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  Jaffa riots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hearing the fighting, the Arabs of Jaffa feared they were under attack by the Jews and went on the offensive.
After the riots, thousands of Jewish residents of Jaffa fled for Tel Aviv, and were temporarily housed in tent camps on the beach.
However, when Jews started perceiving Jaffa as a hostile place due to the riots, they decided to develop a business district in downtown Tel Aviv, which eventually became renowned for its Bauhaus architecture.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jaffa_riots   (764 words)

  
 1929 Palestine riots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hebron massacre refers to the killing of many Orthodox Jews in Hebron in the course of these riots.
A general massacre of the Jewish community at Hebron was narrowly averted.
The massacre of 1929 resulted in the destruction of the old Jewish community of the city.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1929_Palestine_massacre   (1414 words)

  
 Massacres Against Palestinians
YEHIDA MASSACRE: 13 December 1947: men of the Arab village of Yehiday (near Petah Tekva, the first Zionist settlement to be established) met at the local coffee house when they saw what it looked to be four British Army patrols entering the village.
DEIR YASSIN MASSACRE: 9-10 April 1948: The massacre that became the symbol of Zionist blood-thirst aggression and treachery of Zionists.
This massacre spread fear and panic among the Palestinian population of Lydda and Ramle, who were then ordered to march out of these towns after they were stripped of all personal belonging by Zionist soldiers.
www.vialls.com /archives/massacres.html   (1797 words)

  
 Miscellany - Ambush of Kresh'ta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
A bloody massacre of Jaffa Resistance leaders in which Jaffa warriors were slain or left to die, their symbiotes stolen from their pouches.
The Goa'uld System Lords learned of a meeting at Kresh'ta between several leaders in the Jaffa resistance movement, and slaughtered 106 of the 108 warriors in attendance.
Teal'c and Bra'tac were the sole survivors among the bodies, and managed to survive for three days by sharing a single symbiote until help arrived.
www.gateworld.net /omnipedia/miscellany/a/ambushofkreshta.shtml   (125 words)

  
 Israeli Massacres
The massacre of the Semiramis Hotel on January 5, 1948, was the direct responsibility of Jewish Agency leader David Ben-Gurion and Haganah leaders Moshe Sneh and Yisrael Galili.
This massacre spread fear and panic among the Arab population of Lydda and Ramle, who were then ordered to march out of these towns after they were stripped of all personal belonging by Israeli soldiers.
This may be seen from a number of massacres of which the world heard only little, carried out by Israeli forces and militias under their command in the Palestinian camps in south Lebanon (al-Rushaidiya, 'Ayn al-Hilu, al-Miya Miya, and others).32 This massacre was thus the outcome of a long mathematical calculation.
www.soundofegypt.com /palestinian/adult/massacres.htm   (9160 words)

  
 Chapter 7: Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem
In the early hours of 28th April a heavy attack on the Arab town of Jaffa was made by the Irgun Zvai Leumi, the method adopted being an indiscriminate mortar bombardment, apparently designed to create panic among the civilian inhabitants.
In our special report on the CRL massacre, we forecast that the most likely form of any retaliatory action by the Jews would be an attack on the village of Balad es Sheikh, from which many of the Arab laborers at the CRL came.
Near Jaffa Railway Station; two 'buses conveying Arab railway employees to Lydda were fired upon from automatic weapons from Jewish houses overlooking their station.
www.palestine-encyclopedia.com /EPP/Chapter07_1of7.htm   (7333 words)

  
 Arduinna's Stargate SG-1 Handbook: Jaffa
Early childhood is symbiote-free Jaffa children are given their first symbiote roughly at puberty, at which point their immune systems collapse and they become totally dependent on their symbiotes to survive.
Jaffa born to the altered species seem to have an immune system before implantation of a larva, while baseline humans turned into Jaffa by the forcing of a pouch lose their immune systems in the process.
Jaffa were forbidden to speak of it because the Goa'uld despised and feared it, but his father had told him tales of how some Jaffa had discovered it long ago and kept it secret from the Goa'uld.
www.stargatehandbook.org /sg1/jaffamain.html   (15333 words)

  
 Miscellany - Jaffa Resistance
A rebel movement within the ranks of the Jaffa during the existence of the Goa'uld empire, scattered throughout the Goa'uld territories.
One gathering of the Jaffa resistance -- under the leadership of Kytano, who was revealed to be the Goa'uld Imhotep -- proved to be a trap, with dozens of their leaders massacred by Goa'uld forces.
The Jaffa M'zel was also a resistance leader, who led the Jaffa in withdrawing from Earth's Alpha Site, believing that they must build their own communities and learn to stand on their own feet before relying on allies.
www.gateworld.net /omnipedia/miscellany/j/jaffaresistance.shtml   (523 words)

  
 Ghost City by Abdel-Qader Yassin
Even though Jaffa was not included in the would-be Israeli state, we knew the Zionist gangs would not stick to the declared borders.
They were beaten back by Arab fighters, but anyone could see that a war was coming, even before the Haganah launched its attack against Jaffa in April.
Besides this terrifying news, the Arabs in Jaffa feared they would not be able to defend their honor if they were attacked by the Jews.
www.palestineremembered.com /Jaffa/Jaffa/Story195.html   (1085 words)

  
 Jaffa : Battle for Jaffa : Napoleonic Wars : Egypt : Bonaparte
Having captured Gaza, Napoleon Bonaparte and his Army of Egypt moved to take the stronghold at Jaffa.
The following massacre may have impressed his opponent Djezzar Pasha with its ruthlessness, but it was an act that gave Bonaparte's detractors plenty of ammunition with which to attack him.
And again the lengthy delay gave Djezzar and his troops at Acre time to better prepare that city's defences.
www.napoleonguide.com /battle_jaffa.htm   (157 words)

  
 Radio Islam: Zionist Massacres against Palestinians
The Mukhtar of the village had agreed with the Zionists to provide information on the movement of strangers in the area as well as other intelligence provided their village is spared.
A chilling account of the massacre is given by a Red Cross doctor who arrived at the village on the second day and saw himself - the mopping up - as one of the terrorists put it to him.
Lutanat Danhan was touring the area in his jeep reporting the massacre, on his wireless he said "minus 15 Arabs" after a while his message on the radio to his H.Q. was "it is difficult to count".
www.abbc2.com /islam/english/toread/massac2.htm   (1777 words)

  
 Anger and Disappointment Trigger Arab Demonstrations Inside Israel
Arab leaders called for a reordering of priorities if the peace process is to continue, with the removal of Jewish settlements from the occupied territories to be addressed as a primary issue.
Most surprising were disturbances in Jaffa, just south of Tel Aviv, where Arabs comprise roughly a third of the 40,000 residents.
Sporadic strikes and demonstrations continued for another two days, with 25 arrested in Jaffa and 1 killed in a Bedouin settlement as a result of unrest in the Negev on Feb. 27.
www.wrmea.com /backissues/0494/9404111.htm   (1107 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | Ghost city   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
It was so close that on 19 March, America's UN representative asked the UN to cancel the partition resolution, because he felt that the Jews might be defeated.
Besides this terrifying news, the Arabs in Jaffa feared they would not be able to defend their honour if they were attacked by the Jews.
I remember reading that those who had remained were besieged in the neigbourhood of Ajami and were prevented from restoring their destroyed homes.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /1998/1948/jaffa1.htm   (1034 words)

  
 Book Review: The Case for Israel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Dershowitz argues the Kfar Etzion massacre was representative of "a general Arab policy" of massacring all Jews, combatants and non-combatants alike.
They would have massacred them in order to prevent the creation of a Jewish refugee problem..." (80) "Extermination, not the creation of a difficult refugee population, was the goal of the Arab attack on Jewish civilian populations" (81).
The Kfar Etzion massacre was a reprehensible atrocity; that being said, it was not Arab policy to massacre all Jews anymore than it was Jewish policy to massacre all Arabs.
www.palestine-pmc.com /details.asp?cat=4&id=1956   (6798 words)

  
 Massacres - Palestine - Home of history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
An account of this barbaric massacre was given by Jacques de Reynier, the Chief Delegate of the International Red Cross, who was able to reach the village and witness the aftermath of the massacre: "Three hundred persons" he said, "were massacred...
The objective behind the Deir Yassin massacre was to terrify the Arab civilian population, and force them to flee to secure for the Zionists the land without the people.
Before May 15th, 1948, while the British Government was still responsible, the Jews had occupied many purely Arab cities like Jaffa and Acre and scores of villages that were in the territory assigned by the U.N. Resolution for the Arab State and evicted more than 300,000 inhabitants from their homes.
www.palestinehistory.com /massacre.htm   (312 words)

  
 Arab Jaffa Seized Before Israel's Creation in 1948
The capture of Jaffa differed from the earlier conquests in that under the U.N. plan it was supposed to remain as a Palestinian enclave between neighboring Tel Aviv and areas to the south and east designated as part of the Jewish state.
Nearly a year after the fall of Jaffa, a group of Palestinian notables from that city who had become refugees in Beirut submitted to U.S. Minister to Lebanon Lowell C. Pinkerton an appeal to the United States to redress their grievances.
The appeal included enclosures of agreements with the Haganah and a report on the conditions in Jaffa, the flight of Jaffa's refugees and how they were forced to abandon their land and property.
www.washington-report.org /backissues/0494/9404075.htm   (1188 words)

  
 Arabs admit there was no massacre
His claims about Deir Yassin were the basis for an article in the New York Times claiming a massacre took place--an article that has been widely reprinted and cited as "proof" of the massacre throughout the past 50 years.
Meanwhile, Dr. Hussein Khalidi is at the center of a startling new report, in which several Arab eyewitnesses to the Deir Yassin battle admitted that some of their original claims about Jewish atrocities were fabricated.
Nusseibeh, who is a member of one of Jerusalem's most prominent Arab families and presently lives in Amman, told the BBC that the fabricated atrocity stories about Deir Yassin were "our biggest mistake," because "Palestinians fled in terror" and left the country in huge numbers after hearing the atrocity claims.
arabterrorism.tripod.com /FAQ/yassin2.html   (887 words)

  
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On the 25th of January 1799 all on board the French vessel were massacred, with the exception of twenty-one who were saved by a Neapolitan frigate, and conducted to Messing, where they wore detained.
At Jaffa we had to deal only with a garrison left to itself: at St. Jean d'Acre we were opposed by a garrison strengthened by reinforcements of men and supplies of provisions, supported by the English fleet, and assisted by European Science.
But on a moment's reflection it will be evident that the leaving of Royer alone in Jaffa would have been to devote to certain death; and that a prompt and, cruel one, a man who was extremely useful to the army, and who was at the time in perfect health.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext02/nb03v11.txt   (20710 words)

  
 JEWISH/ISRAELI MASSACRES AND TERRORISM : Hawai'i IMC
These massacres were usually committed to strike fear in the hearts of Palestinian civilians and force them to flee for their lives (with the intention of never letting them return to their homes, that is, these massacres were committed to ethnically cleanse Palestine of its Arab population).
They had failed on a previous attempt to enter Jaffa, when Arab sentries guarding access to the city had become suspicious and opened fire on the truck, Now on their second try, they had penetrated into the heart of the city with a truck that contained more than just oranges.
"Another publicized massacre of which the author [Hadawi is speaking of himself] personally became aware in 1951 in the course of his official duties with the Jordan government occurred in the village of Ed-Dawayimeh, in the Hebron Sub-District.
hawaii.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=2743&comments=yes   (12908 words)

  
 Think-Israel
Bear in mind that Arab propaganda after 1948 did not promote the notion of a Jaffa massacre, instead focussing for many years on the alleged Deir Yassin massacre, which several Arab scholars have lately admitted to have been a distorted account of a battle.
Of course the Jenin massacre mania is not exactly the same as the 1840 Damascus Affair.
The Israelis are not explicitly accused in the European press of using the blood of the alleged victims for baking matzot, although, the lie or paranoid delusion of Jewish ritual murder is common in Arab intellectual life, and is the explicit theme of writings by none other than the Syrian minister of defense.
www.think-israel.org /green.damascusaffair.html   (2798 words)

  
 Tantura Massacre exposed: 21 eyewitness testimonies of war crimes against humanity
From there, we were taken to a large prison camp set up in the village of Ijlil near Jaffa.
A child was born there, the first child of Tantura born after the massacre.
To come back to the massacre, when we were passing the cemetery, my mother said: "There's the body of Salman al-Shaykh!" In my panic, I had almost stepped on his body but my mother held me back by my clothing.
www.palestineremembered.com /Haifa/al-Tantura/Story560.html   (8369 words)

  
 AxisofLogic/ Palestine
A further 152,000 Arabs, from 70 villages and three towns (Jaffa, Jenin, and Acre), had fled their homes in the areas designated for Palestinian Arab statehood in the Partition Resolution.
Recall that the Deir Yassin massacre, which occurred on April 9 1948, claimed the lives of about 240 men women and children of this peaceful village and included rapes and mutilations.
There were other massacres, perhaps two to three thousands, essentially defenseless, Palestinians were massacred, according to Haifa University historian Ilan Pappe, however the Deir Yassin massacre was widely publicized and became, in some ways, the signature of the Irgun and the Stern Gang.
www.axisoflogic.com /cgi-bin/exec/view.pl?archive=93&num=16262   (2368 words)

  
 dialognow | Civil and thoughtful dialog
The details of the massacres of Muslims in the neighborhoods of Naroda Patia and Gulmarg Society and of retaliatory attacks against Hindus in Jamalpur are included in this report.
The story of hindu massacres at dabgaarvaad ahmedabad or in a school at godhra (actually godhra has several incidents) is as brutal as best bakery.
All the while the massacres were going on in the houses in the village as well.
www.dialognow.org /node/view/1160   (17239 words)

  
 Crazy Ivans Stargate Alliance Board - All In Time {A Stargate Stoy, Part One - Six}   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Jaffa loyal to the rebel army are on that planet.
For Te’shal’s mother and farther were killed in a Jaffa massacre, sine that day, he kept Te’shal as his new apprentice.
The two Jaffa had stopped, so he pulled up and turned back towards the Stargate, when a massive explosion shock the ship, Te’shal was flung face first into the cockpit, in his last moment of awareness he reached for the radio and pushed the talk button.
www.stargate-thealliance.com /forum/printthread.php?t=201   (5800 words)

  
 Massacres Against Palestinians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
9-10 April 1948: The massacre that became the symbol of Zionist blood-thirst aggression and treachery of Zionists.
15-18 September 1982, after the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon Phalangist puppets of the Israelis massacred over 3000 Palestinian men, women and children under the watchful eyes of the Israeli army and using Israeli arms and bulldozers.
In 1983, the Israeli government assign supreme Justice Kahan whose investigation revealed the "indirect" involvement of the Israeli troops and the hitherto defence minister Ariel Sharon in the massacres.
www.missionislam.com /nwo/savages.htm   (1822 words)

  
 datadubai.com: Jihad
In the city, the killing, raping, looting and burning lasted for 2 days and did not stop until the French troops were too exhausted to continue.
When a survivor of the Jaffa massacre killed a French general, his hands were cut, his wrists were burned then he was impaled.
After his slow death, his head was severed and was given to a French surgeon who showed the skull to his students in Paris as an example of a terrorist and a criminal.
www.datadubai.com /jihad.htm   (1302 words)

  
 dialognow | Civil and thoughtful dialog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Deir Yassin was an immoral example of a massacre that we must admit to ourselves and atone for and not cover up.
The Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890 (which was originally referred to by the United States army as the Battle of Wounded Knee -- a descriptive moniker that remains highly contested by the Native American community) is known as the event that ended the last of the Indian wars in America.
The Wounded Knee Massacre, according to scholars, symbolizes not only a culmination of a clash of cultures and the failure of governmental Indian policies, but also the end of the American frontier.
www.dialognow.org /node/view/1056   (20443 words)

  
 Anti-Napoleon Caricature and Propaganda in England 1798-1803
He took Jaffa after only two days of siege and allegedly killed four thousand prisoners.
For example the footnotes of "BUONAPARTE’S CONFESSION OF THE MASSACRE OF JAFFA", poster which recounts the atrocities committed by Napoleon at Jaffa, has as footnote: "Shortly will be published, from Designs by Mr.
The massacre was horrible."\8 Also, almost 4000 prisoners of war had been killed in cold blood by Napoleon, since there was no food to feed them, and setting them free was not an option for the Emperor-to-be.
www.stanford.edu /group/ww1/spring2000/Bogdan/Essay.html   (5169 words)

  
 ISRAEL IS A THREAT TO WORLD PEACE -- Muslims Underground
The following list of massacres is by no means exhausive, but they reflect the nature of the Zionist occupation of Palestine and show that massacres and expulsions were not aberrations that happen in any war, but organized atrocities with only one aim, that is to have a Zionist state which is 'goyim rein'
> > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >------------------------- > > >NASER AL-DIN MASSACRE > >13-14 April 1948: A contingent of Lehi and Irgun >entered this village (near Tiberias) entered the >village on the night of 13 April dressed as Arab >fighters.
> > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >------------------------- > > >DAWAYMA MASSACRE > >29 October 1948: The following is the testimony of a >Jewish soldier who participated in the occupation of >the village of Dawayma (in the Haifa subdistrict): >"...They killed between 80 to 100 Arab men women and >children.
www.voy.com /96956/337.html   (2036 words)

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