ABC Middle East Brief facts prior current conflict
"palestinians", History
ISRAEL or "palestine" Which is it?
Jerusalem, FACTS
'palestinians' in Israel, natives or ALIENS?
History & Meaning palestine, "palestinians"
Biblical/Historical Facts about the Land
Multimedia/ Videos
"Palestinian" Rocks - Infant stoning victim dies of wounds
 "Palestinian" FAKE Photos & Videos INDUSTRY
The �al-Aqsa Intifada� � An Engineered Tragedy [How many of the 'Palestinians' were/are really unarmed]
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Israel's war [Arab traditional Violence]
(Excerpt from article) By E. Karsh
From the very beginning, the Arabs' primary instrument for opposing Jewish national aspirations was violence, and what determined Arab politics and diplomacy was the relative success or failure of that instrument in any given period. As early as April 1920, Arab nationalists sought to thwart Zionist activity (and to rally support for incorporating Palestine into the short-lived Syrian kingdom headed by King Faisal ibn Hussein) by carrying out a pogrom in Jerusalem in which five Jews were killed and 211 wounded. The following year, Arab riots claimed a far higher toll-some 90 dead and hundreds wounded. In the summer of 1929, another wave of violence resulted in the death of 133 Jews and the wounding of hundreds more.
For quite some time, this confrontational approach seemed to be working. It was especially effective in influencing the British, who had been appointed the mandatory power in Palestine by the League of Nations. Though the explicit purpose of the British was to facilitate the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine, the mandatory authorities repeatedly gave in to Arab violence aimed at averting that purpose and to the demands that followed upon it. In two White Papers, issued in 1922 and 1930 respectively, Great Britain severely compromised the prospective Jewish national home by imposing harsh restrictions on immigration and land sales to Jews.
In July 1937, Arab violence reaped its greatest reward when a British commission of inquiry, headed by Lord Peel, recommended repudiating the terms of the mandate altogether in favor of partitioning Palestine into two states: a large Arab state, united with Transjordan, that would occupy some 90 percent of the mandate territory, and a Jewish state in what was left. This was followed in May 1939 by another White Paper that imposed even more draconian restrictions on Jewish immigration and land purchases, closing the door of Palestine to Jews desperate to flee Nazi Europe and threatening the survival of the Jewish national project. Agitating for more, the Arabs dismissed both plans as insufficient.
They did the same in November 1947 when, in the face of the imminent expiration of the British mandate, the UN General Assembly voted to partition Palestine; rejecting this solution, the Arab nations resolved instead to destroy the state of Israel at birth and gain the whole for themselves. This time, however, Arab violence backfired spectacularly. In the 1948-49 war, not only did Israel confirm its sovereign independence and assert control over somewhat wider territories than those assigned to it by the UN partition resolution, but the Palestinian Arab community was profoundly shattered, with about half of its population fleeing to other parts of Palestine and to neighboring Arab states.
Palestine Arab Riots 1920-21
Hebron 1929 Massacre Homepage
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 "Palst." -Terrorists Use Another Ambulance This time A UN's
 Earlier Cases Use of Ambulances For Terror
 Arabian Apartheid, Wall and More...
 Guilty 'Palstn' Teachers And Parents, Why Their Children Die
 Their Criminal Use Of Human Shields Why their Civilians Die
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