#mandatory palestine

[mioritic]

Picking oranges as part of a Youth Aliyah program in Givat Brenner, Mandatory Palestine, 1939

Photo by Rudi Weissenstein (b. Jihlava 1910 — d. Tel Aviv 1992)

The PhotoHouse, negative nr. 3054

#mandatory palestine #jumblr #jewish #rudi weissenstein #1939 #israel #yidishkeyt #jewish history

[archtroop]

What's wrong with the existence of jordan?

That's such a weird phrasing, "what's wrong with x existence?"

The world is not black and white. "wrong" is when math is done wrong. Not... the existence of things. This is deeply, spirituality dystopic....

But to be specific, Jordan is the silent other third agent of what was once Mandatory Palestine.

Basically, when the British Palestine was divided, Jordan was created, and is essentially the largest chunk of what was named Palestine back then.

If you go dig for maps from the Ottoman empire, you'll see the borders shift, merge and change. That's because Palestine was never a state, or a single sovereignty. It was a region, and never had determined borders. It had administrative districts though.

So Jordan is slightly older than Israel, and is named after a river that forms one of its borders.

But somehow, no ProPally seems to know any of that, or demands that Jordan be annulled for the creation of their beloved Palestine. Only Israel is to blame.

#free Palestine movement is a death cult #joedan #mandatory palestine #and on that matter if yhey want to go further then syria IS ALSO palestine #so i guess good luck with that #or lebanon for that matter.

[burnitalldownism]

The people of what is now Palestine fought for the allies during WW1 for freedom from the Ottoman Empire, with the promise of a homeland.

Instead, they got stabbed in the back at Versailles and were colonised by the Brits for 30 years.

Fought for and then were betrayed by the British Empire. But them calling for the end of a war…on the day commemorating the end of a war (that they helped win, and were then betrayed after) is “inappropriate”?

#palestine #israel palestine conflict #pro palestine #pro palestine protest #britain #great britain #british empire #imperialism #colonialism #british colonialism #world war one #world war 1 #kingdom of hejaz #mandatory palestine #mandate for palestine #history

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

These days, we hear numerous specious complaints of "cultural appropriation", often connected to a celebrity perceived to be in the wrong.

But when there's real cultural appropriation, such as the Palestinian Authority's recent bid to erase Jewish history in Jericho, those who are usually so vocal fall silent.

In fact, the Palestinian Authority's latest attempt to claim that Jericho is actually called Tell es-Sultan and is in 'Palestine' is worse than cultural appropriation: it's outright falsification of history and ethnic erasure of the Jews.

As Robert Williams explains in the above article, Jericho was built long before any Arab and/or Muslim ever arrived in the land. In fact, Jericho is older than the Jews too. To give an Arabic name that has no historical connection with the site is clearly a political decision, and UNESCO has fine form with putting politics ahead of historical facts.

In the past, UNESCO has falsely attributed Jewish holy sites to the Palestinians and to Islam. Consequently, the United States withdrew from UNESCO under the Trump administration. Biden has returned to it to counter Chinese influence, a statement that only reveals just how compromised UNESCO has become.

As I have said many times before, the reason for Palestinian falsification and erasure of Jewish history is simple: countless pieces of archaeological evidence prove that the Jews had a national homeland in Israel, which was only relinquished temporarily due to foreign invasion. The historical record shows consistent resettlements of Jews throughout the land ever since the last great expulsion of 70 CE.

This is why the Jews are the sole people with a national entitlement in Israel, a fact that was affirmed at the San Remo conference in 1920 and later by the League of Nations. This right never prevented Arabs from living in Mandatory Palestine (or even from having a state in some parts of it), but it did confer on the British Empire a responsibility to settle the Jews.

Despite the lies of Mahmoud Abbas at the United Nations this year, the British Empire actually reneged on that obligation in favour of the Arabs. Most of Mandatory Palestine became Jordan, and Jews were restricted from purchasing housing in most of the tiny remainder. (Hence the increasing militancy of Zionist groups in the 1940s, fighting against the White Paper.)

The 1947 Partition Resolution would have granted Arabs sovereignty in the majority of the western part of the Mandate, effectively creating two states for them. But the Arabs rejected this, with the Arab Secretary General at the time threatening a monumental massacre of the Jews in response.

All of this historical background is crucial, as it demonstrates the malevolent deceit of the Palestinian Authority today. Without acknowledging the multiple opportunities it has had for a Palestinian State, the dictatorship pursues an inherently racial annihilationist goal of erasing all Jewish history from the land by seeking international validation for anti-historical lies.

And the feckless political merchants at UNESCO continue to accept this strategy, a strategy that is applied to no other ethnic and national group.

I hope that anyone with a conscience at UNESCO will reject this latest attempt at anti-Jewish ethnic erasure by the Palestinian Authority, but after their previous, hallucinatory decisions, I am not holding my breath.

#unesco #jericho #israel #support israel #stand with israel #i stand with israel #god bless israel #the bible #palestinian #mandatory palestine #british empire #league of nations #israeli history #racism #palestinian racism #antisemitism #united states

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Things I was never taught in [U.S. high school & college] History Class

(Especially since that history painted the U.S. and the Allied Forces as the Heroes and Saviors of WW2, rather than backhanded co-conspirators)

[From a Wikipedia article link provided in this post]

The Haavara Agreement (Hebrew: הֶסְכֵּם הַעֲבָרָה‎ Translit.: heskem haavara Translated: "transfer agreement") was an agreement between Nazi Germany and Zionist German Jews signed on 25 August 1933. [...] The agreement enabled Jews fleeing persecution under the new Nazi regime to transfer some portion of their assets to British Mandatory Palestine.[2] Emigrants sold their assets in Germany to pay for essential goods (manufactured in Germany) to be shipped to Mandatory Palestine.[3][4]

"Church Lady" Voice: How Convenient!

Seriously, click through and read up on the history of Mandatory Palestine, too, while you're at it (or not, if you just can't stomach any more British and French Colonial politics, right now).

#isreal/hamas war #historical context #capitalism #antisemitism #WW2 #mandatory palestine

[gliklofhameln]

Liselotte Grschebina

Israeli, born Germany, 1908–1994

Girls from Bukhara learning Hebrew, Jerusalem

1937

Gelatin silver print

22.7 x 16.8 cm

#jumblr #judaism #jewish photography #liselotte grschebina #mandatory palestine #israel #jewish women #myposts

[eltristan]

I'd like to take a moment to editorialize on what occurs when the oppressed and outnumbered attempt to fight back:

My sympathies are always with the oppressed; oppression is inherently unjust, an injustice.

In Gaza right now, more than half of the oppressed are under 16, just like in those pictures of Warsaw -- so many having seen their parents killed or never known their grandparents... Israel has been fighting a real war of extermination against them since before 1967 yet they keep breeding, apparently...

The present chapter of oppression picks up in 1998 when Arafat and the PNA sought a "2-State" solution for coexistence with Israel, based on the mutual recognition of the right of the other State to exist. This came out of a visionary peace process 30 years ago in Oslo, Norway.

Benjamin Netanyahu (putting the "Nyet" in yahoo?) did everything he could to sabotage and detail the peace process at the time, and at every subsequent time that he has held power or been in office -- finally, this time, dissolving Israel's Supreme Court which was always an important check-balance to his actions against the Palestinians, now says, "Israel will win"

Less than 24 hours into declaring war on the Palestinians, current estimates at hundreds dead -- thousands wounded.

While Armenians may have invented the word "genocide" to describe every time their homogeneous and inbred theocratic ethno-State lost a conflict of territorial aggression against their neighbors, from Turkey to Azerbaijan -- my fear, based on watching this over the last 40 years, is that the Israelis have _finally_ figured out the solution to ethnic cleansing the region of the former British Mandate of Palestine.

Stay tuned?

#🇮🇱🇵🇸 #🇮🇱 #🇵🇸 #🇬🇧 #Mandatory Palestine #genocide #:-(

[girlactionfigure]

#Jewish History #Mandatory Palestine

[poniatowskaja]

The polling in Jerusalem for the Assembly of Representatives was postponed because of the riots. But that was not the only reason; they were delayed time and again because of a dispute that took many months to resolve. The city’s Haredi Jews declared that they would boycott the elections because they opposed allowing women to vote, even in separate polling stations. Without Haredi participation, there was almost no point in holding the elections, because they were the strongest force in the city. Ben-Gurion reviled and ridiculed them with his best rhetoric; he referred to them as “blacks”, just as he had in one of his first published articles, a decade before. Now he also asserted that they were the forces of “destruction and rot.” He took a tough line – as the Haredim saw this as a matter of principle, he argued, they should not be allowed to win. If they were given their way, “they will want to bury every part of our lives by means of all sorts of arcane religious laws.” Even so, he did not place himself at the front of the fight for women’s rights. He noted that women did not vote in many countries; Jerusalem did not need to be a leader on this issue, he said. In the end, he agreed to a consummately creative arrangement – women could vote and be elected to the Assembly, but in the Haredi neighborhoods, men would vote twice, once for themselves and once for their wives. It was the first time Ben-Gurion entered into such an agreement with the Haredim. The arrangement was incompatible with the principle of gender equality that his party proclaimed, but he and his friends believed that the Zionist cause required the broadest possible participation in the elections by the entire Jewish community in Palestine, so that they would constitute a display of power and national unity for the Arabs and British. In the process, women demanding equal rights for their sex were asked to compromise again and again, or at last to put off their rights until better days, all in the national interest.

Tom Segev, A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion, 164 (this relates to 1920)

#women in history #Jerusalem #David Ben-Gurion #Mandatory Palestine #Israeli history #Tom Segev #history #1920s

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Fund Gives Aid To German Jews," Kingston Whig-Standard. June 24, 1933. Page 20. ---- Thousand Acres of Land in Palestine Given for New Settlement ---- MONTREAL - Twenty-three thousand children are being educated in schools of Palestine with £185,000 budgeted for the cause of education. There are kindergarten, public, high and technical schools but the crowning achievement, according to Leib Jaffe, managing director of the Palestine Foundation Fund, is the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus, the cornerstone of which was laid while guns were being fired in Palestine during the Great War. Art, philosophy, biology and mathematics are some of the subjects taught along with studies in tropical diseases, oriental knowledge and Semitics.

Mr. Jaffe made reference to the Wolfsohn library with its 260,000 volumes and to the 42 periodicals in Hebrew which are existent in Palestine. The Hebrew theatre, "Habimah," where as many as 3,000 gather to listen to noted musicians and to actors filling their roles in such operas as Samson and Delilah, plays an important part in Jewish Palestine. The great miracle of all, believes Mr. Jaffe, is the revival of Hebrew with 95 percent of Jewry in the country able to speak the language.

It is planned to settle German Jews on 1,000 acres of land which the Jewish National Fund is ready to set aside for the purpose, Mr. Jaffe said.

#mandatory palestine #palestine #zionism #montreal #hebrew university #hebrew revival #settler colonialism #jewish refugees #nazi germany #antisemitism #interwar period #great depression in canada #public lecture

[eretzyisrael]

15 Tamuz - Sir Herbert Samuel - 1920

On this day in 1920, Sir Herbert Samuel took the position as the first High Commissioner of Mandatory Palestine. A traditional Jew, as early as 1914 Samuel went on the record as an avid Zionist.  In 1915 he circulated a memorandum entitled The Future of Palestine in which he advocated that the British should annex Palestine to protect the Suez Canal and it should become home to the Jewish People.  Britain occupied Israel in 1917 during World War I.  Samuel was appointed in 1920, 2 years before the young League of Nations officially granted the Mandate to Great Britain.

The appointment by Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who himself played a key role in the Balfour Declaration, was controversial.  While it was welcomed by the Jewish community, Allenby and Bols who headed the military government called it ‘highly dangerous.’ The Muslim-Christian Society protested his appointment and proclaimed in a statement that they ‘cannot accept responsibility for riots or other disturbances of the peace.’ Nevertheless, he became the first Jew to govern Israel in 1,980 years after Hyrcanus II in 40 BCE.  While there were high hopes by the Jewish community at the time of his appointment, those dreams were quickly dashed.

In his greatest misstep and one of those strange ironies of history, Islamic custom was that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, the chief spiritual leader, was appointed by the temporal leader from a group nominated by several clerics.  Samuel chose Haj Amin al Husseini y”s who was just recently pardoned by the British for his role in the 1920 riots against the Jews.  He ended up being quite a thorn in the side of the British and an outright murderer to the Jews.  Having been exiled by the British, Husseini spent WWII with the Nazis in Germany.

Through his attempts to walk a tightrope and placate both sides, Samuel is not remembered favorably by the Jews nor the Muslims. Samuel is one of many examples in history of how having a Jew in high places is not always good for the Jews.

Rabbi Pinchas L. Landis

#Israel #1920 #Sir Herbert Samuel #Mandatory Palestine

[mioritic]

Rudi Weissenstein (b. Jihlava 1910 – d. Tel Aviv 1992)

"General Recruitment" — Two boys with bicycles stand in front of a wall of posters asking Jews to enlist in the Jewish Brigade of the British Army, Tel Aviv, 1939.

The posters were designed by Richárd Balázs (בלס ריכרד) and a slightly different version can be seen here.

#mandatory palestine #1939 #israel #rudi weissenstein #richárd balázs #yidishkeyt #jewish history

[counter-culture-christian]

These are all quite interesting, I've more research to do related to this but thought I'd share it with y'all.

#christian blog #palestine #state of palestine #jordan #egypt #arab league #all palestine government #the arab league #the hashemite kingdom of jordan #mandatory palestine #israel

[radioconstructed]

On 30 March 1936, the British High Commissioner of Palestine, Arthur Wauchope, inaugurated the Palestinian Broadcasting Service, the PBS. It was the second broadcaster to be established in the Middle East, after Radio Cairo in 1934, and featured programmes in Arabic, Hebrew and English.

#⌖ radio #⌖ history #mandatory palestine #palestinian broadcasting services #// individual photo descriptions are in the alt text.

[a-typical]

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappé (2006)

#Atlit #Mandatory Palestine #Hagana #Israel Naval Commando elite units #The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine #Ilan Pappé #Ilan Pappe #Palestine #Palestinians #free palestine #israel #zionism #nsnv #cw death #cw violence #ideology #nonfiction #colonialism #atypicalreads #ethnic cleansing #politics #history #state of israel

[playitagin]

1936–39. Arab revolt in Palestine.

Apr.15.1936 –義務化されたパレスチナでのアラブ反乱の初日

シェイク・イズ・アッディーン・アル・カッサム.

#Apr.15.1936. #Arab revolt #Mandatory Palestine #anti-Zionist #Jihadist #Black Hand #Izz ad-Din al-Qassam