Billo_Really.
et al,
This was in 1948.
Yes they did. At the time Zionists stood up and unilaterally declared Israel a sovereign nation, they only owned 7% of the land rights. And I'm pretty sure they didn't ask the indigenous arabs in that area if they cared to vote on it?
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It was NOT, as you say, unilateral. It was done in accordance with the implementation instruction of the UNPC, under the Steps Preparatory to Independence, pursuant to and in conformity with the
recommendations of the General Assembly, and the guidance of the Security Council. The Arab Higher Committee (representing the indigenous arabs) was invited to the UNPC implementation meetings before Independence was declared, but declined. There was no "vote" required.
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The "genesis of the hostility" is much closer to the HAMAS description:
Excerpt Article 7 said:
The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the links in the chain of the struggle against the Zionist invaders. It goes back to 1939, to the emergence of the martyr Izz al-Din al Kissam and his brethren the fighters, members of Moslem Brotherhood. It goes on to reach out and become one with another chain that includes the struggle of the Palestinians and Moslem Brotherhood in the 1948 war and the Jihad operations of the Moslem Brotherhood in 1968 and after.
SOURCE: Hamas Covenant 1988
Whether this is a
prima facie case against the "immigrant" as you contend, or an admission of culpability on the part of HoAPs, is subjective. However, it is evidence that there is more than one perspective to consider on the question, even when looking from the HoAP side. It is my opinion that the discord between the two cultures has its origins, at least in part to, a failure to follow the advice of Asher Ginsberg
(AKA: Ahad HaÂ’am) that Jewish settlers must make every attempt not to arouse the wrath of the indigenous population.
Most Respectfully,
R
This was in 1920
"In 1920, the League of Nations' Interim Report on the Civil Administration of Palestine stated that there were hardly 700,000 people living in Palestine:
"There are now in the whole of Palestine hardly 700,000 people, a population much less than that of the province of Gallilee alone in the time of Christ. Of these 235,000 live in the larger towns, 465,000 in the smaller towns and villages.
"Four-fifths of the whole population are Moslems.
"A small proportion of these are Bedouin Arabs; the remainder, although they speak Arabic and are termed Arabs, are largely of mixed race.
"Some 77,000 of the population are Christians, in large majority belonging to the Orthodox Church, and speaking Arabic. The minority are members of the Latin or of the Uniate Greek Catholic Church, or--a small number--are Protestants.
"The Jewish element of the population numbers 76,000.
"Almost all have entered Palestine during the last 40 years.
"Prior to 1850 there were in the country only a handful of Jews.
"In the following 30 years a few hundreds came to Palestine. Most of them were animated by religious motives; they came to pray and to die in the Holy Land, and to be buried in its soil.
"After the persecutions in Russia forty years ago, the movement of the Jews to Palestine assumed larger proportions.
"Jewish agricultural colonies were founded.
"They developed the culture of oranges and gave importance to the Jaffa orange trade.
"They cultivated the vine, and manufactured and exported wine. They drained swamps. They planted eucalyptus trees. They practised, with modern methods, all the processes of agriculture.
"There are at the present time 64 of these settlements, large and small, with a population of some 15,000."
Demographics of Palestine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rocco... would you care to speculate on what covenants Hamas will be posting in 2020 if the Zionist policy of "creeping annexation" remains in force in Palestine?
