[ot] The Arabs were a friendly people to us

Subject:	[ot] The Arabs were a friendly people to us
Date:	Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:50:02 GMT

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just chill out! It'll all be over in 140 yrs!'

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WORDS OF THE RABBIS
Rabbi Baruch Kaplan

This is a free translation of a Yiddish transcript of a taped interview
made some twenty years ago with the late Rabbi Baruch Kaplan, who was a
principal of the Beis Yaakov Girls School in Brooklyn, and who was a
student in the Hebron yeshiva (religious school) in 1929 at the time of
the killing of a number of Jews by some Arabs. Rabbi Kaplan explains how
events unfolded, and how it was the arrogant and cowardly Zionist maniacs
who perpetrated the events by provoking the Palestinians. He also adds
some comments about events at the time he recounted this story, some 20
years ago.

“When I was in Hebron in 1929, there occurred the tragic massacre of over
twenty yeshiva students, great scholars, plus another forty members of the
Jewish community. I would like to describe the error that has circulated
in Jewish communities – a horrible error, that accuses the Arabs in Hebron
of being murderers who attacked the Jews simply because the Arabs were
“bad people.” In order to correct the record, this error must be
corrected. 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 for Jews, and everybody got along just fine.

To take just one example, I used to have the habit of walking a mile or
two out of town all by myself to visit a tree that was believed to be the
tree where our patriarch Abraham met the three angels, as described in
Genesis. I especially enjoyed visiting the tree in the summertime. Along
the way I would talk to the Arabs, though it was mostly using our hands
because I didn’t speak any Arabic. Interestingly enough, no one in the
yeshiva ever told me it was dangerous to go by myself among the Arabs. We
just lived with them, and got along very well.

I have also seen a letter from the Grand Rabbi of the Gerrer Hassidim of
those days, Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter of Poland, regarding his trip to
the Holy Land during the days when people were talking about emigrating to
Palestine. He wanted to find out what kind of people the Palestinians
were, in order to be able to advise people whether to move there or not.
He wrote in his letter that the Arabs were a very friendly and fine
people.

Therefore it’s necessary to set the record straight about the accusations
that the Palestinians were terrible killers who liked attacking Jews. This
was never the situation at all!

Today’s wicked Zionists are just like their predecessors, who were
responsible for causing terrible suffering in Palestine with their wars
with the Arabs, may G-d have mercy. At that time in 1929, the Zionists had
a slogan arguing that the Western Wall in Jerusalem was a Jewish “national
symbol.” Of course, the Arabs disagreed with this idea, considering that
they had control of the location for over 1,100 years. However, the
Zionist mobs were yelling that “The Wall is ours!” It’s hard to understand
why they felt that way considering they have no connection to the Jewish
holy places whatsoever. An argument erupted in the Jewish newspapers about
establishing a permanent prayer area for Jews at the Wall. This provoked
the Arabs, and the rabbi of Jerusalem at the time, Rabbi Yosef Chaim
Zonnenfeld begged them to stop and to be appreciative to the Arabs for
allowing Jews to pray at the Wall for so many centuries undisturbed.
However, the Zionists wanted a permanent setup under their control.

The Zionists refused to heed the calls of Rabbi Zonnenfeld, and they
called a large meeting of Jews in Jerusalem – supposedly some 10,000
people showed up. One of the speakers was their “chief Rabbi” (Avraham
Isaac Kook), who proclaimed, “Hear O Israel, the Wall is our Wall, the
Wall is One” (which is a ridiculous pun on the blessing, “Hear O Israel,
the Lord your G-d, the Lord is One”). This began the conflict at the time
between the Zionists and the Arabs.

Afterwards, we were studying at the yeshiva in Hebron, and saw a bunch of
boys in short pants carrying weapons on bicycles and motorcycles, running
around the streets of Hebron. We were very worried about this. What were
they up to?

In brief, our rabbi, the supervisor of our religious academy, Rabbi Moshe
Mordechai Epstein, called them for a meeting, but they refused. He was
forced to go over to them, and asked them what they were up to. He accused
them of wanting to provoke the Arabs. They responded that they were coming
to protect us!! We cried out, “Woe is us! G-d have mercy!” They didn’t
want to leave town until it was too late!

These arrogant cowards only ran away when the local leaders of the Arabs
called for a mass meeting of the people of the surrounding Arab villages.
But it was too late; the Arabs got organized, and the Mufti called on his
people to be ready Friday night when the yeshiva would be attending
prayers. At this point, the yeshiva was alone against the Zionists, but
the Arabs didn’t know to distinguish between us and the Zionists. Sadly
they attacked and killed some of our people, including the great scholar,
Rabbi Shmuel Rosenhaltz.

The next morning we heard about the excitement in town, and even worse, we
heard the crying and shouting. I and a friend, Avraham Ushpener, lived in
an apartment that was part of a three-story building leased by a Jew from
an Arab. We could hear all the noise from our apartment on the third
floor. We were terrified to let the Arabs in because we knew how angry
they had become, but a while later things calmed down. In total, some 65
people were killed. On the other side of town, however, the Jews were
spared.

Why am I telling this story? It is because I wanted to describe how the
wicked Zionists, both today and in those days, were the cause of our
suffering! They cooperated with the Nazis, and our religion teaches that a
person who causes someone to sin is worse than someone who kills him.

It reminds me of an event recounted by Rabbi Moshe Schonfeld, who once
visited Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz {Chazon Ish) when the Zionist
state was established, and when there was fighting between the Zionists
and the Arabs. Rabbi Schonfeld told Rabbi Karelitz about what was
happening. Rabbi Karelitz told him that the crimes of the Zionists were
much worse, because they were wicked heretics who were uprooting hundreds
of thousands of Jews from their faith and that is much greater pain since
our Sages stated that a person who causes another person to sin is much
worse than if he kills him.

In our own days there is a Zionist leader (Begin), whose arrogance and
selfishness is more important than anything else to him, and for which he
is prepared to sacrifice hundreds and thousands of Jews. These heretics
and evildoers, this Zionist leader of a state that killed the Judaism of
the Yemenite and Moroccan Jews, and of many other Sephardic Jews! This is
the work of these thugs and gangsters. And there are religious Jewish
parties who dare to state that they love this man?! Everyone must know
that the anger of the Arabs against us is only caused by the Zionists!

The Arabs were a friendly people to us, and I am a witness to it. We lived
very well with them in Hebron. Rabbi Alter attested to this as well, and
it is the accursed Zionists who caused them to hate us. The Zionists dare
to use their power to expel the Arabs, and even today in Lebanon, they
kill and butcher the Arabs; they wipe out whole villages with the
airplanes they get from the United States.

Everyone should know who the murderers are – the Zionists are the biggest
murderers in the world, who refuse to let the Jewish People live in peace
either physically or spiritually!”