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A popular uprising by Palestinian Arabs in Mandatory Palestine against the British administration, later known as the Great Revolt, [a] [10] the Great Palestinian Revolt, [b] [11] or the Palestinian Revolution, [c] lasted from 1936 until 1939.
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.
Palestine was celebrated by Arab and Muslim writers of the time as the "blessed land of the prophets and Islam's revered leaders". [315] Muslim sanctuaries were "rediscovered" and received many pilgrims. [316] In 1496, Mujir al-Din wrote his history of Palestine known as The Glorious History of Jerusalem and Hebron. [317]
The state of Israel was nevertheless founded under prime minister David Ben-Gurion on 14 May 1948 with the end of the ... liberation of Palestine” through armed revolution rather than dwelling ...
A crowd of approximately 350 Central Texas Jews gathered in downtown Austin on Sunday to raise their voices in support of Jewish college students.
When the wave of protests related to the Israel-Hamas war washed over Texas colleges this week, most schools didn’t see much of a stir. Students staged a sit-in near the president’s office at ...
This triggered the 1947–1949 Palestine war and led, in 1948, to the establishment of the state of Israel on a part of Mandate Palestine as the Mandate came to an end. The Gaza Strip came under Egyptian occupation , and the West Bank was ruled by Jordan , before both territories were occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War .
How Texas elected officials responded: 'Protesters belong in jail' The protests and arrests on UT-Austin's campus Wednesday caught the attention of several of the state's most powerful politicians.