Ik heb een aantal citaten verzameled van en over Rabbijnen met betrekking op de situatie met de Palastijnen van voor de stitching van de Staat Israel.
Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich,rabbi of Simlau, Hungary (1863-1944)
"The Arab people were always kind to the Jews living in Palestine; Jews could walk alone in the streets at night without fear. For many years they did not do any harm to Jews. It would not have occurred to them not to accept them or to do them any harm.... But since the Arabs saw the Zionists saying, “The Land is mine” and wishing to be masters there, they were aroused to persecute us. If so, all the evil and misfortunes are the fault of the Zionists." (Tiul Bapardes v. 1 Lamed, 15)
Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter, Head Rabbi of Gur, Poland (1866-1948)
“When I walked in the streets of Jerusalem, in places where Arabs with their camels walked about, in almost every place I came they cleared the way for me respectfully. If only we were treated half as well by the gentiles in all the lands where Jews live! It is my opinion that we can remain on good terms with them and live there peacefully and safely.” (Letter written in 1921)
Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (1865 - 1948) Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem
“During no period of the immigration of such orthodox European Jews was any opposition offered by the Arab population. On the contrary, these Jews were welcomed on account of economic benefits and general progress that accrued to the local inhabitants who had no fear whatsoever of being subjugated. It was common knowledge that these Jews came but for the purpose of fulfilling certain religious requirements and they had no difficulty in establishing a mutual trust, and real friendship developed with all sections of the community. That was the time when good neighborly relations existed between Jews and Arabs and in particular Rabbis and eminent scholars who then lead the Jewish Community were greatly esteemed and honoured by all inhabitants.” ( United Nations Trusteeship Library, July 16, 1947)
Rabbi Michoel Ber Weissmandl,head of the yeshiva of Nitra, New York (1903-1957)
“These Zionists with their plans have insulted and angered and embittered the Arabs, who had lived peacefully and quietly with the Jews for many generations.” (Mi Nosson Yisroel Levozezim)
Rabbi Yishaya Asher Zelig Margolios,Jerusalem
“As a young man, Rabbi Margolios lived in an apartment in the Knesses neighborhood. Outside his window was a wheat field owned by an Arab named Abbad, who lived nearby. He was on good terms with the religious Jewish residents, and served as their “Sabbath gentile”: when the Jews needed to warm up milk for a sick person on the Sabbath, Abbad would warm it up. When the light went out in their kerosene lamp, the Jews would call Abbad, and he knew what to do; no one had to tell him. After the Sabbath they would give him a small loaf of challah bread as a gift of appreciation.
One Sabbath in 1929, the Zionist settlers attacked Abbad‟s house. They knocked on his door, planning to murder him and his wife. The Zionist mob called Rabbi Margolios to help them. Rabbi Margolios knocked on Abbad‟s door, and as soon as he opened it he threw his Hasidic fur hat and caftan on the Arab and walked with him to the synagogue. The Zionists, not knowing which was the Arab and which was the Jew, abandoned the area.” (Azamer Bishvachin, p. 11)
Rabbi Amram Blau (1900-1974), a leading Talmudic Scholar in Jerusalem
”It is well-known that Jews lived in Palestine among the Arabs in peace. The Arabs bore no ill will toward the Jewish settlement as it grew and spread. The Arabs were pleased with this growth, and they gladly sold land to the Jews. The Arab people expressed no opposition to Jewish immigration or to the sale of land to Jews. We lived as neighbors with the Arabs without any fear. The Arabs had full trust in the Jews, and many times we saw that they preferred doing business with Jews to doing business with their own people.” (Letter to Eliezer Neuberger)
Groetjes,Rabbi Boruch Kaplan (1911-1987) student of Hebron Yeshiva during the Hebron Massacre.
“I want to correct an important error, a terrible error that Jews make. Jews think that the Arabs in Hebron [in 1929] were murderers, and they attacks the Jews for the purpose of murder, because they were evil. But if we study the facts, this is incorrect… The Arabs were very friendly people, and the Jewish people in Hebron lived together with them and had very friendly relations with them. They worked with the Jews, and everybody got along just fine.” (Taped interview)
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