Why Was a Nazi Flag Flying from a Jerusalem Hotel FAST in the 1930's? - Jerusalem Pearl Hotel - Draiman
It was replaced by The Jerusalem Pearl Hotel in 1995 by the Draiman family. See picture at the bottom.
Posted: 30 Aug 2015 11:11 AM PDT
We recently published pictures from the British Library's Endangered Archives Program, including this incredible picture of Jaffa Gate of Jerusalem's Old City which we have dated to the mid-1890s. Only in 1898 was the wall near Jaffa Gate breached so that carriages could drive into the city.
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| Jaffa Gate and A(braham) Fast's restaurant. (Debbas Collection, British Library) |
We wanted to know more about the store on the left with the sign "A Fast. Restauranteur." Was this a tourist establishment of Abraham Fast, who in 1907 took over a large hotel several hundred meters to the west of the building pictured above and renamed it "Hotel Fast?"
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| German troops marching in Jerusalem on Good Friday, April 6, 1917. The building on the left is the Fast Hotel. (Imperial War Museum, UK) |
Hotel Fast and its kosher restaurant was a well-known establishment in Jerusalem for decades, and was probably considered by many to be a Jewish-owned establishment because of its Jewish clientele.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The Fasts were German Templers.
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The German consulate in the Fast Hotel, 1933. (Wikimedia, Tamar Hayardeni) |
They lived in Jerusalem's German Colony and were exiled by the British after World War I and during World War II because of their support for Germany.
We recently uncovered pictures of German troops marching in Jerusalem streets on Good Friday 1917. Readers were able to identify the building on the left as the Fast Hotel.
Our biggest surprise was finding this picture of the German consulate in the Hotel Fast with the German Swastika flag flying from the building.
During World War II, the hotel was taken over by the British army command and turned into the Australian army club.
The Hotel Fast building was abandoned in 1967 and torn down in 1976 to make way for the Dan Pearl Hotel - Built by the Draiman family in 1995.
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The Hotel Fast housed Australian soldiers in World War II. Here they are greeting the Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies and the commander of the Australian troops in Australia, Lt. Gen. Thomas Blamey in February 1941. The Matson Photo Service, shown on the ground floor, was run by Eric Matson, originally from the American Colony Photographic Department. Matson left Palestine in 1946 for the United States. His collection of photos were bequeathed to the Library of Congress where many of the pictures in this website were found. (Library of Congress) |
Israel Draiman • Elected Official at City of Los Angeles
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BRIEF FACTS ON THE ISRAELI CONFLICT TODAY... (It takes just 1.5 minutes to read!)
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1. Nationhood and Jerusalem: Israel became a nation in 1312 BC, two thousand (2000) years before the rise of Islam.
2. Arab refugees in Israel began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the establishment of the modern State of Israel.
3. Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 BC, the Jews have had dominion over the land for one thousand (1000) years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years.
4. The only Arab dominion since the conquest in 635 lasted no more than 22 years.
5. For over 3,300 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital. Jerusalem has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even when the Jordanians occupied Jerusalem, they never sought to make it their capital and Arab leaders did not come to visit.
6. Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in Tanach, the Jewish Holy Scriptures. Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran.
7. King David founded the city of Jerusalem. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem.
8. Jews pray facing Jerusalem. Muslims pray with their backs toward Jerusalem.
9. Arab and Jewish Refugees: in 1948 the Arab refugees were encouraged to leave Israel by Arab leaders promising to purge the land of Jews. Sixty-eight percent left (many in fear of retaliation by their own brethren, the Arabs), without ever seeing an Israeli soldier. The ones who stayed were afforded the same peace, civility and citizenship rights as everyone else.
10. The Million Jewish refugees were forced to flee from Arab lands due to Arab brutality, persecution and pogroms.
11. The number of Arab refugees who left Israel in 1948 is estimated to be around 600,000. The number of Jewish refugees from Arab lands is estimated to be about 990,000.
12. Arab refugees were INTENTIONALLY not absorbed or integrated into the Arab lands to which they fled, despite the vast Arab territory. Out of the 100,000,000 refugees since World War II, theirs is the only refugee group in the world that has never been absorbed or integrated into their own people's lands. Jewish refugees were completely absorbed into Israel, a country no larger than the state of New Jersey.
13. The Arab-Israeli Conflict: the Arabs are represented by twenty two separate nations, not including the Palestinians. There is only one Jewish nation. The Arab nations initiated all five wars and lost. Israel defended itself each time and won.
14. The PLO's Charter still calls for the destruction of the State of Israel. Israel has given the Palestinians most of the West Bank land, autonomy under the Palestinian Authority, and has supplied them.
15. Under Jordanian rule, Jewish holy sites were desecrated and the Jews were denied access to places of worship. Under Israeli rule, all Muslim and Christian sites have been preserved and made accessible to people of all faiths.
16. The UN Record on Israel and the Arabs: of the 175 Security Council resolutions passed before 1990, 97 were directed against Israel.
17. Of the 690 General Assembly resolutions voted on before 1990, 429 were directed against Israel.
18. The UN was silent while 58 Jerusalem synagogues were destroyed by the Jordanians.
19. The UN was silent while the Jordanians systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.
20. The UN was silent while the Jordanians enforced an apartheid-like a policy of preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and the Western Wall.
These are incredible times. We have to ask what our role should be. What will we tell our grandchildren about what we did when there was a turning point in Jewish destiny, an opportunity to make a difference?
Two-state solution was implemented in 1922 when British administration of occupied Israel allocated in violation of international treaty and agreements more than 77% of Israel territory to Arab Palestinian Muslims and created Transjordan (now Jordan). Therefore, all so called Arab "Palestinians" must be relocated there in compliance with the 1920 UN Resolution. Enough stealing Israel Jewish land. Britain and Jordan must compensate Israel for stolen land, property and natural resources. Ref: Jewish legal rights to Judea and Samaria By prominent International Law specialist Ted Belman | 12/08/09 | 06:19 AM EDT | http://www.redcounty.com/jewish-legal-rights-judea-and-samaria/3461
ReplyDeleteHas Abbas or his people ever lived up to their promises or agreements, the answer is no.
What has changed, why Israel should trust them now? They teach their children hate and declare that they want to destroy Israel.
A real peace will be an economic boost to all the people in the region. It will create an economy that the rest of the world would envy. In recent years Israel has discovered vast amounts of Natural Gas and Oil, the blackmail by the Arab Oil producing nations is diminished. The United States and many other countries are discovering and developing new sources of Natural Gas and Oil; it will enhance the Energy independence of those countries and boost economic development.
YJ Draiman
Two-state solution was implemented in 1922 when British administration of occupied Israel allocated in violation of international treaty and agreements more than 77% of Israel territory to Arab Palestinian Muslims and created Transjordan (now Jordan). Therefore, all so called Arab "Palestinians" must be relocated there in compliance with the 1920 UN Resolution. Enough stealing Israel Jewish land. Britain and Jordan must compensate Israel for stolen land, property and natural resources. Ref: Jewish legal rights to Judea and Samaria By prominent International Law specialist Ted Belman | 12/08/09 | 06:19 AM EDT | http://www.redcounty.com/jewish-legal-rights-judea-and-samaria/3461
ReplyDeleteHas Abbas or his people ever lived up to their promises or agreements, the answer is no.
What has changed, why Israel should trust them now? They teach their children hate and declare that they want to destroy Israel.
A real peace will be an economic boost to all the people in the region. It will create an economy that the rest of the world would envy. In recent years Israel has discovered vast amounts of Natural Gas and Oil, the blackmail by the Arab Oil producing nations is diminished. The United States and many other countries are discovering and developing new sources of Natural Gas and Oil; it will enhance the Energy independence of those countries and boost economic development.
YJ Draiman