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Through the 1920's, European immigration to Palestine rose dramatically
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Continuning from before as it concerns addressment of other historical factors left out when talking on the history of Palestine and what occurred with its Jewish-Arab population (and to note, saying Arabs were a large majority in Israel isn't remotely the same as saying that Israel was "Arab-Owned" when it comes to the amazing amount of Arabs who were kicked out).
Increasingly, many Zionists themselves were ill at ease with those who insisted on Jewish "predomiance" in Palestine. In example, Yitzhak Epstein---an agriculturist, had warned an international congress of the Zionist Party that they had WRONGLY consulted every political power that held sway over Palestine without consulting the Palestinians peasants themselves. He feared the fact that Palestinian peasants had already lost so much land as a result of Zionist purchases from absentee landlords..and that this loos was sure to breed resentment. He argued that since the incoming Jews were bringing with them a higher standard of livng, they ought to help the Palestinians to find their own identity.....to open to them the new Jewish hospitals, schools and reading rooms that were already in existence or in planing stages. And when institutions for higher education were established, the Jews could stregthen their old fraternal bonds with surrounding Arab Nations by opening these schools to their students. Many Palestinians, aware of Jews coming back to the land, were more than welcome to the idea of helping them out-----for as countless Arab Christians understood alongside other Jews, the Jews and Palestinians are BLOOD Brothers...and are to look out for one another.
Unfortunately, Epstein was severelty opposed...and though his vision of unity between Arab and Jew was overlooked by the Zionist main body, others would take up his cause until Zionism itself was riddled with factions. By the end of the 1920's, a group calling themselves
Brit Shalom split from the Partyy, because they could no longer go along with the tatic of disenfranchising the Palestinians from their land in order to set up a Jewish Homeland. Sadly, this group was also largely ignored.....and on the issue, All Jews did not hate Palestinians. In fact, many recognized their brotherhood with them and had come to Palestine with hands extended in friendship.
By the 1930's, with the influx of European settlers rising greatly---and no intervention by the British, with the plan to displace the Palestinian people in motion, the Palestinian people might as well have been mute. No one was listening..and by 1935, port cities like Jaffa had anti-immigration demonstrations erupred into violence...in which both Palestinian and Jewish immigrants pesants died. The following year in 1936, Palestinian leaders again tried peaceful means of protest--calling for a general strike as truck drivers disappeared from their jobs/crippling the economy...though that was brought with bad results as well..with the protests crushed by the end of 1938. Outside of them, I'm aware of other groups that have done much violence/damage. As said before, the
Histraduth Trade Union., ESTABLISHED BY the Zionists and led by David Ben Gurion were known for terrorizing Jewish shop and factory owners who dared to employ Palestinians..with it being the case that here and there, Jewish women were attacked in the marketplaces for buying from Palestinian merchants.....and Palestinian fields and vineyards were vandalized.
By that time the Zionist had behind them an overwhelming swell of world sympathy. This was true for two reasons. First, Western Nations were littled concerned with the events in the Middle East since they were fixated on the horror spreading from Nazi GFermany...and secondly, they were appaled at the insane hatred of the Jewish people propagated by Adolf Hitler. Rightly, the Jews wanted/needed somewhere to escape from this madman. But throughout the 1930's. when Hitler's pogroms thrived, no major Western nation increased its quota of Jewish immigrants. For was the tiny land of Palestine expected to absorb millions of Jews, with its inhabitants giving up land and jobs while the large Western Nations were comfortably silent?
To be clear, the terrified masses of Jewish immigrants were never to blame for the tragedy of the Palestinan plighy...as they were dazed by fear, desperate to escape the heinous death camps.....but just as sad is that in this way, they were to become pawns of the Zionist leaders. Upon their arrival in Palestine, they were quickly indoctrinated against their so-called new enemy---the Palestinians.
The second bastion of Zionist power was progradanda....for increasingly, they controlled all news emanating from Palestine...and with the Palestinian leader's voices put on "mute", it was easy to control Western opinion through the press, obscuring the real issues. The protests of 1936-38, were renamed "The Arab Rebellion." Palestinians, who were in any other country being overtaken by a foreign force would have been called "freedom fighters, were "terrorists" and "guerillas."
Hence, why many Palestinans found around the world that they were slandered before they even met others. Other attrocities went down, indicating Zionist POWER IN Palestine....as seen in how the strong Zionist underground---the Haganah----were trained by the British effectively in special brands of violence and then turned against British soldiers/government workers in Palestine. With that being the case, its should have not been a surprise that the Ingrun bombed the King David Hotel...killing over one hundred people.
World War II forced a lull in the struggle for Palestine...but for Zionist leaders, it was never in question. Later, the power push shifted from Britan to the U.S since the British primarly had shown themselves reluctant to impose a Jewish state on Palestine....and were severely weakened, as it was unweildy/expensive to continue governing Palestine...and the Zionist had gained all but total control of munitions factories/industries. As the U.S had emerged as the leader of the Free World--and America had a STRONG lobby of new Zionist supporters..
When President Roosevelt was in office, he had resisted the pressure of Zionists, unwilling to see the Palestinians displaced from their homeland. He felt tremedous compassion for the half-millipn survivors who were expected to emerge from the Holocaust...but he had in mind a wonderfully humatarian plan top open the free world to these victims...offering them passage to any free nation that rallied to his relief effort. However, when his emissary Morris Ernst was sent to sound out international opinion, the mwas was shoched to to hear himself attacked as a traitor by Zionist who by then had raised $46 million to lobby for their own plan.
When Truman took office after Roosevelt's untimely death, the lobbyists pressured the man greatly. They argued vehemently that admission to Palestine was the "only hope of survival" for the Jewish people------despite the reality that milions of Jewish people had been sheltered/protected by free nations during the War....and in fact, Jewsish people throughout the free world moved easily in their societies...enjoying HIGH standards of living in Western Countries.
Truman gave in....and thus the vast majority of the Holocaust victims were never given a choice as to where they would live. Only twenty thousand were admitted to large, free countries like the U.S. in the three years following the war. Thus the exhausted British found themselves pressured by the most powerful office in the world, the White House, even as they watched their Mandate Government in Palestine be blitzed by a campaign of terror. For the Zionist Forces----known as the Haganah, had taken over the munitions factories in the south/were using mortars, bombs and machine guns against Palestinian and British alike.....and while the
Guns, Grenades, Bombs and tanks---all manufactured in factories the British themselves had built----were now used against them. While the U.N had been trying to arbitrate a peaceful solution to the bloodshed, the men of villages in Palestine hoped the powerful nations of the world controlling the U.N would reach a just solution. However, what happened was that Palestined was first "partitioned" in what the U.N. Called a "Compromise."....and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians throughout the land were shocked beyond words that the Zionists were given possession of the MAJORITY of Palestine---fifty-four percent---even though they owned only seven percent of the land.
In five major areas that were being handed over, well over half the people------up to seventy and eighty, even ninety-nine percent---were Palestinians. The "compromise" gave the Zionists almost all the fertile land....including the huge, main citrus groves that accounted for most of the people's export income. It gave away most of the barley and wheat grove in Palesttine....land the Palestinians were forced to hand over despite how it not only produced their livelihood---but had been cultivated by them by their own backs.
Later, the agricultural settlements that were taken over actually began to involve government hiring out Palestinian men and boys---a few at a time and "unofficially"--to work at menial jobs. With many men starving/looking for jobs, A cheap work force was crucial to the survival of their newest kibbutzin, since many of the incoming settlers had lived their lives in European cities and did not know how to far,.........and with many of the landlords hired out from abroad to inherit the land, it was logical as to why soldiers kicked others out of villages/"protected" it against them. Much of it was a shock....but it was reality.
For many, April of 1947 was nothing short of the British abandoning the Palestinians, war-weary and unwilling to lose more young men to defend Palestine from the Zionist Underground and forced to announce the plan to surrender their Mandate in one year. To the world, the Zionist proclaimed that they were fighting a "War of Independence."...and the world, now penitent about the Holocaust, applauded....with countless villages destroyed in the process.
On May 14, David Ben Gurion proclaimed the establishment of Israel....and within hours of its establishment, the U.S officially recognized the new nation of Israel under Zionist rule.
Throughout May-July, almost one-million Palestinians were driven out of the newly proclaimed democracy.....and soldiers from surrounding Arab nations of Eqypt, Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon fought to stop the takeover... but were driven back.
Groups such as Irgun had committed COUNTLESS acts of "purification" on villages on the outskirts of modern Jerusalem....as happened on April 10 when it came to machines guns/hand grenades "clearing up" natives in the land. The native Jewish peopl;e were SHOCKED and disgusted...and many protested that such things things violated the ancient beliefs.
Upoin hearing the news about Deir Yassin, Cheif Rabbi of Jerusalem flew into a fury....but it was not enough to stop the milatary machine
In example, more than 130, 000 Jewish people lived in Iraq, forming the oldest Jewish community in the world. Few of them emigrated to Israel.......as the Jews had lived undisturbed in Iraq for a long time. Though that changed when multiple attacks started to occur....with rumors saying it was "anti-Semitic violence" (often with suspicious origins) by "Arab groups planning a Jewish pogrom."
By early 1951, Jews fled Iraq in panic, abandoning homes/property and and an ancient heritage until only five thousand remained in the country. Some fifteen people were arrested in connection witn one of the bombings---and the remnant of the Jewish community wa outraged, as the Haganah (Zionists) were discovered to have smuggled arms caches into Iraq....and who had thrown bombs at their own Jewish people.
It was discovered that their plan was to touch off a panic emigration to Israel......with it being the case that the Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion and Yigal Allon, later to become Foreign Minister, knew ofd the plot------for it was their way of helping the prophesied "ingathering" of the Jews----even if the method was anti-Biblical. And if the world press was given to believe that hateful Arabs were the only ones responsible, it simply bolstered public sympathy for the "struggling" nation....AND WOULD give "incentive" for the Jews worldwide to "come home."
Concerning other Rabbis at the time who called it out, the Cheif Rabbi of Iraq, Sassoon Khedurri pleaded with an inquiring journalist to tell the world the truth about Zionism...for not only had the Jews in Iraq felt sympathy for the plight of the Palestinians....but they too had suffwered at the hands of the Zionists when it came to the demanding that Jews around the world come home. As Khedduri stated
By mid 1949 the big propaganda guns were already going off in the United states. American dollars were going to save Iraqi Jews-whether Iraqi Jews needed saving or not.There were daily 'pogroms' in the New York times and under datelines which few noticed were from Tel Aviv. Why didn't someone come and see us instead of negotiating with Israel to take in Iraqi Jews? Why didn't someone point out that the solid, responsible leadership of Iraqi Jews believed this [Iraq] to be their country? The Iraqi government was being accussed of holding Jews against their will...campaigning among Jews was increased...the Government was whip-sawed....accussed of pogroms and violent actions against the Jews, but if the Government attempted to suppress Zionist agitation attempting to stampede the Iraqi Jews, it was again accussedof discrimation.
For more information,
The Jews of Iraq is one place to investigate. What went down on the issue still amazes me.....in light of how many Jews held good positions in Iraq before Israel itself orchestrated the notorious synagogue bombings in Iraq in the 50's.... one at the US Information centre, one at the esplanade at the dar al-badya coffee house and one at Mas'uda Shemtov synagogue. Yehudah Tajjar and 14 others [many from the
Hagganah, working in Iraq under differing names, were convicted...and as it turned out, the intent was to panic Iraqi residents of Jewish background into emmigrating to Israel to help bolster the Jewish population.
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Many Arabs have not been treating other Arabs properly, including those Jews who live in Jordan...and where many struggle is with the Palestinian Jews/Arab Jews who were forced to move out even though they lived in the land--and have claim just as the other Jews who came back/said "This is our part of the Land, Israel!" 
