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.
6 November
ASSASSINS HONOURED IN ISRAEL
On this day in 1944 in Cairo, the Zionist LEHI group assassinated Lord Moyne, the British Minister Resident in the Middle East, and his driver. The killers were caught fleeing the scene and hanged five months later. In 1975, Egypt returned the bodies to Israel, where they lay in state and were attended by dignitaries, including the Prime Minister and President. A state funeral with full military honours prompted a formal protest from Britain, but Israel rejected it, referring to the assassins as "heroic freedom fighters”.إسرائيل تكرم القتلة
6 نوفمبر
في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 1944 في القاهرة ، اغتالت مجموعة ليهي الصهيونية الارهابية لورد موين الوزير البريطاني المقيم في الشرق الأوسط وسائقه. تم القبض على القتلة وهم يفرون من مكان الحادث وشنقوا بعد خمسة أشهر. في عام 1975 ،أعادت مصر الجثث إلى إسرائيل ، حيث تم دفنهم في احتفاء رسمي وحضره كبار الشخصيات ، بما في ذلك رئيس الوزراء ورئيس الدوله.أثارت الجنازة الرسمية والاحتفال العسكري احتجاجا رسميا من بريطانيا ، لكن إسرائيل رفضته ، مشيرة إلى القتلة على أنهم "مقاتلون أبطال من أجل الحرية
In a 1993 interview, Yitzhak Shamir, then Israeli prime minister and former leader of the LEHI terrorist gang responsible for Moyne's assassination, explained, "Lord Moyne was the highest British official in the Middle East …. and because we fought against the British in this area, we took him for a target. This was the main reason for his assassination. Certainly, we had known about his hostile attitude towards Zionism, towards the idea of ingathering of the Jewish people here. He was against any Jewish aliyah, any Jewish immigration. He didn’t believe that there exists such a thing like a Jewish nation, or a Jewish people … and therefore, we decided to make this operation."
Churchill, himself no slouch in deploying violence aginst 'inferior' races, denounced "a new set of gangsters worthy of Nazi Germany [and that] many like myself will have to reconsider the position we have maintained so consistently and so long" in support of the Zionist project.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared: “What distinguishes us from our neighbors is that we denounce and condemn murderers in our midst and pursue them until the end, while they name public squares after child murderers...” Eliyahu Hakim, who took part in the assassination of Lord Moyne has a street named after him in Haifa.
Shlomo Ben-Yosef was hanged by the British administrators of Palestine in 1938. He and others threw grenades in a failed effort to kill the the passengers aboard a Palestinian bus. Today there are streets named after him in Akka and Tel Aviv. Ben-Yosef was part of the Irgun, the Zionist armed group that was led by Menachem Begin, later Israel’s prime minister. The first Irgun attacks began around April 1936 and by the start of the Second World War, as many as 250 Palestinians had been killed by the group. The Irgun was denounced as “terrorist” by Albert Einstein and other luminaries in 1948.
Eliyahu Bet-Zuri planned to assassinate Winston Churchill, according to files from the British secret service MI5. He also took part in the killing of Guinness. Israel
