Arab-Muslim Riots of 1929 – Eighty Years Ago
Looking over the destruction of the Massacre, Hebron 1929
18 Elul, this year, September 7, is the eightieth anniversary of the 1929 riots and massacre in Israel. In late August of 1929, after several days of contention over Jerusalem’s Jews worshiping at the Western Wall a rumor was spread by the Mufti that the Jews were burning the Aqsa Mosque. Riots broke out in Jerusalem and several other towns. Jerusalem, Hebron, Tzfat, Haifa, Motza, Kfar Uria, Tel Aviv, Hulda, Har Tuv and Beer Tuvia all experienced Jewish fatalities totaling one hundred thirty three and hundreds wounded.
Home ransacked by Muslims during Hebron Massacre 1929
Hebron suffered the highest number of deaths, sixty eight men, women and children mutilated in the sickest of ways by the followers of Muhammad. The Jews of Hebron trusted the Arab/Muslim families so much that they declined Haganah protection as the tension mounted over the course of several days. This proved to be a fatal mistake.
On the morning of Elul 18, violence broke out and the local police force was small and consisted the British leader, Raymond Cafferata, all of the men on the force were Arabs with the exception of but one Jew. Cafferata and the Jewish poiceman shot at the rioting Muslims, killing eight, it took five hours for British troops to arrive. Babies were beheaded, Rabbis were castrated, pregnant women were disemboweled, the Jews of Hebron suffered five hours of rape, torture and mutilation.
Cafferata later testified:
“On hearing screams in a room 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. He had already hit him and was having another cut, but on seeing me he tried to aim the stroke at me, but missed; he was practically on the muzzle of my rifle. I shot him low in the groin. Behind him was a Jewish woman smothered in blood with a man I recognized as a[n Arab] police constable named Issa Sherif from Jaffa in mufti. He was 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 Honor, I am a policeman.” … I got into the room and shot him.”
(Bernard Wasserstein, The British in Palestine: The Mandatory Government and the Arab-Jewish Conflict 1917-1929, Oxford England, Basil Blackwell, 1991)
Steps with the precious blood of a Jew, Hebron Massacre 1929
More than four hundred Jews did survive and were forced by the British to evacuate Hebron, leaving their homes to be occupied by the Arab/Muslims. Some Jews eventually returned only to be run out again by the riots of 1936. After the war of independence in 1948 Hebron was lost to Jordan, not until the Israel recaptured the city in the Six Days War of 1967 were Jews able to regain their substantial presence in Hebron.
It seems that riots and wars appear everywhere Muslims live. If Islam was such a “peaceful” religion the followers of Muhammad would be more civil and pleasant to live with. Contrast the Islamic way of waring and rising up at the slightest whim with the Jews and Christians of the world that focus their energies toward developing their nations and giving aid to the needy of the planet. Where has the world gone so wrong that our leaders cannot see the reality of the ugly truth of Islam, this is a waring, struggling, terrorizing, rioting, deceiving religion.
One riot after another, one war after another, one bus bombing, plane hijacking, stabbing, train bombing or car bombing after another, Islam has never changed from the days of Muhammad. the faithful followers that read and follow the teachings of a madman are still at war with the rest of the world, only the rest of the world seems to want to deny this reality. On the eightieth anniversary of the 1929 massacre we are just days away from the eighth anniversary of the 9-11 attack on America, again perpetrated by Muslims for the sake of their pseudo-god. History continues to repeat itself, as Einstein said, you cannot correct a problem with the same thinking that created it.
Builders of Zion mourns in solidarity with our Jewish Brethren in Hebron and the rest of Islrael in memory of the fallen, wounded and displaced in the riots of 1929.
Little photographic evidence remains of the Hebron massacre, two groups of pictures are available online via the Haaretz hebrew web site, here are the direct links: http://tinyurl.com/mrn8f8 and http://tinyurl.com/n2a7o5 . Some of the images are quite gruesome. The web site for the community of Hebron has an extensive collection of photos which includes those available from the Haaretz links, you can view them at http://www.hebron.com/english/gallery.php?id=170. While you are at the Hebron web site please do what you can to be a material blessing to them, via the “Give to Hebron” button you can donate to the community. Your gifts will be put to good use to support perpetuating Jewish life in Hebron. Living in Hebron is very expensive and there is little in the way of an economic base since they are surrounded by hostile Arabs still today.
