And the Band Played On...  (03 June 2012)

"On April 2, 1920, the Yorkshire Regiment Band played for the Nebi Mussa procession in Jerusalem. ... On Sunday, April 4, the first day of Chol Hamoed Pesach (the seder was Friday night, the 2nd) the Arabs rioted, encouraged by certain British officials and military officers:..."

Palestine Arab Riots 1920-21  (No Date. Possibly 2012)

"The first Arab riots of the Mandate period took place in Jerusalem in the intermediary days of Passover, in March 1920 ('Bloody Passover'). ... The British military authorities did not intervene in the Arab attacks, while Vladimir Jabotinsky and other Jews were arrested for organising a self-defense league..."

YOUTUBE:  Hebron Massacre of the Ancient Jewish Community by Arab Killers in 1929  (08 June 2011)

"In 1929, 67 Jews were brutally murdered by their Arab neighbours. The ancient Star of David carved at [the] entrance to what is now an Arab home, is a stamp of the ancient Jewish community that once lived there..."

They Stuck a Sword Down His Wife's Throat: A Hebron Schoolgirl Amid the Arab Riots, 1929  (24 February 2011)

"Devorah Schneersohn was born in Hebron, one of the holy cities of Judaism, 1916, ... Here's her eyewitness account of the bloody Arab riots that occurred in Hebron in 1929..."

Palestine Arab Riots 1929  (No Date. Possibly 2011)

"On August 22, 1929 the leaders of the Yishuv met with the British Deputy High Commissioner to alert him of their fears of a large Arab riot. The British officials assured them that the government was in control of the situation. The following day the Riots of 1929 erupted throughout the Palestine Mandate, lasting for seven days. ... Arab mobs attacked Jews in Jerusalem, Motza, Hebron, Safed, Jaffa, and other parts of the country..."

Remembering the Jewish Massacres in Mandate Palestine  (28 December 2010)

"As Israelis and Arabs struggles with a twenty-first century peace process, the world must face the forgotten history that was so pivotal in determining the present crisis..."

Anti-Jewish Violence in Pre-State Palestine / 1929 Massacres  (23 August 2009)

"Arab violence against Jews is often alleged to have begun with the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 or as a result of Israel's capture in 1967 of territories occupied by Jordan. But even before the Mandate for Palestine was assigned to Great Britain by the Allies at the San Remo Conference (April 1920) and endorsed by the League of Nations (July 1922), Palestinian Arabs were carrying out organized attacks against Jewish communities in Palestine. Systematic violence began in early 1920..."

The May Day Massacre of 1921  (03 May 2009)

"There's no telling where the final ideological resting place of intellectually restless Yosef Haim Brenner - one of the Second Aliya luminaries and founding giants of modern Hebrew literature - would have been had he not been slain before reaching his 40th birthday. ... Nothing was irrevocably predetermined when Arab marauders took his life on May 2, 1921..."

How Hebron Became Occupied Territory  (29 December 2007)

"Hebron (Chevron in Hebrew) was the first piece of land ever purchased by the Jews in Israel. Approximately 38 centuries ago, Avraham, our forefather, purchased a cave in Chevron to bury his beloved wife Sarah. Jews have owned land in the city pretty much from then till now. In 1929, all that changed..."

Hebron 1929: The Untold Story  (July 2007)

"In 1929, Hebron, and ancient, peaceful community of Jews was attacked by a group of Arab rioters. To this day, many Jews throughout the world know little of the suffering endured by Hebron's Sephardic inhabitants during that pogrom..."

Move the Jews  (26 March 2005)

"The Arab violence in Hebron was one of the worst atrocities in the modern history of Israel. ... By the end of the riot, during which the British police did nothing to protect the Jews or stop the violence, sixty-seven Jews were dead and hundreds wounded. The survivors were isolated in a police station for three days while the Arabs rampaged through their houses, stealing and destroying Jewish property, unmolested by the British authorities..."

The Hebron Massacre of 1929  (No Date. Possibly 1999)

"For some time, the 800 Jews in Hebron lived in peace with their tens of thousands of Arab neighbours. But on the night of August 23, 1929, the tension simmering within this cauldron of nationalities bubbled over, and for three days, Hebron turned into a city of terror and murder. By the time the massacres ended, 67 Jews lay dead and the survivors were relocated to Jerusalem, leaving Hebron barren of Jews for the first time in hundreds of years..."

Pre-State Israel: The 1936 Arab Riots  (No Date)

In April 1936, "six prominent Arab leaders overcame their rivalries and joined forces ... The Arab High Command, as the group was known, was led by the Mufti Haj Ammin al-Husseini, ... [They] began their protest by calling for a general strike of Arab workers and a boycott of Jewish products. These actions swiftly escalated into terrorist attacks against the Jews and the British..."

Pre-State Israel: Arab Riots of the 1920s  (No Date)

"The Arabs found rioting to be a very effective political tool because the British attitude toward violence against Jews, and their response to the riots, encouraged more outbreaks of violence. In each riot, the British would make little or no effort to prevent the Arabs from attacking the Jews..."

The Curse of Cain

"After Cain killed his brother, the Lord told him, ... 'Cursed shall you be from the earth', ... and so it has been. The earth under their feet may be cursed, it yields nothing but sand and thistles, ... They become worshippers of death dreaming of the green verdant fields of paradise which they can reach only if they kill enough men, women and children. Leaving devastation behind them, dead lands, lost cultures, widows and orphans, they claw their way up to heaven on a ladder of bones. Everything around them dies until the only green is on their flags. They are cursed from the earth and they curse the earth. Where they go, the world dies. ... Cain sows fields of corpses of the innocent for the Lord and he still does not understand why his sacrifice is not accepted and why the earth he dwells on is cursed. ...  From Iraq to Iran, from Kuwait to Saudi Arabia, from Nigeria to Somalia, from Pakistan to Indonesia, he holds up human heads and cries 'Allahu Akbar'. ... There is no room for Cain anywhere. Where he remains there will be death and suffering. He will kill because it is all he can do. He has nothing else to offer the world, his own kind, or the Creator.. ... He kills from one end of the world to the next and it is never his fault. Each time, each Abel did it. ... His code is cruelty and his holy book is written in blood on the flayed skins of his murdered victims. ... The cries of peoples long vanished from the earth warn us that we will either drive out Cain or his curse will fill our lands with blood and dust and all that we love and all that we have worked for will die at his cursed touch" [source].

The Burden Which Habakkuk the Prophet Saw

The righteous cry out for God's punishment of the injustice in their lands:
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

The LORD God answers:
Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling places that are not theirs.
They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves:
And their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.
Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.

The dismay of the righteous at God's answer:   
Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die.
O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.
Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity:
Wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?
They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

The LORD God's reassurance to the righteous:
And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

[Habakkuk 1:1-2:4]

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There are many, many suffering brothers and sisters who desperately need us to pray for them...

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"Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them;
and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body"
(Hebrews 13:3)

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