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[edit] Reconcile content
The section 1929 Hebron massacre#Commission of Enquiry should be only summary of this article but in reality it is longer. ←Humus sapiens ну? 01:01, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Zeq 22:33, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Benny Morris tells us Western Wall was threatened
There's nothing rubbish about the Morris information, it's all well known. I see no need to expand the portion of our article with some/all of these clips and information, but we can if people insist. Remember, Morris is a Zionist and is not sympathetic to Palestinians:
- Morris Benny, "Righteous Victims, a history of the Zionist-Arab Conflict 1881-2001", First Vintage edition 2001 (or Morris, Righteous Victims), p.112.
- ... The contention that the Jews were bent on taking over ... had long been a theme in Arab propaganda. For example, the Palestinian delegation to Mecca during the hajj, or pilgrimage, of 1922 had declared: "the Holy Places are in great danger on account of the horrible Zionist aggressions"
- On September 23-24, 1928 ... the SMC complained that Jews had set up a screen to separate men and women at the Wailing Wall (or Western Wall) in Jerusalem's Old City.
- The screen violated the status quo principle ... Failing to persuade the Jews to take it down, the police forcibly removed it.
- In 1928 the Muslims sought British confirmation of their traditional rights at the Wall, after all, they owned the Wall and the adjacent passage where the Jews worshipped.226 ... Right-wing Zionists began to demand Jewish control of the Wall
- On August 14, 1929, some 6,000 Jews marched in Tel Aviv, chanting, "The Wall is ours"; that evening, three thousand gathered at the Wall for prayer. The following day, hundreds of Jews-some of them extremist members of Betar, carrying batons-demonstrated on the site.
- If the aim of the rioters' leaders had been to shake Britain's commitment to the Balfour Declaration, they succeeded, at least in the short term. Sir John Chancellor on September I ... The Balfour Declaration, he wrote, had been "a colossal blunder."253
- Shaw Commission ... recommended that "excessive" Jewish immigration be halted; that eviction of Arab peasants be stopped; and that the government look into the issues of land sales to Jews immigration, and the Western Wall. The panel said the evictions were giving rise to "a landless and discontented class" of evictees.257
- Whitehall sent Sir John Hope-Simpson, a retired colonial official, to look into immigration, Jewish settlement, and land sales. "... The helplessness of the fellah appeals to the British official. The offensive assertion of the Jewish immigrant is, on the other hand, repellent:"260
- On October 21, 1930, the British government issued the Passfield White Paper, seriously reducing its commitment to the Balfour Declaration.
- But the riots ultimately failed to hurt the Zionist enterprise. "We had built too solidly and too well," wrote Weizmann.263 Britain's partial volte-face was to prove extremely short-lived. By early 1931 well-applied Zionist pressure in the press and lobbying by Weizmann in London bore fruit.
Meanwhile, "Crisis Magazine" smearing the Palestinian religious leader as "a principal architect of the Holocaust" is very close to a hate-site, as what we should not be using. PRtalk 11:44, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
