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A Summary of Zionist Terrorism in the
Near East — 1944-1948
Prepared for Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, UN Mediator for
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.
The report is a compilation of all identified terrorist attacks on British,
American and Arab individuals and entities from 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.
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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 Stern 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 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 police.
8
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January 22, 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 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 Isaac 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 in prison. 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 officials 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 Meshak Yagur. 2,659 men and 59 women
were detained for the three day operation in which 27 settlements were
searched. Four were killed and 80 were injured.
14
July 3, 1946, Palestine. Palestine High Commissioner, Lt. General Sir Alan
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Cunningham commuted to life imprisonment the death sentences of Josef
Simkohn and Isaac 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, 1946, 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 of 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.
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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
Yesternitsky, 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
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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
trying 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 18
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
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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 groups 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 50 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, 1946, 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.
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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
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troops following the death on November 17 of three policemen and an RAF
sergeant in a land mine explosion.
51
November 20, 1946, Jerusalem. 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 flamethrowers were used in several cases. Pamphlets
seized warned that the Irgun had again declared war against the British and
Arabs of Palestine.
57
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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 for the
Zionist Organization of America, declared U.S. 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.
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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
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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. MacMillan 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
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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 U.S. 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
Haife and a section of the rail line near 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
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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 Stern gang killed the wife of a British soldier.
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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 2, 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 areas” it may impose.
99
April 10, 1947, London. The British Government requested France and Italy
to prevent Jews from embarking for Palestine.
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100
April 11, 1947, Jerusalem. Asher Eskovitch, a Jew, was beaten to death by
Moslems when he entered the forbidden Mosque of Omar.
101
April 13, 1947, Jerusalem. Guella Cohen, Stern gang illegal broadcaster,
escaped from a British military hospital.
102
April 14, 1947, Tel Aviv. A British naval unit boarded the refugee ship
“Guardian” and seized it along with 2,700 passengers after a gun battle in
which two immigrants were killed and 14 wounded.
103
April 16, 1947, Haifa. In spite of threats of reprisal from the Irgun, the British
hanged Dov Bela Gruner and three other Irgun members at Acre Prison on
Haifa Bay. Jewish communities were kept under strict curfew for several
hours. Soon after the deaths were announced, a time bomb was found in the
Colonial Office in London, but was defused.
104
April 17, 1947, Palestine. Lt. Gen. G. MacMillan confirmed death sentences
for two more convicted terrorists, Meier Ben Feinstein and Moshe Ben
Barazani, but reduced Daniel Azulai’s sentence to life imprisonment.
105
April 18, 1947, Palestine. Irgun’s reprisals for the Gruner execution were an
attack on a field dressing station near Nethanaya where one sentry was killed,
an attack on an armored car in Tel Aviv where one bystander was killed and
harmless shots at British troops in Haifa.
106
April 19, 1947, Haifa. British naval units exploded depth charges in Haifa
harbor to prevent an underwater assault by Jewish “frogmen” on three
British deportation vessels that took the “Guardian’s” passengers to Cyprus.
107
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April 20, 1947, Tel Aviv. A series of bombings by Jewish terrorists in
retaliation for the hanging of convicted terrorist Gruner injured 12 British
soldiers.
108
April 21, 1947, Jerusalem. Meier Feinstein and Moshe Barazani, condemned
terrorists, killed themselves in prison a few hours before they were scheduled
to be hanged. They blew themselves up with bombs smuggled to them in
hollowed-out oranges.
109
April 22, 1947, Palestine. A troop train arriving from Cairo was bombed
outside Rehovoth with five soldiers and three civilians killed and 39 persons
injured.
110
April 23, 1947, London. The British First Lord of the Admiralty, Viscount
Hall, defended the Labor Government’s policy in Palestine and he
acknowledged in the House of Lords that Britain would not “carry out a
policy of which it did not approve” despite any UN action. He blamed
contributions from American Jews to the Palestine terrorists as aiding
terrorism there and cited the toll since August 1, 1945: 113 killed, 249
wounded, 168 Jews convicted, 28 sentenced to death, four executed, 33
terrorists slain in battles. Viscount Samuel urged increased immigration.
111
April 23, 1947, Palestine. The Irgun proclaimed its own “military courts” to
“try” British troops and policemen who resisted them.
112
April 23, 1947, Palestine. Lt. General Sir Alan Cunningham, Palestine High
Commander flew to Egypt and requested Lt. General Sir Miles Dempsey,
Middle-East land-force commander, for more troops to be sent to Palestine.
113
April 25, 1947, Tel Aviv. A Stern gang squad drove a stolen post office truck
loaded with explosives into the Sarona police compound and detonated it,
killing five British policemen.
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114
April 26, 1947, Haifa. The murder of Deputy Police Superintendent A.
Conquest climaxed a week of bloodshed.
115
May 4, 1947, Acre. The walls of Acre prison were blasted open by an Irgun
bomb squad and 251 Jewish and Arab prisoners escaped after a gun battle in
which 15 Jews and 1 Arab were killed, 32 (including six British guards) were
injured and 23 escapists were recaptured. The Palestine Government
promised no extra punishment if the 189 escapees still at large will surrender.
116
May 6, 1947, Jerusalem. Former British Commando Sgt. Dov Bernard Cohen,
head of the Acre bomb squad, was fatally wounded in the attack.
117
May 4, 1947, New York. The Political Action Committee for Palestine ran a
series of advertisements in New York newspapers seeking funds to buy
parachutes for young European Jews planning to crash the Palestine
immigration barrier by air.
118
May 8, 1947, Tel Aviv. A Jew was ambushed and shot to death by an Arab
group near Tel Aviv, and three Jewish-owned Tel Aviv shops whose owners
refused to contribute money to Jewish terrorist groups were burned down.
119
May 12, 1947, Jerusalem. Jewish terrorists killed two British policemen.
120
May 12, 1947, Jerusalem. The British authorities announced that 312 Jewish
political prisoners were held in Kenya, East Africa, 247 in Latrun and 34 in
Bethlehem, Palestine.
121
May 15, 1947. The Stern gang killed two British lieutenants and injured seven
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other persons with two derailments and three bridge demolitions.
122
May 16, 1947, Palestine. On the fifth day of another terrorist drive, Haifa
Assistant Police Superintendent, Robert Schindler, a German Jew, was
murdered by the Stern gang, and a British constable was killed on the Mt.
Carmel-Haifa road near Jerusalem.
123
May 17, 1947, Haifa. The 1,200-ton Haganah freighter “Trade Winds” was
seized by the Royal Navy off the Lebanon coast and escorted into Haifa, and
over 1,000 illegal immigrants were disembarked pending transfer to Cyprus.
124
May 19, 1947, London. The British government protested to the United States
government against American fund-raising drives for Palestine terrorist
groups. The complaint referred to a “Letter to the Terrorists of Palestine” by
playwright Ben Hecht, American League for a Free Palestine co-chairman,
first published in the New York “Post” on May 15. The ad said, “We are out to
raise millions for you.”
125
May 22, 1947, Palestine. Arabs attacked a Jewish labor camp in southern
Palestine, retaliating for a Haganah raid on the Arabs near Tel Aviv May 20.
Some 40,000 Arab and Jewish workers united the same day in a one-day
strike against all establishments operated by the British War Ministry.
126
May 23, 1947, Palestine. A British naval party boarded the immigrant ship
“Mordei Haghettoath” off South Palestine and took control of its 1,500
passengers. Two British soldiers were convicted in Jerusalem of abandoning
a jeep and army mail under a terrorist attack.
127
May 27, 1947, Germany. Jewish underground migration officials in Frankfurtam-
Main declared they hoped to transport 1,000,000 Jews from Europe to
Palestine, 30,000 of them this summer. The Costa Rican ship “Colony
Trader” has been detained at Gibraltar under suspicion of its use for
smuggling illegal immigrants into Palestine. London is investigating reports
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that non-Jewish Poles and Slavs in DP camps are being recruited for the
Palestine army. Other investigations are being conducted into persistent
reports that Soviet Russia has been supplying technical advisors to the Jewish
terrorist groups.
128
May 28, 1947, Syria. Fawzi el-Kawukji, who spent the war years in Germany
after leading the 1936-39 Arab revolt in Palestine, told reporters in Damascus
that an unfavorable decision by the UN inquiry group would be the signal for
war against the Jews in Palestine. “We must prove that in case” of an Anglo-
American war with Russia, “we can be more dangerous or useful to them
than the Jews,” he added.
129
May 28, 1947, Haifa. Jewish terrorists blew up a water main and a shed in
the Haifa oil dock areas and made three attacks on railway lines in the Lydda
and Haifa areas.
130
May 31, 1947, Haifa. The Haganah ship “Yehuda Halevy” arrived under
British naval escort with 399 illegal Jewish immigrants, the first from Arab
territories. They were immediately transshipped to Cyprus.
131
June 4, 1947, London. The terrorist Jewish Stern gang sent letter bombs to
high British governmental officials. Eight letter bombs containing powdered
gelignite explosive were discovered in London. Recipients included Ernest
Bevan, Anthony Eden, Prime Minister Attlee and Winston Churchill.
132
June 5, 1947, Washington. President Truman asked all persons in the U.S. to
refrain from helping Palestine terrorists. The American Jewish Committee
and Jewish Labor Committee condemned Ben Hecht’s campaign for Palestine
terrorist funds.
133
June 5, 1947, Tel Aviv. Jewish terrorist mines wrecked two trains near Tel
Aviv and Haifa and the Athlit railroad station but without casualties.
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June 6, 1947, London. Scotland Yard official now acknowledge that a total of
20 letter bombs have been found.
135
June 6, 1947, New York. Secretary General of the UN, Trygve Lie has
forwarded a request to all countries a request by the British that they guard
their frontiers against departure of illegal immigrants bound for Palestine.
136
June 18, 1947, Tel Aviv. Haganah disclosed that one of its men was killed by a
booby trap which foiled an Irgun plot to blow up British Military
Headquarters in Tel Aviv.
137
June 18, 1947, Jerusalem. Major Roy Farran, held in connection with the
disappearance of a 16-year-old Jew, managed to escape from custody in the
army barracks in Jerusalem.
138
June 28, 1947, Palestine. The terrorist Stern gang opened fire on British
soldiers waiting in a line outside a Tel Aviv theater, killing three and
wounding two. Another Briton is killed and several wounded in a Haifa hotel.
This action was claimed by Jewish terrorists to be in retaliation for British
brutality and the alleged slaying of a missing 16 year old Jew, Alexander
Rubowitz while he was being held in an Army barracks on May 6.
139
June 6, 1947, New York. The UN Committee votes 9-0 to condemn the acts of
terrorism as “flagrant disregard” of the UN appeal for an interim truce as
Stern terrorists wounded four more British soldiers on a beach at Herzlia.
Major Roy Alexander Farran surrendered voluntarily after his escape from
custody in Jerusalem on June 19. He had been arrested in connection with
the Rubowitz case.
140
June 30, 1947, Jerusalem. The Palestine government permitted oil companies
to raise prices of benzene nearly 10% to pay for $1 million damage suffered
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when Jewish terrorists blew up oil installations at Haifa on March 31.
141
July 1, 1947, Jerusalem. The British Government rejected the UN
Commission’s move to halt the execution of three Irgun members convicted
of terrorism and also said that the UN Assembly truce resolution of May 15
had no bearing on “the normal processes of the administration of justice” in
Palestine.
142
July 2, 1947, Haifa. Irgun members robbed a Haifa bank of $3,200 while
both the Stern gang and the Irgun warned the British that their “provocative”
acts in Palestine must end before a truce can be effected. The Guatemalan
and Czech members of the UN Commission visited two Jewish convicts in
Acre Prison. In Pretoria, South Africa, Prime Minister Smuts, who was a
party to the Balfour Declaration, said “the promise of a national home in
Palestine never meant the whole of Palestine.” He favored partition into Arab
and Jewish states.
143
July 12, 1947, Jerusalem. Dr. Arieh Altman, president of the United Zionist
Revisionists, told a party rally in Jerusalem that the Revisionists would settle
for nothing less than an un partitioned free Jewish state in Palestine and
Trans-Jordan. Irgun announced in Jerusalem that two British sergeants
kidnapped in Nathanaya are being held in Tel Aviv and have been sentenced
to death by Irgun court-martial.
144
July 14, 1947, Nathanya. The British imposed martial law and placed the
15,000 inhabitants of Nathanya under house arrest. They made 68 arrests
and sentenced 21 persons to 6 months each in the Latrun detention camp.
145
July 17, 1947, Nathanya. The Irgun in five mine operations against military
traffic to and from Nathanya killed one Briton and injured 16.
146
July 17, 1947, Nathanya. Mines killed a second Briton and injured seven.
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July 18, 1947, Haifa. The American-manned Haganah refugee ship “Exodus
1947” (formerly the “President Warfield”) was escorted into Haifa by British
naval units after a battle in which the American first mate, William Bernstein
and two immigrants were killed and more than 30 injured.
The blockade runner itself was badly damaged. The remainder of the 4,554
passengers, the largest group of illegal immigrants to sail for Palestine in a
single ship, were put aboard British prison ships for removal to Cyprus. The
American captain, Bernard Marks, and his crew were arrested. The ship
sailed from France.
148
July 19, 1947, Haifa. Rioting, quickly suppressed, broke out among the
passengers of the “Exodus 1947” when they learned they were to be returned
to France.
149
July 19, 1947, Jerusalem. The Palestine Government charges that a Jewish
“campaign of lawlessness, murder and sabotage” has cost 70 lives and $6
million in damage since 1940.
150
July 21, 1947, Jerusalem. Before officially admitting that 4,529 passengers of
the “Exodus 1947” who had been transferred to three British ships, were
being sent not to Cyprus but back to France, the Palestine Government took
the precaution of first placing Jerusalem’s 90,000 Jews under nightly house
arrest.
151
July 23, 1947, Haifa. Haganah sank the British transport “Empire Lifeguard”
in Haifa harbor as it was discharging 300 Jewish immigrants who had
officially been admitted to Palestine under quota. Sixty-five immigrants were
killed and 40 were wounded. The British were able to re float the ship.
152
July 24, 1947, Amman, Trans-Jordan. Seven members of the UN Palestine
Commission flew to Amman and were informed by Jordanian Premier Samir
Pasha el Rifai that:
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(1) Palestine belongs to the Arabs; (2) the Arabs never accepted the Balfour
Declaration; (3) the Jews are imperialistic invaders whose immigration “must
be stopped forthwith”; (5) Palestine should get un partitioned independence
under the Arab majority; (6) the plight of European refugees does not
concern Palestine; (7) the Arabs will justly resist with force any unfavorable
decision.
153
July 26, 1947. Jewish terrorists blew up the Iraqi Petroleum Co. pipeline 12
miles east of Haifa and destroyed a Mt. Carmel radar station.
154
July 26, 1947, Palestine. Two British soldiers were killed by a booby trap near
Jerusalem, raising the week’s violence toll to 12 killed and 75 wounded.
155
July 26, 1947, Palestine. Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, announced
from his secret headquarters that Haganah had planned the King David Hotel
bombing in Jerusalem on July 22, 1946 in which 91 persons were killed.
156
July 27, 1947, Palestine. An ambush and mines cost the British seven more
casualties, all wounded.
157
July 28, 1947, Haifa. Two small Haganah ships loaded with 1,174 Jews from
North Africa were intercepted by British naval units off Palestine and brought
into Haifa. The illegal immigrants were transshipped aboard British
transports and taken to Cyprus.
158
July 29, 1947, Palestine. The British authorities hanged three Irgunists in
Acre prison despite appeals from Jewish leaders. The condemned, Myer
Nakar, Absalom Habib and Jacob Weiss, had fought in the Czech
underground during the war. They were convicted of blowing up Acre Prison
on May 4 and liberating 200 Arabs and Jews.
159
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July 29, 1947, France. The 4,429 “Exodus 1947” illegal immigrants who sailed
from Sete, France, July 11 for Palestine only to be shipped back by the British
aboard three transports, refused to debark as the vessels anchored off Port de
Douc, France. Only a few who were ill went ashore. The French government
informed the refugees that they do not have to debark but will be welcomed if
they do. The transports are the “Runnymede Park,” “Ocean Vigour” and
“Empire Valour.”
160
July 30, 1947, Palestine. Irgun terrorists announced that they have hanged
two British sergeants, Marvyn Paice and Clifford Martin, whom they had held
as hostages since July 12, for “crimes against the Jewish community.” The two
were seized when death sentences on the three Irgun members were
confirmed by the British authorities. Two more British soldiers were killed by
a land mine near Hadera. British troops attacked the Jewish colony of Pardes
Hanna in revenge for the murders.
161
July 31, 1947, Nathanya. The bodies of the two murdered British sergeants
were found hanging from eucalyptus trees one and a half miles from
Nathanya about 5:30 AM. A booby trap blew Martin’s body to bits when it
was cut down. Enraged British troops stormed into Tel Aviv, wrecked shops,
attacked pedestrians and sprayed a bus with gunfire killing five Jews: two
men, two women and a boy.
162
August 1, 1947, Tel Aviv. Thirty-three Jews are injured in an anti-British riot
at Tel Aviv during the funeral procession of five civilians killed by British
soldiers on July 31. In Jerusalem a Jewish terrorist attack on the British
security zone in Rehavia was repulsed with one attacker killed and two
captured.
163
August 2, 1947, Tel Aviv. The body of an unidentified Jew was found on a
road near Tel Aviv. He was believed to have been kidnapped by men in
British uniforms two weeks ago. Total casualties in Palestine since mid-July:
25 persons slain, 144 wounded. The dead include 15 Britons, two Jewish
terrorists, eight civilians. Anti-British slogans, swastikas and dollar signs are
painted onto British consulates in New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia,
Chicago and Los Angeles.
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August 3, 1947, Palestine. Haganah warned in Jerusalem that the Britons
who killed five Jews in Tel Aviv on July 31 will be found and punished.
165
August 4, 1947, Paris. An Irgun leader in Paris states that his organization has
sentenced high British military and civilian officials in Palestine to death “in
absentia” and will hang them upon capture.
166
August 4, 1947, Palestine. British troops blew up a Jewish house in a
Jerusalem suburb in which arms were found. Jewish terrorists robbed
Barclay’s Bank in Tel Aviv of $5,200 and a Haganah member was killed.
167
August 5, 1947, Palestine. Striking at dawn, British security forces arrested 35
leading Zionists and sent them to the Latrun detention camp in an attempt to
wipe out the Irgun leadership.
In reprisal, Irgunists blew up the Department of Labor in Jerusalem, killing
three British constables. Those arrested included Mayor Israel Rokach of Tel
Aviv; Mayor Oved Ben Ami of Nathanya; Mayor Abraham Krinitzki of Ramat
Gan; Arieh Altman, president of the radical Revisionist Party; Menahem
Arber, leader of the Revisionist youth organization, B’rith Trumpeldor, which
is outlawed; Max Kritzman, Dov Bela Gruner’s attorney, and David Stern,
brother of the late founder of the Stern gang.
All those arrested except the three mayors were Revisionists. Among many
papers confiscated was correspondence from Soviet Russian agents in Italy
and Bulgaria and extensive plans to poison the water supply of the non-
Jewish parts of Jerusalem with botulism and other bacteria. Bacteria was
supplied by Soviet sources through Bulgaria.