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| ..."House of the Soviets", built on the site of the former ... Königsberg Castle |
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| ...Königsberg Castle, 1895... |
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| Monument of Grand Master Albert, ... the first Duke of Prussia; Malbork,... Poland |
...The world media are filled with Goebbels-style Big Lies about the "Nakba," the supposed "catastrophe" and "ethnic cleansing" of Arabs when Israel was created in 1948.... But now an interesting source has come along to debunk this massive campaign of lies and disinformation....Consider the following citation, emphasis added: "The Arab armies seemingly entered Palestine (in 1948) to protect the Palestinians from the Zionist tyranny but, instead, they abandoned them, FORCED THEM TO EMIGRATE AND TO LEAVE THEIR HOMELAND, imposed upon them a political and ideological blockade and threw them into prisons similar to the ghettos in which the Jews used to live in Eastern Europe, as if we were condemned to change places with them. The Arab States succeeded... in scattering the Palestinian people and in destroying their unity."... Ok, current events students, name the source for that quote!... The answer is … (drumroll) … Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas), the...
East Prussia from 1923 to 1939 between the wars "President" of the Palestinian Authority, who wrote this in an article... in the Beirut magazine Falastin el-Thawra, in March 1976. (Item cited... in the weekly column by Ben Dror Yemini in Maariv, May 27, 2011)... And that is not the ONLY useful citation from Abu Mazen, also cited in... the same column by Yemini. It turns out that last week the very same... Abu Mazen had an article in the NY Times, in which he claims to tell... his own personal "Nakba" family story. There he claims that the Jews... expelled the Arabs right after the UN's partition resolution of 1947... (which called for creating two new countries, a Jewish and an Arab...
Ethnic settlement in East Prussia by the 14th century state, in the area of the British Mandate). Abu Mazen also writes... there that he and his family were expelled (from Safed) to Syria and... forced to live there in an old canvass tent.... Well, Ben Dror Yemini does some homework. The UN resolution, first of... all, was in November 1947. The battle for Safed took place in May... 1948. Second, Abu Mazen's family in Safed was very wealthy, with more... than enough ready capital to coast along comfortably for quite some... time. But most significantly, Abu Mazen's family went to Jordan, not... to Syria. Only much later did they move to Damascus. In addition,... Safed Arabs fled in large part in 1948 because they were expecting...
The Province of East Prussia (red), ... within the Kingdom of Prussia, ... within the German Empire, as of 1871. retaliation for the pogroms they themselves had launched against the... Jews of the city in 1929.... And just who is the source for claiming that Abu Mazen was lying... through his fangs in that NY Times piece?... Why, none other than Abu Mazen himself, again! In 2009 he gave an... interview to the Palestinian Authority TV channel, telling about his... family's wealth and their move to Jordan.... Oh, and the same week, Haaretz, that Palestinian newspaper published...
Germany's shift of borders after the world wars, ... dividing East Prussia among other countries. in Hebrew, quotes one Ismail Fahr a-Din from the Golan Druse ...
Partitions of Eastern Europe before, ... during, and after World War II (Map is written in German)... via en.wikipedia.org village... of Majdal Shams as claiming to remember very clearly the Palestinian... refugees arriving in that town (back then still under Syrian... occupation). Only one itsy bitsy problem though. Turns out the... "witness" is 57 years old and so was born 6 years after Israel's war... of Independence. ... More generally, I think that any time anyone suggests that we need to... empathize with the "Nakba" of the "Palestinians" – they should be... directed to contemplating East Prussia.... East Prussia, where in many ways World War II began (in Hitler's... campaign for Danzig), was emptied out near the end of the war, with... hundreds of thousands of Germans fleeing the approaching Red Army and... the impending battles, and with hundreds of thousands more evicted... after the Soviets pushed through East Prussia into Berlin. In all,... 1.8 to 2.2 million East Prussians were driven out or fled. That is 4... times the number of "Palestinian refugees" from 1948-49. Parts of... East Prussia were annexed by Russia, the rest being incorporated into... Poland. ...
Nearly 200 Druze living ... in the Golan Heights ... protested in ... Majdal Shams ... against Syrian President ... Bashar Assad ... and his regime
And what about mourning for their "catastrophe?" No one, not even... the worst bleeding heart in the West, has ever believed East Prussians...
Egypt permanently opens Gaza border crossing
...deserve any sympathy or support or compensation for their "plight."... They were part of the German monstrosity that had launched the war and... they became refugees as a direct result of the crimes and aggressions... of the German people, crimes they most enthusiastically endorsed and... in which they participated. Exactly like the circumstances under... which "Palestinian Arabs" became refugees as a result of launching a... genocidal war of aggression and then losing.... Think the "Palestinians" deserve compassion? Sure, right after the... East Prussians are granted a "Right of Return."via zioncon.blogspot.com...
The fortress Ordensburg Marienburg, founded in 1274,... the world’s largest brick castle ... and the Teutonic Order's headquarters on the River Nogat.
