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180020
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This article discusses the offer made by Cemal Pasha in 1915 to Albert Antébi to sell the area in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem in order to dismantle the nearly thirty houses owned by the Moroccan inhabitants of the Maghrebi Quarter and create a space ‘reserved for the prayers of the Jewish people’. European Jews had already sought to purchase the same area from the Ottomans for several decades but had been denied, a situation that did not change under British rule despite the support given to the Jews with the Balfour Declaration. After the 1929 riots in Palestine, any possibility of acquiring the Western Wall or converting the Maghrebi Quarter into a plaza was postponed. This article will address relevant correspondence available at the Zionist Archives that chronicles this decades-long effort and discuss the questions relating to failure and secrecy. The individuals involved took an oath promising never to discuss this business out of concerns about revealing divisions among Zionists in relation to holy places and symbols.
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126899
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2011.
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Palestine was a province of the Ottoman Empire for 400 years. With the empire's collapse as a result of World War I, the League of Nations placed Palestine under a mandate which it assigned to the United Kingdom. The British Mandate of Palestine, which was confirmed in 1922, put into effect the Balfour Declaration of 1917 whose principal objective was "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." The terms of the mandate, which favored an increase in Jewish immigration to Palestine, were opposed by the Arabs, as it aroused growing fears of a Jewish takeover in Jerusalem and elsewhere in the country. This produced great tension between Arabs and Jews, particularly in Jerusalem and specifically around al-Aqsa Mosque and al-Buraq (the Western Wall).
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ID:
118543
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2012.
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This article analyzes the outbreak of the deadly 1929 riots in Palestine. Focusing on Jerusalem, Safad, and Hebron, the cities most significantly affected by the events, the article sees the violence as attempts to reinforce, redefine, or reestablish communal boundaries. It argues that patterns of violence in each city can help us understand how these boundaries had been established and evolved in the past, as well as the ways in which new forces, in particular the economic, political, and social influence of the Zionist movement and the rise of nationalist politics among the Palestinian Arabs, had eroded older boundaries.
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124351
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2012.
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A 110-year-old trove of pictures taken by the Christian photographers of the American Colony in Jerusalem provides dramatic proof of thriving Jewish communities in Palestine. Hundreds of pictures show the ancient Jewish community of Jerusalem's Old City and the Jewish pioneers and builders of new towns and settlements in the Galilee and along the Mediterranean coastline. The American Colony photographers recorded Jewish holy sites, holiday scenes and customs, and they had a special reason for focusing their lenses on Yemenite Jews.
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