JULY

Yaakov Yisrael Dahan murdered by the Haganah.

This young rabbi devoted all his energies and the best years of his life to promote peace with the Arabs. Through his knowledge of politics and diplomacy, Dahan contributed much to crystallizing an independent position for Orthodox Jewry unaffiliated with the Zionist leadership.

Dahan established extensive contacts with many governmental authorities in Europe and he transformed the tiny anti-Zionist Jewish community dprived of international recognition into a force able to stand against the Zionists. The rejection of Zionism made sense in order to prevent bloodshed and to uphold harmony between the communities in Palestine.

After a meeting between Jewish and Arab leaders organized by Dr Dahan, the Zionists' ressentment against the Jews opposed to their projects and against Dahan in particular grew worse until the Haganah militia staff decided to have him executed. Avraham Tahomi shot him thrice in the chest on July 1st, 1924.  

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UN Gen. Assembly Res. 2253 (ES-U) calls upon Israel to "rescind all measures taken (and) to desist forthwith, from taking any action which would alter the status of Jerusalem."

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Israeli Knesset passes "Law of Return" which gives citizenship to Jews from any country. As such people who can prove a line of Jewish maternal descent or a conversion process can “return” to a country they never set foot on and obtain benefit to help them get established while the same condition is denied to the Palestinian refugees expelled from their country and their heirs on the sole base of their ethnic and confessional origin and in defiance of international law. Who can doubt the racist nature of such an arrangement?

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Israeli agents assassinate Ghassan Kanafani.

He was a 1948 refugee from Acre, North of Palestine and fled with his family first to Lebanon and then to Syria. His life and career as a writer were closely connected to the situation of the Palestinians: refugees and birth of the resistance movement. He is remarked for experimenting with language and form and he ranks among the most complex in all of Arabic fiction at that time.

He was also a member of the Political Bureau of PFLP and met his end aged 39 when a Mossad bomb exploded in his car.

Lydda and Al Ramle ethnically cleansed.

The Zionists had to use fighter bombers to break the city defenders’ resistance who had even managed to launch several successful counter-attacks in April and May 1948.

Just after the city fell into their hands, the Zionist units performed the largest slaughter of the Nakba as 426 men, women and children were murdered, 176 of whom in the local Dahmash mosque.

A 55,000 refugee column fled from Lydda and neighbouring Al Ramle mainly to arrive at Ram Allah camps forcing the Arab economy to care for their survival. About 350 died on the way of exhaustion and dehydration and many of them, especially women, were robbed, stripped of their jewelry and money at roadblocks manned by Zionist armed units.

It is interesting to note here that three major personalities were willingly or unwillingly involved in this event:

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Jerusalem falls to Crusaders. Liberated 1187.

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King Abdullah of Jordan (1882-1951) executed for collaborating with Zionists.

Heir to the Hashemite dynasty he had a common enemy with the Zionists as the Jerusalem-based Husseini clan. It is too little known that the Jordanian and Iraqi army he led in the 1948 war had explicit orders not to encroach on areas that the 1947 UN partition plan had allotted to the Jewish state. If they had been managed to the full of their capacity the fate of the war would not at least been so favourable to the Zionist enterprise.

The King was shot at the foot of the stairs of Al-Aqsa Mosque, as he went to Jerusalem for Friday prayers, with his young grandson, Hussein (1935-1999) later to become king of The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

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A Zionist truck-bomb blows up the King David hotel killing 88 and injuring 200. Leaders who directed the attack later became Israeli prime ministers.

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League of Nations Mandate.

After the defeat and crumble of the Ottoman Empire - the League of Nations predecessor of the present time UNO – divided the Arab Middle East between a French Mandate – now Syria + Lebanon – and a British Mandate: now Palestine and Jordan.

The 1922 text included the spirit of the 1917 Balfour Declaration, that is to foster Jewish immigration into Palestine, to recognise the Zionist organisations as partners and support the establishment of a “Jewish National Home”, none of this with the consent of the native Arab Palestinian people.

A mandate was a time-limited arrangement through which the administration of a country was assigned to an alien power until the local people were considered fit to rule themselves, in order and peace. The least that we can say, eight decades after the Mandate is that it contributed to achieve exactly the opposite.

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British issue special White Paper on Terrorism in Palestine accusing Jewish Agency of being involved in acts of terrorism with Irgun and Stern Gangs.