The “Nakba” story dies on this primary source leaflet dated April 28, 1948.
The Haifa Workers Council and the Histadrut printed it and told the city’s Arabs not to leave.
“Do not destroy your homes with your own hands ... The gates are open for work, for life, and for peace, for you and your families.”
That week, British police in Haifa had reported the same thing. Jews were trying to keep shops open and to guarantee Arab lives and property. Ben-Gurion sent Golda Meir to say it to Haifa’s Arab residents face-to-face. Tens of thousands of them left anyway.
“Nakba” first named the Arab failure to destroy the Jewish state. Later it was rebranded as a Jewish expulsion order. Look to Haifa and test that theory. There was no order to get out. There was a printed appeal to stay in multiple languages.
The Arab Higher Committee called anyone who remained under Jewish protection a “renegade.” Its chairman, Jamal Husseini, told the Security Council the Arabs “preferred to abandon their homes, their belongings, and everything they possessed in the world and leave the town.”
Most of Haifa’s 62,000 Arab residents walked out. A few thousand stayed. They became citizens of the new state, and today their grandchildren vote in Israel.
The expulsion story requires this page not to exist.
Look, we all know that the Gaza genocide conspiracy theory is debunked nonsense.
But some people aren’t aware.
So here are four square infographics to share with your friends and enemies.
On this day—September 7, 1941
The British appeased the Arabs, cancelled the Jewish national home, and locked the last remaining door before the storm.
That day, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden wrote the quiet part down: “If we must have preferences, let me murmur in your ear that I prefer Arabs to Jews.”
His private secretary recorded the same month that Eden “loves Arabs and hates Jews.” Two years earlier, Chamberlain had already given the order: “If we must offend one side, let us offend the Jews rather than the Arabs.”
That preference became the lock on the door.
The 1939 White Paper capped Jewish immigration at 75,000 over five years, then handed the Arab leadership a veto on anything after that. No Arab consent meant no more Jews. It also meant there would be no Jewish state, just another Arab-majority country with a Jewish minority under a leadership that had already denied Jews any right to live there. When the Peel Commission asked the Mufti in 1937 what should happen to the roughly 400,000 Jews then in the country if Britain simply handed him the keys, British officials in the room understood the answer: expulsion or worse. The 1936–39 Arab revolt was rewarded. The Mandate’s purpose was cancelled. The last sanctuary was closed.
What the policy looked like:
September 2, 1939: a British cutter opened fire on the Tiger Hill ship and her 1,400 Jewish refugees. Zvi Binder and Dr. Robert Schneider were killed. The rest were interned.
July 1941: British codebreakers began reading German police traffic from the East proving mass shootings of Jews with body counts in the thousands. The Holocaust by Bullets was not just a rumor inside the government. The White Paper stayed in force.
February 1942: the Struma. A converted cattle barge left Romania with about 790 Jews fleeing the killings, 103 of them children. The engine died. The ship sat for weeks in Istanbul. Britain refused to issue certificates for Mandate Palestine. Turkey towed the unseaworthy hulk into the Black Sea and cut it loose. The next day, a Soviet submarine sank it. One passenger survived. The rest drowned. London already had the shooting reports for seven months. It still said no.
August 1942: the Riegner telegram reached the Foreign Office informing the British of what came to be known as the “Final Solution” — a plan to industrialize the murder millions of Jews in German-controlled Europe with poison gas.
December 1942: the Allied governments publicly acknowledged the mass murder of the Jews of Europe. The quota did not move.
1945: the camps were liberated. The world saw the films of what Allied soldiers found inside. The policy still did not move.
1946–49: the Royal Navy intercepted more than 50 ships. Most of the refugees were sent to internment on Cyprus. They put 52,000 Holocaust survivors behind British wire. Guards still shot escapees after Israel declared independence. One ship was singled out to make an example. In July 1947, 4,515 survivors on Exodus 1947 were boarded in international waters, beaten, transferred to prison ships, and sent to Germany (!!).
Britain did not merely “restrict immigration.” It fired on the ships, interned the remnant, and returned people to the country that exterminated their families.
They did not learn it in 1945 and then close the door.
They had the mass shooting reports before the Struma went down.
They had the industrialized extermination warning while the war was still on, and kept the veto anyway.
After the proof was on film, they still stopped the ships.
The file is not a misunderstanding. It is Eden’s handwriting.
@osvaldobazan@RaholaOficial Qué ganas hay que tener de ir a jugar ahi... Le deben haber puesto...
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Una torta de guita.
(Perdón, no pude contenerme)
@LordMurielo Meh. Era flor de nazi. Pero en esta lo banco. Creo que el momento de mayor vergüenza ajena que viví en un show fue la gente diciendo el que no salta es un inglés en el show de Iron Maiden.
O sea, le robaron el iPhone y lo primero que hizo fue loguearse a X desde un teléfono prestado, cosa innecesaria y contraria al sentido común, pero además casi imposible porque existe el 2FA, o sea que debería tener su Google Authenticator o equivalente en ese teléfono prestado, o instalarlo y hacer el procedimiento de traspaso que implica usar un QR desde un tercer dispositivo, o hacerse mandar un SMS con el 2FA que le llegaría al teléfono robado, o un mail que debería bajar loguéandose desde el teléfono prestado. Es mentira, cualquiera que haya perdido un teléfono sabe que recuperar su cuenta de X es un incordio. Estupidez plus utra decir que "también es culpa del Estado Nacional" cuando la robaron en el conurbano bonaerense.
Seguramente todos están esperando mi opinión, así que aquí va.
-La Rogel es una porquería
-La Chocotorta es un postre rico y fácil, pero no es una torta