War on the Palestinians.
For nearly 100 years alien armies have dominated the lives of Palestinians. First the armies of the British Empire and then the armies of Israel have ruled over Palestinians aimed at making a "Jewish homeland" out of their country and homeland Palestine.
In the final months of its 30 year rule in 1948 , Britain neglected to use its large army in Palestine to stop the brutal mass expulsions of more than half of all Palestinian families. Before Britain had left, Zionist forces were well advanced in their 'cleansing' mission . They had driven out over 250,000 Palestinians and emptied of their Palestinian population major urban areas of Haifa, Jaffa , Safad , Tiberias and Western Jerusalem and over 200 villages (and bombed them to rubble) as 75,000 British soldiers stood bye.
The Zionist forces continued the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians after Britain left and after Israel was declared a state. Thus was 78% of Palestine transformed into Israel.
In 1948/49 Israel took to itself all of the lands and properties of the refugees and from the day they left has prevented then from returning to their homes by the threat of lethal force . The rest of the Palestinians have suffered an oppressive and illegal occupation for the last 40 years on the last 22% of Palestine not part of Israel. There Isreal has progressively robbed the Palestinians of their land and populated it with Israeli settlers to make for a greater Israel in all of Palestine.
What follows on this website are descriptions of British actions that were detrimental to the Palestinians and that led to them being ethnically cleansed from Palestine in 1948 to create Israel.
They are taken from Israeli and other Jewish , Palestinian and British historians' writings. |
