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Part 1: Balfour Declaration

More than 100 years ago, on November 2, 1917, Britain’s then-foreign secretary, Arthur Balfour, wrote a letter addressed to Lionel Walter Rothschild, a figurehead of the British Jewish community.

The letter was short – just 67 words – but its contents had a seismic effect on Palestine that is still felt to this day.

It committed the British government to “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” and to facilitating “the achievement of this object”. The letter is known as the Balfour Declaration.

In essence, a European power promised the Zionist movement a country where Palestinian Arab natives made up more than 90 percent of the population.

A British Mandate was created in 1923 and lasted until 1948. During that period, the British facilitated mass Jewish immigration – many of the new residents were fleeing Nazism in Europe – and they also faced protests and strikes. Palestinians were alarmed by their country’s changing demographics and British confiscation of their lands to be handed over to Jewish settlers.


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Part 2: The 1930s

Escalating tensions eventually led to the Arab Revolt, which lasted from 1936 to 1939.

In April 1936, the newly formed Arab National Committee called on Palestinians to launch a general strike, withhold tax payments and boycott Jewish products to protest British colonialism and growing Jewish immigration.

The six-month strike was brutally repressed by the British, who launched a mass arrest campaign and carried out punitive home demolitions, a practice that Israel continues to implement against Palestinians today.

The second phase of the revolt began in late 1937 and was led by the Palestinian peasant resistance movement, which targeted British forces and colonialism.

By the second half of 1939, Britain had massed 30,000 troops in Palestine. Villages were bombed by air, curfews imposed, homes demolished, and administrative detentions and summary killings were widespread.

In tandem, the British collaborated with the Jewish settler community and formed armed groups and a British-led “counterinsurgency force” of Jewish fighters named the Special Night Squads.

Within the Yishuv, the pre-state settler community, arms were secretly imported and weapons factories established to expand the Haganah, the Jewish paramilitary that later became the core of the Israeli army.

In those three years of revolt, 5,000 Palestinians were killed, 15,000 to 20,000 were wounded and 5,600 were imprisoned.

Part 3: The UN partition plan

By 1947, the Jewish population had ballooned to 33 percent of Palestine, but they owned only 6 percent of the land.

The United Nations adopted Resolution 181, which called for the partition of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states.

The Palestinians rejected the plan because it allotted about 55 percent of Palestine to the Jewish state, including most of the fertile coastal region.

At the time, the Palestinians owned 94 percent of historic Palestine and comprised 67 percent of its population.


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Part 4: The 1948 Nakba, or the ethnic cleansing of Palestine

Even before the British Mandate expired on May 14, 1948, Zionist paramilitaries were already embarking on a military operation to destroy Palestinian towns and villages to expand the borders of the Zionist state that was to be born.

In April 1948, more than 100 Palestinian men, women and children were killed in the village of Deir Yassin on the outskirts of Jerusalem.

That set the tone for the rest of the operation, and from 1947 to 1949, more than 500 Palestinian villages, towns and cities were destroyed in what Palestinians refer to as the Nakba, or “catastrophe” in Arabic.

An estimated 15,000 Palestinians were killed, including in dozens of massacres.

The Zionist movement captured 78 percent of historic Palestine. The remaining 22 percent was divided into what are now the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip.

An estimated 750,000 Palestinians were forced out of their homes.

Today their descendants live as six million refugees in 58 squalid camps throughout Palestine and in the neighbouring countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt.

On May 15, 1948, Israel announced its establishment.

The following day, the first Arab-Israeli war began and fighting ended in January 1949 after an armistice between Israel and Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.
In December 1948, the UN General Assembly passed Resolution 194, which calls for the right of return for Palestinian refugees.

Part 5: The years after the Nakba

At least 150,000 Palestinians remained in the newly created state of Israel and lived under a tightly controlled military occupation for almost 20 years before they were eventually granted Israeli citizenship.

Egypt took over the Gaza Strip, and in 1950, Jordan began its administrative rule over the West Bank.

In 1964, the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) was formed, and a year later, the Fatah political party was established.

Part 6: The Naksa, or the Six-Day War and the settlements

On June 5, 1967, Israel occupied the rest of historic Palestine, including the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Syrian Golan Heights and the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula during the Six-Day War against a coalition of Arab armies.

For some Palestinians, this led to a second forced displacement, or Naksa, which means “setback” in Arabic.

In December 1967, the Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine was formed. Over the next decade, a series of attacks and plane hijackings by leftist groups drew the world’s attention to the plight of the Palestinians.

Settlement construction began in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. A two-tier system was created with Jewish settlers afforded all the rights and privileges of being Israeli citizens whereas Palestinians had to live under a military occupation that discriminated against them and barred any form of political or civic expression.

Part 7: The first Intifada 1987-1993

The first Palestinian Intifada erupted in the Gaza Strip in December 1987 after four Palestinians were killed when an Israeli truck collided with two vans carrying Palestinian workers.

Protests spread rapidly to the West Bank with young Palestinians throwing stones at Israeli army tanks and soldiers.

It also led to the establishment of the Hamas movement, an off-shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood that engaged in armed resistance against the Israeli occupation.

The Israeli army’s heavy-handed response was encapsulated by the “Break their Bones” policy advocated by then-Defence Minister Yitzhak Rabin. It included summary killings, closures of universities, deportations of activists and destruction of homes.

The Intifada was primarily carried out by young people and was directed by the Unified National Leadership of the Uprising, a coalition of Palestinian political factions committed to ending the Israeli occupation and establishing Palestinian independence.

In 1988, the Arab League recognised the PLO as the sole representative of the Palestinian people.

The Intifada was characterised by popular mobilisations, mass protests, civil disobedience, well-organised strikes and communal cooperatives.

According to the Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem, 1,070 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces during the Intifada, including 237 children. More than 175,000 Palestinians were arrested.

The Intifada also prompted the international community to search for a solution to the conflict.

Part 8: The Oslo years and the Palestinian Authority

The Intifada ended with the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993 and the formation of the Palestinian Authority (PA), an interim government that was granted limited self-rule in pockets of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The PLO recognised Israel on the basis of a two-state solution and effectively signed agreements that gave Israel control of 60 percent of the West Bank, and much of the territory’s land and water resources.

The PA was supposed to make way for the first elected Palestinian government running an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip with its capital in East Jerusalem, but that has never happened.

Critics of the PA view it as a corrupt subcontractor to the Israeli occupation that collaborates closely with the Israeli military in clamping down on dissent and political activism against Israel.

In 1995, Israel built an electronic fence and concrete wall around the Gaza Strip, snapping interactions between the split Palestinian territories.

Part 9: The second Intifada

The second Intifada began on September 28, 2000, when Likud opposition leader Ariel Sharon made a provocative visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound with thousands of security forces deployed in and around the Old City of Jerusalem.

Clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli forces killed five Palestinians and injured 200 over two days.

The incident sparked a widespread armed uprising. During the Intifada, Israel caused unprecedented damage to the Palestinian economy and infrastructure.

Israel reoccupied areas governed by the Palestinian Authority and began construction of a separation wall that along with rampant settlement construction, destroyed Palestinian livelihoods and communities.

Settlements are illegal under international law, but over the years, hundreds of thousands of Jewish settlers have moved to colonies built on stolen Palestinian land. The space for Palestinians is shrinking as settler-only roads and infrastructure slice up the occupied West Bank, forcing Palestinian cities and towns into bantustans, the isolated enclaves for Black South Africans that the country’s former apartheid regime created.

At the time the Oslo Accords were signed, just over 110,000 Jewish settlers lived in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Today, the figure is more than 700,000 living on more than 100,000 hectares (390sq miles) of land expropriated from the Palestinians.

Part 10: The Palestinian division and the Gaza blockade

PLO leader Yasser Arafat died in 2004, and a year later, the second Intifada ended, Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip were dismantled, and Israeli soldiers and 9,000 settlers left the enclave.

A year later, Palestinians voted in a general election for the first time.

Hamas won a majority. However, a Fatah-Hamas civil war broke out, lasting for months, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians.

Hamas expelled Fatah from the Gaza Strip, and Fatah – the main party of the Palestinian Authority – resumed control of parts of the West Bank.

In June 2007, Israel imposed a land, air and naval blockade on the Gaza Strip, accusing Hamas of “terrorism”.

Part 11: The wars on the Gaza Strip

Israel has launched four protracted military assaults on Gaza: in 2008, 2012, 2014 and 2021. Thousands of Palestinians have been killed, including many children, and tens of thousands of homes, schools and office buildings have been destroyed.

Rebuilding has been next to impossible because the siege prevents construction materials, such as steel and cement, from reaching Gaza.

The 2008 assault involved the use of internationally banned weaponry, such as phosphorus gas.

In 2014, over a span of 50 days, Israel killed more than 2,100 Palestinians, including 1,462 civilians and close to 500 children.

During the assault, called Operation Protective Edge by the Israelis, about 11,000 Palestinians were wounded, 20,000 homes were destroyed and half a million people displaced .

There is another angle to the saga. Fake j.ews from Khazaria aka ahQuaLand Ukraine.
They r known for black magic lying and stealing identities. Another angle is to look at the so-called chosen people of the Almighty God. Most of them r pagans of BA'al elohims plural
ya 2014 is an important it started THERE in Ukraine
even the POPE sung Lucifer song:
https://youtu.be/7XH8PKK5wuU

BA'al or Yaweh is worshipped in Syria too of a milder form Fertility God beri similar to the Hindus Cow. The Horned one. Scroll was found in Syria u can see the STAR is 6-pointed unlike the Star of David 5.

Pls allow me to offer a Simpler explanation

1. Jews, Christians & Muslims lived side by side for centuries
2. European nationalists came & violently took over natives' land
3. Natives fought back & got slaughtered

(23-10-2023, 08:42 AM)Simplemen Wrote: [ -> ]Pls allow me to offer a Simpler explanation

1. Jews, Christians & Muslims lived side by side for centuries
2. European nationalists came & violently took over natives' land
3. Natives fought back & got slaughtered

Your version is simpur enough for ten year old gurls to understand but you aren't going to pass your GCE O level history exam by submitting an answer like that.

To give an analogy, all divorces in the Family Court can be simplified as:

1. Sadtinel and Talent said "I Do. muak muak" 

2. Some issues arose. 

3. Sadtinel is paying alimony to Talent now and forever till death do them part. 

can't see eyes to eyes.

(23-10-2023, 10:17 AM)Oyk Wrote: [ -> ]Your version is simpur enough for ten year old gurls to understand but you aren't going to pass your GCE O level history exam by submitting an answer like that.

To give an analogy, all divorces in the Family Court can be simplified as:

1. Sadtinel and Talent said "I Do. muak muak" 

2. Some issues arose. 

3. Sadtinel is paying alimony to Talent now and forever till death do them part. 

Under Singapore's law, Sadtinel may also cease to pay alimony to Talent if she can find another retard to marry her.  But retards like him are 1 in 8 billion. How to find? 

(23-10-2023, 10:19 AM)K88 shu shu Wrote: [ -> ]can't see eyes to eyes.

That's a secular understanding.

If you read history way back enough, you'd know that there is a spiritual warfare and it's biblical prophecies unfolding.  

We are living in the End of Time.  The Antichrist has yet to show face but he will.

(23-10-2023, 10:17 AM)Oyk Wrote: [ -> ]Your version is simpur enough for ten year old gurls to understand but you aren't going to pass your GCE O level history exam by submitting an answer like that.

To give an analogy, all divorces in the Family Court can be simplified as:

1. Sadtinel and Talent said "I Do. muak muak" 

2. Some issues arose. 

3. Sadtinel is paying alimony to Talent now and forever till death do them part. 

(18-10-2023, 10:41 AM)Oyk Wrote: [ -> ]In the beginning, there were just God and Adam and Eve, and the rest of His creation.  There were not candles, no religious robes, no head gear, no 7th Month, no Friday prayers, no chanting of sutras, no nothing.  Just God and His creation.
Religion is man trying to find God because deep inside he knows...he can feel......that there is a higher power, a Creator, God, for why the Earth works according to mathematical and scientific laws.  Christianity is God reaching down to Man calling him to come back and be reconciled with Him.

(18-10-2023, 12:50 PM)Blasterlord2 Wrote: [ -> ]Please do not insult Buddha.

(18-10-2023, 12:57 PM)Oyk Wrote: [ -> ]As I had been elevated to the high honour of being a CECA, do you think I would insult an Indian prince? 
This is not what we Hans do.  As a matter of fact Hans are very proud motherfückers. We hold yearly mother fücking competition our family have a few awards 
I speak for myself.  Perhaps you can tell us what Han Malaysians practise
My brother and I got one award each fücking our mother
We are so proud we display them prominently so you can see the moment you enter the hall

Seems like there's a common single source of all human conflicts. You know the answer right?

(23-10-2023, 10:17 AM)Oyk Wrote: [ -> ]Your version is simpur enough for ten year old gurls to understand but you aren't going to pass your GCE O level history exam by submitting an answer like that.

To give an analogy, all divorces in the Family Court can be simplified as:

1. Sadtinel and Talent said "I Do. muak muak" 

2. Some issues arose. 

3. Sadtinel is paying alimony to Talent now and forever till death do them part. 

Do you realise that you sound like a 10 year old gurl?

(23-10-2023, 07:57 PM)Levin Wrote: [ -> ]

Thanks for all those historical events lah!  I didn't know until now lah!

(23-10-2023, 02:22 PM)Simplemen Wrote: [ -> ]Do you realise that you sound like a 10 year old gurl?

UN partition isn't first partition plan. There was peel commission before that. With that said, you can redo your entire history because you missing bits and parts.