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Originally Posted by dude1394

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...e_of_Palestine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_partition_plan

I'd have to look at it a little closer. Reviewing this from wikipedia it looks like much of the violence began as typical immigration assimilation issues after being conquered during WW1. Nothing particularly outrageous like the government coming in a moving folks off their lands. Just immigration that wasn't desired. However it is obviously a very prominant reminder of the fall of the Ottoman Empire which I think has more to do with it than anyone giving a crapola about the palestinian people in the arab community.

It appears that the violence started the economy to become seperate (obviously not good as very few islamic countries have been successful with modernity). The palestininians might have a gripe, but the rest of the islamic culture either couldn't abide a non-muslim country in their midst or just used it in general to incite their populace. I suspect it was as much a mechanism to avoid the embarressment of the downfall of the islamic empire and to keep the populace of the local tyrants agitated and mad about something besides their own lack of progress.

Interesting read about how violence was a natural offshoot of over-immigration. The situation sounds almost akin to frenzy following the publishing of the political cartoons in question, "There was violent incitement from the Palestine Muslim leadership that led to violent attacks against the Jewish population." That's a shame, I wonder how different things would be if there were more responsible leaders.

From the same article:

Originally Posted by wikipedia

Division of Palestine by United Nations
Main article: 1947 UN Partition Plan

The United Nations, the successor to the League of Nations, attempted to solve the dispute between the Palestinian Jews and Arabs. The UN appointed a committee, the UNSCOP, composed of representatives from several states. None of the Great Powers were represented, in order to make the committee more neutral. UNSCOP considered two main proposals. The first called for the creation of independent Arab and Jewish states in Palestine, with Jerusalem to be placed under international administration. The second called for the creation of a single federal state containing both Jewish and Arab constituent states. A majority of UNSCOP favoured the first option, although several members supported the second option instead and one member (Australia) said it was unable to decide between them. As a result the first option was adopted and the UN General Assembly largely accepted UNSCOP's proposals, though they made some adjustments to the boundaries between the two states proposed by it. The division was to take effect on the date of British withdrawal.

The partition plan was rejected out of hand by the leadership of the Palestinian Arabs and by most of the Arab population. Most of the Jews accepted the proposal, in particular the Jewish Agency, which was the Jewish state-in-formation. Numerous records indicate the joy of Palestine's Jewish inhabitants as they attended the U.N. session voting for the division proposal. Up to this day, Israeli history books mention 29 November, the date of this session, as the most important date in Israel's acquisition of independence.

Several Jews, however, declined the proposal. Menachem Begin, Irgun's leader, announced: "The partition of the homeland is illegal. It will never be recognized. The signature by institutions and individuals of the partition agreement is invalid. It will not bind the Jewish people. Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. The Land of Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for ever". His views were publicly rejected by the majority of the nascent Jewish state. Palestinian Arabs, on the other hand, claim that this publicly expressed acceptance was mainly propaganda for the consumption of Western nations, and that Begin's statement more accurately reflected the real intentions of the founders of the State of Israel.

On the date of British withdrawal the Jewish provisional government declared the formation of the State of Israel, and the provisional government said that it would grant full civil rights to all within its borders, whether Arab, Jew, Bedouin or Druze. The declaration stated:

We appeal ... to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions.
Thus, upon creating the state - any inhabitants inside the newly formed State of Israel, whether Palestinian Jews or Palestinian Arabs, became Israeli.

Palestinians consider a far more accurate statement of the intention of the founders of Israel to be that of Chaim Weizmann, who reportedly said:

[Our intention is to] finally establish such a society in Palestine that Palestine shall be as Jewish as England is English, or America is American.
According to an October 17, 1947 testimony before the United Nations by Moshe Shertok of the Jewish Agency, "the Jews have, so far, managed to acquire less than seven percent of the land area of Palestine."[5]

The violence faced by early Jewish settlers prior to this mandate was a modicum of what they faced following it...I'll find more evidence pointing to the partitioning of land by outside forces as the key cause after class. More coming...