Israel and Palestine

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   ISRAEL and PALESTINE

This is not meant to be a objective or balanced portrayl, it's just a bunch of pictures that spoke to me.

Young Palestinian girls

Jews pray at the Western Wall of the
old Temple in the early 20th Century. After the state of Israel
captured the Old City of Jerusalem in 1967, the Palestinian houses to the left and
background were removed opening a larger area.

After arrival in Haifa, new Jewish
citizens wait for a ride to their new dwellings, in a refugee camp or
on a kibbutz. As soon as space is available, they will move in, the
next day to become the builders of living spaces themselves.

With parents nowhere to be seen, and debris all around, this Palestinian child in Haifa has become a refugee in his homeland.

Palestinian refugees evacuated under U.N. supervision headed, with all their belongings, to Gaza.

The temple area of the Mosque of Omar or Dome of the Rock is shown, with one of the sacred wells in the foreground.

A crowd of pilgrims throng the streets in the little town of Bethlehem on Christmas Day. Palestine, ca 1870s.

Looking down a Jerusalem street as
British police forces attempt to contain an Arab mob protesting
government measures allowing the confiscation of homes for emigrating Jews. November, 4, 1933.

Although
at one point Haifa was a mixed area, new immigrants have placed the
barbed wire that now barracades separate Jewish-only neighborhoods from
Arab ones.

Between 8-9 June, in accordance with
the Israeli government, settlers move into Elon Moreh camp seized fromm
Palestinian agricultural workers, 3 kms from Nablus in the West Bank.
The tents were later replaced by prefabricated buildings.

People
from homes confiscated and destroyed by the Israeli army in Beit Sahur,
east of Bethlehem, wait for caravans that will take them to Gaza. For
the first time the Israeli army has claimed the homes of wealthy and
influential Palestinians.

Jewish
immigrants celebrate on land recently confiscated from Palestinians.
Centuries old homes were torn down to make way for a modern settlement.

Four Arabs with automatic rifles
guard an Arab village near Jerusalem, recently attacked by the Haganah,
the Israeli Defence Force.

A Jewish car passes an impressed
crowd on Ben Yehuda Street during display of military might on eve of
end of original U.N. truce. Fighting has stopped again in Jerusalem in
compliance with a U.N. ultimatum and a new truce in all Palestine is
awaited.

A crowd of Egyptian and Palestinian
demonstrators outside the United Nations headquarters at Gaza after
Israel's departure from the area. 1957.

Women Zionists Become Salesladies.
Representatives of various groups of the New York Chapter of Hadasseh
the Women's Zionist Organization of America, are seen here at Hearn's
Department store in New York, just before they took their places behind
counters as sales ladies on Feb. 15th. A percentage of the day's sales
will be turned over to the organization for health and medical work
conducted by the society in Palestine. Left to right-seated: Mrs.
Nathan D. Pearlman, Mrs. Rebekah Kohut, Mrs. David De Sola Pool, and
Mrs. Israel Goldstein. Standing left to right: Mrs. Berman, and Mrs.
Bernard S. Deutsch.

Israelis gather at a port in Haifa to
celebrate the end of England's occupation and the beginning of the new
Jewish state of Israel.

Jerusalem, Palestine: View of
Jerusalem from the Russian Church in the Garden of Gethsemane. In the
middle distance are the Walls of Jerusalem with the sealed Golden Gate
in the center and beyond is the Temple Area with the Mosque of Omar.
Undated photograph.

Quibya, Jordan: A resolution placing
the Palestine question on the U.N. Security Council Agenda last week
cited the incident of October 14th in which sixty-six Arabs were killed
in a raid on the Jordan border village of Quibya. In the Israeli
complaint to the council, Jordan was accused or attacks by Jordan Armed
Forces. Major General Vagn Bennike, Chief of the U.N. Truce Supervision
Team in Palestine arrived by plane last Thursday at the request of the
Security Council, and he described the situation as "critical". These
photographs, supplied by an Arab Source, and made in the border village
of Quibya, show: Center photo: Arab women and children in the village
sit amid the rubble of their homes after the raid.