Documents show UK post-WWII dilemma over Jewish refugees

By GREGORY KATZ, Associated Press Writer

LONDON - Documents released Monday show how the British government tried to send thousands of Palestine-bound Jewish survivors of the Nazi genocide back to postwar Germany without inflaming world opinion.

Could it be done? The answer was no. It was just two years after the end of the war and the world was outraged by the systematic murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis in what became known as the Holocaust.

Despite the best efforts of early spin doctors to portray the move in the most sympathetic light, the decision to turn away the more than 4,500 Jews on board the Exodus refugee ship turned into a humanitarian and public relations debacle for Britain.

The story is detailed in more than 400 pages of formerly secret documents at Britain's National Archives made available to the public on Monday.

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Apr 1, 2008 19:38

Palestinian teen caught in possession of pipe bomb near Nablus

A Palestinian teen was caught in possession of a pipe bomb at the Hawara checkpoint near Nablus on Tuesday evening.

IDF sappers detonated the bomb in a controlled explosion and the teen was detained by security forces for interrogation.

From the Jerusalem Post.

Whores for Death [a series of articles] - Dareen Abu Aysheh

PLEASE NOTE: First, for purposes of this post and series of articles, I will define "whore" as one who prostitutes their soul, one who trades in all human decency to replace it with the worst depravity imagineable and which the whores know to be depraved. Indeed, it is the degree of depravity in their acts that becomes its own reward. They are whores. They are whores because they have had the opportunity to know better, to know what decency is, and they choose to be depraved. They are whores.

premeditation
pre·medi·ta·tion
noun
the act of premeditating
Law: a degree of planning and forethought sufficient to show intent to commit an act

Well, if a murderer were to videotape their own murder confession before they ever went out and committed their heinous act of taking an innocent life, any court in any civilized decent society would accept that as evidence of premeditation to murder.

Then there are other kinds of societies. There is the society that formed the warped mind of this whore for death. A society that breeds its own children to be instruments of death. A society that won't allow its children to have any hope for the future.

How could that be? How could this young woman actually believe that murder was acceptable?

It's because her society has been hijacked by power-hungry rapacious lazy unprincipled gutless pigs who spew a few public words of hate then sit back and collect billions of dollars in donations from the Arab countries of this world so as to maintain their stranglehold on this young woman's mind and the minds of all others in her society.

As long as the so-called leaders of this culture of death keep churning out murder and terror at the expense of its own children, the billions of dollars will continue to pour in. It matters not that very little of the money is actually spent on improving the quality of life for the children.

When Yasser Arafat died of AIDS, he left behind a personal Swiss bank account of over three billion dollars. How many schoolbooks might that have purchased for Palestinian children? How may meals for his hungry people? It mattered not to Yasser.

The children of Palestine are not raised with the knowledge of the billions in treasure being stolen in their name. They are not raised with the knowledge that their neighbor Israel has for years been willing to cede land and almost everything that's been asked in the name of establishing a national identity and homeland for the Palestinian people.

Because if they knew the truth, they would revolt against their masters, their pimps in death.

Instead, fed on a daily diet of hate and the exaltation of murder, they become whores as this woman did, recording her pre-murder-event murder confession then driving off in the company of two other would-be murderers to do their dirty deed.

In decent societies, policeman are revered as first responders, rescuers, heroes, law enforcement officers and keepers of the peace. They are the vanguard that stands between us, the normal folk, and disaster. Without them, laws would have no enforcement and no individual would be safe.

This whore cared little for decency when she premeditated, plotted, to murder policemen and bragged of her deed before it was ever committed.

It is truly a blessing of G-d that the only successful murder she committed that day was her own. She killed herself in an effort to murder several policemen. Her mission was not a success. G-d is great.

Normally, I would say that all suicide is tragic and all effort should be expended to rescue the life of the one who wishes to end their own existence.

However, if the end of the life of this whore for death meant that murder did not happen to innocent people then it is obvious that the hand of G-d intervened on behalf of the innocent.

And so, she is merely a failed whore for death. But a whore, nonetheless. As were the Tanzim terrorist whores (two men) who accompanied her.

Whores, all of them. No honor. No respect. And they did their part to inhibit the birthing of the Palestinian nation. They are traitors to their own children, to their own cause, their own society.

No honor for whores.

Herzl's lone grandson to be reinterred today

The tragic life of Zionist visionary Theodor Herzl's lone grandson comes full circle today with his burial at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl cemetery.

Stephen Norman, who committed suicide in Washington, D.C. 61 years ago after learning of his parents' death in the Holocaust, will be reinterred alongside his grandfather, uncle and aunt.

Norman, who was born Stephen Neumann to Herzl's daughter Trude, failed to escape the depression that plagued his aunt Pauline, who died from an apparent drug overdose and uncle Hans, who committed suicide.

In 1933 he received special funding from the World Zionist Organization to attend an exclusive boarding school in England and later to study law at the University of Cambridge.

Norman did his utmost during this period to become a regular Englishman, even changing his name. However, the 1938 annexation of Austria, where his parents were living, brought out his Jewish roots.

"I can't say I received an especially Jewish or Orthodox education," he wrote seven years later describing how he felt at the time. "The Zionist idea, despite my family connection to it, was never forced into me - not at home nor later in school or university.

"But, I found my grandfather's letters and read them and I feel they comprise fascinating reading for anyone who has even the scantiness tie to Judaism."

Norman tried in vain to arrange immigration visas to Palestine for his parents. He was drafted to the Royal Artillery, where he eventually became a captain, and war broke out. Losing contact, he assumed his parents were dead but was never sure.

After the war he visited Palestine for the first time on a three-day visit. Later, he joined a British scientific delegation to Washington. In November 1946 he was informed that his parents had indeed perished in Teresienstadt in 1943. For three weeks he wandered the capital a broken man, feeling guilty for not having saved his parents.

On November 20, he jumped to his death from the Massachusetts Avenue bridge.

MDA enters Gaza to treat Palestinian

MDA medics risked their lives Friday and crossed Erez Crossing to the Palestinian side in order to stabilize and evacuate a Palestinian woman who had suffered a heart attack in Gaza.

IDF sources said the MDA medics took a "great risk" by crossing over to the Palestinian side of Erez.

The woman, 31, was evacuated to the crossing by Palestinian medics who had failed to resuscitate her following the heart attack.

After coordinating with the Gaza Liaison Administration, the MDA medics crossed into Gaza, stabilized the woman and evacuated her into Israel where she was transferred to Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.

On Thursday, for the first time since the beginning of the second intifada, an MDA ambulance entered Ramallah to evacuate a six-month-old Palestinian baby for medical treatment.

The baby, who was in critical condition, was thought to have been exposed to toxic chemicals.

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