Child's Torment In The West Bank

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  1. zanger

    zanger member

  2. b4cz28

    b4cz28 Active Member

    You clearly have a problem with Israel; you have made several post to that effect.
    http://forums.degreeinfo.com/off-topic-discussions/34464-rachel-corrie-speech-before-she-murdered.html

    http://forums.degreeinfo.com/off-topic-discussions/34520-lies-taught-colleges.html
    http://forums.degreeinfo.com/off-topic-discussions/34419-check-out-these-skulls.html

    Who cares, the Jews are not going to chop off his hand like the PA would. People crap on Irael all the time, I'm sick of it. The Palistinians had a chance to have there own country a long time ago, the same time as Irael. The British Goverment and the UN wanted to divid up the country.
     
  3. b4cz28

    b4cz28 Active Member

    Quoted Article

    Under the 1947 UN Partition Plan, which proposed the establishment of two states in Palestine—a Jewish state and an Arab state—Jerusalem was to be an international city, neither exclusively Arab nor Jewish for a period of ten years, at which point a referendum would be held by Jerusalem residents to determine which country to join. The Jewish leadership accepted the plan, including the internationalization of Jerusalem, but the Arabs turned it down.

    As soon as Israel declared its independence in 1948, it was attacked en masse by its Arab neighbors. Jordan took over east Jerusalem and the Old City. Israeli forces made a concerted attempt to dislodge them, but were unable to do so. By the end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War Jerusalem was left divided between Israel and Jordan. The Old City and East Jerusalem continued to be occupied by Jordan, and the Jewish residents were forced out. Under Jordanian rule, half of the Old City's fifty-eight synagogues were demolished and the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives was plundered for its tombstones, which were used as paving stones and building materials.

    This state of affairs changed in 1967 as a result of the Six-Day War. Before the start of the war, Israel sent a message to King Hussein of Jordan saying that Israel would not attack Jerusalem or the West Bank as long as the Jordanian front remained quiet. Urged by Egyptian pressure and based on deceptive intelligence reports, Jordan began shelling civilian locations in Israel to which Israel responded on June 6 by opening the eastern front. The following day, June 7, 1967 (28 Iyar 5727), Israel captured the Old City of Jerusalem.
     

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