http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patria_disaster
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Patria sinking in Haifa harbor
The Patria was a ship that sank in Haifa harbor on November 25, 1940,
with the loss of approximately 267 lives (over 200 Jews and 50 crew and British soldiers).
Before the decision to exterminate all the Jews in Europe was made in January 1942,
the Nazi policy towards the Jews of Europe still allowed for the reduction of their
numbers by emigration. Jewish organizations, both mainsteam and dissident, ran
operations which attempted to bring Jews from Europe to Palestine contrary to the
strict immigration rules imposed by the British Mandate government.
This required cooperation with the Nazi authorities, who saw the opportunity to make
trouble for the British as well as to get rid of Jews.
The Committee for Sending Jews Overseas was an office that operated under the supervision
of Adolf Eichmann, organizing emigration of Jews from the Nazi-controlled parts of Europe.
In September 1940, three ships organized by the Committee departed from the Romanian port of Tulcea.
The Zionist illegal immigration organization Mossad Le'Aliya Bet had refused cooperation
with the plan because of disputes over the passenger list and funding. The three ships were
the Milos, the Pacific and the Atlantic. Together they carried about 3600 Jewish refugees from
the Vienna, Gdansk and Prague communities, headed for Palestine.
The Pacific reached Palestinian waters on November 1, followed by the Milos a few days later.
They were intercepted by the British navy and taken to Haifa. Warned in advance of the ships'
arrival, the British had chartered another ship, the Patria, for the purpose of deporting the refugees
to the British-held island of Mauritius. The Patria was a 12,000 ton French passenger ship which
had recently been requisitioned by the British following French surrender to Nazi Germany.
The refugees from the Pacific and Milos were soon transferred to the Patria. The Atlantic arrived
on November 24 and the transfer of its passengers also began.
Meanwhile, the Zionist organizations were considering how the deportation plan could be thwarted.
A general strike had little effect. The Irgun worked on the idea of hitting the Patria with a torpedo
from another boat, but it was never put into action.
However, on November 21 a mine was smuggled on board by agents of the Haganah.
The officer in charge of the operation was Yitzhak Sadeh, but his authority came from
Moshe Sharett (Shertok), who was the leader of the Political Department of the Jewish
Agency in the temporary absence of David Ben-Gurion, and years later admitted to having
approved it personally.
At 9am on November 25, after 130 passengers of the Atlantic had been transferred to the Patria,
the mine exploded aboard the ship. The plan had been for the ship to be disabled with few casualties,
but in the event the explosion ripped a large hole in the side of the ship and it began to sink rapidly.
The majority of persons on board were rescued by boats that rushed to the scene, but approximately 267 others,
including about 50 crew and British soldiers, lost their lives.
The surviving refugees from the Patria, together with the remaining 1560 passengers of the Atlantic,
were taken to the Atlit detention camp. Later, after an international campaign, the survivors of the Patria
were given permits to remain in Palestine. However, the Atlantic passengers were forcibly deported to
Mauritius on December 9.
After the war, they were given the choice of where to go; 81% chose Palestine and arrived there in August 1945.
The role of the Haganah was not publicly revealed and for years the British believed that the Irgun was probably
responsible. Ha-Po'el ha-Tza'ir, a newspaper of the ruling Mapai party, unaware that all of the persons responsible
were Mapai leaders, lamented that "On one bitter and impetuous day, a malicious hand sank the ship".
The article led Ben-Gurion's son Amos to physically assault the newspaper's editor.
Meanwhile, a bitter debate over the correctness of the operation was raging in secret within the Zionist leadership.
The decision had been made by an activist faction, without consulting more moderate members according to normal procedure,
and this caused serious internal divisions that persisted for many years. An effort was made to enshrine the incident as
an icon of Zionist determination, but this was largely unsuccessful.
-----
http://guardian.150m.com/palestine/jewish-terrorism.htm
Soon after the end of World War II, there were three basic para-military Zionist organizations
in Palestine, working against the Arab people, with the specific purpose of driving it out of Palestine.
These were the Haganah, the Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Stern Gang.
Before the British Mandate, the Jewish settlers had formed a group of mounted armed watchmen
called "Hashomar" and with the advent of the British Mandate, it became the Haganah (Defense).
With a membership of 60,000 Zionist Jews, the Haganah had a field army of 16,000 trained men
and a unit called the Palmach, which was a full-time force, numbering about 6000.
The Irgun Zvai Leumi included between 3000 and 5000 armed terrorists, and grew out
of the Haganah and its Palmach branch in 1933. The Irgun was not ready to obey the Jewish Agency
which sought to dilute the terror of the Haganah in order not to lose its respectability.
In 1939, one of Irgun's commanding officers, Abraham Stern, left the parent organization
and formed the Stern Gang, numbering some 200 to 300 dangerous fanatics.
August 20, 1937 - June 29, 1939. During this period, the Zionists carried out a
series of attacks against Arab buses, resulting in the death of 24 persons and wounding 25 others.
November 25, 1940. S.S.Patria was blown up by Jewish terrorists in Haifa harbour, killing 268 illegal Jewish immigrants
November 6, 1944. Zionist terrorists of the Stern Gang assassinated the British Minister Resident in the Middle East, Lord Moyne, in
Cairo.
July 22, 1946. Zionist terrorists blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem,
which housed the central offices of the civilian administration of the government of Palestine,
killing or injuring more than 200 persons.
The Irgun officially claimed responsibility for the incident, but subsequent evidence
indicated that both the Haganah and the Jewish Agency were involved.
October 1, 1946. The British Embassy in Rome was badly damaged by bomb explosions,
for which Irgun claimed responsibility.
June 1947. Letters sent to British Cabinet Ministers were found to contain bombs.
September 3, 1947. A postal bomb addressed to the British War Office exploded
in the post office sorting room in London, injuring 2 persons. It was attributed to Irgun
or Stern Gangs. (The Sunday Times, Sept. 24, 1972, p.8)
December 11, 1947. Six Arabs were killed and 30 wounded when bombs were thrown
from Jewish trucks at Arab buses in Haifa; 12 Arabs were killed and others injured in
an attack by armed Zionists on an Arab coastal village near Haifa.
December 13,1947. Zionist terrorists, believed to be members of Irgun Zvai Leumi,
killed 18 Arabs and wounded nearly 60 in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Lydda areas. In Jerusalem,
bombs were thrown in an Arab market-place near the Damascus Gate; in Jaffa, bombs were
thrown into an Arab cafe; in the Arab village of Al Abbasya, near Lydda, 12 Arabs were
killed in an attack with mortars and automatic weapons.
December 19, 1947. Haganah terrorists attacked an Arab village near Safad, blowing
up two houses, in the ruins of which were found the bodies of 10 Arabs, including 5 children.
Haganah admitted responsibility for the attack.
December 29, 1947. Two British constables and 11 Arabs were killed and 32 Arabs injured,
at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem when Irgun members threw a bomb from a taxi.
December 30,1947. A mixed force of the Zionist Palmach and the "Carmel Brigade" attacked
the village of Balad al Sheikh, killing more than 60 Arabs.
1947 -- 1948. Over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs were uprooted from their homes and land,
and forced to live in refugee camps on Israel's borders. They have been denied the right to
return to their homes. They have been refused compensation for their homes, orchards, farms
and other property stolen from them by the Israeli government. After their expulsion, the
"Israeli Forces" totally obliterated (usually by bulldozing) 385 Arab villages and towns, out
of a total of 475. Commonly, Israeli villages were built on the remaining rubble.
January 1, 1948. Haganah terrorists attacked a village on the slopes of Mount Carmel;
17 Arabs were killed and 33 wounded.
January 4, 1948. Haganah terrorists wearing British Army uniforms penetrated into the
center of Jaffa and blew up the Serai (the old Turkish Government House) which was
used as a headquarters of the Arab National Committee, killing more than 40 persons and wounding 98 others.
January 5, 1948. The Arab-owned Semiramis Hotel in Jerusalem was blown up,
killing 20 persons, among them Viscount de Tapia, the Spanish Consul. Haganah
admitted responsibility for this crime.
January 7, 1948. Seventeen Arabs were killed by a bomb at the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem,
3 of them while trying to escape. Further casualties, including the murder of a British officer
near Hebron, were reported from different parts of the country.
January 16, 1948. Zionists blew up three Arab buildings. In the first, 8 children between the
ages of 18 months and 12 years, died.
December 13, 1947 -- February 10, 1948. Seven incidents of bomb-tossing at innocent
Arab civilians in cafes and markets, killing 138 and wounding 271 others, During this period,
there were 9 attacks on Arab buses. Zionists mined passenger trains on at least 4 occasions,
killing 93 persons and wounding 161 others.
February 15, 1948. Haganah terrorists attacked an Arab village near Safad, blew up several
houses, killing 11 Arabs, including 4 children..
March 3, 1948. Heavy damage was done to the Arab-owned Salam building in Haifa
(a 7 story block of apartments and shops) by Zionists who drove an army lorry ( truck)
up to the building and escaped before the detonation of 400 Ib. of explosives; casualties
numbered 11 Arabs and 3 Armenians killed and 23 injured. The Stern Gang claimed
responsibility for the incident.
March 22, 1948. A housing block in Iraq Street in Haifa was blown up killing 17 and injuring
100 others. Four members of the Stern Gang drove two truck-loads of explosives into the street
and abandoned the vehicles before the explosion.
March 31, 1948. The Cairo-Haifa Express was mined, for the second time in a month, by an
electronically-detonated land mine near Benyamina, killing 40 persons and wounding 60 others.
April 9, 1948. A combined force of Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Stern Gang, supported by the
Palmach forces, captured the Arab village of Deir Yassin and killed more than 200 unarmed civilians,
including countless women and children. Older men and young women were captured and paraded
in chains in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem; 20 of the hostages were then shot in the quarry of Gevaat Shaul.
April 16, 1948. Zionists attacked the former British army camp at Tel Litvinsky, killing 90 Arabs there.
April 19, 1948. Fourteen Arabs were killed in a house in Tiberias, which was blown up by Zionist terrorists.
May 3, 1948. A book bomb addressed to a British Army officer, who had been stationed in Palestine
exploded, killing his brother, Rex Farran.
May11, 1948. A letter bomb addressed to Sir Evelyn Barker, former Commanding Officer in Palestine,
was detected in the nick of time by his wife.
April 25, 1948 -- May 13, 1948. Wholesale looting of Jaffa was carried out following armed attacks
by Irgun and Haganah terrorists. They stripped and carried away everything they could,
destroying what they could not take with them.
---------
Scary Shit ! , Nazister der arbejder sammen med Zionister for at få fyldt Palestina op,,,
Jan Rasmussen