Dazzle - The Complete Unabridged Trilogy by Gould Judith

Author:Gould, Judith [Gould, Judith]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: actresses, israel, actress, arab, palestine, new york, marriage, hollywood bombshell, movie star, action, hollywood, terrorism
Publisher: Malden Bridge Press
Published: 2011-01-09T16:00:00+00:00

SPECIAL TO THE HERALD EXPRESS

by John Fogel

A six-member Jewish delegation led by Schmarya Boralevi, an outspoken Palestinian resident who is urging the British to surrender control of the eastern Mediterranean Mandate and turn it into a nation for the world's Jewish peoples, will stop here as part of a nationwide tour.

Boralevi, a Russian Jew by birth, who suffered devastating bodily injury at the hands of the Okhrana, the dreaded secret police of the late Czar, and immigrated to the Holy Land in 1918, said in a New York speech that he will attempt to hand-deliver a detailed report to President Roosevelt during his delegation's stopover in Washington, DC. To date, there has been no response from the White House as to whether or not a meeting with the President will be granted.

'Palestine is the Holy Land for the world's Christians,' an impassioned Boralevi told a packed synagogue on Manhattan's West Side, 'but everyone forgets that it was the Israelites whom Moses led there in order to obtain freedom from the oppression of the Pharaoh. Now, through military, police, and immigration tactics, the British are keeping the rightful heirs of Moses from their Promised Land.'

He denounced the British Mandate as 'a yoke of slavery and oppression, which has more than outlasted its need or welcome'. He also claims that he is 'a fugitive of sorts' in his adopted land.

'I am a wanted man, constantly in transit,' he said. 'For years now, the authorities have been trying to arrest me.' According to the British, Boralevi and a band of his supporters are wanted for smuggling hundreds of illegal immigrants into Palestine 'by land and by sea'. More recently, he claims to have been responsible for several air flights, originating from Greece or Cyprus, landing in deserted areas of Palestine by night.

The problems in Palestine in general and with the British Mandate in particular are not new. As the Great War drew to a close, Dr. Chaim Weitzmann obtained the famous Balfour Declaration of November 2, 1917, from Great Britain, which pledged British support for the establishment of Palestine as a 'national home' for the world's Jewish people.

However, as the Aliyah, or immigration, of Jewish pioneers to Palestine began, the British found themselves facing a greater wave of immigrants than they expected, as well as growing Arab unrest. Clashes between the new settlers and the old Arab inhabitants increasingly turned into bloody battles, with fatalities on both sides.

Giving in to mounting Arab pressure, the British exempted Trans-Jordan from the provisions of the Mandate, thereby in a single move barring most of the territory from both Jewish immigration and land development. In their struggle to be impartial to both Arabs and Jews, the British deemed it necessary to stem the flow of Jewish immigrants. Laws specifically aimed at discouraging Jewish settlement paved the way to higher taxes and set strict rules in the area of agriculture.

'First the government of Great Britain wants to help us set up a homeland,' Boralevi thundered, 'and simultaneously they

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