War on the Palestinians.
The lives of all Palestinians have been dominated for nearly 100 years by the armies first of the British Empire and then of Israel both dedicated to making by force a "Jewish homeland" in their country Palestine.
What follows on this website are descriptions of British actions (1917-1948) that were detrimental to the Palestinians and that led to them being ethnically cleansed from Palestine in 1948 to create Israel.
These descriptions are taken from Israeli and other Jewish , Palestinian and British historians' writings.
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The end of British rule and its lasting conseqences
In the final months of its 30 year rule in 1948 , Britain , the responsible power in Palestine, neglected to use its large army on the ground to stop the brutal mass expulsions of more than half of all Palestinian families. Before Britain had left, Zionist forces were well advanced in their 'cleansing' mission . They had driven out over 250,000 Palestinians and emptied of their Palestinian population major urban areas of Haifa, Jaffa , Safad , Tiberias and Western Jerusalem and over 200 villages (and bombed them to rubble) as 75,000 British soldiers stood bye.
The Zionist forces continued the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians (called the Nakba) after Britain left and after Israel was declared a state. Thus was 78% of Palestine transformed into Israel.
In 1948/49 Israel took to itself all of the lands and properties of the refugees and from the day they left has prevented then from returning to their homes by the threat of lethal force .
The rest of the Palestinians have suffered an oppressive and illegal occupation for the last 40 years on the last 22% of Palestine not part of Israel. There Isreal has progressively robbed the Palestinians of their land and populated it with Israeli settlers to make for a greater Israel in all of Palestine.
Britain has yet to acknowledge its share of responsibility for the creation of the ongoing Palestinian refugee crisis. Meanwhile Zionist propaganda have used/use an invented narrative to deny the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians and to deny the refugees their right to return home. Thus Britain by its silence about the Nakba continues to support Israel's denial of Palestinians rights to both truth and justice.
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