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12 hours ago · The Palestinian conflict and an overview of its trajectory: 1967–1997 Footnote 3. Although a commitment to a Jewish national homeland in Palestine dates to the British Government’s 1917 Balfour Declaration, which was written into the League of Nations’ Mandate instructions for that territory at the end of the First World War, the long-term future of that territory only came to be ...
12 hours ago · More than a quarter had already fled during the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, before the Israeli Declaration of Independence and the outbreak of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. After the 1949 Armistice Agreements , a series of laws passed by the first Israeli government prevented displaced Palestinians from claiming private ...
12 hours ago · Palestine [i] is a geographical region in West Asia. It is usually considered to include modern-day Israel and the State of Palestine, though some definitions also include parts of northwestern Jordan. Other historical names for the region include Canaan, the Promised Land, the Land of Israel, or the Holy Land. The first written records referring to Palestine emerged in the 12th-century BCE ...
12 hours ago · On 17 November 1947, shortly before the outbreak of the 1947-1949 Palestine war, Meir met with King Abdullah I of Jordan. Abdullah I was seen as the only Arab leader willing to ally with a future Israeli state, as he also opposed the Mufti of Jerusalem and was rivals with other Arab countries. The meeting was cordial and confirmed that Abdullah ...
12 hours ago · This interview conducted by Pamela Paresky explores the distortion of the civil rights movement by the pro-Palestinian movement and the negative impact it has had on Zionism and the American Jewish community. Historian Gil Troy delves into the destructive nature of the Palestinian movement and its hijacking of symbols and language from the ...
12 hours ago · Mahmoud Rida Abbas was born on 15 November 1935 in Safed, in the Galilee region of Mandatory Palestine (now Israel). His family fled to Syria during the 1948 Palestine war. Before going to Egypt, Abbas graduated from the University of Damascus, where he studied law.
12 hours ago · This video provides the true history of the Gaza Strip and Palestine. The word Palestine does not appear in the Bible as the word did not exist before the Romans made it up. The ancient Romans pinn…
