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Anti-White Paper demonstration outside of Jerusalem's Yeshurun Synagogue. Also see here. Procession led by Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog (in top hat). At least 9 Torah scrolls are in the procession. May 18, 1939 |
The Arab militias had succeeded in killing hundreds of Jews and destroying Jewish villages, farms and businesses, but their biggest success was political.
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Another demonstration held outside of Jerusalem's Edsen cinema |
The Arab terrorist militias succeeded in forcing a change in British policy toward Jewish immigration to Palestine and the establishment of a Jewish State as promised in the Balfour Declaration in 1917 and the British Peel Commission Report of 1937 which called for the partitioning of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states.
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Another Jerusalem protest held at the corner of King George and Agrippas Streets, May 18, 1939 |
His Majesty's Government therefore now declare unequivocally that it is not part of their policy that Palestine should become a Jewish State.... Although it is not difficult to contend that the large number of Jewish immigrants who have been admitted so far have been absorbed economically, the fear of the Arabs that this influx will continue indefinitely until the Jewish population is in a position to dominate them has produced consequences which are extremely grave for Jews and Arabs alike and for the peace and prosperity of Palestine. ... [If] immigration is continued up to the economic absorptive capacity of the country, regardless of all other considerations, a fatal enmity between the two peoples will be perpetuated.
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Young women outside of a "recruiting office" during the protests against the White Paper. The women on the right are identified as "revisionists." |
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Demonstration of women in Jerusalem on May 22, 1939 as they confront a cordon of British police near the King David Hotel |
The Jews of Palestine protested and demonstrated, as evidenced in the dozens of pictures taken by the American Colony photographers and archived at the Library of Congress.
But note, of those thousands of Arabs dead in the 36-39 Intifada, hundreds or even almost 2000 were killed by...Arabs: "In the 1930s, a Palestinian revolt against British rule was fraught with intra-Arab violence." "Peace bands" were formed by the British and Jews also contributed.
ReplyDeletea concise reference to the "peace gangs" is here.
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