Nakba: diferenças entre revisões
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== History ==
In 1947, the [[United Nations]] General Assembly proposed partitioning The [[British Mandate of Palestine]] into two states, Jewish and Arab. The Jewish community accepted [[United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine|the UN partition plan]], while the Arab community in Palestine, supported by the Arab League, rejected the UN proposal and vowed to oppose it by armed struggle. In the ensuing war, in which the Palestinian Arabs failed to prevent the establishment of a Jewish state according to the partition plan, an estimated 700,000 [[Palestinian refugees]],<ref name="r3">Morris, Benny (2003).'' The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-00967-7, p. 604.</ref> and the destruction and abandonment of [[List of villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war|up to 418 Palestinian
In accordance with the UN partition plan, Israel declared its independence from the [[United Kingdom]] on the evening of [[May 14]] [[1948]]. That same night saw the invasion of Israel by five of the seven countries of the [[Arab League]], starting the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The [[Israel Defence Forces]] defeated the armies of [[Egypt]], Syria, [[Transjordan]], [[Lebanon]] and [[Iraq]] and captured just over fifty per cent of the territory allocated for an Arab state in the partition. After the end of the war, the vast majority of Palestinian Arab refugees outside the [[1949 Armistice Agreements|1949 armistice lines]] were barred by the [[Israelis]] from returning to their homes, many of which had been destroyed, or from reclaiming their property.<ref name="r3" /><ref name="r4" />Furthermore, Palestinians were on the whole denied citizenship in the countries to which they fled and exploited by the Arab governments of these countries as political pawns. In the words of Khaled al Azm, the former prime minister of Syria,<blockquote>
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