Comments by "Larre Valentine" (@internetuser881) on "Kibbutz Survivor Recounts Hiding With Daughters as Husband Fought Hamas | WSJ" video.
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@AlfredoDr.Z Jews, Arabs, and Christians lived together In mostly peaceful coexistence In Palestine for hundreds of years under the rule of the Ottoman Turks Empire since 1516.
When War World l broke out In 1914, the Turks were on Germany's side, Britain decided to open up a Southern Front by capturing the Cyani Penninsula and taking Palestine from the Turks. So Britain recruited Arab Leaders to their side to fight against the Turks by promising them Palestine when they won. Britain also recruited several Local Battalions made up of local jews living In Palestine with the promise that if they helped defeat the Turks, the jews would get their own Homeland. This was appealing to a Jewish Movement called Zionism which basically advocated for a Jewish Homeland, So Britain essentially promised the same piece of land to the Arabs and Jews. Which raised the troops that Britain needed to open up the Southern Front against Turkey.
In 1920, Britain eventually received a mandate from the League of Nations to administer Palestine.
In 1947 The United Nations proposed a Partition Plan for Palestine which recommended the establishment of seperate Jewish and Arab States with Jerulem under International Administration, this plan was accepted by Jewish leadership but it was rejected by the Arab States and Palestinian Arab Leaders. The Partition Plan was never fully implemented. Israel DECLARED Independence In May of 1948. Neighboring Arab States INVADED Israel Inmmediately leading to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
Israel calls it the War of Independence, the Arabs call it Naka. While Israel were poorly equipped and trained they somehow won against five nations, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. The Jewish militias THEN EXPELLED over 700,000 Palestinians from their homes, the State of Israel grew beyond the original borders set by the United Nations and many Palestinians ended up in a thin Strip land called Gaza, or landlocked area called The West Bank, or Lebanon.
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