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MR-7 » 54 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ Listen jerrab...History didn’t start in 1948 just because it’s convenient for your narrative. If you’re going to talk about the conflict, at least include the part where every neighboring army invaded Israel the day after it declared independence. Context matters you know, even if it ruins your little reply.
/////////////////////The Nakba occurred primarily during 1948. In November 1947 the UN proposed a partition plan that split the land about equally between the Jewish and Arab sides. At this time Jews comprised onethird of the local population and owned about 5 percent of the land. ❖ According to the Partition Plan, the Jewish State would comprise fiftyfive percent of Palestine, an area inhabited by 500,000 Jews and almost 400,000 Palestinians. About 700,000 people, including some 10,000 Jews, lived in the area intended for the Palestinian state. The plan intended to establish two states in the country, with a joint economy. The plan opposed forced relocation of populations, but its implementation would, in practice, have required uprooting hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Despite some opposition by the Jewish public, the Zionist leadership accepted the proposed partition because it represented the first official recognition of a Jewish state, and because it was the most generous proposal that had yet been offered. ❖ The leadership of the Palestinians and of the Arabs rejected the UN decision because although most of the inhabitants of the country were Palestinians, the borders of the state planned for them included less than fifty percent of the country’s land, and they would lose most of the country’s fertile regions. The Jews owned five percent of the land, and comprised onethird of the population; the Palestinians were being asked to relinquish most of the country’s territory.///////////////////