1. Overview statement stood aside
2. Village Deir Yassin
3. Village without massacre
4. Haifa Urban add in variations Tiberias Jaffa
5. New historians Propaganda Zionist and British
8. What britain should have done.
Statement :expulsions before their eyes did nothing, just prepared to go .told un no elese
The ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians is at the heart of the conflict yet British and western policy makers and public broadcasters never present the situation today in this context .
The ethnic cleansing was planned and carried out in front of the British administration and army in Palestine and has been largely hidden by Britain and Western policy makers and media.
Israel and to a large degree the West have been blaming the Palestinian civilian population for what happened to them when Israel drove them off their land and prevented them from returning.
In 1948 Zionist forces systematically set about emptying Palestinian villages . In what they claimed to be self defence they drove out half of the Palestinian population of Palestine from their homes and land, bombed to rubble (400+) their villages and denied them any right to go home afterwards or ever since . Most of the Palestinians in the villages were farming communities totally unprepared for the catastrophe that was visited on them. Many of them left with cooked food still on the table. Many also were assured by UN staff wherever they landed that they would be back home within weeks. Over two thirds of Gazan’s are refugees from 1948 living often within view of their old villages and farms in Israel. Palestinian refugees are living today in refugee camps in the West Bank too and in surrounding countries.
Many Jews in Israel in 1948 had only just escaped annihilation by Europe’s fascists and believed they were in a fight for survival in Palestine. However as Ilan Pappe, the Israeli historian sets out in his book “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” the Zionist leaders were bent on fulfilling their dream, a state for all the Jews of the world- a state which couldn’t be possible without clearing out most of the Palestinians. Zionist commanders told their armies that they were fighting to avoid another impending holocaust.
75,000 troops looked on . Stood aside 250,000 . 200 villages and towns did not protect neither did they protect jews btho no jewish villages entered or seized.
Removed buffer –okayed Zionist cleansing. Tiberias /Haifa/plan dalet/ deir yassin. See
On the day the british left thre had been pappe endnotes no jewish settlement no matter how remopte was entered or seized by the arabs quote ben-gurion
For most part villages very lightly defended – no men no guns.Un no plan for after protect Dec 1947- May 15th 1948 British forces, with 75,000 personnel stood aside and failed to prevent Zionist forces expelling Palestinian populations. Before Britain had left Zionist forces had driven out 250,000 Palestinians and emptied of their Palestinian populations 200 villages and the urban areas of Tiberius, Haifa, Jaffa and Western Jerusalem .
British due to leave on May 16th 1984. cleansing had begun pappe ,
Relating to political civic rights.:
What Britain did /did not do in 1948
To un could not resolve conflict Jews arabs , passed
No more casualities.
British & actual Nakba
Example village tiberias haifa jaffa para each excpet hiafa
after 4th april deir yassin then villges then tiberias then haifa
April 4th plan dalet p164 morris statement
Maybe british did not know it to begin with but they soon could see it on the ground.
One sentence each villages deir yassin tiberias Haifa
Deir yassin p91 morris peace agreements
On April 9th 1948 Jewish forces massacred men, women and children in Deir Yassin village. This caused the Palestinian populations to panic at the prospect of Jewish militia attacking their village or urban neighbourhood. Th village had a pct peace pact.There would be 13 massacres in all with the same effect and resulted in 750,000 Palestinians and never allows to return. P272 pappe menachin begin boasts mazin mrorris sets out why refugees,more
Tiberias : 9 days after Deir Yassin as jewish fprces bombarded the arab population with mortars despite the towns leadership British had not intervened in a village just outside where some women and children had died and many had fled to tiberias. British military commanders said they were unwilling to protect the pals and agreed with Arab leaders to help evacuate the mixed town of Tiberius( harris p 183) and within days the town was emptied of its Palestinians inhabitants More.. Palestine april 4th to may 15th
Haifa 99 65k arabs 70k jes p100 arabs moderation, siege of towns tiberias Haifa food shortages Haifa p188pappe 92
They looked to the british and sometimes jordanian to protect them. British withdrawal take no sides and Jordan only interested in having west bank and east Jerusalem.
Pappe endnotes p372 begin describes pals panic
Pappe 93 haifa Britain were going to leave in augustbut in feb said may p94 remove buffer zone major general hugh stockwell
Removed buffer tiberias Haifa and immediately Zionist cleansed the towns of palestinians. Just after deir yassin.
Clement Attlee upset by stockwell Haifa
Jan
Arms from checked.
Refugees
Haifa
Feb 20
Shelling –kill 6 inj 36
HOC
March 10
Vote to end mandate May16. Originally August .
Plan Dalet
April 4
12 man consultancy To commanders
Holocaust
April 9
Deir Yassin
Tiberias 2/3 pals
April 18
Sudden withdrawal of british troops.
Jordan Syria . Driven into the sea.
Haifa half half
April 19
British sudden withdrawal of British troops from residential area
Prime minister appalled.
Haifa
April 23
Haganah Haifa fled
By sea and land to Egypt or Lebanon
April 26
British forces protect vs haganah in Jerusalem
April 27th
Haganah irgun merge
Jaffa 1/3 pals
April 29th
Driven into sea/ poison ??
To Gaza or Egypt
April 30th
First meeting of arab armies COEs
Commanding officers
Western galilee
lebanon
Western Jerusalem
April 30th
All western Jerusalem cleared of Pals
To Ramallah, Bethlehem or Jordan .
Jerusalem 62% pals
Safed
Syria Lebanon
By the end of 1948 the number of Palestininan refugees had swollen to about 700,000. But the first and largest wave of refugees occurred before the official outbreak of hostilities on the 15th May ”
After 1948 120,000 Palestinians remained in Israel and this has now grown to 1.2million.( a bit more than your figure). The number of Palestinians worldwide is 8 million plus . Some 3.4 million of these are still looked after by UNRWAA the special UN refugee organisation in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Egypt.
Relating to political civic rights.:
What Britain did /did not do in 1948
75,000 troops looked on . Stood aside 250,000 . 200 villages and towns did not protect neither did they protect jews btho no jewish villages entered or seized.
To un could not resolve conflict Jews arabs , passed
No more casualities.
Removed buffer –okayed Zionist cleansing. Tiberias /Haifa/plan dalet/ deir yassin. See
On the day the british left thre had been pappe endnotes no jewish settlement no matter how remopte was entered or seized by the arabs quote ben-gurion
Pappe endnotes p372 begin describes pals panic
Pappe 93 haifa Britain were going to leave in augustbut in feb said may p94 remove buffer zone major general hugh stockwell
Removed buffer tiberias Haifa and immediately Zionist cleansed the towns of palestinians. Just after deir yassin.
For most part villages very lightly defended – no men no guns.
Clement Attlee upset by stockwell Haifa
Un no plan for after protect Dec 1947- May 15th 1948 British forces, with 75,000 personnel stood aside and failed to prevent Zionist forces expelling Palestinian populations. Before Britain had left Zionist forces had driven out 250,000 Palestinians and emptied of their Palestinian populations 200 villages and the urban areas of Tiberius, Haifa, Jaffa and Western Jerusalem .
British due to leave on May 16th 1984. cleansing had begun pappe , after 4th april deir yassin then villges then tiberias then haifa
April 4th plan dalet p164 morris statement
Maybe british did not know it to begin with but they soon could see it on the ground.
One sentence each villages deir yassin tiberias Haifa
British no responsibility see archive
Deir yassin p91 morris peace agreements
On April 9th 1948 Jewish forces massacred men, women and children in Deir Yassin village. This caused the Palestinian populations to panic at the prospect of Jewish militia attacking their village or urban neighbourhood. Th village had a pct peace pact.There would be 13 massacres in all with the same effect and resulted in 750,000 Palestinians and never allows to return. P272 pappe menachin begin boasts mazin mrorris sets out why refugees,more
Tiberias : 9 days after Deir Yassin as jewish fprces bombarded the arab population with mortars despite the towns leadership British had not intervened in a village just outside where some women and children had died and many had fled to tiberiasBritish military commanders said they were unwilling to protect the pals and agreed with Arab leaders to help evacuate the mixed town of Tiberius( harris p 183) and within days the town was emptied of its Palestinians inhabitants More.. Palestine april 4th to may 15th
Haifa 99 65k arabs 70k jes p100 arabs moderation, siege of towns tiberias Haifa food shortages Haifa p188pappe 92
They looked to the british and sometimes jordanian to protect them. British withdrawal take no sides and Jordan only interested in having west bank and east Jerusalem.
Neither Britain nor the UN had any real plans to protect either the Jewish or Palestinian civilian populations in the event of very predictable fighting between militia on two sides. However till May 16th Britain had the responsibility and as stated above the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians was well advanced by the time they left. On the day the British left no Jewish settlement was entered or seized by the Arabs (Pappe).balfours promise civic
Should have done:
British instead of protection often advised or ordered thenm to leave and sometimes helped them to do so.morris 208
Have a plan with un –early in dec 57 could see the movement of populations in cities jews arabs p99 morris mayor of Haifa feb 48 us saw bloodshed hostility a tutsteee plan pappe p40
P45 a few thousand arabs facing tens of thousands fith column p49
Clement Attlee upset by stockwell Haifa
Un no plan for after protect
Use of mortars –had the arms - balfours Britain committed Britain committed to safeguarding the civil . Britain anytime since then should have protected Palestinians civic and religious rights including the most basic one of right to life and free from violence real or threatened, to be in ones own home in ones own farms and villages. . Or come back to it stay on ones land. private property of land homes etc and to remain or come back to ones home
when it had insist on protection for all civilians ,
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