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286: THE PLIGHT OF THE ISRAELIS AND THE PALESTINIANS IS THE BLIGHT THAT OTHERS BEQUEATHED AND BURDENED THEM WITH IN THE FIRST PLACE
31 May, 2008

THE PLIGHT OF THE ISRAELIS AND THE PALESTINIANS IS THE BLIGHT THAT OTHERS BEQUEATHED AND BURDENED THEM WITH IN THE FIRST PLACE

THE PLIGHT OF THE ISRAELIS AND THE PALESTINIANS IS THE BLIGHT THAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS, AND LATER THE UN, AND THE ARAB LEAGUE, BEQUEATHED AND BURDENED THEM WITH IN THE FIRST PLACE – Albeit in good faith and with good intensions, since they all thought they were doing the right things, and not doing the wrong things, for both peoples at the time

Dear readers and fellow-Apes; kindly read, and read well; and know, know well, the facts of the whole matter before you side with either the Israelis or the Palestinians, since both these POOR, PETRIFIED, and PLAGUED PEOPLES were tossed around and about, and later thrown together, and soon afterwards forced into a dreadful situation in which neither people now know HOW or WHY or WHERE or WHEN or WHICH WAY; or WHAT is WHAT, WHICH is WHICH, or WHO is WHOM! So they both hold on to for dear life, and won’t let go of………THE HORSE-SHIT!

Unlucky for them the Arab League of Notions had been formed by then, since it was formed in Cairo on 22nd March, 1945; and that is why it has been much worse

Ottoman Rule over the eastern Mediterranean lasted until after World War I. The Ottomans had sided with Germany and the Central Powers. During World War I, the Ottomans were driven from much of the region by the United Kingdom which resulted in the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.

Under the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916, it was envisioned that most of Palestine, when freed from Ottoman control, would become an international zone not under direct French or British colonial control. Shortly thereafter, British foreign minister Arthur Balfour issued the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which laid plans for a Jewish homeland to be established in Palestine eventually.

The Sykes-Picot(-Sazonov) Agreement of 1916 was a secret agreement between the governments of Britain and France, with the assent of Russia, defining their respective spheres of influence and control in west Asia after the expected downfall of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. The agreement was concluded on 16th May 1916 by the French diplomat François Georges-Picot and Briton Mark Sykes, with Sazonov nodding his head in agreement in the back-ground.

The Balfour Declaration of 1917 (2nd November) was a classified formal statement of policy by the British government stating that the British government view with favour the establishment of a national homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine on the conditions that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.

In April 1920 the Allied Supreme Council (the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan) met in San Remo in Northern Italy and formal decisions were taken on the allocation of mandate territories. The United Kingdom accepted the mandate for Palestine, but the boundaries of the mandate and the conditions under which it was to be held were not decided.

The British Mandate enacted English, Hebrew and Arabic as its three official languages. The land designated by the mandate was called Palestine in English, Falastin (فلسطين) in Arabic, and in Hebrew Eretz Yisrael.

On 24 July, 1922 the League of Nations approved the terms of the British Mandate over Palestine and Trans-Jordan. On 16 September the League formally approved a memorandum from Lord Balfour confirming the exemption of Trans-Jordan from the clauses of the mandate concerning the creation of a Jewish national home and from the mandate's responsibility to facilitate Jewish immigration and land settlements. With Trans-Jordan under the administration of the British Mandate, the mandate's collective territory became constituted of 23% Palestine and 77% Trans-Jordan. Trans-Jordan was a very sparsely populated region at the time, especially in comparison with Palestine proper, due to its relatively limited resources and largely desert environment.

The award of the mandates was delayed as a result of the United States' suspicions regarding Britain's colonial ambitions, with similar reservations held by Italy over France's intentions.

On 29th November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly, with a two-thirds majority international vote, passed the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine (United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181), a plan to resolve the Arab-Jewish conflict by partitioning the territory into separate Jewish and Arab states, with the Greater Jerusalem area, encompassing Bethlehem, under international control.

The British mandate ended on 15th May, 1948, the establishment of the State of Israel having been proclaimed the day before on 14th May 1948. The Arab States and their armies immediately attacked Israel following its declaration of independence, and the Arab-Israeli War of 1948 ensued – right under the very nose of the United Nations and the Arab League. Consequently, the partition plan was never implemented.

VERY IMPORTANT FACTS:

The 1948 Palestinian Exodus (Arabic: الهجرة الفلسطينية Al-Hijra al-Filasteeniya) refers to the refugee flight of Palestinian Arabs during the last 6 months of the British Mandate and the First Arab-Israeli War. It is referred to by most Palestinians and Arabs as Al- Nakba (Arabic: النكبة), meaning the disaster, catastrophe, or cataclysm.

The United Nations (UN) final estimate of the number of Palestinian refugees outside Israel after the 1948 War was placed at 711,000 in 1951. A quarter of the 160,000 Arab Palestinians remaining in Israel were internal refugees. Today, Palestinian refugees and their descendants are estimated to number over 4 million Palestinians.

The initial exodus and the current situation of Palestinian refugees is a contentious topic of high importance to all parties in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Contentious indeed! Trust the Arabs to blunder and bungle something then turn around and blame others for it! They were the cause of the Palestinian Exodus in the first place! They drove the Palestinians from Palestine with their ill-thought of, ill-planned, ill-prepared for, ill-timed, ill-carried out, and ill-finished War of 1948 against Israel!

The Jewish Exodus from Arab lands refers to the 20th century mass expulsion or mass departure of Jews from Arab and Islamic countries. The migration began in the late 19th century, but accelerated after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. According to official Arab statistics, 856,000 Jews left their homes in Arab countries from 1948 until the early 1970s. Some 600,000 resettled in Israel, leaving behind properties valued today at more than $300 billion. Jewish-owned real-estates left behind in Arab lands have been estimated at 100,000 square kilometers; four times the size of the State of Israel.

First, the Arabs drove the Palestinians from Palestine with their 1948 War; second, the Arabs expelled or drove the Israelis from their lands and seized their properties; and the Israelis, having nowhere to go, went and settled in Israel, and now they want the Israelis to give Israel back to the Palestinians! Well, what about the properties the Israelis left behind which the Arabs stole or seized; what’s the difference?

At present, dear fellow-Apes, there are 12 Palestinian Refugee Camps (or cities, since they are not composed of tents, but rather concrete buildings, some of them 4 and 5 and more storeys high, including schools, mosques, restaurants, shops, clubs, and night-clubs Etc – all illegal and unlawful (without permits or licences) and all using water and electricity gratis:

3 around Tyre in the south: El Buss, Burj El Shemall, and Rashidieh

2 close to Saida, again in the south: Ein El Helwe and Mieh Mieh

4 around Beirut: Dbayieh, Shatila, Mar Elias, and Burj El Barajneh

1 to the east, close to the border with Syria: Wavel……and

2 beyond Tripoli: Nahr El Bared and Beddawi (or Berdawi)

N.B: Kindly excuse any spelling errors

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