Palestinian Mass Grave uncovered in Tel Aviv

**Tyr-Ziu Saxnot** · 06-18-2013, 10:11 AM

Originally Posted by Gaffer

I stand by what I said. Zionists are those who wanted to reestablish Israel. That's the definition. The term is now used to show hatred of Jews without sounding like they hate Jews. We don't hate the Jews we hate hate Zionists. Well there are no Zionists, only Jews and Israelis.

As I also said, The names and wordings have been carefully researched and applied. Your response is a classic example. Well written propaganda is still propaganda.

Nazi propaganda against the Jews was well written too. Nobody would have ever known its results had not the right side won that war. Evil hides in a cloak of goodness doing its best to keep its wickedness hidden until its too damn late. The Arab muzzies all hate the Jews because the Jews show them up for what they really are= savage scum.

***jimnyc*** · 06-20-2013, 03:03 PM

Originally Posted by jafar00

Since when do I adore them? Especially Hezbollah? The devious band of miscreants currently murdering innocent people at the behest of Assad? You have to be crazy.

Am I? Sounds like they were just a political party?

Hizbullah is a political party as well as the people's resistance of Lebanon. They only exist to counter Israeli aggression against Israel. If Israel didn't attack Lebanon, Hizbullah would not exist. They are not a terrorist organisation. Since they only retaliate against Israeli attacks, they are a legitimate resistance organisation. Their political aims in Lebanon are met by being elected into parliament, not by bombing the public into submission.

http://www.debatepolicy.com/showthre...665#post116665

Coincidentally, in that same post:

The "Muslim" Brotherhood I can agree are terrorists.

But more recently you say they are just a bad government, or a "moderate Islamist Party". How does ones opinion on a group change from terrorists, to a political party once they were elected"

Forgive me for responding to newer stuff with older stuff, but I saw the older thread being read on "who's online", so went and read it again myself, and realized the discrepancies.

**Marcus Aurelius** · 06-20-2013, 03:31 PM

Originally Posted by jimnyc

...But more recently you say they are just a bad government, or a "moderate Islamist Party"

remember, just because they are 'Islmaist', doesn't mean they are 'Islamic'... according to Jahil...

Originally Posted by jafar00

"Islamist" is a word used by Western Media to describe political parties in the Middle East that are not secular. It doesn't necessarily mean that they are Islamic.

**jafar00** · 06-20-2013, 10:05 PM

Originally Posted by jimnyc

Am I? Sounds like they were just a political party?

http://www.debatepolicy.com/showthre...665#post116665

Coincidentally, in that same post:

But more recently you say they are just a bad government, or a "moderate Islamist Party". How does ones opinion on a group change from terrorists, to a political party once they were elected"

Forgive me for responding to newer stuff with older stuff, but I saw the older thread being read on "who's online", so went and read it again myself, and realized the discrepancies.

I can read and learn and change my opinions. I am aware a leopard can change it's spots and in the case political groups, they follow whatever will bring them power.

**Marcus Aurelius** · 06-20-2013, 10:07 PM

Originally Posted by jafar00

I can read and learn and change my opinions. I am aware a leopard can change it's spots and in the case political groups, they follow whatever will bring them power.

Is that in the Qur'aan?

Hey, dumb ass... why haven't you commented on the fact that your beloved Al Jazeera uses the word 'Islamist' on a regular basis, even though they are not a 'western media' outlet? Still trying to spin that one, are you?

**Marcus Aurelius** · 06-20-2013, 10:29 PM

Let me guess, Jahil... this never happened... right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre

Account of Raymond Cafferata

After the masacre, Cafferata testified:

"On hearing screams in a room, I went up a sort of tunnel passage and saw an Arab in the act of cutting off a child's head with a sword. He had already hit him and was having another cut, but on seeing me he tried to aim the stroke at me, but missed; he was practically on the muzzle of my rifle. I shot him low in the groin. Behind him was a Jewish woman smothered in blood with a man I recognized as a[n Arab] police constable named Issa Sheriff from Jaffa. He was standing over the woman with a dagger in his hand. He saw me and bolted into a room close by and tried to shut me out-shouting in Arabic, "Your Honor, I am a policeman." ... I got into the room and shot him."^[8]^[23]^[24]

**tell-tale** · 06-21-2013, 03:29 PM

Unfortunately, the 1929 Hebron massacre is a very dark chapter, and can only be termed an atrocity. Those on this site, however, who are prone to generalize about “all” Arabs, or all Muslims, being “bloodthirsty scum”, should continue reading the same wikipedia article you cite, and note, further down, the following additional information:

Arabs shelter Jews 

Around 25 Arab families helped save 280-300 Jews by sheltering them during the melee.^[2]
Aharon Reuven Bernzweig related that an Arab named Haj Eissa El Kourdieh, saved a group of 33 Jews after he insisted they hide in his cellar. There they waited with a "deadly fear" for the trouble to pass, worrying that the "murderers outside would hear [the little children who kept crying]." From the cellar, they heard cries of "today is a day that is holy to Mohammed. Anyone who does not kill Jews is a sinner." Meanwhile, several Arab women, stood guard outside, repetitively challenging the claims of the screaming mob that they were sheltering Jews.^[2] Yonah Molchadsky gave birth while taking refuge in an Arab basement. Molchadsky later related that when the mob demanded that Arabs give up any Jews they were hiding, her host told them "we have already killed our Jews," whereupon the mob departed^[30] The family of Abu Id Zaitoun rescued Zmira Mani and other Jews by hiding them in their cellar and protecting them with their swords. They later found policeman to escort them safely to the police station at Beit Romano.^[31]
Survivors 

Around 435 Jews survived, most having been saved by a handful of Arab families. Around 130 saved themselves by hiding or by taking refuge in the British police station at Beit Romano on the outskirts of the city.^[2] After order had been restored, all the Jews were gathered at the police station where hundreds of people were confined for three days, without food or water. They were also forbidden from making telephone calls. All the survivors were then evacuated to Jerusalem.

[2] The Hebron Massacre of 1929: A Recently Revealed Letter of a Survivor

[30] Haaretz. Survivor of 1929 Hebron Massacre recounts her ordeal by Eli Ashkenazi. Last accessed: 12 August 2009/

[31] Zmira Mani (later renamed Zmira Meshorer), "What I saw in Hebron" ("ma shera'iti behevron"), Ha'aretz, Sep 12, 1929, reprinted in: Knaz, Yehoshua (ed.) (1996).Haaretz - the 75th Year, Schocken Publishing, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, pp. 33-34 (in Hebrew).

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Would you now like to also have some of the many descriptions of the various massacres committed by Zionist forces against Palestinians? – Many of said descriptions given by Israeli eye-witnesses, (and even the perpetrators themselves, in some cases), and cited from Jewish and Israeli sources – or do you share Voted4Reagan’s opinion, when he said:

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"Can you prove it was Murder or was it Collateral Damage from the War that the Arabs Started?

See...you have to PROVE it was murder, Jafar. Your first post here was a fraud and I proved it to you.

I seriously doubt that the Israelis murdered anyone.... probably collateral damage from the war."

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(--Or perhaps V4R was referring here ONLY to the mass graves recently found in Jaffa, and admits that the Israeli forces did inded commit other murders elsewhere?)

***jimnyc*** · 06-21-2013, 07:25 PM

Tell-tale - I know we have limitations in place, to not allow new members to immediately post links, which was done to prevent spammers from joining to post links and running. Please post links after your 5th post. Also, if the system won't let you, just drop off the http://www part and add the rest. Thx

**aboutime** · 06-21-2013, 07:36 PM

It is IMPOSSIBLE to have anything called a Mass Grave of Palestinians when....There is no such nation for anyone to call themselves Palestinians.

**Voted4Reagan** · 06-21-2013, 07:40 PM

Originally Posted by tell-tale

Unfortunately, the 1929 Hebron massacre is a very dark chapter, and can only be termed an atrocity. Those on this site, however, who are prone to generalize about “all” Arabs, or all Muslims, being “bloodthirsty scum”, should continue reading the same wikipedia article you cite, and note, further down, the following additional information:

Arabs shelter Jews

Around 25 Arab families helped save 280-300 Jews by sheltering them during the melee.^[2]
Aharon Reuven Bernzweig related that an Arab named Haj Eissa El Kourdieh, saved a group of 33 Jews after he insisted they hide in his cellar. There they waited with a "deadly fear" for the trouble to pass, worrying that the "murderers outside would hear [the little children who kept crying]." From the cellar, they heard cries of "today is a day that is holy to Mohammed. Anyone who does not kill Jews is a sinner." Meanwhile, several Arab women, stood guard outside, repetitively challenging the claims of the screaming mob that they were sheltering Jews.^[2] Yonah Molchadsky gave birth while taking refuge in an Arab basement. Molchadsky later related that when the mob demanded that Arabs give up any Jews they were hiding, her host told them "we have already killed our Jews," whereupon the mob departed^[30] The family of Abu Id Zaitoun rescued Zmira Mani and other Jews by hiding them in their cellar and protecting them with their swords. They later found policeman to escort them safely to the police station at Beit Romano.^[31]
Survivors

Around 435 Jews survived, most having been saved by a handful of Arab families. Around 130 saved themselves by hiding or by taking refuge in the British police station at Beit Romano on the outskirts of the city.^[2] After order had been restored, all the Jews were gathered at the police station where hundreds of people were confined for three days, without food or water. They were also forbidden from making telephone calls. All the survivors were then evacuated to Jerusalem.

[2] The Hebron Massacre of 1929: A Recently Revealed Letter of a Survivor

[30] Haaretz. Survivor of 1929 Hebron Massacre recounts her ordeal by Eli Ashkenazi. Last accessed: 12 August 2009/

[31] Zmira Mani (later renamed Zmira Meshorer), "What I saw in Hebron" ("ma shera'iti behevron"), Ha'aretz, Sep 12, 1929, reprinted in: Knaz, Yehoshua (ed.) (1996).Haaretz - the 75th Year, Schocken Publishing, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, pp. 33-34 (in Hebrew).

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Would you now like to also have some of the many descriptions of the various massacres committed by Zionist forces against Palestinians? – Many of said descriptions given by Israeli eye-witnesses, (and even the perpetrators themselves, in some cases), and cited from Jewish and Israeli sources – or do you share Voted4Reagan’s opinion, when he said:

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"Can you prove it was Murder or was it Collateral Damage from the War that the Arabs Started?

See...you have to PROVE it was murder, Jafar. Your first post here was a fraud and I proved it to you.

I seriously doubt that the Israelis murdered anyone.... probably collateral damage from the war."

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(--Or perhaps V4R was referring here ONLY to the mass graves recently found in Jaffa, and admits that the Israeli forces did inded commit other murders elsewhere?)

Mr. Tell-Tale... The mass graves were created by people collecting the dead of the war from the streets and interring them quickly in existing tombs according to the Arab and Jewish Custom. The dead of battle were quickly and unceremoniously
dumped in these mas graves.

A local fisherman Atar Zeinab, 80, said that as a teenager during the final months of fighting in 1948 he helped to collect the Arab dead in the area south of Jaffa.

They were then brought for a quick burial in the cemetery, the area’s main graveyard.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2WtugUukN

There you have it... WAR DEAD... Not Murder...Not War Crimes... Nobody was pushed into the sea..

This from an Arab that helped collect the bodies...

These were not atrocities... these were casualties of a war started by the combined Arab Nations in 1948.

**tell-tale** · 06-24-2013, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by Voted4Reagan

"These were not atrocities... these were casualties of a war started by the combined Arab Nations in 1948." (sic!)

V4R - I read that quote in the Daily Mail probably long before you did -- certainly before I ever stumbled across this site! The problem is, you and others here have constantly been repeating the lie that the 1948 Arab-Israeli war was started by the Arabs, when the surrounding Arab nations attacked Israel on May 15th -- whereas it was in fact the Zionist forces (technically, they are not designated "Israeli" forces until May 14/15th) who had begun a systematic war to expel (ethnically cleanse) the Palestinians from much of both the land which the UN resolution 181 had allotted to the (as yet unnamed future) Jewish state, (but where the Jews were pledged to respect all the civil, religious, economic and property rights of all the existing population, including Muslim and Christian Arabs!) AND to expel them from much of the land -- such as the Arab city of Jaffa, which the UN resolution had allotted to the future Palestinian state!

And the casualties which that Palestinian fisherman is referring to having collected in the streets of Jaffa, were collected there in the last weeks of April 1948, several weeks before any surrounding Arab nations attacked Israel! These casualties were the result of Zionist shelling of Palestinian civilians in APRIL of 1948, while the British were (supposedly) still 'maintaining the peace' -- i.e. preventing any Arab nations from coming of the aid of the Palestinians, but not effectively preventing the Jews from slaughtering and driving out the Palstinians. But well before any Arab nations counter-attacked Israel on May 15^th! 

“Counter-attacked” not in the sense that Israel first attacked those neighboring countries, but rather, in the sense that they were finally responding to the Zionists' ongoing attacks on, and ethnic cleansing of the Arab population of Palestine (which lacked -- had been prevented by the British from developing -- both the armed forces and underground paramilitary forces which the British had allowed the Jews to develop, AND similarly lacked the independent, autonomous civil administration which the British had similarly helped(?) and allowed the Jews to develop), but largely prevented(?) the Palestinians from developing – these surrounding Arab nations (even if some of them may have had other motives as well) were finally coming to the defense of the Palestinians, and were responding to the one-sided, lop-sided ongoing war which the Israelis / Zionists / Jews had started at the beginning of December, 1947, and already been waging for a full five and a half months against the Palestinians, in CRASS violation of the solemn oaths they’d pledged to the United Nations:
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The United Nations Partition Resolution of November 29, 1947 - to which defenders of Israel constantly appeal in claiming that Israel was legitimately established on the basis of international law - guaranteed the civil, political, economic, religious and property rights of the Arabs. It provided that the stipulations contained in the (U.N.) Declaration on those rights were to be recognized as fundamental laws of the State; and that no law, regulation, or official action was to conflict or interfere with these stipulations or take precedence. It also stipulated that "no discrimination of any kind shall be made between the inhabitants on the grounds of race, religion, language, or sex"; and that "no expropriation of land owned by an Arab in the Jewish state shall be allowed except for public purposes"; and that "in all cases of expropriation, full compensation as fixed by the Supreme Court shall be paid previous to dispossession."
[--Sami Hadawi, Bitter Harvest (1967), p. 90.]

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- 213 Palestinian villages and towns (population: 413,794, = 52% of the refugees) were “cleansed” while still (supposedly) under the “protection” of the British mandate; that is to say, before the start of the Arab-Israeli war on May 15, 1948!

Massacres:

Usually, the cleansing (“Nikayon,” a word used frequently in Israeli military communications at the time) was initiated by massacres. Plan Dalet was started to conquer the area between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and it commenced in earnest following the massacre of Deir Yassin on April 9, 1948. This was followed by several other massacres, which terrorized the Palestinians into leaving. In 1948, the Palestinians were terrorized by 33 massacres in total: 

Over half of these crimes were committed while the area was still under British mandate and (presumed) protection!

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Chronology of Documented Israeli MASSACRES of Palestinians committed in 1948 BEFORE May 15th:

- Mannsurat al Khayt (18 Jan 1948),

- Qisarya (15 Feb 1948),

- Wadi ‘Ara (27 Feb 1948).

- Deir Yassin (9 April 1948),

- Khirbet, Nasir ad Din (12 April 1948),

- Hawsha (15 April 1948),

- Al Wa’ra al-Sawda (18 April 1948), 

- Haifa (21 April 1948), 

- Husayniyya (21 April 1948),

- Balad ash Sheikh (25 April 1948),

- Ayn az Zaytun (2 May 1948),

- Al Abbasiyya (4 May 1948), 

- Bayt Daras (11 May 1948), 

- Burayr (12 May 1948), 

- Khubbayza (12 May ‘48),

- Abu Shusha (14 May 1948)

As said, over half of the Palestinian refugees had already been driven out before May 15^th, 1948; and over half of these (33 documented) massacres (not just expulsions!) also occurred before the 15th of May as well, all of this while Palestine was supposedly still under the “protection” of the British Mandate, and before any foreign Arab armies had yet entered the fray – indeed, according to contemporary sources, the primary reason the surrounding nations “invaded” (and note too that none of them ever entered the territory which the U.N. partition plan had originally allotted to Israel; they only entered the territory which the U.N. had decreed was to remain Palestinian!), was to protect and defend the native Palestinians against these wanton massacres, and forced expulsions, and Israel’s aggressive war of conquest!
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[Michael Palumbo, The Palestinian Catastrophe (1989, Quartet Books, London. pp. 34-37:] 

How did the 1948 War Begin? 
And Who First Attacked Whom?

The crisis in Palestine had begun on 2. December, 1947, at the start of the three-day general strike to protest the partition resolution. On the second day of the strike, there had been some looting and sporadic violence against Jewish shops. According to a British police official these incidents, `Had undoubtedly not been organized but were the acts of individuals and groups.'¹ The relatively subdued Arab reaction to the partition resolution contrasted sharply with the Zionist reign of terror that had accompanied the announcement of the White Paper in 1939. It was clear that although the Palestinian leadership wanted a show of defiance against the partition resolution, they did not wish to fight a civil war.

Jewish Terror Against Unarmed Civilians:

However, the Irgun used the Arab rioting in early December 1947 as an excuse to launch a murderous terrorist campaign that claimed the lives of many Arab civilians in numerous towns and villages. The Irgun leader Menachem Begin later explained his attitude during this period: `My greatest worry in those months was that the Arabs might accept the United Nations plan. Then we would have had the ultimate tragedy, a Jewish state so small that it could not absorb all the Jews of the world.'² Irgun terror however would make sure that no agreement would be possible.

On Friday, 12. December, Jewish terrorists had murdered nineteen Arab civilians in reprisal for the Jews killed in the Arab riots. But on the following afternoon the people of [the Arab village of] Yehidya were reassured when they saw a patrol of British army vehicles enter their village. The four cars stopped in front of the coffee house and out stepped men dressed in khaki uniforms and steel helmets. However, it soon became apparent that they had not come to protect the villagers. With machine guns they sprayed bullets into the crowd gathered in the coffee house. Some of the invaders placed bombs next to Arab homes while other disguised terrorists tossed grenades at civilians. For a while it seemed as if the villagers would be annihilated but soon a real British patrol arrived to foil the well-organized killing raid. The death toll of seven Arab civilians could have been much higher.³

Earlier in the day Jewish terrorists had tossed home–made bombs from a speeding taxi into a crowd of Arabs standing near the Damascus gate in Jerusalem. Six Arabs were killed and twenty-three were wounded. In Jaffa another bomb was thrown into a café, killing six more Arabs and injuring forty.

Throughout Palestine twenty-one Arab civilians were murdered on Saturday, 13. December by Jewish terrorists. Added to the previous day's casualties it amounted to a declaration of war by the Yishuv against the Palestinian Arabs. Sir Alan Cunningham, the British High Commissioner, had the task of attempting to mediate between Jew and Arab in Palestine. Although Cunningham favoured partition and the establishment of a Jewish state, he had no sympathy for the terrorist tactics of the Zionists. On 13. December, he reported to London:

The initial Arab outbreaks were spontaneous and unorganized and were more demonstrations of displeasures at the UN decision than determined attacks on Jews. The weapons initially employed were sticks and stones and had it not been for Jewish resource to firearms, it is not impossible that the excitement would have subsided and little loss of life been caused. This is more probable since there is reliable evidence that the Arab Higher Committee as a whole and the Mufti in particular, although pleased at the strong response to the strike call were not in favour of serious outbreaks.⁴

On 15. December, in an equally revealing dispatch, Cunningham told London the names of those in the Jewish community responsible for the reign of terror engulfing Palestine. `The provocative action of the Jews and their admission that the Haganah is authorized to take what they call counter-action, but what is in effect indiscriminate action against the Arabs is hardly calculated to have a calming effect.'⁵ Cunningham denied the claim that the dissident Irgun and Stern Gang terrorist groups were acting independently of the Jewish Agency. `This has not in fact been the case and in any event the Haganah and the dissident groups are now working so closely together that the Agency's claim that they cannot control the dissidents is inadmissible.'

The offensive actions of the Haganah and Irgun not only helped to provoke the war but also stimulated the earliest indications of the Palestinian exodus. On 15. December 1947 the left Zionist newspaper Al Hamishmar published a report that stated that as a result of Zionist terrorism `many of the Arabs who live near Hebrew settlements are moving to areas with large concentrations of Arab population.' As the violence in Palestine increased the flight of the Palestinians accelerated.

As Cunningham expected, the situation in Palestine worsened during the last days of 1947. On the morning of 18. December, a group of Arabs attacked a Jewish settlement in the Negev but were driven off by the RAF. That evening the Haganah staged a raid against the village of Khisas near the Lebanese-Syrian border. The attacks started at 9 p.m. when two carloads of terrorists drove through the village firing machine guns and throwing grenades. Ten Arab civilians were killed in the raid. The following day at the villa of Qazaza, five Arab children were murdered when Jewish terrorists dynamited the house of the village Mukhtar. By the end of the month, 450 people had been killed and over 1,000 injured in the violence.

It is often claimed that the Arabs initiated the 1948 war when they rejected the partition resolution. But to portray the Jews in Palestine as innocent victims of Arab aggression is ludicrous. Although the Zionists had publicly agreed to the partition resolution, they had no intention of accepting the borders or demographic composition of their new state. Yeshayahu Ben Porat was a member of the Haganah during this period. He noted that while he had been in the Zionist youth movement, he `was trained to despise the Arab population.' He was taught that he must one day struggle for a Zionist state that would be goyim rein. [i.e., free of gentiles, "judenrein" having been Hitler's adjectival catch-phrase for a Germany "free of Jews."] `They did not educate us in the perspective that there will be a Jewish state here where Arab and Jews will live together. The hidden thought and sometimes the overt thought was: they will go away and we shall stay.'⁷ Ben Porat later recalled that on the eve of the conflict most Jews believed, `we needed a war with the Arabs. In the kibbutzim they looked at the Arab villages in the vicinity and they divided up their land in their thoughts.'

Endnotes:
[1] New York Times, 3. December, 1947.

[2] Nicholas Bethell, The Palestine Triangle, p. 354.

[3] New York Times, 14. December, 1947.

[4] Middle East Centre, St. Anthony's College (Oxford): Cunningham Papers, box 2, file 3.

[5] Middle East Centre, St. Anthony's College (Oxford): Cunningham Papers, box 2, file 3.

[7] Marion Woolfson, Prophets in Babylon, p. 123.

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**tell-tale** · 06-24-2013, 12:01 PM

The Jewish Conquest and Fall of Jaffa, January-April 1948:

Jaffa was the most advanced city in Palestine, and had approximately 70,000 Palestinian inhabitants. The U.N. assigned Jaffa to Arab Palestine in UNGAR 181 of 29 November 1947. But Jaffa was always going to be vulnerable to Zionist attack as it was an Arab enclave surrounded by Jewish Palestine, and abutted Tel Aviv, which contained the greatest concentration of Jewish population anywhere in Palestine. In the last four months of British rule, contemporary British Palestine Police and British Army records report the following ninety (90!) Zionist attacks on the citizens of Jaffa! (NB! Jewish attacks against military targets have been excluded from this list!):

1 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 1200 hours, Jaffa. An explosion occurred in an Arab owned block of flats in Suq El Yehud, near Manshieh Police Station. The flats were completely demolished and slight damage was caused to the police station. Mohammed Ahmed Ismail, aged 20 of Manshieh Quarter, was slightly injured in the hand by glass splinters and was discharged after treatment. An Arab has reported to police that earlier he had seen four Jews carrying a barrel-shaped object. CO 537/3855

1 JANUARY 1948 During the afternoon of 1 January, a bunch of Irgun Z'vai Leumi thugs dressed in battledress and steel helmets drove at speed through Jaffa and fired at Arabs sitting outside a cafe. They killed two and wounded nine others before crashing through an Arab road block and disappearing into Tel Aviv. To emphasize the illusion that the British are responsible for all disorder in the country, they were wearing the flashes of the Royal Irish Fusiliers. WO 275/64

1 JANUARY 1948 Small party of Jews entered block of flats 40 yards in rear Shell Petrol Station, Jaffa, and placed a bomb which demolished the block of flats. So far, 1 Arab injured by flying debris. WO 275/64

4 JANUARY 1948 At 12:25 p.m. two Jewish terrorists, one driving a truck loaded with time bombs and the other driving a jeep, both as usual in British uniforms, drove to the end of a lane between the Arab welfare and relief centre in Jaffa housing children and the Barclay's Bank. The truck was driven in the lane and left there, and the driver was picked up by the jeep driver who was waiting for him. As they drove away, the whole town was rocked by a powerful explosion and many distant buildings were damaged by the concussion. The welfare centre was demolished. Seventeen Arabs were killed in this coldblooded murderous attack and 106 were wounded. Among those killed and seriously wounded were women and children. (United Nations Security Council Official Records, Supplements - 1948).

4 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 1240 hours, Jaffa. The Old Serrai in Clock Tower Square which houses the offices of the Arab National Committee, was completely destroyed by an explosion which killed 15 and injured 98 persons. Buildings nearby including Barclay's Bank, the Central Police Station and several shops and houses were also extensively damaged. Full details of how the attack was carried out are not yet available, but it is believed the attackers arrived at the scene in two vehicles? a 3-ton truck laden with orange boxes and a saloon car. Proceeding up Bustros Street towards Clock Tower Square? the truck turned left into the narrow lane between Barclay's Bank and the Old Serrai. The saloon car was seen to park some 20 metres north of Central P.S. near the road leading to the port area. The truck was parked at a point about 20 yards along the above mentioned lane. Two persons, dressed as Arabs, were seen to alight from the truck and walk across the square. They got into the waiting car which drove off in the direction of the Ajami Quarter. Almost immediately following the departure of the car, the explosion occurred. Tons of masonry from the Old Serrai building completely blocked the land running beside it, A fire subsequently broke out in Barclay's Bank but was extinguished. A strong-room situated in the upper storey of the bank was blown in and a considerable amount of money was salvaged and taken into police custody. The entire area was wired off to facilitate salvage operations and to prevent looting. It is reported from TeI Aviv that Irgun Z'vai Leumi have claimed responsibility for this outrage. Tension has risen to a high pitch in Jaffa as a result of this attack, and a certain degree of anti-Government feeling has been expressed. 

Details of the casualties are as follows:- Dead: 1) Mohammed Abdul Hallak (aged 12); 2) Abudul Sattah Wahab Jaber (20); 3) Ali Kastika; 4) Mohammed Said Abu Hassan (40); 5) Ahamad Derdanji (45); 6) Ahmad Hawari; 7) Yusef Abu Sheikh (25); 8) Ahmad Faris Shehadi (25); 9) Sa'ad Abil Majid Zein (25); 10) 15 unidentified. Injured: 1) Said Kheber Said (25) - serious; 2) Abed Ahmad Duknak ( 10) - serious; 3) Abed Mahmoud Shulayeh (17) - serious; 4) Ashraf Tewfik Lufti (28) - serious; 5) Naji Said Mughrabi - serious; 6) Mohammed Ibrahim Mughrabi - serious; 7) Taha Abu Rabah (35) - serious; 8) Mohammed Hassan Ibrahim (20) - serious; 9) Rasmiyeh Saba (22) - serious; 10) Abed Mustafe Abu Wazni (30) - serious; 11) Hishan Alami (35) - not serious; 12) Ibrahim Mustafa Najar (25) - not serious. All the above named are in the Dajani Hospital. 13) Huda Abu Labm (20) - not serious; 14) Said Afif Atout (19) - not serious; 15) Rafik Salami (27) - not serious; The above three are in the Government Hospital, 16) Ahmad Mahmoud Taher (30) - serious; 17) Ahmad Ahmad Nel(25) - serious; 18) Ali Hassan Ashoura (20) - not serious; 19) Ahmad Ismail Abu Shabayeh (22) - not serious; 20) Rais Hassan Abu Chouleh (70) - not serious. The above-mentioned five are in the French Hospital. Seventy-eight other persons were treated in hospitals for slight injuries but were not detained. 
CO 537/3855

8 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 0245 hours, Jaffa. Unknown persons placed a bomb against the house of Haj Abed El Jaber Lahloub, situated at the western side of Beit Dajan village. The bomb exploded causing extensive damage to the house? but no casualties. 
CO 537/3855

9 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 0730 hours, Jaffa. Near Jaffa Railway Station; two buses conveying Arab railway employees to Lydda were fired upon from automatic weapons from Jewish houses overlooking their station. Hassan Hilu of Jaffa sustained a slight bullet wound in the leg, and two other Arabs were slightly injured by glass splinters. 
CO 537/3855 

10/11 JANUARY 1948 Gaza, 2130 hours. Shots are reported to have been fired from a passing vehicle into an orange grove on Sawafir Sharki lands near the main GadJaffa road. At 0800 hours on 11 January, 1948, the body of a labourer, Abdul Khader Mohammed En Nasri of Jaffa, was found in the grove. He has sustained bullet wounds. 
CO 537/3855 

14 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 0730 hours, Jaffa. Abdul Fattah Hassan Khalil, an employee of the Palestine Railways, was shot and injured in the foot while walking in Jaffa Railway Station. The bullet came from the direction of a house occupied by Jews and situated north of the station. He was removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa. His condition is not serious. CO 537/3855 

14 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 1000 hours, Jaffa. Two unidentified Arabs were shot and killed by unknown persons in Arlin Street, Manshieh Quarter. 
CO 537/3855 

20 JANUARY 1948 1430 hours, Jaffa. On the Manshieh beach, Abed Mohammed Jerieh (25) and Khader Mohammed El Jaber (201, both of Manshieh, were hit by bullets fired from the direction of Tel Aviv. The first named was removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa, but was found to be dead on arrival. Jaber was admitted to the Dajani Hospital in serious condition. 
CO 537/3855 

20 JANUARY 1948 1430 hours, Jaffa. On the Manshieh beach, Abed Mohammed Jerieh (25) and Khader Mohammed El Jaber (201, both of Manshieh, were hit by bullets fired from the direction of Tel Aviv. The first named was removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa, but was found to be dead on arrival. Jaber was admitted to the Dajani Hospital in serious condition. 
CO 537/3855 

20 JANUARY 1948 1630 hours, Jaffa. In Salameh Road, a woman, Sisteh Nesrameh (33, of Jaffa, was hit in the arm by a bullet fired from the direction of Tel Aviv. She was admitted to the Government Hospital, Jaffa. Her condition is not serious. 
CO 537/3855 

21 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 0001 hours, Jaffa. A party of Jews opened fire on the Municipal Slaughter House on the Jaffa/Jerusalem road, causing no known casualties or damage. A quantity of first aid kit and bottles containing what is believed to be an incendiary liquid were left behind by the attackers. 
CO 537/3855 

21 JANUARY 1948 0900 hours, Jaffa. Following a report that armed Jews, who had arrived in a truck, had been seen digging holes north of Jaffa Railway Station, police found four gun emplacements and an unexploded mortar bomb. 
CO 537/3855 

21 JANUARY 1948 1100 hours, Jaffa. Ten Arab houses in Arlin Street were blown up by Jews, the explosions being followed by heavy firing. No casualties have been reported. 
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21 JANUARY 1948 Jewish terrorists were seen trying to enter certain Arab houses in the border area of Jaffa-Tel Aviv. 

22 JANUARY 1948 1100 hours, Bassa Lands, Jaffa. The following persons were shot on BassaLands by Jewish snipers, believed to have been positioned in the vicinity of the Spirit Factory in Abu Kebir on the JaffaIJerusalem road: Dead - Sulieman Hassan Nattar (25), of Trans-Jordan. Seriously injured - 1) Abdul Khadar Nattar (28), of Trans-Jordan; 2) Harned Naher Saleh Tadder (25), of Trans-Jordan; 3) Mohammed Hajeh Hijaz, of Bassa; 4) Mohammed Zafer Hijazi, of Bassa. 
CO 537/3855 

22 JANUARY 1948 1800 hours, Jaffa. The body of Abdul Natif Omar (25), of Nablus, was admitted to the Government Hospital, Jaffa. He had been shot dead by Jewish snipers near the Spirit Factory in the Abu Kebir area. 
CO 537/3855 

23 JANUARY 1948 1345 hours, Jaffa. At Salama village, Sheikh Ibrahim Moghrabi, aged 21, of Salama, sustained severe bullet wounds in the back when fired upon by Jewish snipers. 
CO 537/3855 

23 JANUARY 1948 1511 hours, Jaffa. Arab traffic was fired upon from one of the Miqveh Israel Colony orange groves, and the fire was returned by the crew of an armoured car. No casualties have been reported. 
CO 537/3855 

25 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 1145 hours, Jaffa. Two Arab houses in Arlin Street, Manshieh Quarter, were blown up by Jews and completely destroyed. No casualties have been reported. 
CO 537/3856 

25 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 1300 hours, Jaffa. The body of Mohammed Khalil Khalaf, aged 20 of Manshieh Quarter, who is stated to have been killed by a bomb thrown from the Manshieh Quarter during the morning, was admitted to the Government Hospital, Jaffa. 
CO 537/3856 

25 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 1700 hours, Jaffa. The following casualties were caused when a bomb exploded in an Arab house in Jabaliya Quarter: Dead - Shafic El Asfar (25); Sami El Asfar (30). 
CO 537/3856 

27 JANUARY 1948 Lydda. 1745 hours, Jaffa. In Manshieh Quarter, Mohammed Khalil Omar, aged 20 of Qalqiliya, was seriously wounded in the stomach by a bullet fired by a Jewish sniper from the direction of Tel Aviv. 
CO 537/3856 

1 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1645 hours, Jaffa. Hula1 Salim (451, of Jaffa, was admitted to the Government Hospital with a bullet wound in his side. His condition is serious. He was shot from the direction of Tel Aviv while walking on Bassa Lands. 
CO 537/3856 

1 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1700 hours, Jaffa. Ismail Salmi Hussein (43, of Jaffa, was shot on Bassa Lands by a bullet from the direction of Tel Aviv. He was removed to the Government Hospital, where his condition is not serious.

2 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. Approximately 1645 hours, Jaffa. Unknown persons blew up the houses of Mohammed Natour and Ali Sambo, the bakeries of Abu Sbuhi El Asfour and Subhi El Asfour and an Arab Girls' School, all situated in Hassan Bey Street. Damage is roughly estimated at LP, 70,000. 
CO 537/3856 

4 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 0730 hours, Jaffa. Whilst walking near an Arab road block on the Jerusalem road on the outskirt of Jaffa, Ibrahim Hanna Bamdah, aged 20 of Jaffa, and a thirty-yearold Arab woman from Jaffa named Hameeni were shot and killed by unknown persons.
CO 537/3856 

8 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1450 hours. In the Manshieh Quarter, Naif Yusef Saleh Ed Din of Syria, who was living in Jaffa, was shot and slightly wounded by snipers. He was removed to the Government Hospital where his condition is reported to be not serious. 
CO 537/3856 

10 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. The house of Mohammed Salim Kalha in the Manshieh Quarter of Jaffa was burnt and completely destroyed by Jews. The damage is estimated at LP.8,000. 
CO 537/3856 

11 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 2200 hours, Jaffa. In Ajami Road, Jaffa, Yousef Salah Ed Din (30) of Beit Rima, Ramallah Sub-District, was shot in the head and killed by unknown persons. 
CO 537/3856 

12 FEBRUARY 1948 Cemeteries of all the Christian communities in Jaffa are grouped in one locality, each having its own guard. Zionist terrorists from the neighbouring Jewish settlement of Bath Yom opened fire and hurled hand grenades on the Christian cemeteries. Five Christian Arabs were killed, including three girls aged five, eight and eleven. 
United Nations Security Council Official Records, Supplements - 1948. 

12/13 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. Night, 12/13 February, 1948, Jaffa. It is reported that the house of Eid Hasim Esh Shatra in Jebaliya Quarter was destroyed by Jews. The damage is estimated at LP. 7,200. 
CO 537/3856 

13 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1030 hours, Jaffa. A party of Jews directed fire from three mortars at the Jaffa Railway Station Goods Yard. The bombs exploded causing no damage or casualties. The attack was accompanied by small arms fire for approximately five minutes. 
CO 537/3856 

13 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1300 hours, Jaffa. The following persons were injured when a mortar bomb struck their house in Jabaliya Quarter: Seriously Injured - Fattah Sawan (20). Slightly injured - Othman Sawan (12); Ina'am bint Mahmoud Sawan; Mafeedem bint Mahmoud Sawan (10). All were removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa. 
CO 537/3856

15 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1230 hours, Jaffa. Three of four mortar bombs, believed to have been fired from Tel Aviv, exploded in the area of Jaffa Railway Station. There were no casualties. Municipal Police replied with rifle fire with no known results. CO 537/3856

16 FEBRUARY, 1948 Lydda. 1500 hours, Jaffa. In the Jabaliya Quarter, Ihsan Said Masri (35) of Jaffa was shot dead by a Jewish sniper from Holon. 
CO 537/3856 

17 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 0030 to 0600 hours, Jaffa/T.A. border area. Numerous explosions and automatic fire were heard from the Abu KebirJSalameh Road and Tel Er Rish areas. No casualties were reported. Jews were alleged to be firing from the Hatiqva Quarter to Holon under cover of this fire. 
CO 537/3856 

20 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 21 30 hours, Jaffa. Abdul Mahdi El Azzar (23) of Jebeliya Quarter was shot and killed by Jewish snipers. 
CO 537/3856 

22 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1130 hours, Jaffa. In Manshieh Quarter, Ali Abu Adwan (35) of Manshieh Quarter was shot in the head by a Jewish sniper firing from Tel Aviv. He died in the French Hospital at 1430 hours. 
CO 537/3856 

22 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1200 hours, Jaffa. At Tel Er Rish, Kassim Mohammed Saleh (20) of Tel Er Rish was shot by a Jewish sniper and died from his wounds upon admission to the French Hospital. 
CO 537/3856 

22 FEBRUARY 1948 1230 hours, Arab bus fired on between Jaffa and Ramle. 2 Arabs wounded. 
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22 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1500 hours, Jaffa. Mohammed Othman Khalil Boutanji (22) of Dura village was shot and slightly wounded by unknown persons on Bassa lands. He was removed to the Dajani Hospital. 
CO 537/3856 

22 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1600 hours, Jaffa. In Manshieh Quarter, Amneh bint Sulieman El Ashi (12) of Manshieh Quarter was shot in the abdomen and seriously wounded by unknown persons. She succumbed to her injuries at 2130 hours in the Dajani Hospital. 
CO 537/3856 

23 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 0930 hours, Jaffa. In the Jabaliya Quarter, Hassan Hussein Saleh (3 1) of Jabaliya was wounded in the right hand by a bullet from the direction of Bat Yam brewery. He was slightly injured and discharged after treatment at the Govemment Hospital, Jaffa. 
CO 537/3856 

23 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 1515 hours, Jaffa. In Jaffa Port, Abed Abdullah Halabi (30) of Jaffa was shot and slightly wounded in the leg by unknown persons. He was removed to the Government Hospital. His condition is not serious. 
CO 537/3856 

25 FEBRUARY 1948 Lydda. 2200 hours, Jaffa. The body of Samis Khorub (27) of Jabaliya Quarter was admitted to the Government Hospital. He had been killed when a mortar bomb exploded in the Jabaliya Quarter. Two other Arabs were at the same time admitted to the hospital, suffering from shock caused by the same explosion. 
CO 537/3856 

1 MARCH 1948 Lydda. Morning, Jaffa. In Tel Er Rish, Ahmed Mustafa Ahmed (27) of Tel Er Rish was shot and killed by unknown persons. His body was taken to the French Hospital, Jaffa. 
CO 537/3856

2 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 0940 hours, Jaffa. Jewish snipers positioned in a house between the Migdem Chocolate Factory and a distillery on the Assem Bey Road commenced firing into the area between the Jaffa/Jerusalem road and the Abu Kebir track. An Arab woman, Aisha Hassan Sadem (45) of Jaffa, was seriously wounded. She was removed to the Government Hospital. A military armoured car in the vicinity was fired on. A police armoured car returned the fire with no known result. 
CO 537/3856 

2 MARCH 1948 Lydda, Jaffa. Ahmed Taher of Manshiya Quarter, complains that during recent disturbances, his house and shop in Carmel Street were blown up and completely destroyed. The value of the property is estimated at LP. 5,500. 
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4 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 0200 until 0230 hours, Jaffa. Several explosions and heavy firing were heard from the Bassa lands area. It was subsequently revealed that an Arab owned textile factory on Salameh Road was blown up and completely destroyed. There were no known casualties. 
CO 537/3856 

5 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1645 hours, Jaffa. A police armoured car patrolling the Abu Kebir area reported that a low-flying monoplane opened fire with automatic weapons into Abu Kebir. Arab witnesses state that this machine also dropped two grenades in the vicinity of the Iron Foundry on the JaffaIJerusalem road. 

Mohammed Ibrahim Berbasi was admitted to the Dajani Hospital with a bullet wound in the thigh which he stated was caused by fire from a low-flying plane over Tel Arish. A later account described the 'plane as being light grey or white with R.A.F. markings on both wings, and the letters 'VOL' and some figures on the fuselage. 
CO 537/3856 

8 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 0700 hours, Jaffa. Ahmed Arhan Abu Fammad (32) of Tell Er Rish, who was admitted to the French Hospital at 0500 hours, suffering from wounds received from an exploding mortar bomb in the Tell Er Rish quarter, succumbed to his injuries. The bomb is said to have been fired from the direction of Holon. 
CO 537/3856 

8 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 0930 hours, Jaffa. Mohammed Abdullah Yanani (30) of Jaffa, was shot and fatally injured in Arlin Street, Manshieh, by a Jewish sniper. The body was removed to the Dajani Hospital. 
CO 537/3856 

8 MARCH 1948 Lydda. Approximately 2200 hours, Jaffa. Hassan Khalil Sarkoury (26) of Jebeliya Quarter was injured in the right shoulder when a bomb was thrown by Jews on the Bat Yam/Jebeliya border. He was removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa. His condition is not serious. 
CO 537/3856 

9 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 0930 hours, Jaffa. In the Jabaliyeh Quarter, Shafiq Ahmed (22) was wounded in the head by splinters believed to have been caused by a mortar bomb. He was removed to Government Hospital, condition not serious. 
CO 537/3856 

10 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1510 hours, Jaffa. Arabs employed at the iron foundry situated on the JaffaIJerusalem road near Holon were fired upon by Jews from the direction of Miqve Israel colony. The Arabs returned the fire, which ceased when police armoured cars appeared on the scene. There were no casualties. 
CO 537/3856

13/14 MARCH 1948 Jerusalem. Night, Jaffa. On Bassa lands, the ice factory of Hassan Tewfic Abu Ghazaleh, of Jaffa, was attacked by Jews, with mortars and small arms fire. The factory watchman, Ibrahim Getani (22) of Jaffa, was slightly injured and removed to the Dejani Hospital. The building was partly demolished, damage being estimated at approximately LP. 6,000. 
CO 537/3856 

14 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 0130 hours, Jaffa. In the Abu Kebir Quarter, Ali Hassan el Weish (23) of that quarter was killed by snipers. His body was removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa. 
CO 537/3856 

16 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1530 hours, Jaffa. In Tel er Rish Yousef Ali Abdul Khalil(26), of Mi'ilya village, was shot and fatally wounded by snipers from the Holon area. His body was removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa. 
CO 537/3856 

18 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1430 hours, Jaffa. On Bassa lands, Ahmed Hussein Tustani (35), of Hebron, was shot and fatally wounded by a sniper from the direction of Tel Aviv. The body was removed to the Dajani Hospital. 
CO 537/3856 

18 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1500 hours, Jaffa. The body of Said Butros (25) of Tel er Rish was admitted to the French Hospital in Jaffa. He had been killed by snipers' bullets in Tel er Rish. 
CO 537/3856 

18 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1630 hours, Jaffa. Jews blew up eight unoccupied Arab houses in Arlin Street, Manshieh Quarter. They also fired at the Manshieh Police Station and at a police armoured car which approached the scene. The fire was returned by the police, but there were no known casualties. 
CO 537/3856 

19 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1030 hours, Tel Aviv. A Jewish snipers' position in Abu Kebir Quarter directed moderate automatic fire into Salama Road, Jaffa. A police arrnoured car proceeded to the scene at approximately 1 100 hours, and the area then became quiet. No casualties have been reported. 
CO 537/3856 

22/23 MARCH 1948 Lydda. Between 2350 hours 22 March, 1948, and 0145 hours 23 March, 1948, Jaffa. Jebeliya Quarter was attacked by Jews. During the course of the attack, eleven houses and a small mosque were demolished, believed by mortars. The following casualties were admitted to the Government Hospital from the quarter on the morning of 23 March, 1948: Seriously Injured- Dahiel Eissa Ed Dibis (45); Mohammed Marouf El Kaban (35); Abdul Fattah Samara (27). 
CO 537/3857 

23 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1130 hours, Jaffa. Jewish snipers near Bassa lands commenced firing into King George Avenue, Jaffa. Two Arabs were killed, Ali Darwish Wazieh (12) of Jaffa and Hassan Muharram (30) of Jaffa. At approximately 1230 hours, the Jewish snipers post was silenced by military using two pounders. 
CO 537/3857 

24 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 0230 hours, Jaffa. Several heavy mortar bombs fired from the direction of Tel Aviv in the area of the Hassan Bey Mosque. Some damage was caused to the surrounding wall of the Mosque and to a nearby house. No casualties have been reported. 
CO 537/3857 

24 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1500 hours, Jaffa. Ahmed Sabri el Rehawi (20) of Syria, was slightly wounded in the leg by a bullet fired by unknown persons near the Bat Yam Mental Home. He was admitted to the Government Hospital. 
CO 537/3857 

24 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1935 hours, Jaffa. Jews from Abu Kebir opened fire with mortars on the flour mill in Salama Road. Arabs replied and firing was still continuing at 2000 hours. No further details are yet available. 
CO 537/3857 

25 MARCH 1948 Lydda. 1600 hours, Jaffa. Ali Morffi el Rahidi (35) of Egypt was admitted to the Government Hospital suffering from a bullet wound in the back which he sustained when a Jewish armoured car fired at him in Zarmuqa village. His condition is serious. 
CO 537/3857 

25 MARCH 1948 Lydda, Jaffa. The house of Farid Jaber in Karton Quarter was destroyed by fire in unknown circumstances. The damage caused is estimated at L.P. 5,000. On the same day at Jaber's orange grove, situated in Salameh village, damage estimated at L.P. 13,000 is stated to have been caused by Jews using explosive charges. 
CO 537/3857

1 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 0955 hours, Jaffa. A mortar bomb, believed to have been fired from Bat Yam, exploded on the house of Assad El Dejani, near Ajami P.S. Slight damage was sustained by the building, but no casualties were caused.
CO 537/3857

1 APRIL 1948 Lydda, Jaffa. Salim Rajab Sha'aban El Moghrabi reports that his house on the Bat YamlJebeliya border was demolished by Jewish mortar fire.
CO 537/3857

2 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 1700 hours, Jaffa. Ali Abu Hajas (30), of Manshieh Quarter, was shot and seriously wounded by Jewish snipers in Arlin Street. He was removed to the Dajani Hospital.
CO 537/3857

3 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 0700 hours, Jaffa. Mohammed Ahmed Eissa (291, of Egypt, was shot and slightly injured by Jewish snipers in the Karm Et Tut area. He was removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa.
CO 537/3857

3 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 1100 hours, Jaffa. Four mortar bombs, believed to have been fired from Tel Aviv area, and one mine exploded in the Suq El Yehud causing damage to unoccupied property. The exploding of the mine is believed to have been detonated by one of the bombs. No casualties have been reported.
CO 537/3857 

3 APRIL 1948 Lydda. Night, Jaffa. An Arab house, situated in the Jebaliyeh Quarter of Jaffa, was blown up and extensively damaged by Jews and an occupant, Fathmi Shlean (68), was killed.
CO 537/3857

3 APRIL 1948 Lydda, Jaffa. Mohammed Ahmed Eissa, of Kami Et Tut, was shot and seriously injured, by unknown persons, whilst in his village. He was removed to the Government Hospital, Jaffa, where he died shortly after admission.
CO 537/3857

6 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 1630 hours, Jaffa. Jews opened fire on swimmers near the Jaffa Club. The following casualties were caused: Dead - Subhi Ibn Adib Jabour (27), of Jaffa. Serious - Mohammed Ibn Akawi (12), of Jaffa. Slight - Mohammed Mahmoud Kana'an (20), of Jaffa. CO 537/3857 

8 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 0 100 hours, Jaffa. Jews opened mortar fire on the Manshieh Quarter and bombs fell near the Manshieh Police Station and in the Jaffa railway yard. A municipal policeman, No. 1 13, Abdullah Eissa Salim (26), of Jaffa, was slightly injured by splinters whilst on duty in the Suq el Yehud. A house in the railway yard was destroyed, and Hassan Abu Shimes (35), of Manshieh, was seriously injured. Three mortar bombs exploded in the vicinity of the C.S. Jaffa, and the following two Arabs were injured: Deeb Ahmed Hamed (60), of Jaffa - serious; Yousef Abu Jabrin Bader (25), of Jaffa - not serious. 
CO 537/3857 

10 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 1445 hours, Jaffa. Ahmed Abu Kalim (23), of Manshieh Quarter, was shot and seriously wounded by Jewish snipers whilst in Qaswan Street. He was removed to the Dajani Hospital. 
CO 537/3857 

10 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 1730 hours, Jaffa. Moussa Madon (23), of Ajami Quarter, was shot and killed and Lutfi Ghawi (25), also of Ajami, was slightly wounded while they were walking in El Lisaf Street. Both were hit by shots fired from the direction of the Railway Station and were removed to the French Hospital. 
CO 537/3857 

10 APRIL 1948 Lydda. 1810 hours, Jaffa. Mohammed Abdul Rahman Jainaf (55), of Jaffa, was shot and slightly injuredin Manshieh Quarter by a Jewish sniper. He was removed to the French Hospital, Jaffa. 
CO 537/3857 

14 APRIL 1948 0230 hours to 0600 hours, 14 April, Jews mortared Jaffa, particularly Manshiya Quarter. No known casualty. 
WO 275/66 

25 APRIL 1948 Irgun Z'vai Leumi attack Jaffa. Army intervenes and fighting stops. Approximately fifty Arab casualties. Jews blow two gaps in the bridge at Jisr al Majami. Army reoccupies Sheikh Jarrah, meeting initial resistance from Hagana, but later a truce is negotiated and both sides ordered cease fire. Two Jews killed and two wounded. Four British Soldiers slightly wounded. Jews attack At Tireh, south of Haifa. 
WO 261/574 

26 APRIL 1948 1030 hours, 26 April, 2 R IR F road block at Jaffa congested by Arab lorries and buses carrying refugees. Congestion cleared and traffic passing road block estimated at rate of 20 vehicles per hour. Refugees fired on by Jewish sniper as they moved off. No casualty. 
WO 275/66 

26 APRIL 1948 At 1135 hours, 26th April, there was heavy mortaring of Manshieh Quarter, Jaffa, and Manshieh Police Station was attacked by Jews with arrnoured cars, grenades and small arms. No casualties yet reported. 
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26 APRIL 1948 Tel Aviv-Jaffa. Jews attacked Arab quarter Jaffa with mortars and automatics and penetrated as far as the railway station. The Mayor of Tel Aviv was told that unless attack was stopped, military would employ force. This had the desired effect, and the situation is now quiet. Fifty Arab civilians are believed killed. 
CO 537/3875 

On 24 April 1948, the Irgun militant Zionist organization opened an attack on the Manshiyeh residential quarter of Jaffa, a narrow Palestinian suburb located beside the sea and largely surrounded by Tel Aviv. For four days and nights, under the direction of Menachem Begin, the Irgun indiscriminately shelled the quarter with mortars. 

Hansard, the official record of proceedings in the U.K. Parliament, reported:

"On the 5th of May, 1948, the question of the attack by the Irgun Z'vai Leumi on Jaffa was raised. The Secretary of State for the Colonies was asked whether he had any statement to make on the present situation in Jaffa. Mr. Rees-Williams, the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies answered as follows: 

In the early hours of 28th [sic] April a heavy attack on the Arab town of Jaffa was made by the Irgun Zvai Leumi, the method adopted being an indiscriminate mortar bombardment, apparently designed to create panic among the civilian inhabitants. British forces intervened, supported by aircraft, and in the course of the afternoon the Jews retired to their original positions. By nightfall the border was quiet except for occasional sniping. A cease-fire was ordered for both sides by the military commander and was observed. British troops then occupied a line between Arabs and Jews on the Tel-Aviv- Jaffa border. On the evening of 30th April, the cease-fire order was broken by fire from the Jewish side, which was quickly silenced by military action. Latest reports indicate that the town is now quiet. As a rough estimate, some 30,000 Arabs left Jaffa and more are leaving. The Arab mayor is still in Jaffa and municipal services are functioning, although with difficulty... ". (Hansard, House of Commons Debates, May 5, 1948, p. 1238).

The day after the Irgun offensive began, Haganah troops launched Operation Chametz against Jaffa, to isolate and conquer the city.

By the end of April, the combined Haganah-Irgun offensive had completely encircled Jaffa. Three weeks earlier, the Irgun had attacked the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin. The civilian population of Jaffa was well aware of what had happened to the inhabitants of Deir Yassin when the Irgun overran their village, and fear that the same would happen at the fall of Jaffa was influential on the decision of many residents to flee: 

"We all heard about the massacre. I remember that I read extensive coverage of the horrors in our press, which republished a story from The New York Times. Besides this terrifying news, the Arabs in Jaffa feared they would not be able to defend their honour if they were attacked by the Jews. They were afraid that their women would be subject to the humiliation of Deir Yassin. I was young, but I sensed just how much this worried the people in Jaffa. Having four sisters was enough reason for us to leave, as the Jews considered everything and everyone in the villages they invaded as theirs."
(--Abdel-Qader Yassin, interviewed by Amira Howeidy. 
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1998/1948/jaffa1.htm )

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Note: Details of the attacks on Jaffa, January to April 1948, are taken from the Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem, by Issa Nakhleh. (Intercontinental Books, November 1991; ISBN: 978-0962288111.) Available on-line at: http://www.palestine-encyclopedia.com/

The alphanumeric reference number at the end of each report refers to the file number under which the original source material is archived at the U.K. National Archives (formerly the Public Records Office) in Kew, London:

CO 537/3855 = Confidential reports from the British Criminal Investigation Dept (C.I.D.) to the U.K. Colonial Office on Outrages in Palestine, 1947-48.
CO 537/3856: Confidential reports from the British Criminal Investigation Dept (C.I.D.) to the U.K. Colonial Office on Outrages in Palestine, Feb-Mar 1948.
WO 261/573: Confidential quarterly reports from British Army H.Q. in Palestine to the U.K. War Office, Jan-Mar 1948.
WO 275/64: Confidential fortnightly newsletters from the H.Q. of the British Sixth Airborne Division in Palestine to the U.K. War Office, Mar 1947-May 1948.
CO 537/3857: Confidential reports from the British Criminal Investigation Dept (C.I.D.) to the U.K. Colonial Office on Outrages in Palestine, Mar-Apr 1948.

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**tell-tale** · 06-24-2013, 01:03 PM

-- Not all of them in Jaffa, but other instances of the ongoing, wanton Zionist terror against unarmed and innocent civilians, including children, in the five-and-a-half months leading up to the Arab nations’ counter-attack against the Zionist forces:
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- Unidentified Palestinian girl (below left), one of the victims of a bomb attack in Jerusalem on 29 December 1947. Members of the Irgun militant Zionist group threw a bomb from a passing taxi at a bus (below right) in the Palestinian residential quarter near Herod's Gate, killing 17 Palestinian civilians. (Walid Khalidi, Before Their Diaspora).

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On 4 January 1948, Zionist militants blew up the local government offices in Jaffa, killing 26 Palestinian civilians:

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- Five Palestinian children of the Abu Suwan family, killed when militant Zionists blew up the Semiramis Hotel in Jerusalem.

5 JANUARY 1948 Haganah terrorists made a most barbarous attack at one o'clock in the early morning of Monday, 5 January 1948, at the Semiramis hotel in the Katamon section of Jerusalem, killing innocent people and wounding many. The Jewish Agency terrorist forces blasted the entrance to the hotel by a small bomb and then placed bombs in the basement of the building. As a result of the explosions, the whole building collapsed with its residents. As the terrorists withdrew, they started shooting at the houses in the neighborhood. 
Those killed were: Subhi El-Taher, Moslem; Mary Masoud, Christian; Georgette Khoury, Christian; Abas Awad, Moslem; Nazira Lorenzo, Christian; Mary Lorenzo, Christian; Mohammed Saleh Ahmed, Moslem; Ashur Abed El Razik, Moslem; Ismail Abed El Aziz, Moslem; Ambeer Lorenzo, Christian; Raof Lorenzo, Christian; Abu Suwan, Christian family, seven members, husband, wife and five children. Beside those killed, 16 more were wounded, among them women and children.
- From United Nations Security Council Official Records, Supplements for 1948 - Palestine. (via the Encyclopaedia of Palestine)

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- Eight Palestinian children under the age of fourteen were killed when a Zionist militant planted a bomb in the suq in Ramleh, Palestine.

18 FEBRUARY 1948 At 2:30 in the afternoon, an Irgun Z'vai Leumi terrorist disguised as an Arab and riding a donkey, arrived at the Ramleh vegetable market. The terrorist started to bargain for some vegetables from a woman vendor, paid her the price and asked her to look after his donkey and the basket on its back, while the terrorist left, saying he was going to buy some meat from an adjacent market. 
In less then ten minutes the mines and high explosives in the basket exploded killing 12 and wounding 43 persons. Among the killed were four children less then ten years of age and four less than fourteen. 
The explosion was so terrible that it was impossible to identify more than one of the victims. The Palestine Government official communique describing this incident said that pieces of the heads, hands, legs and internal parts of the dead were gathered from places two miles away from the scene of the explosion. 
-- From United Nations Security Council Official Records, Supplements for 1948 - Palestine. (via the Encyclopaedia of Palestine)

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…well before any surrounding Arab states ever attacked Israel!
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--If you consider ANY of the above to be "legitimate collateral damage of a war the Arabs started'(sic), (rather than murder and massacres of innocent civilians!), then by the same logic, you must EQUALLY affirm that "all the casualties of 9-11 were legitimate collateral damage of a war the USA started."(sic)
--NOT that I'm making that latter claim, but the LOGIC is the same!

**tell-tale** · 06-24-2013, 01:41 PM

-- Not all of them in Jaffa, but other instances of the ongoing, wanton Zionist terror against unarmed and innocent civilians, including children, in the five-and-a-half months leading up to the Arab nations’ counter-attack against the Zionist forces:
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- Unidentified Palestinian girl (below left), one of the victims of a bomb attack in Jerusalem on 29 December 1947. Members of the Irgun militant Zionist group threw a bomb from a passing taxi at a bus (below right) in the Palestinian residential quarter near Herod's Gate, killing 17 Palestinian civilians. (Walid Khalidi, Before Their Diaspora).

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On 4 January 1948, Zionist militants blew up the local government offices in Jaffa, killing 26 Palestinian civilians:

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Jaffa: Ruins of the Grand Serai (local government offices) after the Stern Gang blew it up with a truck bomb, January 4, 1948

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- Five Palestinian children of the Abu Suwan family were killed when militant Zionists blew up the Semiramis Hotel in Jerusalem:

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5 JANUARY 1948 Haganah terrorists made a most barbarous attack at one o'clock in the early morning of Monday, 5 January 1948, at the Semiramis hotel in the Katamon section of Jerusalem, killing innocent people and wounding many. The Jewish Agency terrorist forces blasted the entrance to the hotel by a small bomb and then placed bombs in the basement of the building. As a result of the explosions, the whole building collapsed with its residents. As the terrorists withdrew, they started shooting at the houses in the neighborhood. Some 26 people were killed.

Those killed were: Subhi El-Taher, Moslem; Mary Masoud, Christian; Georgette Khoury, Christian; Abas Awad, Moslem; Nazira Lorenzo, Christian; Mary Lorenzo, Christian; Mohammed Saleh Ahmed, Moslem; Ashur Abed El Razik, Moslem; Ismail Abed El Aziz, Moslem; Ambeer Lorenzo, Christian; Raof Lorenzo, Christian; Abu Suwan, Christian family, seven members, husband, wife and five children. Beside those killed, 16 more were wounded, among them women and children.

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- Eight Palestinian children under the age of fourteen were killed when a Zionist militant planted a bomb in the suq in Ramleh, Palestine.

18 FEBRUARY 1948 At 2:30 in the afternoon, an Irgun Z'vai Leumi terrorist disguised as an Arab and riding a donkey, arrived at the Ramleh vegetable market. The terrorist started to bargain for some vegetables from a woman vendor, paid her the price and asked her to look after his donkey and the basket on its back, while the terrorist left, saying he was going to buy some meat from an adjacent market.
In less then ten minutes the mines and high explosives in the basket exploded killing 12 and wounding 43 persons. Among the killed were four children less then ten years of age and four less than fourteen.
The explosion was so terrible that it was impossible to identify more than one of the victims. The Palestine Government official communique describing this incident said that pieces of the heads, hands, legs and internal parts of the dead were gathered from places two miles away from the scene of the explosion.
-- From United Nations Security Council Official Records, Supplements for 1948 - Palestine. (via the Encyclopaedia of Palestine)

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Jaffa - ruins of the Manshiyeh quarter, after indiscriminate bombardment by the Irgun, 25-29. April, 1948
…well before any surrounding Arab states ever attacked Israel!
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--If you consider ANY of the above to be "legitimate collateral damage of a war the Arabs started'(sic), (rather than murder and massacres of innocent civilians!), then by the same logic, you must EQUALLY affirm that "all the casualties of 9-11 were legitimate collateral damage of a war the USA started."(sic)
--NOT that I'm making that latter claim, but the LOGIC is the same!

**Trigg** · 06-24-2013, 02:09 PM

Originally Posted by tell-tale

“It’s not what he doesn’t know that bothers me;
It’s what he knows for damn sure, but that’s just plain wrong!”

Gaffer says:

"A Zionist is someone that wants to re-establish the land of Israel. Since that has been done, there are no more Zionists. Zionist is now just a term to mean Jews or Israelis, that way people like jafar can get away with calling them nasty Zionists without the racial connotations. The names and wordings have been carefully researched and applied."

"The names and wordings have been carefully researched and applied." ?!

--> Apparently, not carefully enough, because much of this brief statement is wholly inaccurate and untrue...

Especially the statements that, now, "there are no more Zionists"(sic!)

and: "Zionist is now just a term to mean Jews or Israelis."(sic!)

There were many Jews who were opposed to Zionism, and there are many who are still opposed to Zionism, and to the specifically Zionist policies (read, in this context, the racist, anti-Palestinian policies) of the state of Israel. They are frequently conveniently dismissed by Zionist Jews as being "self-hating Jews", but Jews they are, albeit, anti-Zionist, and in some cases, anti-Israeli Jews. Go read up on Alfred Lilienthal, as well as on the Neturei Karta sect of Orthodox Jews!

Zionism, since its modern inception under Herzl, Landau, et al, has always been intrinsically predicated upon the expulsion and dispossession of the Palestinians, (even though there have also been some more gentle and idealistic Jews who also considered themselves to be Zionists, but who desired to live together in harmony with the Arab natives of Palestine), the prevailing strain of Zionism has always been committed to denying the Palestinians their rights!

Some critics of Israeli and Zionist policy use this term - Zionist – in order not to be anti-semitic; so as not to tar all Jews with the same brush: to avoid incorrectly incriminating all Jews -- and even all other Israelis – when some of them do not support these hard-line policies, but are trying to work for peace, and justice, and reconciliation.

They say "Zionist" rather than "Jew" because they do not want to be anti-semitic, and do not want to accuse all Jews of the crimes of the majority of Jews -- just as in the 1930s, there were also some principled Germans, such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and those in the Confessing Church, who, despite being German citizens and living under the Nazi dictatorship, were nevertheles opposed to the Nazis; So too, there are some Jews who oppose the ideology and the crimes of Zionism.

Albert Einstein, for instance, was asked by the Israelis (i.e., Ben-Gurion) to be the second president of Israel in 1952 – namely because he was the most famous, and most widely respected Jew in the world. Einstein, however, declined the offer, having already condemned Zionism in the strongest possible terms. For instance, in a letter dated April 10, 1948, Einstein had written:

“When a real and final catastrophe should befall us in Palestine the first responsible for it would be the British and the second responsible for it the Terrorist organizations build up from our own ranks.
I am not willing to see anybody associated with those misled and criminal people.”

And this even though as a Jew, Einstein had originally supported Zionism. He ceased to be a Zionist not because the State of Israel had been established, but because of the manner in which it had been established!

But go and read up on the Neturei Karta; and get a copy (available used) of Alfred Lilienthal's book "What Price Israel?", and study the documentation he provides!!

And because not all Jews who were present in Palestine in 1948 supported or participated the crimes of the Zionists, but one also can't correctly use the term "Israeli" to refer to them until after May 15th, then -- especially when referring to their government-in-waiting in the decades before independence, (i.e., the Jewish Executive, and various other administrative bodies and committees); and to the actions of the Haganah, the Palmach, the Irgun, and the Stern Gang, especially during the period from November 29, 1947 through May 14, 1948, referring to them as “Zionists”, or as “the Zionist forces”, rather than as “Jews” is generally the more correct, and the most specific term.

It is, in fact, primarily those who are outright anti-semites who can refer to them simply as “the Jews”, without making any further qualifications or distinctions…!

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