worked here before he came i can put make a member of the converts his name was seen on belmont. we could start the history of israel with hand his life was saved by palestine. the city kid from berlin became a strong field worker and loved it he quickly found friends including arab ones. which had done might be a good shot had a guy back then i worked with a flock of sheep and when we went out with the herd we d meet lots of arabs and i learned arabic from them mostly from them and we became very good friends for. a year earlier he was still the shining boy from berlin s jewish quarter his parents had fled there from persecution in poland to no avail and nine hundred thirty eight the berlin business was destroyed. to save their son from the nazis they sent him to palestine on the last transport of jewish children in one thousand nine hundred thirty nine he was fourteen years old. he had no idea then
decades. saddle shared this fate her seven hundred and fifty thousand palestinians . were they refugees or displaced persons to this day there was still a difference of opinion. i would say that most of the people who fled their homes fled their homes as a result of the war in the sense of battle approaching their homes fear of being harmed in battle a general fear of living under jewish a rule which they did not want and so on i would say a minority is a small minority in fact that the end of the day were physically expelled by the jews in the sense that the state in their homes a jewish force conquered their village or town and ordered them to leave in twenty four hours a small minority of one hundred thousand maybe less is left the country or left
a table and chairs and it smelled strange. it wasn t nice to move into this house the whole street was empty it was dead the apartment seemed like a dead stuffed animal. yes i was supposed to build a new life based on the destroyed lives of others unify the shame i had it should match you up here. war on all fronts the most dangerous opponent was jordan with its powerful army. their main purpose in entering the country was simply to take over a large chunk of palestine that chunk or a large part of their child which had been destined for palestinian arab state would including east jerusalem which was a sort of a jewel in the crowd the holy sites and various other things. as the new ruler settled in and the palestinians had to live under jordanian occupation there
that he would never see his parents again for him the trip was a great adventure. resorted to like his in harbor from shift i mean seeing the land from the ship it was like a dream my sister was at the harbor waiting for me. becomes what she had come to palestine three years earlier. and that feeling that it was a dream no. during the nazi period two hundred thousand european jews fled to palestine it was their only hope almost all other borders were close to them by nine hundred thirty nine palestine s jewish population had tripled. shimon first went to tel aviv it was a modern city that reminded him of the land. founded in one thousand and nine it was a piece of europe in the middle east administered by the british. both jews and arabs
jewish leader to have again gorean was appalled he publicly apologized for the elgon actions thus intensifying a conflict with the right to an external state and his own ranks derriere seen a symbol of jewish finance but the name also marks the start of a propaganda war hue of the ad has had. the claims made at the time for example that women were raped were untrue. everything that was written about the victims was untrue. day yes ceilings lost in ninety three martyrs here. in. the witnesses spoke of ninety three dead not two hundred but few wanted to know the truth it was not until nine hundred ninety eight that a palestinian journalist who was involved at the time revealed in a b.b.c. documentary why and how the figures were manipulated.