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And all the sons of Congressmen! And the two adorable 100 Proof Bush daughters! (Ginna and Tonic)

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people, On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
- H.L. Mencken

“That we are to stand by the president, right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
-Theodore Roosevelt

"Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.  There is almost no kind of outrage - - - -torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians - - - - which does not change its moral color when it is committed by our side.  The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."
-George Orwell

"Under the Bush administration, openness and accountability have been replaced by secrecy and evasion of responsibility. They abuse their power, conceal their actions from the American people, and refuse to hold officials accountable."
-Senator Edward M. Kennedy

“George W. Bush is deeply interested in Deep Space Exploration. His next project will be to circle Uranus and search for Klingons…..”
-Dallas Herald

“Once a Republican, always a coprophile…:”
-Mother Theresa

“A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to something worse.”
-Pat Robertson

"The voters decide nothing.  Those that count the votes decide everything."
-J.V. Stalin

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America’s Enemies!

There are four entities who represent the most dangerous enemies to American liberties since George III.

They are:

1.                    The Neocons or Likudists who owe their personal allegiance to another country and now completely control our foreign policy. They lied and deceived us into the Iraq war and are demanding that more and more American soldiers die to preserve their own country and ideals.

2.                    The Christian Evangelical right who is trying to force the United States into becoming a theocracy under their rule. They know in their hearts that they alone can restructure a secular humanist America into their idea of Heaven on Earth.

3.                    An element of American society that call themselves Patriots and are obsessively militaristic and great admirers of the corporate or fascistic state. Many of these have been very minor members of the American military and as a counterbalance to their reserve or rear area tours of duty, are rabidly in favor of draconian military action, the bloodier the better. Usually these drumbeaters are too old, or too fat, to fight and have no sons of draft age.

4.                    George W. Bush, who is the worst president in the history of the United States and directly responsible for the huge death tolls in Iraq, is determined to rule the United States until God puts a stop to him and is even more determined to force the American people into becoming obedient, Christian and self-sacrificing lemmings who worship at his shrine and march in step.

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The New York Times:  www.nytimes.com
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The Christian Science Monitor: www.csmonitor.com
The Guardian: www.guardian.co.uk
Seattle Post-Intelligencer:  www.seattlepi.nwsource.com
Asia Times www.atimes.com

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The Voice of the White House

November 14, 2005: “The week, I am presenting a series of resolutions and a very significant report from the United Nations. All of this concerns the on-going Israeli-Palestine problem what has been a source of serious trouble since before 1948. Most people, and certainly not anyone in the American media, discuss any of the background of this. They would not dare. Although much of the information in the Bunche Report appears to be exaggerated, trust me, I have checked it all out, day by day, at the Library of Congress and any doubter can soon put his or her doubts to rest by easily verifying all of this bloodshed, murder, arson and treachery at any large public library that has microfilmed archives from the New York Times. It isn’t that the truth has been hidden; it just simply is not known.”

U. N Resolutions on the Palestine Conflict

Resolution No. 57 dated September 18, 1948 in which the Security Council expresses its profound shock at the assassination of the United Nations mediator in Palestine, Count Folke Bernadotte in a cowardly act committed by a criminal group of terrorists in Jerusalem. (See famous Bunche Report below, ed)

Res. No. 59 dated October 19, 1948 in which the Council expresses its concern over the fact of Israel's not having submitted a report on the assassination of Count Bernadotte, and proclaiming it to be the duty of governments throughout the world to cooperate with the supervisory body.

Res. No. 60 dated October 29, 1948 in which the Council resolves to establish a sub-committee to revise the draft resolution with regard to the situation in Jerusalem.

Res. No. 61 dated November 4, 1948 in which the Council calls for the withdrawal of [Israeli] forces and the establishment of permanent truce lines.

Res. No. 89 dated November 17, 1950 in which the Council calls for action to address complaints regarding mechanisms for carrying out truce agreements (namely, the complaint filed by Egypt with regard to the expulsion of Palestinian Arabs).

Res. No. 92 dated May 8, 1951 in which the Council asks for a ceasefire in the demilitarised zone along the Syrian-Israeli truce lines.

Res. No. 100 dated October 27, 1953 in which the Council asks Israel to cease water drainage and rerouting operations in the demilitarised zone from Hawlah.

Res. No. 101 dated November 24, 1953 in which the Council condemns the Israel attack on Qubiya of October 14-15, 1953, the Council having found that the retaliatory Israeli action against Qubiya and all similar acts [represent violations of] the ceasefire agreement issued in Security Council Resolution No. 54 of 1948.

Res. No. 106 dated March 29, 1955 in which the Council condemns the Israeli aggression against Gaza on February 28, 1955, having judged such aggression to be a premeditated attack on the part of Israeli authorities carried by the Israeli Standing Army against the Egyptian Standing Army in the Gaza strip.

Res. No. 111 dated January 19, 1956 in which the Council condemns the Israeli aggression against Syrian territory on December 11, 1955 (the Lake Tiberius region), the Israeli standing army having carried out an attack on the Syrian standing army forces on Syrian territory.

Res. No. 237 dated June 14, 1967 in which the Council calls upon Israel to respect human rights in the regions affected by the Middle East conflict of 1967, the Council having taken into consideration the urgent need to relieve the suffering of civilian inhabitants of the area and of war captives in the areas affected by said conflict.

Res. No. 243 dated March 20, 1967 - return to the borders of before 1967.

Res. No. 248 dated March 24, 1968 in which the Council condemns the large-scale, premeditated Israeli military action which had been carried out against Karama, Jordan.

Res. No. 256 dated August 16, 1968 in which the Council condemns the Israeli military aggression against Salt, Jordan involving two heavy air attacks.

Res. No. 262 dated December 31, 1968 condemning Israeli aggression against the international, civilian Beirut airport.

Res. No. 265 dated April 1, 1969 condemning deliberate, repeated aggression by Israeli civilians against Jordanian villages and populated areas (i.e., Salt).

Res. No. 270 dated August 26, 1969 condemning deliberate Israeli aggression against south Lebanon, which represented a violation of Israeli's obligations in accordance with the Security Council charter and resolutions.

Res. No. 271 dated September 15, 1969 condemning Israel for its desecration of the Aqsa Mosque (via arson) on August 21, 1969, and calling for the revocation of all measures capable of changing the situation in Jerusalem.

Res. No. 280 dated May 19, 1970 condemning Israel for large-scale, deliberate, carefully planned aggression against Lebanon.

Res. No. 316 dated June 29, 1972 condemning Israeli attacks on Lebanon and demanding the immediate release of Syrian and Lebanese military and security personnel who had been abducted.

Res. No. 317 dated July 21 expressing the Council's regret over Israel's failure to repatriate the Syrian and Lebanese military and security personnel referred to above, and calling upon Israel to repatriate them without further delay.

Res. No. 332 dated April 21, 1973 condemning Israel for its repeated military attacks against Lebanon, and expressing the Council's regret over all the recent acts of violence which had led to the loss of innocent lives as well as endangering civilian international aviation.

Res. No. 337 dated August 15, 1973 condemning Israel for its violation of Lebanese sovereignty by the aggression committed by the Israeli air force against Lebanese territorial integrity, as well as by high jacking and detouring a civilian Lebanese airplane which had been rented to the Iraqi Airlines.

Res. No. 452 dated July 20, 1979 asking Israeli Occupation Forces to cease operations involving expansion of Israeli settlements in occupied Arab lands, including Jerusalem.

Res. No. 468 dated May 8, 1980 demanding that Israel (in its capacity as the occupying force) revoke all illegal measures (vis., deportation) taken against the mayors of the townships of Hebron and Halhoul, and the Shari'a Magistrate of Hebron.

Res. No. 469 dated May 20, 1980 demanding once again that Israel revoke all measures taken against the Palestinian leaders mentioned heretofore, and facilitate their immediate repatriation so as to enable them to resume the duties the fulfilment of which they had been duly elected and appointed.

Res. No. 573 dated October 4, 1985 condemning Israel aggression against Tunis, which caused heavy losses in human life in addition to massive material losses, and urging member nations of the United Nation to take measures to prevent Israel from engaging in similar acts of actions.

Res. No. 592 dated December 8, 1986 condemning the Israeli army's having opened fire, thereby killing and wounding students at Bir Zeit University.

Res. No. 605 dated December 22, 1987 condemning Israeli practices violating human rights of the Palestinian people in the occupied territories and asking Israel to adhere immediately and precisely to the Geneva accords as they related to the protection of civilians in time of war.

Res. No. 607 dated January 5, 1988 asking that Israel refrain from deporting Palestinian civilians from the occupied territories.

Res. No. 608 dated January 5, 1988 asking Israel to rescind the order to deport Palestinian civilians, and to ensure the repatriation of those already having been deported.

Res. No. 611 dated April 25, 1988 condemning Israeli aggression against Tunis on April 16, 1988, aggression which resulted in human loss of life, and in particular, the death of . . . [khalil al-wazir].

Res. No. 636 dated July 6, 1989 asking Israel to ensure the repatriation to the occupied territories of those who had been deported (eight Palestinian civilians as of June 29, 1989), and to desist from deporting any more Palestinian civilians.

Res. No. 641 dated August 30, 1989 condemning Israel's continued deportation of Palestinian civilians (having deported five Palestinian civilians on August 27, 1989), and asking Israel to ensure the immediate repatriation of those thus far deported.

The UN Report Prepared in 1948 for Ralphe Bunche, New UN Commissioner to Palestine

Foreword: In view of the tragic assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte by identified Jewish terrorists on September 17 of this year, the following report has been prepared for the use of Dr. Bunche, Count Bernadotte’s immediate replacement.

This report is a compilation of all identified terrorist attacks on British, American and Arab individuals and entities in the assassination of the British Resident Minister in the Middle East on November 6, 1944 by members of the terrorist Jewish Stern gang to the assassination of Count Bernadotte on September 17, 1948 by members of this same gang of fanatics.

This information is compiled from reports of the US Department of State, the British Foreign Office and various American and British press services.

New York, October 1, 1948

Chronology

1944

1

November 6, 1944, Cairo. Lord Moyne, British Resident Minister in the Middle East, and his driver were assassi­nated outside the minister’s Cairo residence. Two murderers were involved. One was injured, and both were imme­diately arrested.

1945

2

January 10, 1945, Cairo. The British supreme military court today put on trial Eliahu Bet-Tsours from Tel Aviv and Eliahu Hakim of Haifa, both admitted members of the Jewish terrorist Stern gang.

3

January 18, 1945, Cairo. The British supreme military court sentenced the murderers of Lord Moyne to death. Both killers admitted their act and also admitted their membership in the Stem gang which they said ordered the killings as a warning to the British not to interfere with future Jewish immigration to Jerusalem.

4

March 22, 1945, Cairo. The two convicted Jewish Stern gang terrorists who murdered Lord Moyne and his driver were hanged today in the Cairo prison British authorities announced.

1946

5

January 12, 1946, Palestine. A train was derailed by Jewish terrorists at Hadera near Haifa by a bomb and robbed of £35,000 in cash. Two British police officials were injured.

6

January 18, 1946, Haifa. Over 900 illegal Jewish immi­grants were captured off Haifa by the British Royal Navy

7

January 19, 1946, Jerusalem. .Jewish terrorists destroyed a power station and a portion of the Central Jerusalem prison by explosives. Two persons were killed by the police.

8

January 20, 1946, Palestine. Jewish terrorists launched an attack against the British-controlled Givat Olga Coast Guard Station located between Tel Aviv and Haifa. Ten persons were injured and one was killed. Captured papers indicated that the purpose of this raid was to take revenge on the British for their seizure of the refugee ship on January 18. British military authorities in Jerusalem ques­tioned 3,000 Jews and held 148 in custody.

9

April 25, 1946, Palestine. Jewish terrorists attacked a British military installation near Tel Aviv. This group, which contained a number of young girls, had as its goal the capture of British weapons. British authorities rounded up 1,200 suspects.

10

June 24, 1946, Palestine. The Irgun radio “Fighting Zion” warns that three kidnapped British officers are held as hostages for two Irgun members, Josef Simkohn and Issac Ashbel facing execution as well as 31 Irgun members facing trial.

11

June 27, 1946, Palestine. Thirty Irgun members are sen­tenced by a British military court to 15 years imprison. One, Benjamin Kaplan was sentenced to life for carrying a firearm.

12

June 29, 1946, Palestine. British military units and police raided Jewish settlements throughout Palestine searching for the leaders of Haganah, a leading Jewish terrorist agency The Jewish Agency for Palestine was occupied and four top official arrested. At the end of June, 1946 2,000 were arrested and four Jews and one British soldier were killed.

13

July 1, 1946, Palestine. British officials announced the discovery of a large arms dump hidden underground at Meshek Yagur. 2,659 men and 59 women were detained for the three day operation in which 27 settlements were searched. For were killed and 80 were injured.

14

July 3, 1946, Palestine. Palestine High Commissioner Lt. General Sir Alan Cunningham commuted to life impris­onment the death sentences of Josef Simkhon and Issac Ashbel, Irgun members.

15

July 4, 1946, Tel Aviv. British officers, Captains K. Spencer, C. Warburton and A. Taylor who had been kidnapped by the Irgun on June 18 and held as hostages for the lives of Simkohn and Ashbel, were released in Tel Aviv unharmed. At this time, Irgun issued a declaration of war against the British claiming that they had no alternative but to fight.

16

July 22, 1946, Jerusalem. The west wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem which housed British Military Headquarters and other governmental offices was destroyed at 12:57 PM by explosives planted in the cellar by members of the Irgun terrorist gang. By the 26 of July, the casualties were 76 persons killed, 46 injured and 29 still missing in the rubble. The dead included many British, Arabs and Jews.

17

July 23, l946 Jerusalem. The Irgun Zvai Leumi terrorist group takes responsibility for the King David bombing but blames the British, calling them “tyrants.”

18

July 24, 1946, London. The British government released a White Paper that accuses the Haganah, Irgun and Stern gangs of “a planned movement of sabotage and violence” under the direction of the Jewish Agency and asserts that the June 29 arrest of Zionist leaders was the cause of the bombing.

19

July 28, 1946, Jerusalem. The British Palestine Commander, Lt. General Sir Evelyn Barker, banned frater­nization by British troops with Palestine Jews whom he stated “cannot be absolved of responsibility for terroristic acts.” The order states that this will punish “the race . . . by striking at their pockets and showing our contempt for them”

20

July 29, 1946, Tel Aviv. Police in Tel Aviv raided a workshop making bombs.

21

July 30, 1946, Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv is placed under a 22-hour-a-day curfew as 20,000 British troops began a house-to-house sweep for terrorists. The city is sealed off from the rest of Jerusalem and troops are ordered to shoot to kill any curfew violators.

22

July 31, 1946, Tel Aviv. A large cache of weapons, exten­sive counterfeiting equipment and $1,000,000 in counterfeit Government bonds were discovered in Tel Aviv’s largest synagogue.

23

July 31, 1946, Haifa. Two ships have arrived at Haifa with a total of 3,200 illegal Jewish immigrants.

24

August 2, 1946, Tel Aviv. British military authorities ended the curfew in Tel Aviv after detaining 500 persons for further questioning. A second arms dump was discov­ered on July 1 in a school building.

25

August 2, 1946, Jerusalem. The Palestine Government disclosed that 91 persons were killed and 45 injured in the King David bombing.

26

August 2, 1946, Jerusalem. Jerusalem police announced the arrest of Itzhak Yestemitsky second man in the Stern gang.

27

August 12, 1946, London. The British Government announced that it will allow no more unscheduled immigration into Palestine and that those seeking entry into that country will be sent to Cyprus and other areas under detention. Declaring that such immi­gration threatens a civil war with the Arab population, it charges a “minority of Zionist extremists” with attempting to force an unacceptable solution of the Palestine problem.

28

August 12, 1946, Haifa. Two ships carrying a total of 1,300 Jewish refugees arrived at Haifa. The port area was isolated on August 11 by British military and naval units. The first deportation ship sailed for Cyprus with 500 Jews on board.

29

August 13, 1946, Haifa. Three Jews were killed and seven wounded when British troops were compelled to fire on a crowd of about 1,000 persons frying to break into the port area of Haifa. Two Royal Navy ships with 1,300 illegal Jewish immigrants on board sailed for Cyprus. Another ship with 600 illegal immigrants was captured and confined in the Haifa harbor.

30

August 26, 1946, Palestine. British military units searched the coastal villages of Casera and Sadoth Yam for three Jews who bombed the transport  “Empire Rival” last week Eighty-five persons, including the entire male popu­lation of one of the villages were sent to the Rafa detention center.

31

August 27, 1946, Palestine. During the searches conducted on August 26, an explosive limpet mine similar to the one used on the “Empire Rival” was found.

32

August 29, 1946, Jerusalem. the British Government announced the commutation to life imprisonment of the death sentences imposed on l8 Jewish youths convicted of bombing the Haifa railroad shops.

33

August 30, 1946, Palestine. British military units discov­ered arms and munitions dumps in the Jewish farming vil­lages of Dorot and Ruhama.

34

September 8, 1946, Palestine. Zionist terrorists cut the Palestine railroad in 50 places.

35

September 9, 1946, Tel Aviv. two British officers were killed in an explosion in a public building.

36

September 9, 1946, Haifa. An Arab constable was killed.

37

September 10, 1946, Palestine. British troops imposed a curfew and arrested 101 Jews and wounded two in a search for saboteurs in Tel Aviv and neighboring Ramat Gan. Irgun terrorist group took the action against the railways on September 8, as a protest.

38

September 14, 1946, Jaffa. Jewish terrorists robbed three banks in Jaffa and Tel Aviv, killing three Arabs. Thirty-six Jews were arrested.

39

September 15, 1946, Tel Aviv. Jewish terrorists attacked a police station on the coast near Tel Aviv but were driven off by gunfire.

40

October 2, 1946, Tel Aviv. British military units and police seized 5O Jews in a Tel  Aviv cafe after a Jewish home was blown up. This home belonged to a Jewish woman who had refused to pay extortion money to the Irgun ter­rorist gang.

41

October 6, 1944 Jerusalem. An RAF man was killed by gunfire

42

October 8, 1946, Jerusalem. Two British soldiers were killed when their truck detonated a land mine outside Jerusalem. A leading Arab figure was wounded in a simi­lar mine explosion in Jerusalem and more road mines were found near Government House.

43

October 31, 1946, Rome. The British Embassy in Rome was damaged by a bomb, believed to have been planted by Jewish terrorists.

44

November 3, 1946, Palestine. Two Jews and two Arabs were killed in clashes between Arabs and a group of Jews attempting to establish a settlement at Lake Hula in northern Palestine.

45

November 4, 1946, Rome. Italian authorities released a letter in which the Jewish terrorist gang, Irgun, took credit for the October 31 embassy bombing.

46

November 5, 1946, Palestine. British authorities released the following eight Jewish Agency leaders from the Latrun concentration camp where they had been held since June 29: Moshe Shertok, Dr. Issac Greenbaum, Dr. Bernard Joseph, David Remiz, David Hacohen, David Shingarevsky, Joseph Shoffman and Mordecai Shatter. A total of 2,550 Haganah suspects have also been released as well as 779 Jews arrested in the wake of the King David bombing.

47

November 7, 1946, Palestine. Railroad traffic was suspended for 24 hours throughout Palestine following a fourth Irgun attack on railway facilities in two days.

48

November 9 through November 13, 1946, Palestine. Nineteen persons, eleven British soldiers and policemen and eight Arab constables, were killed in Palestine during this period as Jewish terrorists, using land mines and suit­case bombs, increased their attacks on railroad stations, trains and even streetcars.

49

November 14, 1946, London. The Board of Deputies of British Jews condemned Jewish terrorist groups who threatened to export their terrorism to England.

50

November 18, 1946, Tel Aviv. Police in Tel Aviv attacked Jews, assaulting many and firing into houses. Twenty Jews were injured in fights with British troops following the death on November 17 of three policemen and an RAF sergeant in a land mine explosion.

51

Five persons were injured when a bomb exploded in the Jerusalem tax office.

52

December 2 through December 5,1946, Palestine. Ten persons, including six British soldiers, were killed in bomb and land-mine explosions.

53

December 3,1946, Jerusalem. A member of the Stern gang was killed in an aborted hold-up attempt

54

December 26,1946, Palestine. Armed Jewish terrorists raided two diamond factories in Nathanya and Tel Aviv and escaped with nearly $107,000 in diamonds, cash and bonds. These raids signaled an end to a two- week truce during the World Zionist Congress.

1947

55

January 1, 1947, Jerusalem. Dov Gruner was sentenced to hang by a British military court for taking part in a raid on the Ramat Gan police headquarters in April of 1946.

56

January 2, 1947, Palestine. A wave of terror swept Palestine as Jewish terrorists staged bombings and machine gun attacks in five cities. Casualties were low. Homemade flame-throwers were used in several cases. Pamphlets seized warned that the Irgun had again declared war against the British and Arabs of Palestine.

57

January 4, 1947, Jerusalem. British soldiers have been ordered to wear sidearms at all times and were forbidden to enter any cafe or restaurant

58

January 5, 1947, Egypt ,Eleven British troops were injured in a hand grenade attack on a train carrying troops to Palestine. The attack took place near Benha, 25 miles from Cairo.

59

January 8, 1947, Palestine. British police arrested 32 per­sons suspected of being members of the Irgun terrorist gang’s “Black Squad” in raids on Rishon-el Zion and Rehoboth.

60

January 12, 1947, Haifa. A single terrorist drove a truck filled with high explosives into the central police station and exploded it, killing two British policemen and two Arab constables and injuring 140 others. The terrorist escaped. This action ended a 10-day lull in the violence and the Stern gang took the credit for it

61

January 13, 1947, Haifa. British soldiers and police screened 872 persons in Haifa and detained 10 for further questioning as Arabs and Jews both condemned the bombing.

62

January 14, 1947, Jerusalem. Yehudi Katz is sentenced to life in prison by a Jerusalem court for robbing a bank in Jaffa in September of 1946 to obtain funds for the terrorists.

63

January 21, 1947, London. Dr. Emmanuel Neumann, vice president of the Zionist Organization of America, declared US. Zionists would spend “millions” to finance illegal immigration of Jews to Palestine. A Haganah spokesman in Paris claimed that 211,878 Jews entered Palestine illegally during the past 15 months.

64

January 22, 1947, Palestine. Sir Harry Gurney, Chief Secretary, stated that the British administration was taxing Palestine $2,400,000 to pay for sabotage by the terrorists.

65

January 22, 1947, London. Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones informed the House of Commons 73 British subjects were murdered by Palestine terrorists in 1946 and

“no culprits have been convicted.”

66

January 27, 1947, London. Britain’s conference on Palestine, boycotted by the Jews, reconvened. Jamal el Husseini, Palestine Arab leader, declared that the Arab world was unalterably opposed to partition as a solution to the problem. The session then adjourned.

67

January 29, 1947, London. It was officially announced that the British Cabinet decided to partition Palestine.

68

January 29, 1947, Jerusalem. Irgun forces released former Maj. H. Collins, a British banker, who they kidnapped on January 26 from his home. He had been badly beaten. On January 28, the Irgun released Judge Ralph Windham who had been kidnapped in Tel Aviv on January 27 while trying a case. These men had been taken as hostages for Dov Bela Gruner, an Irgun member under death sentence for terrorism. The British High Commissioner, Lt Gen.. Sir Alan Cunningham, had threatened martial law unless the two men were returned unharmed.

69

January 31, 1947, Jerusalem. General Cunningham ordered the wives and children of all British civilians to leave Palestine at once. About 2,000 are involved. This order did not apply to the 5,000 Americans in Palestine.

70

February 3, 1947, Jerusalem. The Palestine Government issued a 7-day ultimatum to the Jewish Agency demanding that it state “categorically and at once” whether it and the supreme Jewish Council in Palestine will call on the Jewish community by February 10 for “cooperation with the police and armed forces in bringing to justice the members of the terrorist groups.” This request was publicly rejected by Mrs. Goldie Meyerson, head of the Jewish Agency’s political department

71

February 4, 1947, Jerusalem. British District Commissioner James Pollock disclosed a plan for military occupation of three sectors of Jerusalem and orders nearly 1,000 Jews to evacuate the Rehavia, Schneler and German quarters by noon, February 6.

72

February 5, 1947, Jerusalem. The Vaad Leumi rejected the British ultimatum while the Irgun passed out leaflets that it was prepared to fight to the death against the British authority. The first 700 of some 1,500 British women and children ordered to evacuate Palestine leave by plane and train for Egypt. British authorities, preparing for military action, order other families from sections of Tel Aviv and Haifa which will be turned into fortified military areas.

73

February 9, 1947, Haifa. British troops removed 650 ille­gal Jewish immigrants from the schooner ‘Negev” at Haifa and after a struggle forced them aboard the ferry ‘Emperor Haywood” for deportation to Cyprus.

74

February 14, 1947, Jerusalem. The British administration revealed that Lt Gen. Sir Evelyn Barker, retiring British commander in Palestine, had confirmed the death sen­tences of three Irgun members on February 12 before leav­ing for England. The three men, Dov Ben Rosenbaum, Eliezer Ben Kashani and Mordecai Ben Alhachi, had been sentenced on February 10 to be hanged for carrying firearms. A fourth, Haim Gorovetzky, received a life sen­tence because of his youth. Lt Gen. G. MacMillian arrived in Jerusalem on February 13 to succeed Gen. Barker.

75

February 15, 1947, Palestine. The Sabbath was the set­ting for sporadic outbreaks of violence which included the murder of an Arab in Jaffa and of a Jew in Bne Brok, the kidnapping of a Jew in Peta Tikvah and the burning of a Jewish club in Haifa.

76

March 9, 1947, Hadera. A British army camp was attacked.

77

March 10, 1947, Haifa. A Jew, suspected of being an informer, was murdered by Jewish terrorists.

78

March 12, 1947, Jerusalem. The British Army pay corps was dynamited in  Jerusalem and one soldier killed.

79

March 12, 1947, Palestine. British military units captured most of the 800 Jews whose motor ship “Susanna” ran the British blockade and was beached north of Gaza on this date. A British naval escort brought the “Ben Hecht,” the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation’s first known immigrant ship, into Haifa, and its 599 passengers were shipped to Cyprus. The British arrested the crew, which included 18 US. seamen.

80

March 13, 1947, Jerusalem. British authorities announced 78 arrests as a result of unofficial Jewish cooperation, but two railroads were attacked, resulting in two deaths, and eight armed men robbed a Tel Aviv bank of $65,000.

81

March 14, 1947, Palestine. Jewish terrorists blew up part of an oil pipeline in Haifa and a section of the rail line at Beer Yakov.

82

March 16, 1947, Jerusalem. The Jewish Agency building was bombed.

83

March 17, 1947, Jerusalem. British authorities ended martial law which had kept 300,000 Jews under house arrest for 16 days and tied up most economic activity

84

March 17, 1947, Palestine. A military court sentenced Moshe Barazani to be hanged for possessing a hand grenade.

85

March 18, 1947, Palestine. Terrorist leaflets admitted the murder of Michael Shnell on Mount Carmel as an informer.

86

March 22, 1947, Palestine. British officials announced the arrest of five known terrorists and the discovery near Petah Tikvah of the body of Leon Meshiah, a Jew presum­ably slain as a suspected informer

87

March 26, 1947, London. Britain’s Privy Council rejected the appeal of the death sentence against Dov Bela Gruner.

88

March 28, 1947, Haifa. The Irgun blew up the Iraq Petroleum Co. pipeline in Haifa.

89

March 29, 1947, Palestine. A British army officer was murdered by Jewish terrorists when they ambushed a party of horsemen near the Ramle camp. A raid by terrorists on a Tel Aviv bank yielded $109,000.

90

March 30, 1947, Palestine. Units of the British Royal Navy, answering an SOS, took the disabled “Moledeth” with 1,600 illegal Jewish refugees on board under tow

some 50 miles outside Palestinian waters.

91

March 30, 1947, Tel Aviv. The Stem gang killed the wife of a British soldier.

92

March 31, 1947, Haifa. Jewish terrorists dynamited the British-owned Shell-Mex oil tanks in Haifa, starting a fire that destroyed a quarter-mile of the waterfront The damage was set at more than $1,000,000, and the British government in Palestine has stated that the Jewish community will have to pay for it

93

April 2, 1947, Cyprus. The “Ocean Vigour’ was damaged by a bomb in Famagusta Harbor, Cyprus. The Haganah admitted the bombing.

94

April 3, 1947, Jerusalem. A court in Jerusalem sentenced Daniel Azulai and Meyer Feinstein, members of the Irgun terrorist gang, to death for the October 30 attack on the Jerusalem railroad station. The Palestine Supreme Court admitted an appeal of Dov Bela Gruner’s death sentence.

95

April 3, 1947. The transport “Empire Rival” was dam­aged by a time bomb while en route from Haifa to Port Said in Egypt

96

April 7, 1947, Jerusalem. The High Court denied a new appeal against the death sentence of Dov Bela Gruner, and a British patrol killed Moshe Cohen.

97

April 8, 1947, Jerusalem. Jewish terrorists killed a British constable in revenge for the Cohen death.

98

April 9, 1947, Palestine. The Palestine Government abandoned “statutory martial law” in the face of unfavor­able publicity but granted itself military dictatorship powers in “controlled a