24, 1947, Amman, Trans-Jordan. Seven members of the UN Palestine Commission flew to Amman and were informed by Jordanian Premier Samir
- Pasha el Rifai that: (1) Palestine belongs to the Arabs; (2) the Arabs never accepted the Balfour Declaration; (3) the Jews are
- imperialistic invaders whose immigration “must be stopped forthwith”; (5) Palestine should get unpartitioned independence under the Arab
- majority; (6) the plight of European refugees does not concern Palestine; (7) the Arabs will justly resist with force any unfavorable
- decision.
- 153
- July 26, 1947. Jewish terrorists blew up the Iraqi Petroleum Co. pipeline 12 miles east of Haifa and destroyed a Mt. Carmel radar station.
- 154
- July 26, 1947, Palestine. Two British soldiers were killed by a booby trap near Jerusalem, raising the week's violence toll to 12 killed and
- 75 wounded.
- 155
- July 26, 1947, Palestine. Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, announced from his secret headquarters that Haganah had planned the King
- David Hotel bombing in Jerusalem on July 22, 1946 in which 91 persons were killed.
- 156
- July 27, 1947, Palestine. An ambush and mines cost the British seven more casualties, all wounded.
- 157
- July 28, 1947, Haifa. Two small Haganah ships loaded with 1,174 Jews from North Africa were intercepted by British naval units off Palestine
- and brought into Haifa. The illegal immigrants were transshipped aboard British transports and taken to Cyprus.
- 158
- July 29, 1947, Palestine. The British authorities hanged three Irgunists in Acre prison despite appeals from Jewish leaders. The condemned,
- Myer Nakar, Absalom Habib and Jacob Weiss, had fought in the Czech underground during the war. They were convicted of blowing up Acre Prison
- on May 4 and liberating 200 Arabs and Jews.
- 159
- July 29, 1947, France. The 4,429 “Exodus 1947” illegal immigrants who sailed from Sate, France, July 11 for Palestine only to be shipped
- back by the British aboard three transports, refused to debark as the vessels anchored off Port de Douc, France. Only a few who were ill
- went ashore. The French government informed the refugees that they do not have to debark but will be welcomed if they do. The transports are
- the “Runnymede Park,” “Ocean Vigour” and “Empire Valour”
- 160
- July 30, 1947, Palestine. Irgun terrorists announced that they have hanged two British sergeants, Marvyn Paice and Jifford Martin, whom they
- had held as hostages since July 12, for “crimes against the Jewish community.” The two were seized when death sentences on the three Irgun
- members were confirmed by the British authorities. Two more British soldiers were killed by a land mine near Hadera. British troops attacked
- the Jewish colony of Pardes Hanna in revenge for the murders.
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- July 31, 1947, Nathanya. The bodies of the two murdered British sergeants were found hanging from eucalyptus trees one and a half miles from
- Nathanya about 530 AM. A booby trap blew Martin's body to bits when it was cut down. Enraged British troops stormed into Tel Aviv, wrecked
- shops, attacked pedestrians and sprayed a bus with gunfire killing five Jews: two men, two women and a boy.
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- August 1, 1947, Tel Aviv. Thirty-three Jews are injured in an anti-British riot at Tel Aviv during the funeral procession of five civilians
- killed by British soldiers on July 31. In Jerusalem a Jewish terrorist attack on the British security zone in Rehavia was repulsed with one
- attacker killed and two captured.
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- August 2, 1947, Tel Aviv. The body of an unidentified Jew was found on a road near Tel Aviv. He was believed to have been kidnapped by men
- in British uniforms two weeks ago. Total casualties in Palestine since mid-July: 25 persons slain, 144 wounded. The dead include 15 Britons,
- two Jewish terrorists, eight civilians. Anti-British slogans, swastikas and dollar signs are painted onto British consulates in New York,
- Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles.
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- August 3, 1947, Palestine. Haganah warned in Jerusalem that the Britons who killed five Jews in Tel Aviv On July 31 will be found and
- punished.
- 165
- August 4, 1947, Paris. An Irgun leader in Paris states that his organization has sentenced high British military and civilian officials in
- Palestine to death “in absentia” and will hang them upon capture.
- 166
- August 4, 1947, Palestine. British troops blew up a Jewish house in a Jerusalem suburb in which arms were found. Jewish terrorists robbed
- Barclays' Bank in Tel Aviv of $5200 and a Haganah member was killed.
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- August 5, 1947, Palestine. Striking at dawn, British security forces arrested 35 leading Zionists and sent them to the Latrun detention camp
- in an attempt to wipe out the Irgun leadership. In reprisal, Irgunists blew up the Department of Labor in Jerusalem, killing three British
- constables. Those arrested included Mayor Israel Rokach of Tel Aviv; Mayor Oved Ben Ami of Nathanya; Mayor Abraham Krinitzki of Ramat Gan,
- Arieh Altman, president of the radical Revisionist Party; Menahem Arber, leader of the Revisionist youth organization, B'rith Trumpeldor,
- which is outlawed; Max Kritzman, Dov Bela Gruner's attorney, and David Stern, brother of the late founder of the Stem gang.All those
- arrested except the three mayors were Revisionists. Among many papers confiscated was correspondence from Soviet Russian agents in Italy and
- Bulgaria and extensive plans to poison the water supply of the non-Jewish parts of Jerusalem with botulism, anthrax and other bacteria.
- Bacteria was supplied by Soviet sources through Bulgaria.
- 168
- August 5, 1947, England. Anti-Semitic outbreaks slackened after five days of rock throwing, window-smashing and other incidents including
- daubing Jewish businesses with swastikas and numerous assaults on British Jews. These incidents occurred in Liverpool, Manchester, Cardiff
- (Wales), Leeds, London and Birmingham as retaliation for the murder of two British sergeants in Palestine. Thirty-eight persons were
- arrested in Liverpool but in the main, the British police ignored the rioters and permitted them to run their course.
- 169
- August 8, 1947, Palestine. The Bank of Sharon in Ramat Can was robbed by Jewish terrorists of $8,000.
- 170
- August 14, 1947, Geneva. The UN Special Subcommittee on Palestine returned to Geneva after a seven-day tour of DP camps in Austria and
- Germany. The tour took the group to Munich, Vienna, Berlin and Hamburg. In Berlin it heard reports August 13 from General Lucius D. Clay,
- US. Military Governor. Clay testified that anti-Semitism is growing very sharply among the ranks of the US. military units in the US. Zones
- of Austria and Germany because of the violent, asocial and criminal behavior of the Eastern European DPs, all of whom are Jewish. He
- recommended that these DPs be allowed to enter Palestine before some incident with American soldiers, who have been beaten, robbed and
- killed by Jewish DPs, leads to severe spontaneous reactions on the part of other soldiers. His views were seconded very strongly by Sir
- Brian Robertson, Deputy British Military Governor.
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- August 15, 1947, Palestine. A mine derailed a Cairo-Haifa troop train north of Lydda, killing the engineer, and Irgun terrorists claimed the
- incident was part of its campaign to disrupt all the Palestine rail traffic.
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- August 16, 1947, Palestine. Arab-Jewish clashes have brought death to l2 Arabs and l3 Jews and heavy property destruction this week in the
- regions of Jewish Tel Aviv and Arab Jaffa. Interracial strife was renewed on August 10 when Arabs killed four Jews in a Tel Aviv cafe, in
- reprisal for the deaths of two Arabs in a Haganah raid in Fega two months ago. Haganah responded to the Arab actions by bombing a house in
- an Arab orange grove near Tel Aviv, killing eleven Arabs, including a woman and four children. British military curfews imposed on August 13
- on slum districts between modern Tel Aviv and Jaffa have failed to prevent mounting casualties. British military authorities, citing
- captured intelligence and statements from Jewish defectors from terrorist organizations, state that it now appears that the Jewish
- terrorists are beginning to attack Arabs where ever they found them because Jews wish the Arabs to be driven out of Palestine entirely.
- 173
- August 18, 1947, Palestine. The shops of five Jewish merchants in Tel Aviv were destroyed by the Irgun because the owners refused to give
- money to that organization.
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- August 23, 1947, Jerusalem. British authorities reported that five Arabs in one family; two men, one woman and two children, were murdered
- by Jewish terrorists as retaliation for the British arrest of two Irgun leaders on August15.
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- September 9, 1947. Hamburg, Germany. In a bitter three-hour fight aboard the “Runnymede Park,” 350 British troops completed a two-day forced
- debarkation of 4,300 “Exodus 1947” illegal Jewish refugees from three ships in Hamburg, Germany. First ashore yesterday were the “Ocean
- Vigour's”1,406; a few put up token resistance and five passengers sustained minor injuries. Early today, the “Empire Rival's” 1,420
- passengers debarked peaceably after a home made bomb was found in the ship's hold. Many of the “Runnymede Park's” 1,485 passengers fiercely
- resisted the debarkation process and British military units had to use fire hoses and truncheons to rout resisters below decks. The Jews
- were taken ashore screaming “Nazis” to the British. “Runnymede Park” casualties, officially, were 24 Jews and three Britons injured, with 50
- leaders of the resistance on that ship taken to jail. German police broke up a Hamburg demonstration by 1,300 Jewish DPs from the
- Bergen-Belsen camp, where British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin was hanged in effigy on September 7. The debarked “Exodus” passengers were
- interned in Poppendorf camp near Luebeck for screening by nationalities and at first all of them refused to cooperate with British
- authorities until the passengers were threatened with a diet of bread and water.
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- September 10, 1947, Washington D.C. Secretary of State George C. Marshall disclosed that the US. had urged Britain to reconsider sending the
- “Exodus” group to Germany, but Britain replied that there were no facilities for housing them elsewhere because the French did not want them
- and there were a number of vacant detention camps in Germany.
- 177
- September 11, 1947, Paris. The French government has now announced that it would admit the “Exodus” refugees if they were not forcibly
- deported from Germany and on the understanding that they will be admitted eventually to Palestine.
- 178
- September 7, 1947, Paris. French police state a Stern gang plot to attack London with home-made fire extinguisher bombs from the air was
- thwarted through the cooperation of Reginald Gilbert of St Louis, Missouri, a student and wartime RCAF and AAF pilot He was taken into
- custody with Rabbi Baruch Korif, of New York, cochairman of the Political Action Committee for Palestine, and Judith Rosenberger,
- Hungarian-born Stern gang member, as the three started to enter a private plane last night at Toussus-le-Noble field near Versailles.
- Gilbert informed French police that Korif had approached him in Paris a week ago with an offer for flying a bombing mission over London the
- day of the“ Exodus” illegal immigrant landings in Germany. Gilbert accepted for some other pilot who would actually perform the mission. He
- at once notified Paris police, then worked with them and Scotland Yard while pretending to go through with the Stern gang's plot. Korff was
- charged in Paris on September 9 with illegal possession of bombs he was intending to drop on London. He began a hunger strike. Paris police
- state that nine other conspirators were in custody.
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- September 12, 1947, Palestine. Irgun has threatened to assassinate British representatives in the US. Zone of Germany and all British
- delegations there are under 24-hour guard, the US. command announced in Frankfurt-on-the Main. A probe of Irgun thefts from US. army
- ammunition depots in Germany was reported on September 7.
- 180
- September 20, 1947, Jerusalem. British raids September 16-19 uncovered several arms caches and terrorist hideouts in the Jerusalem area. The
- home of David Ben-Gurion, Jewish Agency executive chairman was robbed of important papers September 18. In Paris, Rabbi Baruch Korff, leader
- of a Stern gang plot to bomb London, ended a hunger strike in Sante prison on September 15.
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- October 13, 1947. Jerusalem. A terrorist bomb damaged the US. consulate general in Jerusalem, injuring two employees slightly. Similar
- bombings occurred at the Polish consulate general last night and at the Swedish consulate on September 27.In Baghdad, the Iraq foreign
- office advised an American House Foreign Affairs Committee group not to make a projected visit there because of “high feeling” over US.
- endorsement of partitioning of Palestine. The State Department in Washington announced it will issue no passports to American citizens who
- want to take part in terrorism in Palestine; Americans so involved will forfeit protection normally due US. citizens abroad.
- 182
- October 18, 1947, Palestine. The Palestine Government states that Palestine Arab forces have been sent from the Trans-Jordan frontier to the
- Syrian and Lebanon borders to replace a British brigade which recently left Palestine. Zionists protested having Arab troops on the border
- of northern Palestine.
- 183
- November 14, 1947, Palestine. Jewish terrorists killed two British policemen in Jerusalem and two soldiers in Tel Aviv to raise the total
- casualties in three days of violence to 10 Britons and five Jews killed and 33 Britons and five Jews wounded. The outbreaks began after
- British troops killed three girls and two boys in a raid on a farmhouse arsenal near Raanana on November 12. The terrorists retaliated
- yesterday by throwing hand grenades and firing a machine gun into the Ritz Cafe in Jerusalem.
- 184
- November 15, 1947, London. The British Foreign Office denied Jerusalem press reports that Britain planned to take over any financial surplus
- left in Palestine's treasury to pay for the costs of evacuation and combating unauthorized Jewish immigration.
- 185
- November 16, 1947, Palestine. About 185 European Jews landed near Nahariya from a small schooner and escaped before the British could
- intercept them. A larger vessel, the “Kadimah,” was seized and brought to Haifa where 794 Jews were transshipped to a British transport for
- Cyprus.
- 186
- November 17, 1947, Jerusalem. The British administration disclosed that it will sell state-owned real estate along the Haifa waterfront,
- from which it expects to make $8 million. It will also invest in England about $16 million from bonds that had been sold to Palestinians.
- Zionists strongly protested this as they said it would denude Palestine of its assets. There was no comment from the administration to these
- charges.
- 187
- November 22, 1947, Haifa. Another Arab was murdered in Haifa by the Stern gang following their execution of four Arabs near Raanana November
- 20 in retaliation for the British shooting of five Stern gang members on November12. Arabs retaliated against this killing at Raanana by
- wounding five Jews on a bus near Tel Aviv on November 20.
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- November 30- December 6, 1947, Palestine. A week of disorders brought on by Arab wrath over the UN's decision to partition the Holy Land
- ended with at least 159 killed in the Middle East, 66 in Palestine. While Jews in Palestine, Europe and the US. celebrated and began
- planning their new state and the UN moved to implement its plan, war talk was rife throughout the Arab world. The Arab League announced on
- December 1 that premiers and foreign ministers of seven Arab states would meet in Cairo next week to plan strategy against partition. In
- Palestine: Jerusalem and the Jaffa Tel Aviv boundary zone were centers of week-long strife which began when seven Jews were killed
- throughout Palestine on November 30 and the mayor of Nablus, Arab nationalist center, proclaimed jihad or a holy war. British High
- Commissioner Sir Alan Cunningham warned the Arab Higher Command on December 1 that Britain was determined to keep order so long as it held
- its mandate, and police stopped Arab agitators from raising crowds in Jerusalem. But Jewish celebrations there were stoned. Arabs looted and
- burned a three-block Jewish business district in Jerusalem on December 2, the first day of a three-day Arab general strike during which 20
- Jews and l5 Arabs were killed. When British troops failed to intervene, Haganah (unofficial Zionist militia) came into the open for the
- first time in eight years to restrain large-scale Jewish retaliation and also guard Jewish districts. Some Haganah men were arrested for
- possessing weapons. The day's strife caused $1 million worth of damage and resulted in a 24-hour curfew being applied to Arab Jerusalem for
- the rest of the week. The curfew was extended to outlying roads on December 3 to stop stonings of Jewish traffic and keep rural Arabs out of
- the capital. Max Pinn, head of the Jewish Agency's Trade and Transfer Department was killed on December 2 when Arabs stoned his auto near
- Ramleh. On this day Jews stoned Arab buses in Jerusalem. On the Jaffa-Tel Aviv boundary, which also is under around-the-clock curfew, the
- week's heaviest battle was a six-hour clash between Hagariah and Arabs on December 3 in which seven Jews and five Arabs were killed and 75
- persons injured. On December 2, Haganah claimed to have mobilized 10,000 men in the intercity trouble zone, and the Arab Legion of
- Trans-Jordan reported on this date that it had reinforced Jaffa. Seven Jews were killed in Jaffa-Tel Aviv on this date. There were lesser
- attacks in Haifa this week. It becomes clearly evident that the partition is not going as planned and that although the Jews are pleased,
- the Arabs are not. There appears to be no way to control the Jews or their determination to drive all of the Arabs out of Jerusalem by force
- if necessary. The Arabs, initially living in peace with the Jewish minority, have been increasingly victimized by the Jews who, now that the
- British are leaving, are turning their savage behavior against them. The Jews have redoubled their efforts to build a military force and arm
- them. They claim that this force is to protect the Jewish population against attacks from the Arab countries as well as the Arab population
- of Jerusalem but an even stronger argument can be made that the Zionists are determined to drive out the Arab population by armed force. The
- initial Arab response to Jewish harassment over the past year has been very slow in coming but it seems to be quite inevitable and a
- terrible civil war is foreseen. The United States Department of State announced on December 5, 1947 that they were placing an embargo on all
- American arms shipments to the Middle East It appears that the Soviets have been sending weapons – mostly captured German pieces, to assist
- the Zionists and accompanying these clandestine arms shipments the Soviets have also sent a very sizable contingent of instructors and
- advisors to Palestine in months past As many of the Zionists are Russian or Polish in origin, these Communist Russians have been received
- gladly by the Jewish extremists and quickly blend in with the local populations. Soviet interest in Middle East oil and an overriding
- interest in obtaining warm-water ports are a prime factor in their interest in a Jewish state in Palestine. The most violent reactions in
- the Arab world to the UN partition idea are Syrian and Egyptian. However, it is noted that the worst outbreak of anti-partition violence
- outside Palestine occurred in Aden, a British colony at the entrance to the Red Sea. On December 5, British military reinforcements were
- sent to Aden after four days of Arab-Jewish fighting in which 5O Jews and 25 Arabs were killed. In Syria, public demonstrations by the Arab
- population paralyzed business in Damascus earlier this week. The Soviet cultural center and Communist headquarters in Damascus were wrecked
- on November 30 with four persons killed. The Syrian Communist Party was officially disbanded by the government and the US. and British
- Embassy flags were torn down. On December 1, Syria introduced military training into all boys' schools and on December 2, the Syrian
- Parliament enacted a draft law and voted $860,000 for the relief of Palestinian Arabs. On the same day Arabs attacked the Jewish part of
- Aleppo. In Egypt the Chamber of Deputies resolved on December 1 to help keep Palestine a totally Arab state and to support the Arab
- population of Palestine against attacks by the Jewish minority. There were repeated anti-US. And British demonstration in Egypt's main
- cities, and the British Institute in Zagazig was burned on December 2. All public meetings were banned in Cairo after Egyptian police fought
- with 15,000 people on December 4.In Lebanon, Arab students smashed the windows of the US. Legation in Beirut on December 1 and Lebanese
- Communists demonstrated against the partition of Palestine and all schools were closed to prevent student disorders. In Iraq, students in
- Baghdad wrecked the US. Information offices on December 4. In Saudi Arabia, anti-American demonstrations by Arabs in the oil fields were
- restrained by the government
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- December 13, 1947, Palestine. Jewish terrorists shifted from defense to attack in the second week of conflict with the Arabs since the UN
- voted for partition of Palestine. The death toll for the past 14 days was at least 220 in Palestine and 336 in the Middle East, including
- 111 in Aden. Arab retaliatory raids at Jaffa and Tel Aviv had killed 30 Jews and Arabs when local businessmen on both sides arranged for a
- truce on December 10 to effect an orange harvest On December 11, however, the Arabs renewed their assaults in the Old City of Jerusalem,
- which was the worst day of the current strife with 41 fatalities throughout Palestine. On December 12, Haganah launched attacks on both the
- Arabs and British with a death toll of 20 Arabs, five Jews and two British soldiers killed. On December 13, bombings by the Irgun killed at
- least 16 Arabs and injured 67 more in Jerusalem and Jaffa and burned down a hundred Arab houses in Jaffa. In Syria, an anti-Jewish attack in
- retaliation for the Irgun actions burned down a 2,750-year old synagogue in Aleppo and destroyed the priceless Ben-Asher Codex, a 10th
- century Hebrew Bible of original Old Testament manuscripts.
- 190
- December 14, 1947, Lydda. Regular troops of the Arab Legion of the Trans-Jordan Army killed 14 Jews and wounded nine Jews, two British
- soldiers and one Arab when they attacked a bus convoy approaching their camp near Lydda. The Arabs said the Jews attacked them first
- 191
- December 17, 1947, Cairo. Premiers of the seven Arab League states called on the Arabs to “prepare for the struggle.” They promised to
- “prosecute the fight until victorious” General Nuri as-Said Pasha, president of the Iraqi Senate, accused the US. of breaking a promise of
- neutrality.
- 192
- December 17, 1947, Nevatim. British troops came to the aid of police standing off a raid by 100 Arabs on the Jewish settlement of Nevatim,
- seven miles west of Beersheba.
- 193
- December 18, 1947, Khisas. Haganah killed 10 Arabs, including five children in a reprisal raid on Khisas in Northern Palestine.
- 194
- December 19, 1947, Damascus. Reliable reports from Damascus state that Arab guerrillas are massing there in preparation to launching an
- attack into Palestine before the first of the year.
- 195
- December 20, 1947, Palestine. Haganah carried out another raid on Arabs by attacking the village of Qazasa near Rehovoth. One Arab was
- killed and two were wounded.
- 196
- December 21, 1947, Jerusalem. The Jewish Agency gave official approval for Haganah to make reprisal raids on Arab villages and “exterminate
- nests of brigands.”
- 197
- December 25, 1941, Haifa. Emir Mohammed Zeinati, an Arab landowner, was killed in Haifa for selling land to the Jews.
- 198
- December 25, 1947, Tel Aviv. Stern gang terrorists machine-gunned two British soldiers in a Tel Aviv cafe.
- 199
- December 26, 1947, Palestine. Armed Jewish terrorists raided two diamond factories in Nazthaanya and Tel Aviv and escaped with $107,000 in
- diamonds, cash and bonds.
- The Stern gang distributed leaflets reporting that Israel Levin, a member, was murdered in Tel Aviv on December 24 for trying to betray a
- Stern gang member.
- 200
- December 29, 1947, Palestine. Irgun members kidnapped and flogged a British major and three sergeants in retaliation for the flogging of
- Benjamin Kimkhim who was also sentenced to 18 years in prison on December 27 for robbing a bank The major, E Brett, was seized in Nathanya
- and the sergeants in Tel Aviv and Rishon el Siyon. Each got 18 lashes, the same number Kimkhim received.
- 201
- December 29, 1947, Jerusalem. An Irgun terrorist bombing at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem killed 11 Arabs and two Britons.
- 202
- December 30, 1947, London. The Dollis Hill Synagogue in London was set on fire and 12 sacred scrolls were destroyed by angry British
- citizens who scrawled on the burned edifice “You whip – we burn.”
- 203
- December 21-31, 1947, Palestine. Arab-Jewish conflict in the Holy Land increased the death toll to 489 from violence in Palestine in the 33
- days since the UN decided on partition.
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- 204
- January 3-10, 1948, Palestine. Extensive Jewish Agency purchases of US. war surplus high explosives with which to fight Arabs were disclosed
- in the New York City area. While 191 tons of TNT and the more powerful M-3 were seized before shipment, 73 tons cleared New York for
- Palestine. The TNT shipment was accidentally discovered when longshore men loading the American Export Lines freighter “Executor” in Jersey
- City on January 3, dropped a box marked “industrial machinery” and while attempting to repair the box, found cans of TNT bearing US. Army
- markings. The “machinery” proved to be 32 1/2 tons of TNT, which the US. Customs impounded as contraband because of the ban on American arms
- shipments to the Middle East On January 10, the FBI was attempting to trace the source of the contraband. The Jewish Agency for Palestine
- acknowledged on January 10 that it had purchased 199 tons of M-3 from the War Assets Administration at the Army's Seneca Ordnance Depot near
- Romulous, New York Federal and state agents recovered 126 tons from a farmhouse and trucks near Asbury Park, New Jersey, and Barclay Heights
- and Saugerties, New York on January 8-9 but 73 tons were believed to be en route to Palestine. The Jewish Agency called its transaction with
- the WAA legal, admitted having set up “Foundry Associates, Inc.” in New York with a Haganah agent in charge, to buy explosives for their war
- on the Arabs. The FBI said Leonard Weisman, president of three New York firms (Pratt Steamship Line, Material Redistribution Corporation and
- Paragon Design and Development Co.) gave the Haganah agent office space but did nothing illegal.WAA stopped all deliveries on unfulfilled
- orders on January 9 in the New York area. It said Foundry Associates, Inc., had sworn that it was a normal trader in explosives, thereby
- qualifying to buy the M-3, and that the export question was a US. Department of State matter.
- 205
- January 4, 1948, Jaffa. A series of Jewish terrorist bombings inflicted heavy Arab casualties. 14 were killed and 100 injured when the Stern
- gang destroyed the Arab National Committee headquarters in Jaffa.
- 206
- January 5, 1948, Jerusalem. 15 Arabs were killed after Haganah bombed the Semiramis Hotel.
- 207
- January 6, 1948, Jerusalem. The British Government denounced the Semiramis attack as “wholesale murder of innocent people” but the Jewish
- Agency alleged that “Arab gangs” used the hotel and asked why attacks on Jews had not been equally denounced.
- 208
- 14 Arabs were killed by two Irgun terrorist bombs at Jerusalem's Jaffa gate.
- 209
- January 10, 1948, Jerusalem. The official death toll in Palestine since November 29 (when the UN voted for partition) had risen to 646.
- 210
- January 12, 1948, Tel Aviv. Stern gang members looted Barclays Bank in Tel Aviv of $37,000.
- 211
- January 13, 1948. Washington. The US. War Assets Administration received orders from Army Secretary Kenneth Royal to cancel its sale of 199
- tons of M-3 explosive to a purchasing agent of the Jewish Agency, which got 73 tons out of the country before the rest was seized.
- 212
- January 14-15, 1948, New York The FBI arrested six Newark men on charges of trying to ship Haganah 60,000 pounds of TNT, which was seized in
- Jersey City after having been bought from the Letterkenny Arsenal Ordnance Depot in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
- 213
- January 16-17, 1948, Haifa. Zionists claimed they had murdered 82Arabs, mostly civilians, in a 24 hour period. In retaliation for the
- massacres, Arabs machine-gunned 35 Haganah men who were en route to attack another Arab farming settlement.
- 214
- January 17, 1948, Jerusalem: The official death toll of Arabs killed by Jewish terrorists since November 29 had risen to 831.
- 215
- January 25, 1948, Jerusalem. Following the deaths of ten Jews and two Arabs killed in a battle outside Jerusalem, British authorities stated
- that 721 Arabs, 408 Jews, 19 civilians and 12 British policemen (a total of 1,160) had been killed in an eight-week period that 1,171 Arabs,
- 749 Jews, 13 civilians and 37 British officers had been wounded.
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- January 26, 1948, Palestine. Mrs. Gold Meyerson, Jewish Agency political director in Jerusalem, and Mote Sheraton, chief of all Agency
- political operations, told the UN Palestine Commission that Jews must arm against possible Arab threats and Sheraton demanded a UN policy
- that would compel the US. to lift its embargo on arms destined
- for Jewish groups in the Middle East
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- January 28, 1948, Jerusalem. Rabbi Hillel Silver, chief of the Jewish Agency's American division, cut short a trip to Jerusalem to return to
- the US. and campaign for American public support of armed Jewish backing for partition and eventual Zionist control of all Palestine. On
- January 27, his agency called upon 15,000 young men and women to join Haganah by February 15. British intelligence reports indicate that
- Haganah had grown from 3,500 to 12,000 full-time members since December 1.
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- January 31, 1948, London. British Foreign Office officials revealed that over 1,000 Soviets, all Russian-speaking Communist military
- technicians, had been intercepted on the immigrant ships “Pan York” and “Pan Crescent”
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- February 1, 1948, Jerusalem. Arab groups took credit for a bombing that destroyed the “Palestine Post” building. The newspaper had an
- extensive history of inciting the Jewish inhabitants of Jerusalem to “destroy Arabs and force them out” of Palestine.
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- February 1, 1948, Milwaukee. WI, Moshe Shertok, Jewish Agency political director, stated that statements that Communist agents were among
- the intercepted “Pan York” and “Pan Crescent” immigrants from Bulgaria were untrue. Shartok cited a statement from Cyprus refugee camp
- commissioner, Sir Godfrey Collins, confirming his statement Collins subsequently denied making such a statement .Shertok further said that
- the Jews of Palestine welcomed all Jews into their country and that Jewish Communists were equally welcome. He denied rumors of Soviet
- clandestine assistance to various Jewish terrorist groups.
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- February 3, 1948, Jerusalem. Stern gang terrorists killed two British policemen because the bombers of the “Post” had allegedly worn police
- uniforms. Arabs attacked the Jerusalem Central Prison but were driven off by the guards.
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- The British Foreign Office sent Bulgaria a note of rebuke for “deliberately conniving” in the transshipment of illegal Soviet immigrants to
- Palestine.
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- February 10, 1948, Jerusalem. British military units prevented Arabs from bringing dynamite and firebombs into Jerusalem's Old City in an
- attempt to blow up its Jewish Quarter.
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- February 10, 1948, Palestine. Jewish terrorist groups murdered ten Arabs near an RAF camp in central Palestine A further 23 Arabs were
- murdered by Jewish groups throughout Palestine.
- 225
- February 11, 1948, Palestine. The British Royal Navy intercepted the ship “Beleaguered Jerusalem” off Nahariya and its 679 Jewish illegal
- immigrants were transshipped to Cyprus.
- 226
- February 13, 1948, Palestine. A British Army sergeant was arrested in a probe of the death of four Jewish terrorists who were arrested at
- their sniper post and then released in an Arab neighborhood. The Jews were immediately stoned to death by the Arabs.
- 227
- February 15, 1948, Galilee. Jewish terrorists raided an Arab settlement in upper Galilee, killing 30 Arabs, including 10 children, and blew
- up bridges.
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- February 16, 1948, New York The UN Palestine Commission reported to the Security Council that it would take a UN military force to save the
- Palestine partition from “catastrophic” failure. The report criticized “(c)ertain elements of the Jewish community,” for “irresponsible ads
- of violence which worsen the security situation.” The Commission quoted official British figures on Palestine casualties during November
- 30-February 1:869 killed, including 427 Arabs, 381 Jews, 46 British and 15 of other nationalities; 1,909 wounded, including 1,035 Arabs, 725
- Jews, 135 British and 14 others.
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- February 20, 1948, Jerusalem. Twelve Jewish terrorists, including Moshe Svorai, second in command of the Stern gang, escaped from the
- Central Prison in Jerusalem.
- 230
- February 22, 1948, Jerusalem. Two truckloads of high explosives were detonated in Ben Yehuda Street in the Jewish section of Jerusalem. The
- blast leveled a three block Jewish business center, killing at least 60 with 20 missing and 200 injured. Jews blamed the British because
- armored trucks with police insignia had escorted the truck bombs into the area.
- 231
- February 23, 1948, Palestine. Northern Palestine Arabs took credit for the BenYehuda bombing and said they had carried out the attack as
- retaliation for a Jewish bombing that had killed seven Arabs in Ramleh.
- 232
- February 27, 1948, Jerusalem. Two anti-Communist Polish residents of Jerusalem were murdered by Stem gang terrorists who claimed the Poles
- were “pro-Arab.”
- 233
- February 29, 1948, Rehoveth. The British Mandate Government denounced the Jewish Agency after 28 British soldiers were killed and 35
- seriously injured when a Haifa-bound train from Cairo was blown up. Stern gang terrorists took credit for the bombing of the British train
- as revenge for the Ben Yehuda Street bombing in Jerusalem.
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- March 1, 1948, Jerusalem. The British Mandate government accused the Jewish Agency of circulating false charges that Britons had committed
- the BenYehuda bombing and of tolerating Jewish terrorists “for political reasons.” It warned that “continuance of indiscriminate murder”
- would mean “forfeiture by the Jewish community of all right … to be numbered among civilized peoples. ”Immediately after issuance of this
- statement, the car of British Commander Lt Gen. McMillan was bombed near Jerusalem but the general was not in the car at the time.
- 235
- March 2, 1948, Haifa. Stern gang terrorists detonated a truckful of explosives at an Arab office building in Haifa, killing at least 14
- Arabs.
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- March 4, 1948, Ramallah. In retaliation for the Haifa bombing of March 2, Arabs ambushed and killed 17 Haganah youths near RamaIlah
- 237
- March 5, 1948, Tel Aviv. Haganah killed 15 Arabs near Tel Aviv in revenge for the March 4 ambush of their members
- 238
- March 5, 1948, Jerusalem. The Jewish Agency stated that large-scale Jewish arms shipments were ready in various Mediterranean ports destined
- for the arming of Jewish partisans in Palestine to “fight and drive out” the Arab population of what the Agency stated “was eternal Jewish
- land” that could not be occupied by either the British or the Arabs.
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- March 11, 1948, Jerusalem. The Jewish Agency's building in Jerusalem was bombed with 13 persons killed and 84 injured. An American car,
- believed to have been stolen from the US. consulate by an Arab chauffeur, was driven through the agency's elaborate barricades with a load
- of explosives. The driver escaped.
- 240
- March 11, 1948, New York. Communist and their left wing labor unions turned out over 10,000 persons in a protest rally against US.
- “betrayal” of partition.
- 241
- March 12, 1948, New York Columnist Drew Pearson said in his “Washington Merry-Go-Round” column that President Harry Truman had given
- Democratic party leaders the following reason for holding back on enforcement of Palestine partition after having championed this in the UN
- last year: Russia was after a US. Army-built railroad north from the Persian Gulf, plus all Arab oil regions and the Eastern Mediterranean.
- On March, Pearson had stated in the same forum that President Truman had told a New York publisher that New York Jews were “disloyal” to the
- United States.
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- March 12, 1948, New York An Arab Higher Command paper was issued that charged the Jewish Agency with massing Soviet trained and equipped
- illegal immigrants in Eastern Europe for war service in Palestine and had “set up laboratories for bacteriological warfare.”
- 243
- March 30, 1948, Palestine. British authorities released the latest casualty figures: In March, 566 persons, including 271 Jews 256 Arabs, 39
- British and others were killed.
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- March 30, 1948, New York Soviet and Jewish groups informed the UN Security Council that they defended the UN's previous decision for a
- separate Jewish state. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, Andrei Gromyko, told the Security Council that partition was “a just solution,” that
- he was not convinced that it could not be carried out peacefully and that by “wrecking” it the US. would have to take the full blame for “a
- serious blow upon the UN organization”
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- April 1, 1948, New York The UN found that it had transversed a circle – from one special General Assembly session to another – in its
- year-long effort to solve the Palestine problem. Britain referred the Holy Land dispute to the UN April 2, 1947, and asked for a special
- Assembly session, Events since then:
- April 28-May 15, 1947. Assembly met, decided on special committee inquiry into the Palestine situation.
- August 31. Special Palestine Committee (UNSCOP) recommended partition, internationalized Jerusalem.
- November 29. Assembly approved partition, 33-13 (10 abstentions): US. led the fight for a separate Jewish state. Intensified Arab-Jewish
- fighting in Palestine.
- December 11. Britain set May 15 as the date for surrender of its mandate over Palestine.
- February 16, 1948. Assembly's Palestine Commission asked for UN army to enforce partition over Arab resistance.
- February 24. US. sidestepped endorsing forcible partition, asked the Council to seek Arab-Jewish agreement
- March 19. After the Big Five conciliation efforts failed, the US. abandoned its partition plan and proposed UN trusteeship over Palestine.
- April 1. The Security Council agreed (Russia abstaining) to US. proposal for a special Assembly session to reconsider the Palestine problem
- and passed the US. resolution urging an Arab-Jewish truce.
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- April 4, 1948, New York A Zionist rally in New York's Madison Square Park was attended by 100,000 persons, including 40,000 Jewish war
- veterans.
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- April 6, 1948, Palestine. Jewish terrorists invaded the British Army's largest Palestine camp near Pardes Hannan south of Haifa in a raid
- for firearms and murdered seven British soldiers.
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- April 9, 1948, Washington The US. Department of State refused to lift its embargo on arms shipments to the Middle East
- 249
- April 9, 1948, Jerusalem. Irgun and Stern gang terrorists stormed an Arab suburb of Jerusalem, Dir Yashin, killing 250 Arabs, half of them
- women and children.
- 250
- April 25, 1948, Jaffa. The Irgun launched an attack on Arab Jaffa claiming that it was a stronghold for Arabs. They also attacked Tel Aviv
- with 2,000 men, armored cars and mortars and captured the Arab district of Mansielt. Their advance was halted when British fighter planes
- and light artillery were used against the Irgun.
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- April 27, 1948, Palestine. Initially condemning the Irgun for its attack on Jaffa, the Haganah reached an agreement with Irgun and the
- latter agreed to operate under Haganah control. Both groups then attacked, Haganah seizing Jaffa's eastern and southern suburbs. The Arab
- city was encircled by April 29, and all but 15,000 of Jaffa's Arab inhabitants had been driven from the city, although the town was
- officially termed an Arab area. In Tel Aviv, the Stern gang robbed Barclays Bank of $1 million.
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- April 30, 1948, Jerusalem. Haganah scored victories against the Arab residents after fruitless UN efforts to arrange a truce that would
- protect historical shrines in the ancient Walled City. Jewish extremists threatened to dynamite the Arab Dome of the Rock Mosque unless all
- Arabs immediately evacuated Jerusalem. The British response was that if this happened, they would blow up the Wailing Wall, the last remnant
- of the destroyed temple. The Haganah agreed to respect both Arab and Christian monuments but insisted all Arabs and Christians must leave
- Jerusalem. In a move they described as “defensive,” the Haganah overran the Christian Arab Katamon quarter in southwestern modern Jerusalem
- and captured most of the Moslem Mamilla cemetery. Jewish workers seized the general post office in Jerusalem. In Katamon, Haganah captured
- St Simon's Greek Orthodox Monastery, drove out the monks and vandalized the building. British troops stepped in to prevent further massacre
- of the Arabs.
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- May 2, 1948, Jerusalem. The British finally halted wide-spread strife in Jerusalem by rushing several thousand mechanized army units and
- Royal Marine commandos back to Palestine. Their primary purpose was to protect Arab civilians who were being slaughtered by rampaging
- Zionists.
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- May 5-8, 1948, Palestine. The Haganah, now styling itself a “Jewish Army,” struck Upper Galilee in northeastern Palestine and claimed to
- have crushed any Arab resistance by the end of the week. Safad, capital of Upper Galilee and normally a city of 15,000 Arabs, was reported
- by the Jewish Agency as having been “cleansed” of Arabs by May 6. The only remaining occupants of the town were 2,000 Jews. Haganah
- announced that all Arab property had been confiscated from the owners and would be given to Jewish settlers.
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- May 4, 1948, Tel Aviv. The 37-man Jewish Legislative Council met in Tel Aviv and heard Premier-designate David Ben-Gurion declare that
- 150,000 Arabs had been driven from their homes in the past five months but that the Jews “haven't lost a single settlement” The Stern gang
- resumed “direct war” against the British for protecting the Arab population of Jerusalem. Seven British soldiers were killed near Nethanya.
- At the same time, the Stern gang took credit for a letter bomb which killed the young brother of a British army officer in England.
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- May 6, 1948, Jerusalem. Haganah was redesignated as the Jewish State Army and reported that 200 aircraft, later revealed by British
- authorities as having come from Czechoslovakia, whose new communist government is almost entirely composed of Zionists and who have been
- pouring weapons into Palestine, are slated to reinforce the new army. The army will be increased to 85,000 immediately.
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- May 16, 1948, New York The number of states recognizing Israel increased to eight this week, and the new country applied for admission to
- the UN. Russia immediately granted recognition on May 17, implying that it recognized Israel's government as the de jure (legal) government
- while the United States recognized Israel only as the de facto (in fact) government
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- May 22, 1948, Jerusalem. Thomas Wasson, US. Consul General in Jerusalem and a member of the Council's Truce Commission, was fatally wounded
- by a Stern gang sniper near the US. Consulate. Two other Consulate members were also assaulted, one dying the next day.
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- September 17, 1948, Jerusalem. Angered by his order to readmit 8,000 Arab refugees driven from three villages near Haifa by attacks of
- Jewish terrorists, the Stern gang assassinated Count Folke Bernadotte, UN mediator for Palestine. Also killed in the attack was French Col.
- Andre Serot, chief of France's 100-man contingent in the unarmed UN truce-observer team.
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