Originally posted by Revolution Until
[email protected] 30, 2007 08:10 pm
Here is a brief summary of the situation:
The earliest known inhabitants of the land could arguablly be considred the Caananites. A semetic groups that emmigrated from the Arabian Peninsula. After that, the Hebrew tribes invaded the land of Canaan and took over some of it. Latter, they were expelled and the land got conqured by the Romans. After the Romans, the Arabs (who trace thier ancestory to the Canaanites) conqured it from the Romans and from then on, it was a predomanatly Arab land with an Arab population, even though for a while they were under Ottman colonization. All in all, Palestine have been conqured by many various peoples and tribes. In the late 19th centurey political Zionism emerged along with the wave of racist, capitalist, European imperilaism. Zionism, a raicst, 19th century capitalist-imperilaist movment sought different allies, until it finally settled with the British imperilaists, who sponsered thier movment. In 1947, the imperialists were able to influence the UN and devide Palestine, into 2 parts: 55% to the Zionist colonizers and the rest to the natives (I will demonstrate how unjust this was latter in the post). Around the time of the partition resolution by the UN and after it, almost 800,000 Palestinian Arabs were expelled by the Zionists, and almost 500 villages destroyed and ethnicly cleansed. At first, the Palestinians relied on the Arab states and thier conventional armies to defeat the Zionist settler-colony. However, the 1967 agression proved thier illousion and the futility of imperialist-agent regimes and thier classic armies. Thus in 1958 Palestinian students in Kuwait established the first Palestinian liberation movment, called the Palestinian National Liberation Movment, Al Fatah, a secular, nationalist, and moderate-leftist movment for the liberaiton fo Palestine. In 1964 the PLO was established by the Arab regimes to liberate Palestine, yet, it was controlled by them and wasn't independent. In January, 1, 1965 AL Fatah launched the modern, Palestinian armed revolution. In December, 11, 1967, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Palestinian wing of the socialist Arab Nationalist Movment (ANM), was established and about a year later, adopted Marxism-leninsm, heavely effected by Maoism. In 1968, a faction split form the PFLP led by Ahmad Jibril and formed the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) which concentrated more on armed struggle. In 1969, another faction split form the PFLP led by Naif Hawatmeh and formed the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palesitne (DFLP) and as opposed to the PFLP-GC, concentrated more on revolutionary leftist theory rather than armed struggle. The Palestinian revolution's first major setback was in 1970 when the collaborater king of Jordan fought the Palestinian guerrillas in Jordan and the guerillas lost thier bases for armed struggle in Jordan as a result. The second major setback was the 1982 war in Lebanon in which the guerrillas lost thier last external base for armed struggle. In 1988, the PLO compromised with colonialism and gave the Zionists the right to colonize Palestine. In 1993 the Oslo accords were signed, and the "peace process" started. In September 2000, the Palestinian armed revolution was re-launched, this time, from inside Palestine. The Islamic Resistance Movment, Hamas, was formed in 1987 by Ahmad Yassin, after being Zionist agents through out the early 80's, and around the same time, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad was formed by Ahmad Shiqaqy.
but do you think it is israels or plestines territory?
From a legal viewpoint, it belongs to the Palestinian Arabs (of course, without mentioning any relegious cliams or "who came first").
Following are the evidence:
- The CCP Refugee Office (a UN offical commitee) estimated that although only a little more than a quarter was considered cultivable, more than 80 percent of Israel's total area of 20,850 km.sq. represented land abandoned by the Arab refugees. Three-quarters of the former Arab land was sub-marginal land or semi-desert in the Negeb.
(The Establishment of the State of Israel as a Jewish State from Chapter I in: Israel –An Apartheid State, by Uri Davis, Zed Books, London and New Jersey, 1987)
- According to the Survey of Palestine prepared by the UN prior to the 1947 partition, P.566, over 94% of Palestine's total area belonged to Palestinians, and the zionists own 5.8%.
- Subcommittee 2 of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Palestine Question stated in its report to the United Nations General Assembly the following:
Closely connected with the distribution of population is the factor of land ownership in the proposed Jewish State. The bulk of the land in the Arab State, as well as in the proposed Jewish State, is owned and possessed by Arabs. This is clear from the following statistics furnished to the Sub-Committee by the United Kingdom representative, showing the respective percentages of Arab and Jewish ownership of land in the various sub-districts of Palestine.
(Official Records of the Second Session of the General Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on the Palestine Question, Summary Records of Meetings, 25 September-25 November, 1947, pp. 292-293.)
So according to the UN, around 94% of the total area of Palestine was Arab owned, while the Zionists colonizers were only able to own 5.8%.
If zionism was from the begining a racist, capitalist, movement, what do you make of Labor zionism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Zionism)? Here was the partion plan, which the U.N. passed in 1947. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nation...n_for_Palestine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine)