• The British Did Far More Damage in Israel Than Any Other Occupier

• Arafat Gets Too Much Credit

The saying goes, “history is not black and white but filled with greys” – when it comes to Jewish history, such is not always the case – the Holocaust was not grey, the Jewish genocide last October had no shades of grey, neither was the Inquisition or the pogroms, or the myriad of lies lobbed at Israel – that Israel is a ‘colonizer’ or that Jews are ‘from Europe’ or that Jews ‘kicked out Arabs.’ However, strong shades of grey are indeed etched into Jewish history – Jews inviting Moors to invade Sepharad, Judeans inviting the Romans in to prove dynastic legitimacy (not knowing from the onset how much that outreach would backfire), and Muslim conquerors of Palestine.

In reality, Christian occupiers did far more damage to Jews in Israel than others. The Crusaders lay near waste to the Jewish population in the Jewish homeland.

Jews were slaughtered all over the country, after the infamous Battle of Haifa in 1100 AD, when mostly Jews and some Muslims attempted to hold back the Crusaders for a month. Those who survived the onslaught fled. Some made it to still-Muslim Ashkelon or Tyre (in what would become Lebanon); other Jews were seized, sent to Italy, and sold into slavery. Few reached the safety of the Seljuk territories.

The Crusader army offered the people of Haifa a truce – if they would just convert to Christianity, they could retain not only their liberty but their property as well.

Most Muslims and Jews refused conversion. Despairing, there were those who did convert. Quite a few Arab Christians in Israel have Jewish genetics in part to this particular time-period of violence in the Jewish homeland.

The Crusaders had no mercy on civilians either, and soon not a soul remained in Haifa. The victors took everything of value from the fortress.

“The Crusaders probably had no idea they were fighting a mixed population, since they couldn’t distinguish between Arabs and Jews. Given Haifa’s Jewish majority, however, most of its defenders were presumably Jews. They struggled to protect themselves, their families, and their livelihood from a major naval power and thousands of knights stirred up into a religious frenzy. Whereas in Europe, minority Jewish communities were burned alive in their synagogues, in Israel, Jews bravely fought to the end. The Battle of Haifa was probably the last time Jews took up arms in defense of their homeland until the Jewish Legion was formed toward the end of World War I.” – Segula Magazine

The Crusaders also targeted Jews viciously in Jerusalem after a five-week siege, burning many inside synagogues.

“Day-to-day contact with Jews gradually tempered the Crusaders’ fervor, and after a few decades they realized they needed the country’s residents if they wanted to produce anything. Without farmers, smiths, potters, weavers, and dyers – most of them Jewish – the brave knights would be unfed and unclothed. Gradually, then, Jews returned to the Kingdom of Jerusalem.”

Ironically, the trade routes that Crusaders established into Israel for Christian pilgrims, are the very same routes that Jews living in Europe used to return to the Homeland – many settling not only in Jerusalem but also in Akko.

In a complete contrast to the Christian Crusaders, Muslim Saladin I of the Ayyubid Dynasty opened Jerusalem to the Jews in 1187, and the number of Jews in Israel increased under the Ayyubids. Egyptian Jewry also benefited from the stable regime and Jewish scholars from Christian countries settled in Egypt.

Each Muslim conqueror restored Jewish rights to Jerusalem; the irony, considering the lies emanating in today’s propaganda machine about Jerusalem being essential to Islam. Not only does Jerusalem have nothing to do with Islam, is not a ‘holy city’ to that religion, and also has never been a Muslim capital of any Muslim Empire. It was the early Christian occupiers – both the Byzantines and Crusaders who expelled Jews from the Jewish capital.

In stark contrast to the fashion of the Crusader take-over and eventual tolerance of Jews in Israel for selfish reasons, the British entered rule over Palestine legally and with the best of intentions (at least on paper) for both Jews in Israel and those Jews in the Diaspora.

After WWI and the Paris Peace Conference of 1918, the Supreme Council of the Principal Allied Powers (France, Italy, Japan, and Great Britain) wished to reassign sovereignty over the former Ottoman Empire lands. This was a reversal of the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement in 1916 that aimed to annex former Ottoman territory and disperse among the Allied Powers. Empires around the world were crumbling in the aftermath of WWI, one of which was the Ottoman Empire.

Of the vast Ottoman Empire, the Arabs were about to carve out 22 states for themselves, the Arab League states. Both entities (Jews and Arabs) made their case for statehood at the League of Nations (the precursor to the United Nation). Other people who brought forth claims for statehood were the Kurds, Assyrians, and the Armenians.

The Allied Powers legally charged Britain with implementing the Balfour Declaration, which was a letter written by Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Arthur Balfour, to Lionel Walter Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community. The letter stated that the British government would support the ‘establishment’ of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, but that the civil and religious rights of non-Jewish communities would be protected. We cannot fault Lord Balfour who was not writing as a Jewish history expert, but as a government official of a colonial force. Though the wording makes it seem as if Palestine was not already a homeland for Jews, in practice, the first nearly two years of the British Mandate, the British assured Jews that it would reconstitute Jewish sovereignty in Israel, and aid Jews in the Diaspora to (swiftly for those who wished) immigrate back to the Jewish homeland. That language was also present in the 1920 San Remo Accords.

51 Member states of the League of Nations ratified the British Mandate of Palestine in 1920, at the San Remo Conference.

Jews were set to re-establish sovereignty in their ancestral homeland, while the Arabs petitioned for independence in Iraq, Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt, and Syria.

The tide turns against Jews…

Churchill was appointed Colonial Secretary in 1921 and selected several advisors – two of whom were actively pro-Arab. Lawrence of Arabia had inordinate influence over Churchill and thus was able to implement his plan to reward the Hashemite rulers of Arabia.

When T.E. Lawrence was added to Churchill’s Middle East department, the pendulum swung sharply away from Jewish legal rights that were laid out within the League of Nations-passed 1920 Mandate.

He and the other advisors staunchly defended the Hussein-McMahon pledges, which promised Arab Nationalist ambitions, made in 1915 and 1916. King Hussein of Mecca’s son, Faisal, was given Iraq, and his other son, Abdullah, in 1922, was gifted Transjordan, an area that was part of the codified Jewish homeland, based on Jewish legal rights and history.

Two actions pivoted the legal British Mandate to a British occupation – the above explained theft of 78% of Jewish land, and the first antisemitic White Paper.

The first antisemitic decree was issued in 1922; it falsely tied Jewish immigration with the territory’s inability to accommodate such people economically. This was ludicrous, as it were the Jews who rehabilitated the land by beginning to rid the area of malaria and introduced modern agricultural advances to make the desert bloom. These efforts helped bring about economic growth that spurred not only the increase of the Jewish presence, but also invited a rapid rise of Arab immigration. Most Arab immigration into Palestine occurred between the World Wars, only after Jews began revitalizing the land and clearing the swamps of malaria.

Arabs demanded Jewish immigration be halted altogether, but the British found that such a policy would have detrimental consequences to the financial well-being of Palestine.

The 1939 White Paper appeased the Arabs further by stating that an independent Arab nation (within the 22% left of Palestine left for Jews) would be established within ten years. Once Jewish immigration reached 75,000 within five years, Jewish immigration would come to a halt. Arabs rejected that White Paper.

The British were geo-politically vested to amplify the demands of Arabs in the Middle East, as they sought their alliance in the hopes of utilizing Arab opposition against Russia and Communism.

As Nazism was taking over Europe, resulting in the murder of thousands of Jewish families even at that time (1939), countless Jews would have survived had immigration been allowed back to the Jewish homeland.

This pro-Arab sentiment initiated a number of punitive actions against the Jewish people, that continued through the end of WWII, thus affecting Jewish refugees escaping the horrific aftermath of the Holocaust throughout Europe.

In 1945, the pivotal ‘Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry Regarding the Problems of European Jewry and Palestine’ was issued.

These antisemitic actions by both the British and the Arabs spurred Jabotinsky, an Irgun Jewish resistance leader, to accelerate the ouster of the British occupiers in the 22% of Palestine that was left.

While restrictions on Jewish immigration led to countless number of Jews being murdered across Europe, no restrictions were given for Arab immigration into Palestine.

Arabs were not placed in detention camps like the notorious Atlit, and many others like it across Israel. Arabs were not imprisoned for having weapons, unlike Jews.

British-fomented Arab Massacres & Riots

Prior to the British occupation, most violence against Jews in Israel for centuries was perpetrated by the Druze, who had lived in Israel only from about the 1200s. The massacres in Tzfat in both the 17th century and the 19th century were perpetrated by the Druze. The Arabs in Palestine viewed Jews as dhimmis, but aside from the 1920 pogrom, did not attack Jews in a coordinated fashion – not until the British occupation.

What has recently been uncovered by historians, is that the British fomented the infamous 1929 Hebron Massacre. The British occupiers were by nature virulently antisemitic and they encouraged the Grand Mufti to enact pogroms, spreading rumors that Jews were going to violate Al-Aqsa; the same lies terrorists use in today’s time to call for Intifadas. Instead of punishing the Arabs for the horrific Hebron massacre where 67 Jews were murdered barbarically, the British kicked out all the Jews. It took until the Israeli victory and liberation of Judea & Samaria from Jordan in 1967 to return Jews to the ancient Jewish city in the ancestral heartland of Israel.

Similarly, Jews were ousted from Gaza in 1936 by the British after the British-fomented Arab riots in that ancient Jewish port city, with thousands of years of rich Jewish history.

• After the paltry Jewish immigration quotas were met, Jews were deported as far as the island of Cyprus, along with detention camps throughout Palestine.
• The ship, The Exodus, which rescued some 4500 Jewish immigrants, was ordered to return to Germany.
• The British placed restrictions on the ability of Jews to purchase land and allowed Arabs to acquire greater tracts of property in comparison. 

*Jewish land purchase was reduced to just 5% of the already heavily partitioned Palestine. “By 1949 the British had allotted 87,500 acres of the 187,500 acres of cultivable land to the Arabs and only 4,250 acres to the Jews.”*

If the British Mandate had not turned into an illegal occupation, there would not be a need to create Jewish resistance groups. Everyone knows about the Haganah, but the Haganah for most of the resistance years, focused more on protecting Jews from Arab attacks (it was not until 1945 that the Haganah and the Jewish Agency joined forces with the Irgun to fight the British). It was the work of the Irgun, originally commanded by Jabotinsky and its more violence-minded subsidiary, the Lehi, which actually drove the British out of Israel.

The British imprisoned Lehi members in Acre, Jerusalem, Atlit, Mezra and Latrun. Some prisoners were forced into exile in Eritrea, Sudan, and Kenya. The Lehi continued operations until the very end of the British occupation in 1948.

• November 6, 1944 – Lord Moyne, who was responsible for implementing the 1939 White Paper and forcibly sending boats of Jewish refugees back to certain death by the Nazis, was executed in Cairo by two Lehi members, Eliyahu Hakim and Eliyahu Bet – Zuri.

 

The British occupiers utilized every antisemitic tool in their arsenal between 1922 and their ouster in 1948 to betray the indigenous Jewish people of Israel. The occupiers colluded with the Arab occupiers to downplay rights of Jews in Israel, placed Jews in actual captivity for the sole crime of returning home after an attempted extermination of the Judean race, expelled Jews from areas where they lived for thousands of years, undermined land purchases, weaponized the newly formed UN to screw over Jews even further out of their paltry 22% of land that was left (UN Resolution 181 is not to be celebrated; it was an antisemitic British-led coup at the UN), and trained the Arab armies against Israel in the 1947 – 1949 war.

Therefore, please do not refer the years, 1920 – 1948 as the ‘Mandate years’ – it was anything but; in historically accurate terms, much of the British presence in Israel was an antisemitic occupation (from 1922 – 1948).

 

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In 1964, the PLO was not formed by Arafat but at the Arab League Summit in Cairo, and it was KGB initiated. The KGB invited 422 Arab occupier representatives, most of whom were Syrian Arabs in Israel.

The Palestine Liberation Organization did not mean ‘take back Palestine and return to some fake Arab indigenous lie’ but it meant to rid Palestine (Israel) of Jews.

The term Palestinians was not invented by Arafat whatsoever but by the KGB in 1967, after Israel dared to win a war against the Soviet proxies. Only then was it deemed necessary to invent a ‘people’ and steal 1,812 years of Jewish history IN Israel (136 AD – 1948), when Jews IN Israel were called by their colonized name, Palestinians, while the Jewish homeland was under occupation.

The KGB realized Israel could not be beat militarily, only through propaganda (https://tbtnisrael.com/operation-sig/) and to use the useful idiots as the Soviets called liberals, to help spread anti-Zionism in the West.

Arafat was not appointed leader of the PLO terrorist group until 1969.

He was never ‘President’ of Palestine either. Palestine was the colonizer term for Israel for 1,812 years.

He created the El Fatah terrorist group in 1958, that is how the KGB knew about him and then trained him as an agent.

 

 

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