JJ: I mean, at the centre of this is a delegitimisation of Israel. Now Israel became a state in 1948, was then recognised by the UN, after the war. What the Israelis called the War of Liberation, of course the
John Hohenberg was at the United Nations on May 14, 1948, when Israel became an independent state, and has followed its history closely ever since. His most recent book Israel at 50 traces this country's tumultuous path to national stability and its rocky relationship with the United States,...
Under Byzantine Rule, Syria Palaestina became known as Palaestina. 1516Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire ruled over Palaestina. 1880Zionism Birth of political Zionism which believed that Jews needed a separate state. 1882Immigration Ottomon sultan approves Jewish immigration to Ottoman territories. 1897Jew...
Within hours after it was established in 1948, Israel was at war with its Arab neighbors for land. However, it occupied much more land than the United Nations agreed, which left local Palestinians homeless.很明显,以色列不是一个正常的国家,它有着戏剧性的历史和古代文化,而且只正式的存在了60年,...
"Do not travel to Lebanon due to the unpredictable security situation related to rocket, missile, and artillery exchanges between Israel and Hezbollah or other armed militant factions," the State Department said in a statement Tuesday. After a blast ripped through a Gaza hospital on Tuesday, killi...
However, when Israel became independent in 1948, Muslim countries acted with unrelenting hostility. Why? One of the basic tenets of Islam is that Muslim-majority countries’ first allegiance should be to Islam, in the form of a single Islamic Caliphate, and not to secular conceptions of the s...
Don't try to find anyone to go on the record as being a Hamas member in Ramallah. While recent polls show the faction became more popular throughout the West Bank of late, Hamas members lay low to avoid arrest To The Brink Again for Israel and Gaza Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin ...
1948 War of Independence On 14 May 1948 the State of Israel was proclaimed according to the UN partition plan (1947). Less than 24 hours later, the regular armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq invaded the country, forcing Israel to defend the sovereignty it had regained in its...
became the first and so far only state to recognize Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights. Trump also relocated the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, lending support to Israel’s claims to the entire city. Both policies continued under the Biden administration. Trump has proposed that...
“There’s a limit. The Arab citizens undoubtedly felt that they became a persecuted minority, an endangered minority.” Arab leaders seemed to savor Netanyahu’s apparent comeuppance. “We voted in droves,” Ahmad Tibi, an Arab member of parliament, tweeted in Hebrew. The Joint List is ...