The Southern Israelite. (Augusta, Ga.) 1925-1986, September 20, 1929, Image 20

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Newspaper Page TextThe Southern Israelite Page 20 JEWESS NAMED FIRST MEMBER RERUN CITY COUNCIL Berlin (J. T. A.)—Clara Israel was named a member of the Berlin City Council. She is the first woman to be appointed to a post on the City ad ministration. Jerusalem After The Massacre ♦+++++++++++++++++++++***+ New Year Greeting* Brewer’s Barker Bakery “GOOD TO THE LAST CRUMB” 307 Kin# Street Phone 387 CHARLESTON, S. C. m » > » j. ,t. ,». -t. .t. .t. .1. .t. .t. .t. J. J. .t. .». j. .t. FTtTtTTTtTTTTTTTTTTTtTtTtT By MAURICE SAMUEL Maurice Samuel, American Novelist and Zionist Leader, Des cribes Situation in Holy City. Arabs Attacked only Such Points as Were Unprotected ot Where Jewish Self-Defense Was Hampered by Government. Palestine Jews Still Feel Their Lives and Propel ty Are Un safe; Passive Heroism of American Yeshiva Student at Hebron. • • • • Jerusalem—The Palestine incidents cry to heaven against the indifference or anti-Jewish malevolence of the Pal estine administration. For days preceding the big attack the Jewish press and representatives had warned the government and the »x 3 x x KJH2K x x x x x x x x x a x x x x'x a n it x lx x lx kwhixIm a x a a a x x x x x a x x a x a a x a 5: M « New Year Greetings Prom x w. T. SMITH B11 i c k CO. « a x )t X X] X X DEALERS GOODYEAR TIRES —AND— AUTOMOBILE A< X:ESS( )K IES 155-159 Church St. (iharlcHtoti, S. C. Phone Bill IMIHMW x!xlalx|xi|}( : xia x a;ixix x!x x a alia ala x a ala x x x x x»x x x u )£ x ala x x a a x a a x a x x x x New Year Greetings Prom fRt King at Warren Streets A COMPLETE DEPARTMENT STORE \\ ith A FREE Auto Parking Connected With The Store This Service is for ^our Convenience ALL DAY—ALL NIGHT CHARLESTON, S. C. New Year Greetings Siegling Music House, Inc. Oldest Music House in America ESTABLISHED 1810 243 KING STREET CHARLESTON, S. C. [I- 1 BTSHEiH l ! "TT"*"T NEW YEAR GREETINGS Pastime Amusement Co. CHARLESTON, S. C. public of the impending disaster and implored the government to prepare. I will bring with me heavy documen tary evidence to this effect. Scattered attacks on the Jews were everywhere taking place. Also, there was fierce unrest among the Arabs. On Friday morning, though it was no High Moslem Holiday, thousands of Arabs, armed with swords, daggers, clubs and firearms, poured into Jeru salem, the police not making the fee blest effort to examine any of them. When the last moment came and the vast mob of Arabs poured after prayer through the Jaffa Gate, the British police had prepared infinitely smaller protection than that which was assem bled two days before against the peaceful Jewish funeral when twenty odd Jews were wounded. On this occasion the police stood by passive, while the slaughter be gan and only at a certain point made an effort to disperse the mob. In the Georgian Jewish section the massacre lasted a full two hours against men, women and children before the police interfered. When the Jews had or ganized self-defense they behaved he roically as in Yemin Moshe where they threw back the vast, murderous mob, the police arriving later. The Jerusalem Jews universally praise the Oxford students’ coura geous help. The amazing fact is that though Hebron is a known center of anti- Jewish violence, where oidy .lew's of the old school and the Yeshiva were quite incapable of self-defense, the government abandoned them to the local Arabs with the results now known. Acts of unparalleled treachery by the Arab governor of Hebron before and after the massacre are now con firmed. He disarmed the Arab police when the mobs began gathering and restored their arms when the massa cre was over. \\ hen the surviving Jew’s wanted to telephone Jerusalem, he refused permission, and when they wanted to telegraph he insisted they use only one formular “Hebron all right.” Amazing stories are told of the passive heroism of Jews and the Ye shiva bochurim of Hebron w’ho cover ed each other with their bodies in their last agonies. The Palestine administration, hav ing suspended the newspapers, issued bulletins which are incredibly impu dent in their misrepresentation. For example, it places the list of Jewish and Arab dead of Jerusalem and He bron under one rubric to cover the na ture of the massacre in Hebron. Also, reporting from Haifa, it says: “A tlasn took place between Jews and Arabs and the British dispersed them,” as though both were equally guilty. This misrepresentation illustrates the continuous policy of the adminirtn ti°n in placing the Jews and Arab juxtaposition with itself as the indif ferent spectator. Throughout the country, as in J er salem, it is clear that if the Jew, had relied on government protection massacre unparalleled in its diroen sions would have taken place. In Tel Aviv where I was an ey t witness, this was obviously so. Bu* here the Jews were half way prepared though wretchedly hampered by the government’s restriction of the* self, defense. The result was that in Tel Aviv the Arabs were thrown back and even most of our losses were due to the heroic but unnecessary and pre mature effort of the young Jews '0 rescue Jewish isolated workers in a factory in the Arab district. In many parts of the country the Jewish self defense recalled the early American pioneers surrounded by- howling redskins. In Hulda 27 Jews resisted for eight hours the terrific assault of one thou sand Arabs creeping up through the Herzl forest. One Jew, Kphraim Chi shik, whose sister was killed with Trumpeldor at Tel Ha, was killed. The British arrived after eight hours, though buildings and the flames of the thrashing floor were visible at Tel Aviv, Rechoboth and certainly at Naanch w’hich was the British station. When the Jews were relieved they counted forty or fifty Arab dead in the vicinity. Details of the defense at Beth Al pha are unknown, but remember thi 5 Beth Alpha faces the desert and the Bedouins are different human material than the Palestine Arabs. An amazing universal phenomenon is the fact that the Arabs have no where attacked such positions where the Jews were known to be strong but chose isolated points and cities where the government had half crippled our self-defense or we had none at all This is significant for the future si uation. Many incidents are also re ported when Arabs refused to part;^ ipate in the murders while Arabs " Hebron and elsewhere were wounded in defense of Jews. It should be added that provocathe letters were sent out from Jerusaem by the Grand Mufti calling upon the Arabs to come to Jerusalem on rn- day, August 23, though this was W High Holiday. Arabs likewise repo having received letters from aml V the son of Musa Kazim Pns a > president of the anti-Zionist Executive, inciting them to P° Jerusalem and attack the ^ eV [ s ' , Jewish Palestine is in a help , rage against the administra ion its misrepresentations of the si It should be noted that there is hatred against the Arabs. Shortly after his return ^ country, the High Commissioner ^ sued a declaration in which ^ see the contradicting, mond ®^“ :r *. terances of the Palestine admmn ^ tion concerning the riot? absence. , ir jives Palestine Jews consider j rai ;ic and property unsafe u ” ' ^ ■ t b< changes in the personne a are spirit of the administration brought about.