Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt

Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt

In the vicious pogrom of 1929, sixty-seven Jews were murdered in Hebron alone, and the rest forced to flee. Based on deliberate lies that he had invented about Jews raping Muslim women and murdering widows and babies, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, fomented riots against Jews throughout the entire country in order to convince the British that stopping Jewish immigration would prevent violence. Hebron was attacked. Unarmed yeshiva students were murdered, Jewish homes were attacked, and their occupants slaughtered. The synagogues were desecrated.... The Grand Mufti's policy of ethnic cleansing of Jewish inhabitants was being implemented with a vengeance. The British police chief of Hebron later gave the following testimony:

"On hearing screams...I went up a sort of tunnel passage and saw an Arab in the act of cutting off a child's head with a sword. Seeing me, he tried to aim the stroke at me but missed.... I shot him.... Behind him was a Jewish woman smothered in blood with a man I recognized as an Arab police constable named Issa Sheril from Jaffa...standing over the woman with a dagger in his hand. He saw me and bolted into a room close by and tried to shut me out—shouting in Arabic, "Your Honour, I am a policeman." I got into the room and shot him" (Dershowitz, "The Case for Israel).

As a result of that pogrom, Hebron, which had been the exclusive home of Jews for centuries, became for the first time in its history an Arabs-only city. Years later, cautiously and fearfully, some Jews began moving back into one of their most sacred cities, where their patriarchs are buried. Then came the war of 1948, when Israel, accepting the partition under UN Resolution 181, declared its independence and was attacked by the regular armed forces of six Arab nations. Jordan captured the West Bank and, with it, Hebron. It was a further disaster for Jewish residents, who were trying to reestablish themselves in Hebron. All were summarily expelled.