The Deed

by Gerold Frank

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B002NT4BM4
• Release Date: January 1963
• Publisher: Simon And Schuster
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great history

While detailing all the events and personalities surrounding a horrendous crime--the November 6, 1944 assassination of Lord Moyne in Cairo--this book takes great pains to also describe all the historical background that led up to the murder, and in that respect is a marvelous addition to any library on the Middle East. Ultimately, the book is about human rights, and supports them for all people. Lord Moyne (or the Right Honorable Walter Edward Guinness, first Baron Moyne) served as British Minister of State in the Middle East, and as such represented the government that until 1944 so oppressed the Jewish people in their internationally declared homeland. In 1922, 1929 and 1936, when Arab riots erupted and Jewish families were slaughtered unmercifully and carved to pieces, the British government reacted by arresting all Jewish men found to own a firearm for use in self defense and sentencing the victims to 7 years of imprisonment. Moyne's own personal record was nothing to be proud of: "My dear fellow, whatever would I do with a million Jews?" he had asked Joel Brand, a Hungarian Jew who upon his capture claimed that Hitler had agreed to release that many Jews from death camps upon receipt of 10,000 trucks and quantities of tea, coffee, soap and other goods. He had certainly done nothing, moreover, to aid the escape of Jews from Nazi Europe to their internationally mandated home in Palestine. It was for those reasons, among others, that Itzhak Yizernitsky (Shamir) and Israel Sheib, aka Sambation, had determined many months before the deed that Moyne was to pay with his life for his and British crimes against the Jewish people. They had chosen to commit the murder two young Zionists, Eliyahu Hakim and Eliyahu Bet Zouri, men from Tel Aviv and Haifa who had witnessed first hand the Arab massacres of Jews and the defenselessness that British mandate government imposed on the Jewish people. There was no question where mandatory favor lay at this particular juncture of history, and both young men intended to do something about it, though that ultimately cost them their lives. This book takes into account Jewish human rights, as well as Arab rights. Read it. --Alyssa A. Lappen