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Khalidi illustrates the psychological warfare of the Haganah by the use of the Davidka mortar. He writes that it was a "favorite weapon of the Zionists", which they used against civilians: "the Davidka tossed a shell containing 60 lbs. of TNT usually into crowded built-up civilian quarters where the noise and blast maddened women and children into a frenzy of fear and panic."
Dozens of massacres targeting Arabs were conducted by Israeli military forces and between 400 and 600 Palestinian villages were destroyed. Village wells were poisoned in a biological warfare programme and properties were looted to prevent Palestinian refugees from returning. [2] [3] Other sites were subject to Hebraization of Palestinian place ...
Most of the members of the elite class were taken into captivity in Babylon. The city was razed. Only a few people were permitted to remain and tend to the land (Jeremiah 52:16).: In 537 BCE Cyrus the Great, the founding king of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, allowed the Jews to return to Judah and rebuild the Temple.
Fans were upset, too. Baker began replying to and retweeting some of the hate that she was receiving. On Monday, she noted that Babyface was contracted to be her special guest and support act ...
Refugees moving westwards in 1945. During the later stages of World War II and the post-war period, Germans and Volksdeutsche fled and were expelled from various Eastern and Central European countries, including Czechoslovakia, and from the former German provinces of Lower and Upper Silesia, East Prussia, and the eastern parts of Brandenburg and Pomerania (Hinterpommern), which were annexed by ...
But it was the penultimate show that really signaled an era was ending. Carson's last two guests were Robin Williams and Bette Midler, and both put on — in the words of another pioneering talk ...
Noah’s Grammys hosting gig was one of the first false celebrity guest incidents. "One of your favorite performers is a woman, and that woman is going to be performing at the Grammys," he said ...
The settlements were subsequently razed, with 270 homes being bulldozed. In Sa-Nur, the synagogue was left intact, but was buried under mounds of sand by bulldozers to prevent its destruction by the Palestinians. [67] During the pullout, hundreds of people were arrested for rioting, and criminal charges were filed against 482 of them.