Arab intransigence, 1923
I just saw three consecutive articles from JTA in October 1923 that were illuminating. Says Jews Plan to Set Up an Independent State in Irak October 4, 1923 JERUSALEM (Oct. 3) That the Jews...
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Persecution of Jews in Muslim countries, 1841
From The History of the Hebrew Nation: From Its First Origin to the Present Time By Rev. Joshua William Brooks, 1841: As regards the present political condition of the Jews, notwithstanding the decrees in...
The Jews and Arabs of Palestine, 1852
Here’s another in an occasional series of contemporaneous writings from the 19th century and earlier showing that the supposed tolerance that Muslims had of Jews is a myth. From Remarks on the present condition...
How 85 Jews captured 9000 Italian troops in Bardia, Libya in WWII
Most histories of World War II describe the following incident very tersely: The British drove the Italian Tenth Army from Egypt and achieved a major victory on 3 January 1941 at Bardia, just inside Libya....
First photos of Jerusalem (1844)
These were in Smithsonian Magazine this month. They were taken by French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey. I found very high resolution images for most of these from a Russian site. Click to enlarge....
A “Law of Return” for Muslim Nazi sympathizers (1948)
This short JTA article from 1948 is just begging for a researcher to write a book or two: ROME (Feb. 20) Arab agents are today recruiting mercenaries to fight against the Jews in Palestine...
40 years ago, AP described Palestinian Arabs as “statesmen of tomorrow”
This AP article from 1974 interviews different Palestinian Arabs as to their ideas about the future of the Middle East. A few are pragmatic, others are hardline.The supposed “moderates” show themselves to be anything...
NYT, 1924: “Hitler tamed by prison”
Wishful thinking has trumped news at the New York Times for quite a while. (h/t HaDaR)
PLO’s phased plan to destroy Israel is alive and well
From Palestinian Media Watch: Syrian TV host: “When they talk about [the US] imposing a solution, we know that it will be deficient.” Member of Fatah Central Committee Abbas Zaki: “You can relax. We...
Jews were the first to lose their homes in the Arab-Jewish conflict – in 1866
This comes from the The Occident and American Jewish Advocate, “the first successful Jewish serial in the United States,” April 1867. It is a partial reproduction of “Sir Moses Montefiore’s Report to the Board...
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