Against Commentary Magazine, a reader has offered me this Jaffa blogger. Her name’s Yudit, an artist. I want to believe she’s Jewish. Oh my god, there are some beautiful Jews in the world! She says Jaffa, once "bride of the sea" to the Arab population, is now a slummy suburb of Tel Aviv. She resists continuing efforts to push Arabs out, and describes a demonstration the other night at the Etzel Museum, a museum of the Irgun, right in historic Jaffa:
At the etzel museum a small audience listens to a sound & light heroism performance,
We are kept at "a safe" distance, but using old pots and sticks as well as small flutes we raise a lot of noise. Banners
tell the story of the naqbe in Jaffa, of the acts of terror carried out
by Etzel against civilians. Sixty years ago, the naqbe.Reuven
Abergil tells the story of how that happened, while the Brits and the
Hagana conveniently looked in the other direction. They controlled the
road blocks on the way to Jaffa and the Etzel people dressed to look
like local Arabs, passed through with their weapons and explosives. Bombs
hidden inside a watermelon cart and a truck exploded in Jaffa’s market.
Children and women were murdered. The aim was to create terror and make
the population want to flee away.
