Israel-Palestine Conflict Timeline: Top 10 »
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A brief history of Israel and Palestine conflict timeline.
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hyperbola9 months, 1 week ago
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This "timeline"omits so much information that it is virtually useless in understanding the conflict and more or less amounts to zionist propaganda. Even the beginning is not correct. Zionism started as east european racist, nationalist totalitarianism already in the 19th century (much like the origins of nazism and stalinism) and was condemned by honest jews over a century ago because they knew it meant massive ethnic cleansing in Palestine.
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Jewish Criticism of Zionism
...Israel Zangwill, one of Herzl's earliest and strongest supporters, eventually turned against the idea of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine. Ironically it was Zangwill who coined the phrase "a land without a people for a people without a land." It was this phrase that became the potent rallying call for Zionist settlement in Palestine.14
It was not until 1904 that Zangwill realized that there was a fundamental problem with the Zionist program. In a speech given in New York in that year he explained:
There is. . . a difficulty from which the Zionist dares not avert his eyes, though he rarely likes to face it. Palestine proper has already its inhabitants. The pashalik of Jerusalem is already twice as thickly populated as the United States, having 52 souls to every square mile, and not 25 percent of them Jews; so we must be prepared either to drive out by the sword the tribes in possession as our forefathers did, or to grapple with the problem of a large alien population, mostly Mohammedan.. . . This is an infinitely graver difficulty than the stock anti-Zionist taunt that nobody would go to Palestine if we got it. . . .15
Zangwill and many other leading Zionists split from the movement in 1905 ...
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hyperbola9 months, 1 week ago
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You might, for example, have included the fact that the British promised independence to the Arabs even before the Balfour Declaration.
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Arab Revolt (1916)
A revolt against Turkish rule in the Middle East. In July 1915 Hussein ibn Ali, Sherif of Mecca, negotiated with Britain about rising up against the Ottoman Empire, a German ally during World War I, which ruled the Middle East at the time. In return, the British High Commissioner in Egypt, Sir Henry McMahon, promised that Britain would support Arab independence once Turkish control had come to an end. The revolt began in June 1916, when an Arab army of some 70,000 men, financed by Britain and led by Faisal I, moved against Turkish forces. They captured Aqabah and cut the Hejaz railway, a vital strategic link through the Arab peninsula which ran from Damascus to Medina. This enabled British troops under Allenby to advance into Palestine and Syria. With the capture of Damascus (1 October 1918) Turkish hold on the Middle East ended. Despite their promise to support Arab independence, the British took charge of governing Transjordan, Iraq, and Palestine as a Mandate themselves, while France took control of Syria and the Lebanon. As a further affront, the Balfour Declaration directly contradicted the British commitment to the Arabs through the promise to support an independent Jewish state in Palestine.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O46-ArabRevolt.ht...
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Skeptic9 months, 1 week ago
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Referring to 1981 "Sabra and Shatila Tragedy," the incident actually occurred in 1982 and was carried out by the Christian Phalangist Militia. The Palestinians who were killed were killed because they were Muslims in Lebanon, not because they were Palestinian.
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Refer to the John Hopkins News Letter article by Joe Brownstein of September 27, 2002. The article concludes that the incident wrongly blames Israel and is an attempt to wrongly blame Israel for an action that they actually opposed.-
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hyperbola9 months, 1 week ago
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Actually Sabra and Shatilla was the consequence of decades of prior Israeli war crimes in Lebanon. It is no accident that Sharon collaborated with a fascist organization (the Lebanese Phalange is named after Franco's Falange in Spain and modelled on nazism) to try to divide Lebanon.
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Sharon’s war crimes in Lebanon: the record
Israel, Lebanon and Zionist expansionism
While public attention has focused on the atrocities at Sabra and Shatilla, the record shows that these were the culmination of 15 years of military action by Israel in Lebanon, much of which constituted war crimes. Israel’s aim was to disperse the Palestinian refugees created by the establishment of the Zionist state and the 1948-9, 1967 and 1973 wars. To this end, Sharon sought to destroy the Palestinians’ emerging political and military organisations, sow divisions between the Palestinians and those countries in which they sought sanctuary, and prevent the unification of the Arab working classes and oppressed masses against Israel and its imperialist backers.
Israel presented its military action in Lebanon and its subsequent invasion in 1982 that led to the bombing and siege of Beirut, the expulsion of the PLO and the atrocities at Sabra and Shatilla, as a defensive reaction to Palestinian raids on her northern towns. But as the historical record shows, in reality, its “Operation Peace for Galilee” flowed inexorably from the logic of Zionist expansionism.
The Israeli invasion of the Lebanon in June 1982 was prepared through numerous provocations against the Palestinians and Lebanon designed to torpedo the 1981 Fahd Peace plan (named after the then Crown Prince and now King of Saudi Arabia). This plan recognised Israel’s right to exist and called for a Palestinian state in the territories occupied by Israel since the 1967 war. Such a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict cut across Israel’s plans, only partially implemented in the June 1967 war, to expand its borders....
The Zionists had long had an interest in Lebanon, one of four small states carved out of the Syrian province of the Ottoman Empire by French imperialism in the aftermath of World War I. In 1938, Ben Gurion, who was to become Israel’s first prime minister in 1948, envisaged a state of Israel that would include Southern Lebanon as far as the Litani River..
In the mid-1950s, the Israeli government considered the break-up of Lebanon, the establishment of a Christian state and the annexation of Southern Lebanon. Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan, foreshadowing what was to happen in the late 1970s, argued that this could be achieved by winning over or bribing a military officer who would put himself at the head of the Maronites and provide the pretext for an Israeli invasion.
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Endoscopy9 months, 1 week ago
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The British mandate ending is written wrong. The British had tried to create the Muslim and Jewish countries previously but WW1 intervened. Then Britain created the two countries in 1948 with the UN. Your description makes it seem if the Jews were not given the land but just took it. Not the case.
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Hyper is at it again. He is a Muslim friend of Hamas.
Shana4Liberty is right this conflict goes back to Muhammad. When the three tribes of Jews in Yathrib (now Medina) did not convert he ran two of them out and one he had the men beheaded and the women and children taken as slaves. Muslims have hated Jews from that point. -
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Edmar149 months, 1 week ago
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Better check the public records of the United Nations on the Partition Vote. Then, you can Google, because obviously you are ignorant of more than one fact, exactly how Truman came to make America the first country to recognize the new State of Israel. You may need to go back in Truman's past to understand why he advocated voting for the UN resolution on Partition. Hyperbola, you are a Hamas wannabe. Only Hamas and Hezbollah can claim victory against Israel while it's cities lie in ruin and it's leaders are in hiding. By Hamas' very reasoning that it won the war because it survived as an entity, Japan won WWII because the emperor continued to rule because America let him. Unfortunately, propaganda doesn't make truth. It just makes you look like a fool in front of educated people. It works for Hamas because the people are basically uneducated. It doesn't work here because basically, the people are educated.
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CHAM9 months, 1 week ago
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edmar14. Is it possible that you can prove that you are a Professor as you claim? I notice that when Hyper writes, the writing gives times, dates, etc. Many that I as a 71 year old remember. But when you speak of how stupid, uninformed, and agenda driven Hyper is, you don't give facts backed by documentation, you just get personal. I always recognized that as the tactic of a charlatan.
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Itop, I know that you meant well but there is so much missing from each of the ten that no one would be able to assess why those stories are in the top ten.
Sill I though it was thought provoking.
Islam has been here longer than Christianity and Issac and Ishmael were half-brothers. In the Old Testament God recognized Ismael as a son of Abraham and promised Hagar that Ishmael would be the cause of great nations.
But as a Christian Mutainia, you would not base your salvation on the Covenant with Abraham, rather you would base your salvation on the sacrifice of Jesus.
With this event, the Mosaic Law was superseded, that is if you are a Christian. The Jews are still waiting for the Messiah.
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