Occupation Quotes
After the 6 Day War, Israel was in control of the West Bank.
At that time Jews in Palestine were in the minority. The issue of how to obtain the land was hotly debated amongst Jewish groups. Jabotinsky was at one extreme—colonize and take the land just as the Arabs had done to the Jews when there was a Jewish majority. His view did not however prevail. The policy was to buy the land from individual Arabs and Jewish land up to 1948 was obtained that way. In that year the UN partitioned Palestine and 11 Arab armies attacked the new state of Israel and asked the Arab civilians to leave the area so that the Army could cleanse it of Jews. Many did not, and they or their descendants are still on their land or have sold it. The Arabs who left, were suspected of being possible collaborators or terrorists, and they have never been paid for their land or allowed to return. Compensation is still in dispute. At the same time Jews driven out of Arab countries by law and the military have never been compensated or given any right of return either.
Allied calls for indictment of Emperor Hirohito. war crimes trials of Tojo and other Japanese leaders Senior officer responsible for investigating Japanese WWII war criminals. Fellers was the officer who had previously done the “research and investigation for his boss General Douglas MacArthur who had recommended no prosecution for the Emperor. See {605727}. Yonai was to get word to General Tojo and Admiral Shimada, already indicted as war criminals to minimize the role of the Emperor who had personally approved of Pearl Harbor and every major subsequent act of Japanese aggression. Shimada was “on board” but there were doubts about whether Tojo would go along with the deceptive exoneration of the Emperor.
He was Governor-General of Korea when he made this statement. “Squeeze” was the word for bribes literally translated then from Korean. In most instances of racial discrimination “laziness” is almost always attributed to the so called “inferior” people, like the British with the Arabs, and the American Southerners with the Negroes.
The Jewish and American perception at the time was that the Arabs of Palestine were nomadic tribes who trekked through the countries of the Middle East without any national allegiance to any nation including the Ottoman Turks who before WWI ruled the area. However, there were also a small number of Arabs who had settled on fixed land, operating farms and olive groves. They were not nomads, and while not attached to a nation were very much attached to the land. Those families, who did not fight the Jewish right to establish a Jewish state, still possesses, work, and live on those traditional lands. Those who fought against the founding of Israel in 1949 and those who followed 14 Arab armies’ military instructions to evacuate their lands so the military could shell and bomb the Jews and were promised the land and goods of the Jews after their defeat, became refugees who would never be integrated by the 14 Arab nations whose requests they followed.
