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November revolutionary Western partition. by their allied amend the the fertile land. their hopes on the idea that if the United States were closed to the Jewish immigrants, then the Nazi persecution would spur the to resettle Jews in Immediately after World War II, an upsurge in the Arab revolution helped to convince Washington supporting the Zionists call for the formation of the To accommodate the Zionists, the United Nations passed a resolution in 1947 that divided Palestine into two parts — a Jewish state and a Palestinian Arab state. The Palestinian Arabs, who were the majority, strongly objected to this Even after the post-World War II attacks, Jewish immigration, the Palestinians still constituted two-thirds of the population, including one-half of the population in the part of Palestine that was assigned to the Zionists. In addition, at the time of the partition Palestinians farmed three-fifths of The outbreak of the so-called Israeli war for independence on May 1948, led to another defeat for the Palestinians. This war provided the Zionists with the pretext they were seeking to expel the Palestinian Arabs from all Palestine.
Even before the outbreak of this war, the Zionists were cooking up plans to expel the Palestinian Arabs On 9 April 1948, an entire month before the outbreak of the war, the Zionist terrorist group called Irgun massacrea ove 250 unarmed men women, and children at the village o Deir Yassin.
The Irgun leader at Deir Yassin was Menachem Begin - now Israeli Prime Minister.
Zionist threats and combined with the onset of the 1948 war, thousands of Palestinian Arabs to flee their homeland.
Israel emerged victorious from the war. The Zionists took advantage of their strength to annex additional land. In 1949, King Abdullah of Jordan made a secret deal with Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion. agreed to carve up and divide the Palestinian half-state that had been established by resolution.
These secret deals were carried out without the agreement or participation of the Palestinians, living in the area. democratic votes taken, no elections held.
Since 1948 the Palestinians living in Israel have been refugees in their own land. Those "lucky' enough not to have been expelled face conditions similar to those of black people in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Immediately Israel was established, the Zionists bruta instituted a policy Arab labour and Arab products. For of years, Arab workers were exclude from membership in the all-Jewish trade UHOR Histadrut.
Today, Arabs in Israel are treated like second-class citizens. They are subjected to legal segregation in education, as recora this out.
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oppose Zionism. and Arab people against the Israeli state.
socialists — who fight against racism in any form - nevertheless In the first of our series of socialist education articles we therefore look at why we support the struggle of the Palestinian