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Palestine (region)

The land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River: Ottoman districts until the First World War, then under British administration with a League of Nations Mandate.

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According to Avi Shlaim

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involved in

  • 1948 war the State Department's account of both sides' aims Primary record 1
  • 1948 war fighting began after the partition vote Primary record 1

part of

  • Ottoman Empire Primary record 2

    Ottoman rule ended during the First World War.

  • Ottoman Empire Primary record 2

    Population as the Peel Commission reckoned it for 1919.

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location of

Proof 5 sources
  1. The Arab-Israeli War of 1948 (Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
    The goal of the Arabs was initially to block the Partition Resolution and to prevent the establishment of the Jewish state.
    The Jews, on the other hand, hoped to gain control over the territory allotted to them under the Partition Plan.
    Fighting began with attacks by irregular bands of Palestinian Arabs attached to local units of the Arab Liberation Army composed of volunteers from Palestine and neighboring Arab countries. These groups launched their attacks against Jewish cities, settlements, and armed forces.
  2. Palestine Royal Commission Report (Cmd. 5479), His Majesty's Stationery Office, via UN Question of Palestine archive, 1937. Primary record
    In 1517 it was conquered, with Syria and Egypt, by the Ottoman Turks: and in the hands of the Ottoman Sultans at Constantinople it remained, except for the few months of Napoleon’s invasion and the few years of Mohammed Ali’s occupation, till the World War of 1914.
    the vast majority of the population was Arab. It was those half million Arabs, with a small minority of 65,000 Jews, who had been removed from Turkish rule
    of the population as estimated in rgz, 589,000 were Moslems, 83,000 Jews, and 71,000 Christians.
    It has been credibly estimated at 1,000 killed
    nearly 12,000 of them were on the land
    in 1914 there were over 80,000.
    it was reckoned that 133 Jews had been killed and 339 wounded.
    ascertained, 116 had been killed and 232 wounded
    murderous attacks were made on the Jews in various parts of the country.
    At Hebron over 60 Jews were killed, including women and children
    There was little retaliation by the Jews.
    the majority of Arab casualties were inflicted by the troops or police
  3. Israel's "new history" and the Palestinians (openDemocracy, via History News Network), History News Network. Scholarship & press
    Between 700,000 and 750,000 people, almost half the Arab population of Palestine, became refugees in 1948.
  4. Survival of the Fittest? An interview with Benny Morris, by Ari Shavit (Haaretz, 9 January 2004), Haaretz, reprinted by Logos Journal, 9 Jan 2004. Scholarship & press
    Without the uprooting of the Palestinians
  5. 10 years to the second Intifada: summary of data (press release), B'Tselem, 27 Sep 2010. Scholarship & press Archived copy
    Israeli security forces killed 6371 Palestinians, of whom 1317 were minors.
    At least 2996 of the fatalities did not participate in the hostilities when killed.
    741 of the fatalities were civilians, of whom 124 were minors, and 342 were members of the security forces.
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