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The history of Israel|Palestine before 1948


Weakness into Strength: Overcoming Strategic Deficits in the 1948 ...

First, the Yishuv—or Jewish community in Palestine—lacked a professional military capable of defending its sovereignty against the Arab armies.

The Debate About 1948

The conventional Zionist account of the 1948 War goes roughly as follows. The conflict between Jews and Arabs in Palestine came to a head following the passage, ...

Policy & History - U.S. Embassy in Israel

The United States was the first country to recognize Israel as an independent state on May 14, 1948, when President Harry Truman issued a statement of ...

Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Gov.il

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs formulates, implements and presents the foreign policy of the Government of Israel.It represents the state vis-a-vis foreign ...

76 years of Nakba: Palestinians fear a repeat of their painful history

Some 700,000 Palestinians — a majority of the prewar population — fled or were driven from their homes before and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli ...

Fifty Years Through the Eyes of "New Historians" in Israel - MERIP

It portrays Israel in 1948 as a state living in conditions reminiscent of Europe in the pre-Holocaust era. This reminder of the Holocaust allowed successive ...

1913: Seeds of Conflict | PBS

Before World War I, Israel and Palestine were made up of several Ottoman provinces. ... Before World War I, Israel and Palestine were made up of several Ottoman ...

The Palestinians and 1948: The Underlying Causes of Failure - ISMI

The main conse- quence of these crushing defeats in the spring of 1948 was the expulsion of the first wave of Arabs from Palestine. This first exodus, before 15.

Palestine 1918 to 1948 - History Learning Site

Britain governed this area under a League of Nations mandate from 1920 to 1948. To the Arab population who lived there, it was their homeland ...

Israel's apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination ...

In 1967, Israel extended this policy to the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Today, all territories controlled by Israel continue to be administered ...

Israel Is Born: Photos From the Dawn of a New State, May 1948 - LIFE

Seven decades ago, in the midst of a civil war and at the tail end of the decades-long British Mandate for Palestine, the state of Israel was born.

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Long Shadow of 1948

In 1948, Jews realized their wildly improbable dream of a state, and Palestinians experienced the mass flight and expulsion called the Nakba, or catastrophe.

A Partial History of Palestine - DOCS@RWU

... pre-1967 Israel, before they occupied the. West Bank and Gaza. Among the Arabs there is a similar spectrum of demands, from a return to pre-1948 Palestine to.

Holocaust Survivors and the Establishment of the State of Israel ...

They desired a homeland where Jews would no longer be a vulnerable minority. Those hopes were realized on May 14, 1948, when the modern State of ...

Your Guide to Understanding the Roots of the Israel-Hamas War

Nationalism grew among both Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land — which encompasses what today is Israel, the West Bank and Gaza — after the World ...

Religion and the Israel-Palestinian Conflict: Cause, Consequence ...

... before its division into Israeli and Jordanian sectors from 1948 to 1967. In Jewish and Biblical history, Jerusalem was the capital of the ...

The Forgotten History of the Term "Palestine" - Hudson Institute

“Palestine” applied vaguely to a region that for the 400 years before World War I was part of the Ottoman empire. In that empire, it was divided ...

History of Jewish Immigration to Israel (Aliyah) - Reform Judaism

The first wave, known as the “First Aliyah,” took place prior to political Zionism, in the late 1800s. Most of these new immigrants came from Russia and Yemen.

Israel (1948–1949) and Palestine (1998–1999): Two Studies in the ...

This chapter examines the history of the creation of the states of Israel in 1948 and Palestine in 1998.

Palestinian and Israel History: the Land and Prophecy

... Palestinians, but so were the Jews! Yes, the Jews were also called Palestinians until 1948. If you were a Jewish person born in this land before ...