Post-1 Part-I Everything You Need To Know About The Israel vs. Palestine Conflict -by Chad Harris Introduction: First of all, it is critically important to understand that contrary to popular belief this is not a war between religions. This is not Jews vs. Muslims. It is Israel vs. Palestine. Religion has nothing to do with the war. I have many friends who have quickly jumped on the bandwagon of supporting Israel solely because they associate Israel with Christianity and Palestine with Terrorism. Americans are quick to post a, God Bless Israel but I believe if they knew the truth behind the war they would not be so quick to support Israel and their real motives. The History: The history behind how this war started is very important. Most people assume that Israel has been under Jewish rule for hundreds of years. This couldnt be further from the truth. The Jews havent controlled Israel since they were conquered by Babylon in 567 B.C. Babylon was in turn conquered by Persia, who was then conquered by the Greeks, (Alexander the Great) who were then conquered by the Roman Empire who then ruled for a very long time. Eventually, the land we call Israel was conquered and controlled by the Arabs and has stayed in their control (through the crusades) since the 7th century A.D. (Over 1200 years). Furthermore, if you look at every geographic map from the 7th century until 1948, you will find that there is no Israel on any map. In its place you would find an Arab territory called Palestine. Israel did not exist between their exiling and 1948. So what happened in 1948? The Jews Come To Palestine: In 1947 there were roughly a million Arabs living in Palestine compared to about 175,000 Jews (most of who had flew Europe during World War II). The Arabs were a very peaceful community consisting of mostly farmers, with little to no military power. Technically at the time they were part of what was called the Ottoman Empire, meaning they were a providence that was controlled by the British government. At the end of World War II there were so many Jews who had fled the European countries in the war for fear of persecution from the Nazis that there was no place for them to go. To put it simply, the United States pushed the United Nations to relocate all Jews to Palestine and give them their own state, called Israel, using British military support. In addition to military force, they took the land that was controlled by the Palestinians and actually sold it to the Jews! Palestinians could do nothing against the powerful military of England and the Jews, backed by the UN, quickly took over the key cities of Palestine. At the end of 1947 the British announced that they would be evacuating their military support now that the Jews had settled in by May 15th, 1948. What do you think happened after all British military left? Today the Israelis allege that the Palestine war began with the entry of the Arab armies into Palestine after 15 May 1948. But that was the second phase of the war; they overlook the massacres, expulsions and dispossessions which took place prior to that date and which necessitated Arab states’ intervention. Please read the following paragraph carefully. The Deir Yassin Massacre Of Palestinians By Jewish Soldiers: “For the entire day of April 9, 1948, Jewish soldiers carried out the slaughter in a cold and premeditated fashion...The attackers ‘lined men, women and children up against the walls and shot them,’...The ruthlessness of the attack on Deir Yassin shocked Jewish and world opinion alike, drove fear and panic into the Arab population, and led to the flight of unarmed civilians from their homes all over the country.” Israeli author, Simha Flapan, “The Birth of Israel.” This cold, dark, bloody day was the birthday of modern day Israel. In almost every village occupied by us during the War of Independence, acts were committed which are defined as war crimes, such as murders, massacres, and rapes’...Uri Milstein, the authoritative Israeli military historian of the 1948 war, goes one step further, maintaining that ‘every skirmish ended in a massacre of Arabs.’” As a result of this 700,000 Palestinians, having literally no military whatsoever, fled Palestine. Israel, wanting not a single Arab in their newly found nation completely destroyed every Palestine village, In the winter of 1949, the first winter of exile for more than seven hundred fifty thousand Palestinians, was cold and hard...Familieshuddled in caves, abandoned huts, or makeshift tents...Many of the starving were only miles away from their own vegetable gardens and orchards in occupied Palestine — the new state of Israel...At the end of 1949 the United Nations finally acted. It set up the United Nations Relief and Works Administration (UNRWA) to take over sixty refugee camps from voluntary agencies. It managed to keep people alive, but only barely.
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