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| | The '''Arab-Israeli conflict''' ([[Arabic]] "الصراع العربي الإسرائيلي", [[Hebrew]] "הסכסוך הישראלי ערבי") is a term used to refer to the recurring conflict between the citizens of [[Israel]] and the Arab states of the [[Middle East]] (notably [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Jordan]], [[Iraq]], and [[Lebanon]]). Many wars have been fought between the State of Israel and other Arab nations in the region. Today, Egypt and Jordan recognize Israel while the other Arab states do not. | | The '''Arab-Israeli conflict''' ([[Arabic]] "الصراع العربي الإسرائيلي", [[Hebrew]] "הסכסוך הישראלי ערבי") is a term used to refer to the recurring conflict between the citizens of [[Israel]] and the Arab states of the [[Middle East]] (notably [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Jordan]], [[Iraq]], and [[Lebanon]]). Many wars have been fought between the State of Israel and other Arab nations in the region. Today, Egypt and Jordan recognize Israel while the other Arab states do not. |
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| | + | Though, the first Arab attack on a Jewish settlements was in 1886 in ''Petach Tikva'', the all out campaign dates back to at least 1914, when the [[Ottoman]]s banned the [[Falastin]]<ref>Janrense Boonstra, "[https://books.google.com/books?id=mMEsAQAAIAAJ&q=%22falastin%22+%22racist%22 Antisemitism, a History Portrayed]", SDU / Anne Frank Foundation,' 1989, p. 101.<blockquote> |
| | + | The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem |
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| | + | In 1914, the periodical Falastin – with its extremist Arab nationalist slant - was abolished by the Ottoman authorities because of its racist hate propaganda. The periodical had agitated against the immigration of Jewish refugees from Russia. |
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| | + | In the Twenties, the publication reappeared and led campaigns against Jewish immigration. |
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| | + | As a result of anti-Jewish propaganda and terror, the British government took measures between the Twenties and the Forties to restrict Jewish immigration to Palestine. |
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| | + | In 1921, an extremist, pan-Arab nationalist , Haji Amin al-Huseini, was appointed Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, a religious leader. |
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| | + | Three weeks after his appointment, he led a pogrom in which forty-three Jews were murdered. |
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| | + | From the beginning of the Second World War the Mufti led a rebellion of Iraqis, Syrians and Lebanese with support from Nazi Germany against the Allied Forces...</ref> |
| | + | newspaper for inciting racist hatred. Then the newspaper was reinstated in April 1921. It caused great anxiety.<ref>Elie Kedourie, Sylvia G. Haim: |
| | + | 'Zionism and Arabism in Palestine and Israel' (RLE Israel and Palestine), Taylor & Francis, 2015. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Qj6sCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8 p. 8] [https://www.scribd.com/doc/50775054/Zionism-and-Arabism]</ref> |
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| | + | Two other incidents in April added to Yishuv anxiety. In Jaffa, citrus-owner. Samuel Tolkowsky complained that Government permission for the reappearance of Falastin, which had been closed down by the Turks for incitement to race-hatred in April 1914, could only be a source of discouragement to 'moderate' Arabs and an official invitation to 'extremists'.</blockquote> about a year after [[Haj Amin Al Husseini]] began his incitement and the worked then in concert. |
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| | ==See also== | | ==See also== |