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A Jewish bus equipped with wire screens to protect passengers against rocks and grenades thrown by Arab insurgents. Jews evacuate the Old City of Jerusalem after Arab riots in 1936. British soldiers of the Coldstream Guards "cleansing" Jerusalem of Arabs participating in the revolt, 1938. Military law allowed swift prison sentences to be passed ...
The region today: Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict traces back to the late 19th century when Zionists sought to establish a homeland for the Jewish people in Ottoman-controlled Palestine, a region roughly corresponding to the Land of Israel in Jewish tradition.
The leader of Palestine's Jews, David Ben-Gurion, issued a call for Jews to "support the British as if there is no White Paper and oppose the White Paper as if there is no war". [12] During the war, Palestinian Jews volunteered in large numbers to serve in the British Army, serving mainly in North Africa.
Plan Dalet, Master Plan for the Conquest of Palestine. Middle East Forum, November 1961. Lewis, Bernard (1997) [First published 1995]. The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-83280-7. Lockman, Zachary (1996). Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906–1948.
A two-state solution to the disputed territory almost came into being in 1947, when the UN General Assembly volunteered Resolution 181, which proposed carving a new state from Palestine west of ...
Palestinian Jews were expert glassmakers whose wares became known as "Jewish glass" in Europe. [221] Palestine was also known for its book production and scribal work. [222] The Muslims invested much effort in developing a fleet and in restoring seaports, creating shipyards, fortifying coastal cities, and in establishing naval bases in ...
European Jews were commonly considered an "Oriental" people in many of their host countries, usually as reference to their ancestral origins in the Middle East. A prominent example of this was the 18th-century Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant, who referred to European Jews as "Palestinians living among us." [10] [11]
In the preceding year Jewish immigration, blocked in the United States and many European countries had risen to 66,672 over the 4,075 in 1931. [2] In July 1937, the Peel Commission proposed a partition of Palestine, and recommended a population transfer of 225,000 Arabs out of the designated future Jewish territory and a smaller number of Jews ...