The more things change...

The more they stay the same.

Fascinating photos from Palestine, 1930 to 1949.  There are tons more at the link. It was difficult to stop scrolling through and compose a post.

Allied forces under the Command of General Allenby, take Jerusalem from the Turks and their German allies. The picture shows King Faisul of Iraq and General Allenby.

Two trucks exploded on Ben Yehuda Street, in the heart of the Jewish business district of Jerusalem, Feb. 2, 1948, killing 27 people and injuring more than 100 others. (AP Photo/Pringle).

An Arab, armed with a sub-machine gun, stands guard at JerusalemÂ’s Wailing Wall on Feb. 23, 1948. Jews are being kept from this centuries-old holy place by Arabs for the first time since the Arab-Jewish disorders in 1939. (AP Photo/JP)

British captors of Old Jerusalem await fresh military orders ourside the Damascus Gate through which they penetrated the lines of the Arab rebels. (AP Photo/James Mills).  The Tommies are still wearing the same helmet that the English army has for centuries.

Jerusalem’’s main street inter-section-Zion Square, on Nov. 28, 1945. (AP Photo)

Members of the Jewish right-wing underground organization Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization in the Land of Israel) are armed with rifles, revolvers and automatic weapons as they take position on the rooftop of a Jewish house in case of Arab attack on the Jaffa – Tel Aviv border in the Manshiah Jewish quarter in Tel Aviv, Israel, on December 27, 1947. The Zionist guerrilla force began an armed revolt against British rule in Palestine. (AP Photo/James Pringle).

What a trio of cuties.  I wonder what their ultimate fate was?

Typical group of women of the holy land who, as in the time of the old testament, carry water from the wells on their heads in quaint, home-made vessels of clay. They dress, too, much in the same way as the women did in the time of Christ. This group on the Mount of Olives, in Jerusalem, on Sept. 1, 1938. (AP Photo).