Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.
26 March
ZIONISTS DENOUNCE 'NAZI' BRITISH MANDATE LAWS, USE THEM AGAINST PALESTINIANS
On this day in 1970, first Local Council meeting of Karmiel, a city established in 1964 for Jews only. The city was proclaimed the linchpin of the "Judaization of the Galilee" programme. Private Palestinian land was confiscated for "the public good”. Palestinians were kept out by draconian laws from the British Mandate period. Yaaqov Shapira, later Legal Advisor to the Israeli Government, had said 18 years earlier to a conference of lawyers in 1946, "Even in Nazi Germany there were no such laws".
يستنكر الصهاينة القوانين البريطانية 'النازية ' ولكنهم يستخدموها ضد الفلسطينيين
26 مارس
في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 1970 ، انعقد الاجتماع الأول للمجلس المحلي في كرميئيل ، وهي مدينة تأسست عام 1964 لليهود فقط. اعتبرت المدينة كحجر اساس في برنامج "تهويد الجليل". تمت مصادرة الأراضي الفلسطينية الخاصة من أجل "الصالح العام". وتم إبعاد الفلسطينيين بموجب قوانين شديدة القسوة من فترة الانتداب البريطاني. وكان يعقوب شابيرا ، المستشار القانوني للحكومة الإسرائيلية فيما بعد ، قد صرح قبل 18 عامًا في مؤتمر للمحامين عام 1946 ، " حتى في ألمانيا النازية لم تكن هناك مثل هذه القوانين ".
The Emergency Regulations were originally enacted by the crumbling British Empire during the great Arab revolt of 1936-39, which began in Syria and Palestine and then spread throughout the Levant and into Egypt. Passed by the English Parliament and implemented by the British Palestine Mandate Government, they were the most important legal tools used in crushing the revolt.
Later, the same laws, somewhat revised, were directed by the British against the Jewish community to control Jewish immigration and restrict the Zionist acquisition of land. This, of course, explains the attack on them by the Jewish lawyers in 1946. At the 1946 lawyers’ conference, D. Yosef stated: “With regard to the security regulations the question is: Will we all be subject to official terrorism?” At the same meeting, Yaakov Shimshon Shapira proclaimed: "The regime built in Palestine on the Defense Regulations has no parallel in any civilized nation. Even in Nazi Germany there were no such laws.” However, with typical narrow-minded nationalist hypocrisy; notwithstanding these attacks, the Emergency Regulations were incorporated into the legal system of the newly born “Home of the Jewish People,” supposedly the realization of the prophets’ dream of justice and equality. Thus the Zionist morality succeeded in reconciling “Nazi” methods with the prophets’ dream.
The Other Israel, Arie Bober