The Arab-Israeli Conflict

To better understand the Palestinian fervor to return to and remain in Palestine, some discussion of the history of the area is necessary. By 1918, Palestine's population numbered approximately 500,000 Muslim Arabs, 100,000 Christian Arabs, and 60,000 Jews. The large majority of the Jewish population had arrived since 1880. Many of the original Jewish immigrants from Europe started establishing agricultural settlements in the area. They brought with them an ideology called Zionism. Zionism combined a program to revive ancient Hebrew culture with an assertion of the self-identity of Jews. Their program called for a Jewish "national home" in Palestine. The British invaded Palestine following World War I. The plan, approved by the League of Nations in 1922, was to encourage independent, self-governing entities in the area. Jordan became independent in 1928.

Independence was delayed in Palestine because of the conflicting Arab and Jewish claims. Based upon a political accord between Arab leaders and the British, Arab leaders were led to believe that the British would support the creation of an independent Arab state which would include Palestine. However, the British government pro

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s a number of points. She established that the objective of the attack, publicly stated by General Sharon, was to clear PLO guerrillas from a 25-mile zone. However, the Israelis did not stop when they reached the 25-mile perimeter. Also, according to Jansen, the objectives expanded to include the destruction of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) terrorist organization and its infrastructure, the weakening of the PLO's political infrastructure in all its various headquarters in Beirut, and the total destruction of both the political and the military infrastructure of the PLO. On June 30, 1982, General Sharon announced that the government had decided "the PLO must cease to exist." This book details the war: Israel's political and military strategies; the depopulation and destruction of Lebanese towns and camps by the Israeli military on their way to Beirut; their refusal to allow any UN agency to use the food, medicines, and disaster relief experts which had rushed to the borders of Lebanon; and the hundreds of thousands of Lebanese who were fleeing before the Israeli army. As a result of this conflict, 12,000 Arabs were killed, 40,000 wounded, 300,000 left homeless, and several hundreds of thousands left destit
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