and leaders across the Arab world, insist that Israel accept as citizens an estimated 5 million people who claim descent from Arabs who lived in Israel prior to 1948.
During the forum, Amirabdollahian reiterated Iran's proposal that a referendum be held to determine the fate of Palestine, with only descendants of those who lived there prior to 1948 being permitted to vote. Most countries publicly support the creation of a separate...
but Palestini objected because they thought they could expel the Jews by force. On 14th May 1948 Ben Gurion and the first cabi of the Israeli ernment announced the establishment of the state of Israel without prior notice as an attempt to gain the support from the world. The Pal...
Zionist settlers in Palestine, of course, had been attacked by Palestinians for decades prior to 1948; however, religious Zionist rabbis did not seem to consider these attacks to be a war in the formal sense because there was no Jewish state just yet. Therefore, this violence could be regulat...
Last week, in his latest trip to Israel, US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, was assured that “ Israel would not surprise the United States by an attack on Hizbulla without prior notification.” So we are now waiting…. You would never know as people go on with their daily lives...
But let’s look at 1948, how they deal with a problem. And then we’ll go to 1967 when Israel occupies what is the remaining part of Palestine, the West Bank and Gaza. Ilan Pappé:Yes, as you rightly say, settler colonial projects always have these two dimensions, geography and demogra...
More than any of the wonders that is Israel, first and foremost is that there is in fact a Jewish country. This, more than anything else, is the exception to history as we knew it prior to 1948. Never has a people returned to their home after two thousand years. We all know the re...
Israel's rich philanthropic landscape dates back to biblical times, showing both change and continuity throughout the years. The modern era of Israel's history can be divided into four different periods: (1) prior to the 1880s, (2) the pre-state era, from the 1880s to 1948, (3) the...
“why dont you start your research from 1948, start from the root of the problem” Here the charge that the establishment of Israel lies at “the root of the problem”—namely, instability in the region—is asserted in implicit form, by reference to the year of Israel’s formation as a...
Gilboa Prison is located in northeastern Palestine in what used to be known as the Baisan District. It is a beautiful and very fertile region and home to some of Israel’s most prosperous settlements, many of them established prior to 1948. ...