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Besides: If you wish to play the game of who was attacking who in 1948 and before: Have fun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Palestine_riots http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Palestine_riots http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936%E2%80%931939_Arab_revolt_in_Palestine
Arabs and their sympathizers often like to talk about massacres that happened to the Palestinian people in 1948 and before. People familiar with the history of the Israel-Arab conflict have no doubt heard about Deir Yassin – it is the quintessential Jewish “massacre” of Palestinians. These people would have you believe that the Arabs were totally innocent in this war, but of course, the truth is quite the opposite. Unfortunately, Jews and Israelis have made little of the Palestinian massacres of Jews before 1948 of which there were many. This list contains a number of massacres of Jews by the hands of Arabs only between when the UN partition plan was passed (November 29, 1947), and by May 15, 1948. The list is probably incomplete, so updates are welcome (Source: Seth Frantzman, Jerusalem Post Guest Column). December 1947 – Small kibbutzim were subjected to attacks – Gvulot, Ben-Shemen, Holon, Safed, Bat Yam and Kfar Yavetz. Sixty-two Jews were murdered by Arabs around Palestine. December 30, 1947 – 39 Jews were killed by Arab rioters at Haifa’s oil refinery January 16, 1948 – 35 Jews were killed trying to reach Gush Etzion February 22, 1948 – 44 Jews were murdered in a bombing on Jerusalem’s Rehov Ben-Yehuda February 29, 1948 – 23 Jews were killed all across Palestine, eight of them at the Hayotzek iron foundry. January and February 1948 – Rishon Lezion, Yehiam, Mishmar Hayarden, Tirat Zvi, Sde Eliahu, Ein Hanatziv, Magdiel, Mitzpe Hagalil and Ma’anit were all subjected to attacks. Arab attackers also bombedThe Palestine Post
April 13, 1948 – 35 Jew were murdered during the Mount Scopus convoy massacre March and April – Assault on Hartuv by 400 Arabs based in the village of Ishwa and an attack on Kfar Darom by members of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Jewish Agency, the Solel Boneh building in Haifa and an Egged bus were bombed. May 15, 1948 – 127 Jews were massacred at Kfar Etzion, after 30 others had died defending the Etzion Bloc. During this timespan(November 29, 1947 to May 15, 1948), a total of 1,256 Jews had been killed, most of them civilians. These deaths were caused by Arab militias, gangs, terrorists and army units which attacked every place of Jewish inhabitation in Palestine. During this time, all Jewish villages in the Negev were attacked, and Jews had to go about the country in convoys. In every major city where Jews and Arabs lived in mixed neighborhoods the Jewish areas came under attack. This was true in Haifa’s Hadar Hacarmel as well as Jerusalem’s Old City. The above list does not include Jews killed and synagogues burned in Arab countries during the timespan in question. However, it is known thatmore than 100 Jews were massacred and synagogues were burned in Aleppo and Aden, driving thousands of Jews from their homes. The only reason why groups like the Irgun and Stern gang were formed was to protect Jewish settlers from Arab attacks.
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