@always_philistinie: On 1 July 1945, about twenty American men met David Ben-Gurion in a New York apartment and were asked to become an American arm of an underground army. The host was Rudolf Sonneborn, a New York chemicals businessman. Ben-Gurion led the movement to turn Palestine into a Jewish state, in a country where two in every three people were Palestinian Arabs. Its underground army was the Haganah. In his diary Ben-Gurion wrote that the men took it upon themselves to help in everything. In 1948, three years later, Sonneborn described that day in a confidential report: "not even our wives knew its purpose." They had been asked, he wrote, to become "an American arm of the underground Haganah." The group had no directors, no officers, not even a letterhead. They met for lunch every Thursday in a private dining room of the Hotel McAlpin, with the doors barred and the waiters out. Sonneborn wrote that they bought 18 ships to carry Jewish immigrants into Palestine, where Britain ruled and limited how many could come. "The 'Exodus 1947' was ours," he wrote, and five of the ships later joined Israel's navy. In 1948 they set up a company, Materials for Palestine, to supply the Haganah. By that summer, by his count, they had shipped nearly four million pounds of army supplies. On 28 July 1948 Israel's Provisional Government thanked the group, at the request of its defense minister, Ben-Gurion. The Haganah became Israel's army and fought the war of 1948. Palestinians call it the Nakba, the Catastrophe. At least 720,000 of the 1.3 million Palestinians were made refugees. The men in the apartment were asked, and they said yes. The Palestinians who lost their homes were never asked. Sources: Rudolf G. Sonneborn, confidential report (1948), Leo Baeck Institute, Sonneborn family collection AR 4802; David Ben-Gurion, diary, 1 July 1945 (Ben-Gurion Archives); Leonard Slater, The Pledge (1970); Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine (2020); Tom Segev, A State at Any Cost (2019).
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Nnsi :
u mean they were there without setting up a Palestine state
2026-10-17 03:09:58
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scary😨times 🌎 :
free Palestine ♥️
2026-10-17 16:49:28
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Kathie :
Obscene.
2026-10-16 16:10:37
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Mohammed Ayyash 1 :
💯💯💯 FACTS
2026-10-16 12:27:53
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OjoDeAguila :
So a proxy.
2026-10-18 01:22:42
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Moragab :
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ReusZ Reboot :
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Charlie Brown :
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2026-10-16 12:36:18
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John Stone :
Real surname was Grun, Austrian
2026-10-18 05:09:14
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KbraAbra :
It Never Started On OCT 7th 😡
2026-10-18 07:18:27
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The Ultimate Collective-In-One :
Exodus translates to trek in Afrikaans... sounds familiar [Taking notes]
2026-10-17 13:56:15
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Freedom and Humanity :
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2026-10-16 15:48:42
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user5865111361613 :
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2026-10-17 09:54:40
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Atma :
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2026-10-16 10:26:18
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KbraAbra :
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2026-10-18 07:18:12
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Tonantzinhergar :
100% of Palestinians were Arabs. Jews living in Palestine were also Palestinian Arabs. Don’t mix religion with language. Only European Zionists were not Arabs, they spoke different European languages, particularly from Eastern Europe. Most of them were not religious.
2026-10-16 18:14:56
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Gabe itch :
my grandmother is 89 and still has good memories of how the Muslims, Christians and Jews all use to look after each other's Chiang play together until zio crap came along. It breaks my heart that she still suffers till today having her flee her homeland.
2026-10-16 16:19:01
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iamiamthat :
We ARE waking up!!
Gen.cidal I.sr.el was founded via the J.wish Colonial Trust using British imperial power (Balfour Declaration) to displace the indigenous population. Leaders like Herzl marketed it as a "rampart of Europe against Asia," creating a permanent Western military outpost to dominate the region.
It’s all relevant, lookup:
- Benjamin Freedman, 1961 speech
- “The Settlers” & NAZA documentary
- The voice of Hind Rajab
- Dancing Israelis
- “No other land” documentary
- USS Liberty
- The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
- By way of depiction, 1996
- Harrison Mann resignation letter
- Lily Greenberg resignation
- Arron Bushnell immolation
- Rachel Corrie
- Five broken cameras
- Read the transfer agreement
- Read a book by a Palestinian author
- Norman Finklestein
- Ilan Pappe
- Breaking the Silence
- Susan Abulhawa Oxford Debate Speech
- Isr.ael.ism the film
- The book of Talmud
- Walter Edward Guinness
- Folke Bernadotte
- “Take the worst thing you can say about H.am.as, multiple it by 1000 times and it will still not meet the Isr.eli repression and killing and dispossession of the Pal.estin.ians“ Gabor Mate, Hol.ocaust survivor… t
2026-10-16 11:11:33
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Jafri Jabs :
White people refugee and immigrant take mid-east lands and make their country.Can white europe give refugees or immigrant from mid -east land to make their country?
2026-10-17 13:17:30
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Bbobbxx :
The leaders are f srealhave all been evil. Except the one the Israeli assasinated
2026-10-16 16:43:04
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😎 :
Don’t stop showing the world. Expose the racist g’ciders. Apartheid 🇮🇱 was created through false flags and psy-ops. Unjustly stealing the homes and lives of innocent people and still they feel justified and haughty about their g’cide. Occupied 🇵🇸 Always in our 💘s. Keep speaking out and spreading the truth. Settlers are thieves and land grabbing thugs. Freedom for Dr Hussam. We will never forget Rachel Corrie; Hind Rajab, Reem and all the other innocents. DD2IOF. Free Free 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸. IOF are cowards, attack and harassment of old people and children. Shameless behaviour of the chosen for h3ll one’s. Free Free 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
2026-10-17 03:40:55
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smooth :
The Bolsheviks who murdered millions were financed by Jewish bankers on Wall Street .along with thousands of well armed Brooklyn Jews
2026-10-16 17:30:46
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