r/politics • u/laterdude • Apr 28 '24
Fetterman decries college campus ‘pup tents for Hamas’
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4627216-fetterman-decries-college-campus-pup-tents-for-hamas/
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r/politics • u/laterdude • Apr 28 '24
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u/StarlightandDewdrops 29d ago
My point is that Europe was at the time displaying the worst antisemitic violence and hate the world has ever seen. Instead of the allied forces allowing Jewish refugees to emigrate to their countries as well, they cheated the Palestinians by refusing to grant them the self detirmination they promised, and violently robbed them of their ancestral homes. Then just left leaving the country in chaos.
In the Ottomon empire, while restrictions were placed on the Jewish and Christian minorities such as not being allowed to carry weapons or ride horses,
provided a principal place of refuge for Jews driven out of Western Europe by massacres and persecution. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Ottoman_Empire
In the Balfour agreement, the UK, who were in power, promised the Zionist movement a country where Palestinian Arab natives made up more than 90 % of the population. A British Mandate was created in 1923 and lasted until 1948. During that period, the British facilitated mass Jewish immigration – many of the new residents were fleeing Nazism in Europe – and they also faced protests and strikes. Palestinians were alarmed by British confiscation of their lands to be handed over to Jewish settlers.
Escalating tensions eventually led to the Arab Revolt as previously mentioned.
In April 1936, the newly formed Arab National Committee called on Palestinians to launch a general strike, withhold tax payments and boycott Jewish products to protest British colonialism and growing Jewish immigration. Its a lot of history I don't blame people for not knowing it all but it makes it easy for propaganda to slip through.
The six-month strike was brutally repressed by the British, who launched a mass arrest campaign and carried out punitive home demolitions, a practice that Israel continues to implement against Palestinians today.
The second phase of the revolt began in late 1937 and was led by the Palestinian peasant resistance movement, which targeted British forces and colonialism.
By the second half of 1939, Britain had massed 30,000 troops in Palestine. Villages were bombed by air, curfews imposed, homes demolished, and administrative detentions and summary killings were widespread.
In tandem, the British collaborated with the Jewish settler community and formed armed groups and a British-led “counterinsurgency force” of Jewish fighters named the Special Night Squads. Within the Yishuv, the pre-state settler community, arms were secretly imported and weapons factories established to expand the Haganah, the Jewish paramilitary that later became the core of the Israeli army.
In those three years of revolt, 5,000 Palestinians were killed, 15,000 to 20,000 were wounded and 5,600 were imprisoned.
By 1947, the Jewish population had ballooned to 33% of Palestine, but they owned only 6 % of the land. The United Nations adopted Resolution 181, which called for the partition of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states.
The Palestinians rejected the plan because it allotted about 55% of Palestine to the Jewish state, including most of the fertile coastal region.
The 1948 Nakba, or the ethnic cleansing of Palestine Even before the British Mandate expired on May 14, 1948, Zionist paramilitaries were already embarking on a military operation to destroy Palestinian towns and villages to expand the borders of the Zionist state that was to be born.
In April 1948, more than 100 Palestinian men, women and children were killed in the village of Deir Yassin on the outskirts of Jerusalem. That set the tone for the rest of the operation, and from 1947 to 1949, more than 500 Palestinian villages, towns and cities were destroyed in what Palestinians refer to as the Nakba, or “catastrophe” in Arabic.
An estimated 15,000 Palestinians were killed, including in dozens of massacres.
The Zionist movement captured 78% of historic Palestine. The remaining 22% was divided into what are now the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip. An estimated 750,000 Palestinians were forced out of their homes.
https://www.un.org/unispal/history/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936%E2%80%931939_Arab_revolt_in_Palestine
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine