Palestine conflict & terrorism by Israel

About Palestine Conflict

1. Palestine
CSPs Academy

2. Palestine during the days of Ottoman Empire
(1683-1914)

3. World War I
Allied versus Central Powers
Germany, Austro-Hungary Empire, Ottoman Empire (Allied Powers)
Britain, France, Russia, Belgium, Italy and Japan (Central Powers)
“Britain will help establish their self-rule of Arbas if they help britain in the war” British High Commissioner to Egypt
Sir Henry McMahon
“Britain will support the establishment of a Zionist state in Palestine if they suport us in the war”
British Foreign Secretary Lord Balfour
King Abdullah of Jordan, a Hashemite fought alongside the Allied Powers and were given Iraq and jordan in
reward to his services
French mandate established in Syria, they evicted King Faysal, brother of King Abdullah. Britain compensated by
giving him Iraq

4. Balfour Declaration (2nd November, 1917)

7. UN Resolution 181(29th November, 1947)
1.Two separate states joined economically by UN Special Committee on Palestine endorsed by 11
countries
2.Jewish State: 56% land to Jewish State, Population 33%, Land Ownership only 7%. (Jewish
population was only 7% in 1900 which was increased 33% by massive migration from Europe) jews
who have come before balfour Declaration shall be citizens of Jewsih state. 499,000 Jews, 438,000
Palestinians
3.Arab State: 42% area, 67% population, Land ownership 93%, 818,000 Palestinians, 10,000 Jews
4.Internationally administered Corpus Separatum Jerusalem, 200,000 people equally shared by Jews
and Palestinians
UN resolution seriously dented the class solidarity and tensions grew up (Illan Pappe)
1.Arab league and Arb Higher Committee (Government of Palestine) rejected this resolution
“The native people of Palestine, like the native people of every other country in the Arab world, Asia,
Africa, America and Europe, refused to divide the land with settler community” Walid Khalidi

9. Implications of British Mandate
1.Jews population was increased from 5.8% to 33 percent
2.British left on may 15, 1948
The main responsibility for our catastrophe lies with the British Mandate
(jamal Khaddura)
1.Jewish Immigrations
a.During WW I
b.1980s
c.1949

10. Nakba or War of Independence (November, 1947-December,
1948)
1.Ethnic Cleansing through Plan Dalet (Plan D)
“Large scale intimidation, laying siege to and bombardment villages and population centres,
setting fire to homes, properties and goods, expulsion, demolition and finally planting mines
among the rubble to prevent any expelled inhabitants from returning”
1.Dispossession of one million people from the Jewish State
2.14th May, 1948, Jews established its state and USA and USSR immediately recognized it
3.All Arab voluntary Army came to the rescue of Palestinians (Jan 9, 1948) 10,000 strong

11. How Ethnic Cleansing was executed?
1.Davin Ben Gurion, the mastermind of the ethnic cleansing
2.Mandate Forces at around 100,000, population was 2 million
3.Jewish National Fund (Founded In 1906)
4.Village Files (1,000 Villages populated by 75% of population out of 2 million
people)
5.Armed Forces
a.Hagana (Jewish Military) 80,000 strong, Russian hardware, trained in WW I
b.Palmach (Commando unit of the Hagana)
c.Field Guards (Hish in Hebrew) (Intelligence unit of Hagana)
6.Hebraization the land
7.Renaming the sites
8.Desecration of Holy Places

12. Palestinians “continues life as usual”
Normalcy as a rule and agitation the exception (Palti Sela, Hish Member)
The Jewish farmers in the Kibbutzim and in the collective or private settlements
turned their residences into military outposts - reinforcing their fortifications,
mending fences, laying mines, etc. - ready to defend and attack; each member
was issued with a gun and integrated into the Jewish military force. The
Palestinian villages, to Sela's surprise, 'continued life as usual'. (Palti Sela)

13. Ethnic Cleansing
Tiberias (10-12 K Pop.)
De-Arabization of Haifa (port city) 50-60l pop
Deir Yassin
Safad (12k pop)
Greater Jaffa

14. Uprisings in Palestine
1.Lifta led by Qasim Ahmed against Egypt’s rule in 1834
2.First Intifada (1987)
3.Second Intifada (2000)

15. Present Palestine
650 km Green Line
2.5 million palestinians in Gaza strip
6 million Jews and 2.5 million Palestinians in Jewish state

16. Pie of Cake
West Bank (Jordan and Israel)
Egypt and Iraq were at war with each other
Arab Legions of Jordan defended West Bank and Jerusalem
Arab Legions English Comander-in-Chief dubbed the war of 1948 ad “Phony
war”

17. UN Resolution 217 A (III) and 194
Declares the unconditional right of the Palestinian refugees to their homes
1950, Christians were offered to return on the intervention of Pope but Muslims
were not.

18. Peace Plans
1.The Lausanne Conference (1949)
a.Right of Return to the refugees
b.Two state Solution dividing the country equally
c.Internationalization of Jerusalem
d.David ben Gurion and King Abdullah foiled this plan
(The Israeli peace camp, led by the Labour party, regarded the Palestinians as non-existent and prefer to divide the territories Israel
occupied in 1967 with Jordanians, Henry Kissinger)
1.Pan Americana
b.June, 1967 War (6 Day war, Biblical Overtones)

2.Madrid Peace Agreement (1991)
3.Oslo Agreement (I in 1993 \washington, II in Egypt, 1995)
b.Mutual recognition of PLO and Israel
c.Fragmentation of Gaza stri[
d.Partial withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza strip
e.Establishment of PLC

19. Trump’s peace Plan for Middle East (Jan, 2020)
US recognizes the sovereignty of israel over its territories
Jerusalem as undivided capital of Israel
Palstinina state consisting of Gaza strip and eastern Jerusalem and West bank (15%
of land of the historic Palestine)
US will recognize PLO and open its embassy in east Jerusalem
No Palestinian or jewish wil be uprroted from their homes (140 settlments in West
Bank)
Israel and Jordan will work to run holy sites (Temple Mount and Al Haram
Sharif)