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==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
| + | * Gelber Yoav. 2006. '''Palestine 1948: War, Escape And The Emergence Of The Palestinian Refugee Problem''' ISBN 978-1845190750 | ||
* Ilan Pappe. 2006. '''The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine'''. Oxford: Oneworld. ISBN 978-1-85168-555-4. | * Ilan Pappe. 2006. '''The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine'''. Oxford: Oneworld. ISBN 978-1-85168-555-4. | ||
| − | * Tom Segev. 1999. '''One Palestine Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate'''. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 978-0-8050-6587-3. | + | * Tom Segev. 1999. '''One Palestine Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate'''. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 978-0-8050-6587-3. |
| + | * Benny Morria. 2004. '''The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited''' Cambridge Middle East Studies. ISBN-10: 0521009677 | ||
==Footnotes== | ==Footnotes== | ||
Revision as of 14:29, 26 December 2011
Palestine was a small territory in the Middle East, on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Originally the Jewish Kingdom Judah, it was renamed as Syria Phalestina by the Romans as a slight at the Jews by naming it after their traditional enemies, the Philistines. After that it passed through various hands, always being a province of an occupying power. Under Ottoman rule, the last rulers prior to the British Mandate, it was divided into 15 different administrative districts. Throughout history, there was always a remnant of the original Jewish population, its prosperity and size varying according to the tolerance of the rulers. Shortly after World War 2, while under the League of Nations Mandate authority of Britain, a small portion of it was used to create a "safe" homeland for the Jews of the world - Israel - in just about the most dangerous place (since Hitler's occupied Eastern Europe) for Jews on the planet. The territory of the Birtish Mandate was divided up, the Trans-Jordan area, 80% of the land of the British mandate, was given to the Hashemite family of Hussein and had a majority Palestinian population. The remaing 20% was divided up between the Jews and Arabs based on the majority population in each area. The city of Jerusalem was designated to be an international city under the United Nations. The Jewish residents jubilantly accepted the division, the Arab High Command refused to recognise it and vowed that there would never be a Jewish state in the area. In 1948, within mnutes of Israel's independence being declared, five Arab armies, supported by two other nations, attacked Israel and seized as much of Jerusalem and land designated to the Jews as possible.
While the Israeli experiment has been largely successful as a refuge and nation for Jews, there still remain some "issues" regarding the mostly Muslim Palestinian Arabs who were displaced in 1948,many leaving at the urging of the Arab High command, and are now refugees, and those who found themselves militarily occupied in 1967. (The issue of the 800,000 Jews expelled from Arab countries after having their possesions and property confiscated has been ignored by the world.) Those who remained within Israel proper are full citizens of the state of Israel with full rights, their own political parties (though many vote for other parties) and full rights. Arab citizens in Israel, with their full citizenship and freedom, have many rights denied to Arabs in neighboring countries (and for which they staged the Arab spring in 2011)
Israel finds itself continuouly under attack from Palestinian terorist organizations, many dedicated to genocide and the eradication of Jews from the region [1], as they carry out terrorist attacks, suicide bombings (reduced since the builingof the security barrier) and rocket attacks against the civilian population. Unfortunately, no lasting solution has yet been found, as many Palestinian militants identify not only Israel as their enemy, but the Jews as well. Fingers crossed, though.
As of 2011, there has been a major push within the mainstream Palestinian factions to gain international recognition as a seperate entity from Israel, with the notion being that they could then get statehood assigned in a fashion similar to how Israel was founded. This was epitomized by Palestinian entry into the United Nations' UNESCO organization.[2] This has been extremely controversial as it has been opposed by the US and EU as being counter-productive to finding a peaceful solution to the crisis. As a result of the UNESCO vote, the USA has stopped all cotnributions and donations to UNESCO.[3] Another issue that has not been addressed and seems to be ignored by those supporting the Palestinian bid is the stated intention of the Palestinain Authority to commit ethnic cleansing and to expel all Jews from areas tey gain control off, regardless of how long or the historical connection such communties might have. Thus ancient Jewish communities in cities like Hebron and Bethlehem are under threat of ethnic cleansing, with the support of the world. Sadly, it seems some things never change and the world has no objection to the ethnic cleansing of Jews.[4][5][6]
Sources
- Gelber Yoav. 2006. Palestine 1948: War, Escape And The Emergence Of The Palestinian Refugee Problem ISBN 978-1845190750
- Ilan Pappe. 2006. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Oxford: Oneworld. ISBN 978-1-85168-555-4.
- Tom Segev. 1999. One Palestine Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 978-0-8050-6587-3.
- Benny Morria. 2004. The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited Cambridge Middle East Studies. ISBN-10: 0521009677
Footnotes
- ↑ http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/www.thejerusalemfund.org/carryover/documents/charter.html
- ↑ Mahmoud Abbas raises Palestinian flag at UNESCO
- ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/unesco-votes-to-admit-palestine-over-us-objections/2011/10/31/gIQAMleYZM_story.html
- ↑ http://internationalopinion.com/id305.html
- ↑ http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/plo-official-palestinians-israelis-must-be-totally-separated-1.384493
- ↑ http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/08/12/ethnic-cleansing-jews-abbas/