Arab MKs: Jews hanged by British mandate were terrorists

This goes nowhere either you reject violence or you don't whoever is involved. There are hundreds of examples do we need a list we can also all argue over how far back do we go...My Lai massacre, Bloody Sunday, numerous IRA bombings, Hamas rockets, Israels Gaza incursion, the Black and Tans in Ireland, King David Hotel bombing,Deir Yassin massacre, the various PLO actions...can anyone really argue the rights and wrongs of all these?

Your description of the treatment of prisoners sounds good. What about those who die under torture and those who are killed before reaching prison?

You make the invidious comparison between IDF targeted killings of terrorist operatives who have been eliminated while they are in the midst of actively plotting so-called "martyrdom operations" (aka suicide bombings) and the British kangaroo courts that executed Jewish freedom fighters during the Mandate era of their imperialist colonization of our country. If you had any knowledge of how Arab terrorists in Israeli custody are treated, you would know that they have regular Red Cross visits, and even have opportunity to obtain higher education at the expense of the Israeli taxpayers. Terrorists captured and convicted by Israel, such as the murderous Samir Kuntar, who bashed a little Israeli girl's head in with a rifle butt, get Master's degrees during their incarceration, and later get released in lopsided prisoner exchanges for bodies or dog tags of missing Israeli soldiers.

You claim that "Zionist-controlled" (codeword for Jewish-controlled) US media highlights "how Muslim extremists honor killers of innocent, but we never hear that Kahane & Baruch Goldstein were honored by a considerable number of Israelis." It's simply false to say that US media ignores Jewish extremism. You can find many reports about it. What is true is that the sources you cite EXAGGERATE Jewish extremism and MINIMIZE Islamic extremism. Nobody denies that there is a small hardcore of fanatics in the Israeli/Zionist camp--but they are not mainstream. When Goldstein committed his crime he was immediately & widely throughout nearly all sectors of the Israeli political establishment. However, it was like pulling teeth to get Arafat to condemn Hamas bombings even in the Oslo heyday, and in the intefada he even praised such atrocities. In Israeli society, Jewish extremism is fringe, whereas in Palestinian Arab society, Islamic extremism is mainstream and moderation is fringe.

The organisation we called terrorists or Porshim whose fallout is at present ou Prime Minister, were far from peacefull fighters. from 45 to 48 with Altalena they did plenty of good things such as sending explosive loaded mail to a certain people abroad (in certain casses it was the secretary who got it), at the same time the Hagana which nowadays you treat as "lefftist" brought o the country boat after boat of jews who escaper the "rightist" german treatment. It was Begin's men whobrought the ship ALTALENA loaded with arms for their own units refusing to hand it over to the central command and pefering a combat on the shore of tel Aviv. at about the same time it was the ETZEL units who executed innocent people, wemen and children in DIR YASSIN, I know it I saw the photos they took of a certain number of the bodies. SO please reconsider what LEFTIST is, What terrorist is, and what rightist is

during the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech commemorating the Jews hanged at the gallows by the British mandate before the establishment of the State of Israel. Maybe you should address your question to Bibi, as to why the status of various Jewish groups before 1948 is relevant to doing the job as Prime Minister today? If Bibi can do his job and speak about the status of various Jewish groups before 1948, so can Tibi!

I fail to see how the status of various Jewish groups before 1948 is relevant to doing the job as MK today. Unless of course their was a bill on the matter, which I doubt was the case. People like Tibi were elected supposedly to represent those who voted for his party and support and try to bring legislation which would be beneficial to them. I am curious how much time does he spend trying to work with his fellow legislators to improve his peoples lot and how much does he spend making bombastic statements on irrelevant topics? If he is unable to do his job maybe the Arab community can find someone who can.

Jews killed for freedom and human dignity that was being taken. the palestinians have been so degraded that they kill for hatred and jealousy. THATS THE DIFFERENCE. and this clown is not embarassed to advertise that he can't tell the difference.

Those "terrorists" were hanged. Be careful what can of worms you open. Maybe all terrorists should be hanged!!

The revisionists did cause trouble for PM David Ben Gurion and they used conventional warfare with a goal to rid of British Mandate. Apparently the Hagganah worked sometimes together with them. But this activity was not permitted to continue indefinitely and they were the minority. They also warned the British before the bombing of King David Hotel. It wasn't a pretty era nevertheless. Now how long are the Palestinian terrorists at it? It's decades of hostility towards Israel and it's time to negotiate for peace rather than continuing the armed struggle. It perpetuates more fear and less trust in one another. Hamas should accept the Quartet's three conditions to begin diplomatic negotiations for the sake of ending occupation.

and were hanged for that. They were not hanged for what others did, like killing the British Minister of the Colonies of the British Empire, i.e. the epithomy of colonialism and Imperialism. They sure did not blow up an Arab Falafet stand full of little children.

Why do you let traitors to be part of the Government. They represent their people in the their own government, let them go join the PA.

screaming allahu akbar.Jews have a 3000 year ocnnection to Israel and those Jews who fought for Israel were fighting for what was theirs. The British created the mufti Husseni position to work with nazi's and renged on San Remos 1920 giving Israel also GH,WB anf Jerusalem and Jordan to the Arabs. I am sorry but Arab terrorism Islamic terrorism is satanic and kills innocents that have nothing to do with them.How many people died at the hands of terrorists

Of course they were terrists. Not even a point of debate like the Stern Gang. The other revisionsists are more modern day well perhaps. The Settlers much more like Hamas & Islamic Jihad et al than they seems to realise. A pox on all their houses.

The fact that others acted as terrorists may not justify contemporary terrorism, but i would appreciate an explanation of why one is justified and the other not. Unless this is an example of the zionist theory that acts by Jews are not to be judged by the same standards as acts of others. Some of us feel that if it is acceptable when done BY a Jew, it is acceptable if done TO a Jew. But then we are, by saying that, defining ourselves as anti-semitic.

I see what Israel has to go thru to survive. It is surrounded by hate filled Arabs that control all the land except for the speck occupied by Israel. Perhaps not all terrorists are Arabs but all the world terror today has some connection to Arabs or to Islam. I wish Israel the best and may God always be with you.

"Jews are not perfect beings...not constructive to...point blame at parties back to...1940s...that Revisionists have engaged in acts of `terror` in no way justifies contemporary terrorism." But if what those Revisionist Zionists established through their terrorism was a terrorist state, at the very least resistance to that terrorism (both before and after the establishment of the state) is legitimate. So who started it all? & dont say Pals started it cos they "rejected partition." Any rational person wouldv rejected it. partition was asked for cos Pals had already rejected minority Jewish rule over a Pal majority, which is what Zionists originally wanted. If held captive u give me the option of freedom, with u keeping only my hand, i'l reject offer &fight for my body incldng hand. despite me being in the right, u win & take my hand. Then u offer freedom takin only my leg. Same outcome. Then my eye. Same outcome. My constant rejection is legitimate. U were never in the moral right

Of course they were, and proud of it. They were striking out at what they viewed as a repressive regime determined to suppress, prevent and destroy the nation they wished to create. They sought to induce terror in Arabs and Britons so as to cause the creation of Israel. Of course they were terrorists. They were, also, opposed by the OVERWHELMING majority of Jewish Palestinians because of their ruthless and murderous actions. That opposition, that fundamental decency which objected to the murder of innocent people, police and politicians is what should be noted. Not the lunatics of the Irgun and Etzel who were nothing but terrorists who harmed those honestly working towards the dream they all shared.

one huge difference between the "terrorists" who blew up the king david hotel, and the arab "terrorists" was that the jews were going after political targets whereas the arabs target civilians on buses and in pizza parlors and at seders and then give all praise to allah.

Jew; Well, you are actually treating Arab terrorists the same as the British treated jewish terrorists. You only use another name for it. Nowadays it's called "targeted killings", which is the same thing as excectution but without conviction. So this makes it even more illegal according to international law. By the way, it's disgusting to hear that the elected parliment in Israel commemorate terrorist of the past.

These MKs are right, of course. There's no difference between the Irgun, Stern Gang and Hamas. They all targetted civilians. They're all terrorists and frankly if Bibi's so keen on them, we should be boycotting his government like we boycott Hamas.

Well said. One man's meat is another man's poison. Shame not everyone is as capable of looking a situation in the eye as you are.

"We should start treating the Arab terrorists the way the British treated the Jewish ones and hang them too!" What do you think Duvdevan is for?

We get it. Jewish terrorists good, Muslim terrorists bad. Whether in the early 1900's or today.

There are many areas of the World that are peaceful today, and it is not the end of times.

Thank you Arab MK's. Here in the USA, the Zionist controlled media, they call Palestinians "terrorists". This word is never applied to Sharon or any other Zionist war criminal. People in the USA are more aware of that now. We need an unbiased media. We always hear about how Muslim extremists honor killers of innocent, but we never hear that Kahane and Baruch Goldstein were honored and are still honored by a considerable number of Israelis and Jews today. I'm personally tired of the "Hasbarah" and the Zionist propaganda in our Media. I no longer trust our media. I use the internet now for my news sources. I prefer news from China, Russia, European Countries, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, and Australia. I will try to stay away from the Zionist brainwashing machine, aka our US media. No I'm not anti-Semitic, my wife is Jewish and we always talk about this stuff, we do not agree most of the times!

without irgun and lehi the british would still control the mandate? the mandate gave no rights to arabs but provided jordan as the arab palestine ? what is happening now is an attempt to twice partition the mandate !

There was at the time the resistance or "tnuat hameri" which englobed all the clandestine movements (hagana, etzel and lehi). after the king david explosion all relations with what the very large majority of the yshuv called the terror organizations were cut off and the hagana started the "saison" when they tried to apply force in order to tame these organizations which were called the "porshim" or separatists organizations. In a certain way it is just about what the palestinian authorities are trying to do, I have the impression that they succeed somewat better than we did at the time.

The British soldiers who killed five random Jewish civilians in Tel Aviv following the hanging of two British officers in the late 1940's were also terrorists. But what is the point of all this?

Sam the Gentile, Very nice job of putting a new angle on blaming Jews for anti-Semitism. I also like how you lumped "many" Jews into one category of hypocrites. You don't know me. You don't know what I believe. And mostly, you don't know what you are talking about.

It is about decorum. A speech was being made. An uncultured twit was out of order. Believe it or not, the starting place for progress begins at an orderly forum.

yep get over it. let us construct settlements over property stolen from the palestinians and claim that we are a moral race. we now stand exposed as a failed war mongering nation.

He was drawing attention to the hyperbolic and worthless use of the term terrorist and the double standards and hypocisy involved in its application.

Sounds that Tibi this time is right.will be healthy to Israel to acknowledge this facts.that shows strength and we are a strong nation.

is certainly grand!

If the British rightly hanged 'revisionists' or Jewish terrorists, should Israel hang Pal terrorists? Is that not the logical conclusion of the Arab MKs logic?

It's possible some of the Jews hanged were terrorists, others not. Britain had the Mandate for Palestine and the job of setting up a renewed Jewish homeland. The modern State of israel is based on the British constitution, with a non-political head of state, a prime minister and parliamentary govt with an independent judiciary, plus an established religion paid for by the state. Britain made some major errors, and so did the revisionists.

Those who perpetrated the King David explosion in 1946, those who murdered Lord Moyn in Egypt as well as those hanged by the british in Acre, may be called terrorists if one looks at what they did. because all depends on what side of the action you stay. Are those who caused the death of several hundred thousands of irakis and those who sent them to act may be considered rerrorists? So all is relative and there was no reason to oust members of the Knesset. This being said, one day, perhaps, when and if there will be peace in our region, each one of the parties will have his heros and we'll carry swords no more and there will be no more war, and the messaiah will come and we shall all go up to Jerusalem singing Haleluyah. Only this will be at the end of times. In the meanwhile we have little choice but have the leaders we merit, poor us.

Evidently he doesn't understand one of the most important tenets of zionism which is that the rules that apply to everyone else do not apply to Jews.

Jews are not perfect beings and have committed personal failings. It is not constructive to continually point blame at parties back to the 1940s. The fact that Revisionists have engaged in acts of 'terror' in no way justifies contemporary terrorism. I believe, that the Revisionist Zionists, were not even necessary for the creation of the Israeli state, but I could be wrong on this point...

A most revealing arab view of the concept of truth: One has the right to call whatever one wants the truth. A purely personal or national decision.

We should start treating the Arab terrorists the way the British treated the Jewish ones and hang them too !

Good for them. It is time for Israelis and Jews to think, what really is the difference between them and us gentiles? If we are really to be "equal", anti-semitism needs to die, but so does the double standard among many Jews regarding the qualities of their own ethnicity.