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1948 for Palestinians that year is anba or

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the

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catastrophe when hundreds of thousands were forced out of their

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[Music] homes for Israelis that year marks the

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creation of the state of Israel

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[Music] as a filmmaker and as a Palestinian this documentary series was my way to

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understand the events of the past that are still shaping the [Music]

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present [Music]

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here is the world’s news in pictures and this is p Gazette screening [Music]

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it theoretically your du for a share of these their real jaffers being gathered

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in the Groves of Palestine for shipment to

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Britain images from another time when Palestinians still worked their

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land few Palestinians if any could imagine they were to become victims of

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what would later be known as ethnic cleansing [Music]

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after 30 years of British rule the question of Palestine was referred to the United Nations the UN now became the

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forum for conflict talks focused on dividing Palestine into an Arab and

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Jewish state for granting the Jewish Agency for Palestine a hearing when we speak of a Jewish state

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we do not have in mind any racial state or any Theocratic state but one which

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will be based upon full equality and rights for all inhabitants without distinction of religion or race and

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without domination or subjugation November the 29th

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1947 the UN General Assembly met to devise a plan for the partition of

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Palestine United Nations resolution 181 divided

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Palestine into an Arab and a Jewish state with Jerusalem being an

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internationalized City the Jewish state would be granted 56% of the land the

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city of Jaffa was included as an enclave of the Arab State the land known today

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as the Gaza Strip was split from its surrounding agricultural regions making

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the proposed state all but impractical in the eyes of many Palestinians the

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draft resolution was presented for voting the resolution of the duck committee for

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poist was adopted by 33

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votes

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Arab newspapers ran a name and Sham list of the countries that voted for the UN

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partition plan and Arab protesters took to the streets it was Unthinkable in the United

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Nations for any other place in the world that a National Liberation movement would uh share the land with the settler

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Community by dividing it what was important for the Zionist in the United Nation petition resolution was that it

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provided Israel with International legitimacy but they didn’t care for the borders or uh didn’t stop them from

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thinking how to dispossess the

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Palestinians transfer following the partition resolution Britain announced it would

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end its mandate in Palestine on May the 14th 1948 outraged by the vote for partition

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the Arab League decided to prepare the Palestinians for an armed resistance some 3,000 volunteers some

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from across the Arab world were sent for training in Syria a figurehead for the

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struggle was the Grand Muti of Jerusalem Haj Amin Al husseini from his refuge in

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Lebanon he felt confident the Palestinians with help from the Arab countries could

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Prevail Palestinians began to organize local committees for self-defense by the end of 1947 groups

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of young men were traveling to Damascus Beirut and Cairo to acquire weapons and

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receive military

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training

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early 1948 despite the presence of the British the Jewish AG agency led by David benan

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asserted increasing military and administrative influence in Palestine

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Jewish paramilitary forces included the hagana the urgen and the stern

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gang during the first half of 1948 their numbers swelled to as many as 40,000 men

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and women on the other side there were as few as 3,000 Palestinian

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Irregulars this was the remnants of the Fighting Force smashed by the British after the Arab Revolt in

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1936 there were also an estimated 4,000 volunteers from the region known as the

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Arab Liberation Army led by an Arab nationalist called FY Al

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kauki in terms of Fighters the Palestinians were outnumbered and

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outgunned a small group of Zionist leaders and Military commanders met

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regularly on a weekly basis from from February 1947 to February 1948 for a

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whole year uh planning the ethnic lensing of Palestine they didn’t decide about it in a day they had the weekly

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meetings and then each week they became more and more convinced this was the right way forward in the first week of

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1948 hostilities picked up there were two bomb attacks against Palestinian

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targets the first A Car Bomb destroyed the old Ottoman government house in

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Jaffa it killed killed 26 people the second the bombing of the

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Samira hotel in Jerusalem killed over [Music]

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20 at Oxford University’s Middle East Center we found an important document it

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contained details of a meeting on January the 6th 1948 between the British High Commissioner for Palestine and

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David benorian the High Commissioner inquire ired about

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reports that hag was responsible for the attack on the Samira Miss Hotel Boran conceded this might be the

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case and in a letter he sent 2 Days Later benorian confirmed hag’s

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responsibility for the attack during the first 3 months of 1948

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Jewish paramilitary groups carried out dozens of attacks on Palestinian cities and Villages some operations were

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carried out by special units of Jews disguised as Arabs known as

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mavan a direct challenge to the United Nations and its powers of War prevention comes from Palestine the definition of

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legal and illegal forces becomes daily more obscure Hagar the force first legally raised for the defense of Jewish

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settlements appears to function handin glove with yunomi the outlawed terrorist Army the

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well-trained Jewish forces began to put their plans into

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action on February the 15th 1948 fighters from the hag and palmach

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organizations attacked the village of karia near hia a young man called yitzak Rabin is

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believed to have been one of the field commanders in the assault over 1,000 Palestinians were

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expelled from cesaria as the village was torched to the ground uh what the aanus forces did they

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uh targeted five villages on the coast and and and experimented with them to

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see whether it works and they expelled the inhabitants of five Villages under

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the eyes of the British soldiers who were there still there until May 48 and

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they found out that it was quite easy that it they didn’t take much there wasn’t much resistance uh the British

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did not

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interfere

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March the 10th proved to be a faithful day the final meeting was on the 10 of

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March 1948 when they plan when they drafted a plan known as Plan D or Plan D

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uh which finalized the last details about the how to expel the Palestinians

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and dispossess

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the extent of the Zionist agenda he writes in each attack a decisive blow

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should be struck resulting in the destruction of homes and the expulsion of the

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population the Palestinian and Arab Fighters were determined to resist this newspaper from March the

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16th 1948 reports that a Jordanian volunteer a commander of the Hyer

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Garrison was trying to obtain weapons his name was Muhammad al-

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hunti

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for

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the road to Hyer he had fought for Palestine and had paid the ultimate

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[Music] price Abdul Kadar Al husseini was the charismatic commander of Palestinian

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forces in the Jerusalem area he traveled to Damascus to plead for arms he returned

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empty-handed on the 6th of April he wrote a letter to the Arab League holding it responsible for leaving the

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Palestinians defenseless and without arms eventually al-husseini had to sell

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his grandfather’s land to buy weapons on April the 8th he rushed to the defense

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of Al Castle a village overlooking the Tel Aviv Jerusalem Road here Arab Fighters faced heavily

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armed Jewish forces al-husseini was an experienced

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Commander having fought against the British during the 1936 Arab

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Revolt he was killed in the Battle of Al Castle

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his funeral drew a large crowd of mourners his death was a severe blow to

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the Palestinian morale Jewish forces were gaining the

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upper hand they began to seize areas that the UN partition plan had allotted

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to the Arab state in this land grab little discrimination was made between Fighters

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and civilians at dawn on April the 9th 1948

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a combined force of urgan and Stern gang Fighters moved into the village of De

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Yasin near Jerusalem the result was a massacre over

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a 100 Palestinians were killed including women children and the

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elderly

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the British very sadly let down the Arab population of that there is no

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doubt because we were there the Palestinian police force to police the

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country can of

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uselessness British troops began their withdrawal a month before the date set for the end of the

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Mandate as soon as they moved out of an area Jewish Fighters moved

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for

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on April the 18th the British army withdrew from the city of tiberias before leaving they forced some

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5,000 of the city’s Arab inhabitants to evacuate their homes the following day Jewish forces

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seized

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April the 21st by noon the last British troops completed their withdrawal from

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Hyer that very afternoon the city was stormed by thousands of hagera

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Fighters some pal Ians and Arab volunteers stayed to defend their homes

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after a two-day street battle 60 of them had been killed the rest withdrew from

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city from hyper heading North to um Lebanon came right past the

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trade school bu entrance Gates and it was a sad sight to see many poor Arabs

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some would pickup trucks cars beds on the top some on for never ending stream

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of Arabs coming out of the city the Jews to drive a lot of the Arabs out of Hyer

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very sad sight we could have stopped all that there was no doubt about that we had the armor to do

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their homes in Hyer never to return today a memorial stands in the

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city erected by the Israelis it commemorates what they call the liberation of

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by late April 1948 the city of hia had fallen to Jewish

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forces the coastal town of Jaffa was now their next [Music]

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although designated as part of the Arab state in the 19 47 un partition plan

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Jewish forces set their sights on Jaffa during the last week of April

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bombing of the city intensified the city’s inhabitants were forced to flee the shelling by sea to

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Lebanon and by road to East Palestine and [Music]

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Jordan by May the 14th 1948 the haaga had taken control of

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Jaffer 70,000 of its inhabitants had fled the remaining males were

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transferred to Central detention

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camps detainees were forced to bury the corpses of fellow citizens now rotting

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streets they were also forced to transport the contents of Arab homes ransacked by Jewish

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Fighters can we

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he it happened many times that the Israeli very whole very

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holy soldiers took 10 of the youngsters in the middle of the village shot them

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just in order to kill them in order that all the others will see it and run away

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and if it’s not enough they took others also the Palestinians left of their own

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accord um and in the expectation of a triumphal return

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another variant of this version is that the Palestinians left on order from

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their leaders to clear the decks for the invading um uh Arab armies and they

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promised that after the great Arab Victory they will be able to return to their homes so that is the traditional

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uh zist um version and it’s completely untrue and uh there is a massive amount

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of Hard Evidence to contradict um this version half of the Palestinians became

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who became refugees were already expelled from their houses by May

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1948 so why I could say that out of the 530 Palestinian Villages that were

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destroyed in the 1948 Naka half of these Villages were already demolished by the

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ethnic cleansing is an ideology that wants to get rid of one ethnic group in

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its entirety from the place where it lives the second stage of ethnic cleansing is to erase these people from

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the place’s history so it’s also a cultural Act of erasion of wiping them out of history of out of

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back although the British army was still present in Palestine Jewish

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paramilitaries seized control of five major cities some 200 Villages were

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destroyed ahead of the full British withdrawal more than 350,000 Palestinians were driven from

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their land May the 15th was the date set for the

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end of the British mandate yet for the Jews this posed a

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problem the 15th fell on a Saturday the Sabbath so celebratory announcements of

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the Jewish state were sent out a day earlier on Friday May the

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14th the British army hastened their Retreat the Jews had been gearing up to

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take over in fact they were issuing Jewish stamps before the um uh 14th of May a few days

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before I’ve still got two franked they they in their own stum they were geared up mind they were geared up

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and ready to go no doubt about that on May the 14th 1948 in this Grand

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Jerusalem home the last British High Commissioner of Palestine Alan Cunningham signed a document termin

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ating the British mandate over three decades the British presence had helped pave the way for the

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realization of the Zionist [Music]

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stream the minutes of Britain’s mandate are ticking to an end in the morning Cunningham inspected the guard of Honor

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in front of his Jerusalem home he then flew to

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from hia he sailed to Cyprus and the British flag was

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lowered from the time the British occupied Palestine in 1917 to when they

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left in 1948 the number of Jews is estimated to have multiplied 10 times to half a

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million meanwhile as the British Bid Farewell to Palestine benorian arrived

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in Tel Aviv to ceremoniously declare the independence of the state of

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the state of Israel was signed into existence at the stroke of a pen by 25

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leading members of the Jewish Community behind Boran hung a portrait

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of Theodore Herzel author of the book The Jewish State published back in

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1896 the Star of David was hoisted the very same flag that had been raised at

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the settlement of Rishon leion in 1885 since uh Zionism is a

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dynamic um movement they there was no they knew

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that there was no finality about the borders then um they

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knew that opportunities would arise in due course to um take the rest of it and

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they did um in 1967 that was the thinking behind um

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the Zionist movement gradual the the building of a Jewish State and then the gradual expansion of

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the borders of the Jewish State Israel they have named their state and the new citizens of Israel cheer the men who

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have signed the Jewish Declaration of Independence they leave the hall benorian

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first then Goldie meerson woman member of the new Council of State and foreign

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minister M shf talk Heim whitesman becomes Israel’s first president minutes later minutes after the Tel Aviv

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ceremony the United States amended a document on what they had previously referred to as a new Jewish State the

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new wording Now read the state of Israel it was signed by President Harry Truman

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and then announced by the US Representative to the United Nations the united states recognizes the provisional

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government as the Deo authority of the new state of

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Israel a new state was born on the foundations of the British

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mandate

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for

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instant state

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the British had not allowed forces from neighboring Arab countries to enter Palestine until after their departure by

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May the 15th with the last British troops gone Arab armies entered the country from the borders of Lebanon

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Egypt and what was then called trans Jordan their declared objective to

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liberate Palestine that day the New York Times ran the headline Jews in grave danger in

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all Muslim lands I’ve come back to the United States to tell Jews in the United

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States how the state of Israel has been formed the Jews are holding their ground

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in the country in spite of the fact that they have been outnumbered by the Arabs

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and the Arabs have come much better equipped with heavy arms than the Jews have in their possession the reason is a

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simp a simple one Jews who are fighting in Palestine the state of Israel are fighting for the

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only thing that they have in their possession it means life or death to them the Jewish forces in 1947 48 they

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were far stronger even far more numerous actually than uh the combined Arab

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armies um they were highly prepared uh highly dedicated

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well-armed um fighting force which was Superior to all

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the Arab armies combined except perhaps one Army which the one Army which they didn’t really take on and they made a

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deal with really talking about the Jordanian

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Army

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was in fact one of the most um bitterly divided disorganized and ramshackled

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coalitions in the history of Modern

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Warfare

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two days after the Arab armies entered Palestine the Israeli forces Drew their focus on

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acre AA fell and 10,000 of its inhabitants were

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expelled

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the Jordanian Army was commanded by the Englishman Sir John glob known as glob

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paser over 40 other British officers also served in the Army and held great

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influence under British advice King Abdullah of trans Jordan agreed to a secret deal with the Jewish leaders to

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avoid clashes between the Jordanian Army and the Jewish fighters in return for

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the West Bank and East Jerusalem such token resistance was the reason glob

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later called the 1948 War the phony War glob is a very complex character he

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was not the simple-minded soldier that he pretended to be but he was highly

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sophisticated politician who imposed on the Arabs Britain’s partition plan the

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meeting was between Ernest Bevin the labor government’s foreign

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secretary uh and uh toi Abul harda the Jordanian prime minister who was

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accompanied by glob Pasha who also acted as an interpreter Bevin asked Abul hod

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what do you plan to do and and Abul Hoda said we plan to send the Arab Legion to

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protect and keep the Arab part of Palestine and Bevin said that seems the

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sensible thing to do but do not go and invade the Jewish part 2nd of may they

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met for the last time British officers in the Arab Legion to find a solution for Jerusalem but it didn’t work but

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what else happened in that meeting is that they brought Maps which showed where the Jordanian Legion would stop

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and would not enter the Jewish State and where the Jordanian Legion stopped is today the border of the West Bank that’s

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how the West Bank was actually

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created on July the 10th the Jordanian forces pulled out of L and

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ramler clear of Jordanian forces the two cities were bombed by what was now the

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Israeli Air Force the Israeli Army then moved in

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commanded by Colonel Moshi Dian in L alone over 100 Palestinians

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were massacred inside the dhash mosque more than 50,000 Palestinians

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were expelled from the two cities walking without Provisions in the

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summer heat many died of exhaustion in what has since become known as the lidda

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Death March despite the presence of the Arab forces in Palestine atrocities were

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still committed yet few are well

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documented Israeli historian Theodore Katz submitted a thesis claiming the

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Israelis had committed a massacre in the Coastal Village of tantura they closed all the four sides

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of tantura kind of a boat from the Israeli young Navy that was was closing

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the side of of of the seashore in order that they won’t be able to run away what

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I heard from one of the Jews I interviewed a soldier in the second

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company he was moving with his pistol of 9 mm on the shore among the men asking

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them where is your rifle those who said that my rifle is somewhere next to my

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house was taken like this with a robe to his house by two or four

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people and the the text was then the rifle came out and the one did

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not and those who answered there on the on the beach I have no rifle were

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directly shot in their head now this is not a Palestinian story

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this is a Palestinian of a Jew that was a lawyer in the state of Israel many

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years the Palestinian men of T were taken to the

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cemetery and there there was H they were

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told they were put in lines and they were told to begin

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digging and whenever a line finished digging King they were shot and fell

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down inside there was no worry on the zanis leadership side that the soldiers would not understand what is expected of

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them because they already de dehumanized the Palestinians in their thinking and perception long before the operations

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themselves began the state of Israel was formed through blood and fire yet this was

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neither the start nor the end of suffering for the Palestinians

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1948 for Palestinians that year is anba or

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the

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homes for Israelis that year marks the creation of the state of

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Israel

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as a filmmaker and as a Palestinian this documentary series was my way to

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understand the events of the past that are still shaping the [Music]

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present [Music]

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from early 1948 Jewish paramilitary forces began to to seize more land in

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Palestine by the end of July more than 400,000 Palestinians had been forced to

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flee their homes their plight as refugees had just

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United Nations mediator in Palestine count po Bernard in May 1948 Swedish

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Diplomat count fol bernot was appointed as un mediator in Palestine his mission

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was to seek a peaceful settlement and I believe and I think I have the right to

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believe that we soon or later it might be sooner can get a settlement and stop

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the war in Palestine count bernot surveyed the

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devastated Palestinian Villages and visited refugee camps in both Palestine and

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Jordan the scale of the humanitarian disaster became apparent

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he witnessed cramped living conditions long cues for basic food and scarce

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Aid the count was no stranger to human disaster with the Red Cross he had

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rescued over 30,000 prisoners of war from Nazi concentration

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camps he advocated the Palestinians right to return to their homes in a

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report Court dated 16th September 1948 he wrote it would be an offense against

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the principles of Elementary Justice if these innocent victims were denied the right to return to their homes while

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Jewish immigrants flow into Palestine and indeed at least offer the threat of

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permanent replacement of the Arab refugees who have been rooted in the land for

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centuries the Count’s first proposal argued for fixed boundaries through negotiation an economic Union between

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both States and the return of Palestinian refugees The Proposal was turned

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mission as mediator for Palestine that’s what we hope to and

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uh this is now a setback I had or we had I would like to say uh success in the

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beginning it goes up and down now we are little down but I’m I’m not at all a

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Broken Man over this course I’m still hopeful that we can get a result of the

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for could

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we have a message for

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you on September the 17th 19 19 48 the day following his un report the moade of

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count bernot was ambushed in Jerusalem he was shot at Point Blank

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Range by members of the Jewish Stern gang Palestine and from Jerusalem the

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bodies of count badot and the French truce Observer Colonel Sero are conveyed by ambulance to

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hyper gods of Honor pay homage to the man who Mercy Mur by Stern gang terrorists shocked the world humanity is

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the pora for the loss of count bernot whose work for peace in Palestine had won the admiration of all civilized

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peoples

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for interal the UN partition plan of 1947

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had declared Jerusalem to be governed under a special International regime and administered by the United

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Nations the city holy to both Arabs and Jews would belong exclusively to

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Nether Israeli forces annexed neighborhoods in what is now known as West

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Jerusalem Israel continu its expansion Air Raids incursions and expulsions

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escalated by December 1948 the number of Palestinian refugees soared to over

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700,000 the United Nations General Assembly responded by adopting resolution 194 this stated that refugees

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who want to return to their homes and live in peace with their neighbors should be given the right to do so as

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soon as possible Israel is a child of the United Nations and it is determined

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to remain loyal to its parent body it’s going to base its whole policy upon

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loyalty to the United Nations but it is up to the United Nations to be loyal to

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each child all the United Nation resolutions have been left in abeyance

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they haven’t been applied um and that of course is in good measure due to the

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United States in 1949 Israel seized more land

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allocated to the Arabs by the UN partition plan by April 1949 the gravity of what

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Palestinians called the nacba or catastrophe was becoming

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clear more than 400 Villages and 11 cities were

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destroyed over 700,000 Palestinians had become refugees from the land that would

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become the new state of Israel over 13,000 Palestinians had been killed

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more than 30,000

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injured the UN pushed for Armistice deals between Israel and the surrounding Arab countries with count Bernard Do’s

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murder the negotiations were now headed by his Deputy the American mediator

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Ralph bunch in February 19 1949 the first

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Armistice agreement was signed between Israel and Egypt followed by Lebanon in March Jordan in April and finally with

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Syria in July the Jordanian deal conceded further land to Israel it included villages in

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the taram and Janine districts the territory was officially

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handed over on May the 10th 1949 the very next day Israel was

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admitted as a member of of the United Nations we believe that admitting Israel

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as a member will not merely be an act of Justice it will also be a decisive step

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towards peace because it will remove any vestage of Doubt from certain Minds that

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Israel has come to stay resolution 69 of the UN Security

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Council stated the security Council decides in its judgment that Israel is a

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peaceloving State and is able and willing to carry out the obligations in the UN

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Charter in protest Arab delegates to the UN walked out of the general

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assembly the American Diplomat Ralph Bunch architect of the Armistice agreements was awarded the Nobel Peace

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Prize I had been awarded the Nobel Peace Peace Prize uh for this year I am of

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course uh extremely happy and highly honored whatever I was able to do in

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Palestine was a a result of the fact that I was backed by the great

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International Peace organization the United Nations Israel’s representative to the

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UN Abba eban declared there is no need to pursue peace the Armistice is enough

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for us peace would lead the Arabs to ask for a price border changes or the return

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of refugees or both I wrote a very long book uh called

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um the Iron Wall Israel and the Arab world but it has a very simple idea or a

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very simple theme that emerges and that is that Israel throughout its history

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has been all too too ready extremely ready to resort to military

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force uh and remarkably reluctant to engage in meaningful

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diplomacy with its Arab

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Neighbors

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the sole remnants of Palestine were split into two separate parts in April 1950 the Eastern portion

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was annexed to Jordan and named the West Bank the narrow Coastal band in the

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South was put under Egyptian Administration and named the Gaza

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Strip the word Palestine was erased from history politics and

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if there is the case against Britain and against Ernest Bevin it’s not that they

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tried to prevent the birth of a Jewish state but that they tried to uh prevent

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and succeeded in um uh preventing the birth of an independent Palestinian

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State my passport was stamped to Alcantara entering

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Palestine and officially I never left Palestine I officially entered it and

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officially I never uh entered Israel but I left it and stump in the

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passport

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though official and historical records have revealed much about the Palestinian nacba there are still many more

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documents that remain

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classified

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is is a is

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a

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documentation of the nacba has become sparse records that do remain have been

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neglected and are poorly maintained primary sources are extent

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yet many useful accounts have not been circulated one includes the Memoirs of

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Hussein fakri Al khalidi a former mayor of Jerusalem and member of the Arab

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higher committee he remained in Palestine till

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1948 and wrote his Memoirs the year later in Beirut in 1958 he wrote a book in

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English entitled Arab Exodus yet his work has never been

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in May 1948 the state of Israel was established a Homeland for the

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Jews but some 150,000 Palestinians Muslims and Christians still remained

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within Israel’s

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this is safaria today just one among hundreds of Palestinian Villages whose

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traces have almost been wiped away forced to flee their homes in

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safaria most inhabitants headed towards Lebanon and Syria a few found refuge in

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the nearby city of Nazareth they called their new neighborhood alaaf their former homes are less than 2

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km away but strictly out of bounds safaria has been renamed

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zipori in northern and western Galilee the Israeli Army allowed some Christian

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and Drew villagers to remain in their houses many Palestinians saw this as a

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crude attempt by the Israelis to sew division in Palestinian ranks by playing

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on religious differences

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Sami Kamal Abdul razak remembers every detail of his home he was 30 years old

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in 1948 his wife was

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which it’s fore

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children nor his grandchildren are allowed to return to their family home not even to

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visit it’s the same story with countless other Palestinians in the diaspora

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estimated to number over 6 million today Palestinian houses appropriated by

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Israel stand as a testament to an abiding Injustice

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the original occupants and owners are now scattered across the

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world new generations of Palestinian refugees who have never known their

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ancestral land still refer to these places as

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home in 1969 then Israeli Prime Minister Golda mayor was quoted in a British

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newspaper she said it was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine

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considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them

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they did not exist I’m from those who learned in the

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school that people with no land looked

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for a land with no people so these people of here what we

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call Palestine maybe they were here but they were no

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people that’s to say that a million and 300,000 of people that were present here

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in 48 are either no people or were not here

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and this was a kind of a mistake

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in

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there was a Machinery of denial and that’s why most Israelis did not know what happened and those who did uh had a

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different mechanism that was a mechanism of justification they decided if if our

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forefathers expelled the Palestinians there was a good reason for this and they were taught not to talk about it in

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public because It embarrasses Israel

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refugee camps in Desperate

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I find it terrible to reflect on the fact that we still have those refugee camps which were created in uh 1948 here

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in Lebanon elsewhere I mean as worse situation than they ever were

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both in the conditions and then their

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prospects

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Jerusalem holds great importance to the three main monotheistic

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religions yet over the years there have been concerted efforts under successive

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Israeli governments to forge a solely Jewish identity in the holy

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city these efforts are happening both above and below

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ground

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there’s a new NBA taking place as we talk it just doesn’t have the same features and characteristics of the 48

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nagba the 48 nagba was in one period of time very dramatic massive the present

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nakba is a very slow process of expulsion annexation demolition of

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houses imprisonment of people it’s going on for 40 years it’s in a way it’s a

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it’s a new version of the same idea of how to cause the Palestinians to leave

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Palestine

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if you take what’s happening nowadays in the West Bank in the Gaza

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Street just tell me how clean is the Israeli Army and the Israeli rifles who

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are killing children old people women who have nothing to do with

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the war the same exactly the same happened in 48 and

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somehow by the same people also in Zionism I hope by now it’s clear our

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values will never be reflected in public policy today over 6 million Palestinians live

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in Exile prevented from visiting their ancestral homes another 5 or 6 million

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Palestinians live inside historic Palestine in the Gaza Strip 2 million

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Palestinians are squeezed in a tiny area with strict internal and external

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control in the occupied West Bank Israeli settlements and checkpoints are

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part of everyday life Israel claims that the checkpoints are

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vital to stop Palestinian violence but critics say they are a form

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of collective punishment effectively sealing off Palestinian cities and jeopardizing any hopes for

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peace this footage is from the city of rala at gun Point Palestinians are

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forced to strip naked in public part of an ongoing psychological

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War aimed at making Palestinians feel they have neither safety nor

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dignity

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many things have not changed since 1948 this man covering his face is a

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must the name given 60 years ago to the Jewish paramilitaries who disguised

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themselves as Arabs to carry out covert

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operations today the mission Remains the

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is

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the story is not over you have to see how the whole story would end because the ethnic cleansing operation continues

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and the resistance to the ethnic Landing operation

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continues

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