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==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[Right to exist]] | *[[Right to exist]] | ||
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==List of Conflicts== | ==List of Conflicts== | ||
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[http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/myths/mftoc.html Myths & Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict] | [http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/myths/mftoc.html Myths & Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict] | ||
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[http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~samuel Fact and Fantasy in the Holy Land] | [http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~samuel Fact and Fantasy in the Holy Land] | ||
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Other travelers and pilgrims recorded similar reports of the dreary state of the Land around the middle of the nineteenth century. Here are just a few examples: | Other travelers and pilgrims recorded similar reports of the dreary state of the Land around the middle of the nineteenth century. Here are just a few examples: | ||
| − | Alphonse de Lamartine, in 1835: "...a complete eternal silence reigns in the town, on the highways, in the country ... the tomb of a whole people" (Recollections of the East, Vol. I, p. 308). | + | Alphonse de Lamartine, in 1835: "...a complete eternal silence reigns in the town, on the highways, in the country ... the tomb of a whole people" (Recollections of the East, Vol. I, p. 308). |
| − | A contemporary German encyclopedia (Brockhaus, "Allegmeine deutsche Real- Encyklopaidie", Vol. VIII, p. 206, Leipzig, 1827) calls Palestine "desolate and roamed through by Arab robber-bands." | + | A contemporary German encyclopedia (Brockhaus, "Allegmeine deutsche Real- Encyklopaidie", Vol. VIII, p. 206, Leipzig, 1827) calls Palestine "desolate and roamed through by Arab robber-bands." |
| − | In 1849, the American W. F. Lynch described the desertion of Palestinian villages "caused by the frequent forays of the wandering Bedouin" (Narrative of the United States Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea, p. 489). | + | In 1849, the American W. F. Lynch described the desertion of Palestinian villages "caused by the frequent forays of the wandering Bedouin" (Narrative of the United States Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea, p. 489). |
| − | And again H. B. Tristram, in 1865: "... both in the north and south (of the Sharon plain), land is going out of cultivvation, and whole villages ar rapidly disappearing from the face of the earth. Since the year 1838, no less than 20 villages have been thus erased from the map (by the Bedouin) and the stationary population extirpated" (p. 490). | + | And again H. B. Tristram, in 1865: "... both in the north and south (of the Sharon plain), land is going out of cultivvation, and whole villages ar rapidly disappearing from the face of the earth. Since the year 1838, no less than 20 villages have been thus erased from the map (by the Bedouin) and the stationary population extirpated" (p. 490). |
Mark Twain, 'Innocents Abroad' 1867: | Mark Twain, 'Innocents Abroad' 1867: | ||
""Desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds - a silent mournful expanse ... We reached Tabor safely ... | ""Desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds - a silent mournful expanse ... We reached Tabor safely ... | ||
| − | We never saw a human being on the whole route" (p. 451, 480); | + | We never saw a human being on the whole route" (p. 451, 480); |
"There is not a solitary village throughout its (the Jezreel Valley's) whole extent - not for thirty miles in either direction. | "There is not a solitary village throughout its (the Jezreel Valley's) whole extent - not for thirty miles in either direction. | ||
There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents but not a single permanent habitation. | There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents but not a single permanent habitation. | ||
| − | One may ride ten miles, hereabouts, and not see ten human beings" (p. 448); | + | One may ride ten miles, hereabouts, and not see ten human beings" (p. 448); |
| − | "Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery, I think Palestine must be the prince. The hills are barren ... the valleys are unsightly deserts... It is a hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land... Palestine is desolate and unlovely... Palestine is no more of this workday world. It is sacred to poetry and tradition - it is dreamland" (pp. 564, 567). | + | "Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery, I think Palestine must be the prince. The hills are barren ... the valleys are unsightly deserts... It is a hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land... Palestine is desolate and unlovely... Palestine is no more of this workday world. It is sacred to poetry and tradition - it is dreamland" (pp. 564, 567). |
Referring to the same era, the Christian historian James Parkes writes in Whose Land?: "Peasant and Bedouin alike have contributed to the ruin of the countryside on which both depend for a livelihood... In spite of the immense fertility of the soil, it is probable that in the first half of the nineteenth century the population sank to the lowest level it had ever known in historic times." | Referring to the same era, the Christian historian James Parkes writes in Whose Land?: "Peasant and Bedouin alike have contributed to the ruin of the countryside on which both depend for a livelihood... In spite of the immense fertility of the soil, it is probable that in the first half of the nineteenth century the population sank to the lowest level it had ever known in historic times." | ||
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Other travelers and pilgrims recorded similar reports of the dreary state of the Land around the middle of the nineteenth century. Here are just a few examples: | Other travelers and pilgrims recorded similar reports of the dreary state of the Land around the middle of the nineteenth century. Here are just a few examples: | ||
| − | Alphonse de Lamartine, in 1835: "...a complete eternal silence reigns in the town, on the highways, in the country ... the tomb of a whole people" (Recollections of the East, Vol. I, p. 308). | + | Alphonse de Lamartine, in 1835: "...a complete eternal silence reigns in the town, on the highways, in the country ... the tomb of a whole people" (Recollections of the East, Vol. I, p. 308). |
| − | A contemporary German encyclopedia (Brockhaus, "Allegmeine deutsche Real- Encyklopaidie", Vol. VIII, p. 206, Leipzig, 1827) calls Palestine "desolate and roamed through by Arab robber-bands." | + | A contemporary German encyclopedia (Brockhaus, "Allegmeine deutsche Real- Encyklopaidie", Vol. VIII, p. 206, Leipzig, 1827) calls Palestine "desolate and roamed through by Arab robber-bands." |
| − | In 1849, the American W. F. Lynch described the desertion of Palestinian villages "caused by the frequent forays of the wandering Bedouin" (Narrative of the United States Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea, p. 489). | + | In 1849, the American W. F. Lynch described the desertion of Palestinian villages "caused by the frequent forays of the wandering Bedouin" (Narrative of the United States Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea, p. 489). |
| − | And again H. B. Tristram, in 1865: "... both in the north and south (of the Sharon plain), land is going out of cultivvation, and whole villages ar rapidly disappearing from the face of the earth. Since the year 1838, no less than 20 villages have been thus erased from the map (by the Bedouin) and the stationary population extirpated" (p. 490). | + | And again H. B. Tristram, in 1865: "... both in the north and south (of the Sharon plain), land is going out of cultivvation, and whole villages ar rapidly disappearing from the face of the earth. Since the year 1838, no less than 20 villages have been thus erased from the map (by the Bedouin) and the stationary population extirpated" (p. 490). |
Mark Twain, 'Innocents Abroad' 1867: | Mark Twain, 'Innocents Abroad' 1867: | ||
""Desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds - a silent mournful expanse ... We reached Tabor safely ... | ""Desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds - a silent mournful expanse ... We reached Tabor safely ... | ||
| − | We never saw a human being on the whole route" (p. 451, 480); | + | We never saw a human being on the whole route" (p. 451, 480); |
"There is not a solitary village throughout its (the Jezreel Valley's) whole extent - not for thirty miles in either direction. | "There is not a solitary village throughout its (the Jezreel Valley's) whole extent - not for thirty miles in either direction. | ||
There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents but not a single permanent habitation. | There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents but not a single permanent habitation. | ||
| − | One may ride ten miles, hereabouts, and not see ten human beings" (p. 448); | + | One may ride ten miles, hereabouts, and not see ten human beings" (p. 448); |
| − | "Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery, I think Palestine must be the prince. The hills are barren ... the valleys are unsightly deserts... It is a hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land... Palestine is desolate and unlovely... Palestine is no more of this workday world. It is sacred to poetry and tradition - it is dreamland" (pp. 564, 567). | + | "Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery, I think Palestine must be the prince. The hills are barren ... the valleys are unsightly deserts... It is a hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land... Palestine is desolate and unlovely... Palestine is no more of this workday world. It is sacred to poetry and tradition - it is dreamland" (pp. 564, 567). |
==Further sites== | ==Further sites== | ||
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[http://all4israel.org Update on victims - All4israel] | [http://all4israel.org Update on victims - All4israel] | ||
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[http://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com/AminAlHusseini.htm Amin Al Husseini - The Grand Mufti and father of today's jihad] | [http://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com/AminAlHusseini.htm Amin Al Husseini - The Grand Mufti and father of today's jihad] | ||
| − | + | ''In November 1941, the Mufti met with Hitler, who told him the Jews were his foremost enemy. The Nazi dictator rebuffed the Mufti's requests for a declaration in support of the Arabs, however, telling him the time was not right. The Mufti offered Hitler his “thanks for the sympathy which he had always shown for the Arab and especially Palestinian cause, and to which he had given clear expression in his public speeches....The Arabs were Germany's natural friends because they had the same enemies as had Germany, namely....the Jews....” Hitler replied.'' | |
[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/muftihit.html The Mufti and the Fuhrer] | [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/muftihit.html The Mufti and the Fuhrer] | ||
[http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/farhud.html 1941 The Farhud, the Mufti inspired Krystallnacht in Iraq] | [http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/farhud.html 1941 The Farhud, the Mufti inspired Krystallnacht in Iraq] | ||
| − | + | ''In 1948, nearly 900,000 Jews - indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa - lived in what are now known as the "Arab States." ~ Today, 99% of these indigenous Jewish communities no longer exist. ~ Arab governments forced us to leave, confiscated our personal and communal property and stripped us of our citizenships.''<br> | |
[http://jimena.org Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa] | [http://jimena.org Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa] | ||
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[http://www.ldolphin.org/palestinians.html The Arabs in the Holy Land - Natives or Aliens?] | [http://www.ldolphin.org/palestinians.html The Arabs in the Holy Land - Natives or Aliens?] | ||
| − | [http://ziontruth.blogspot.com/2006/08/flauberts-observations-of-jerusalem.html "Flaubert's Observations of Jerusalem and the Jews Living There | + | [http://ziontruth.blogspot.com/2006/08/flauberts-observations-of-jerusalem.html "Flaubert's Observations of Jerusalem and the Jews Living There [1850]"] |
[http://www.therefinersfire.org/israel_defends_itself.htm Israel Has A Moral Right To Its Life Why reason and justice are on Israel's side] | [http://www.therefinersfire.org/israel_defends_itself.htm Israel Has A Moral Right To Its Life Why reason and justice are on Israel's side] | ||
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[http://www.netanyahu.org/ismorleg.html Israel's Moral Legitimacy] | [http://www.netanyahu.org/ismorleg.html Israel's Moral Legitimacy] | ||
| − | + | ''British National Archives unveil presence of Nazi S.S. agents in Mandatory Palestine, working closely with Palestinian leaders. Historical documents in Britain's National Archives in London show'' | |
[http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3248081,00.html Nazis shipped arms to Palestinians] | [http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3248081,00.html Nazis shipped arms to Palestinians] | ||
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[http://haveitclearly.blogspot.com/2006/04/120-years-to-first-of-arabs-attack-on.html March 2006 - 120 Years to first of Arabs' attack on Jews in "palestine" Israel, Petach Tikva 1886] | [http://haveitclearly.blogspot.com/2006/04/120-years-to-first-of-arabs-attack-on.html March 2006 - 120 Years to first of Arabs' attack on Jews in "palestine" Israel, Petach Tikva 1886] | ||
| − | + | ''As grand mufti, al Husseini presided as the Imam of the Al Aqsa mosque in ... 1929. Hebron Massacre, Amin Al-Husseini organizes more riots in Palestine ''<br> | |
[http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/2543 From Al Husseini to Hitler Radical Islam and the Nazi connection] | [http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/2543 From Al Husseini to Hitler Radical Islam and the Nazi connection] | ||
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63hTOaRu7h4 The Middleeast porblem explained by the Prager University] | [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63hTOaRu7h4 The Middleeast porblem explained by the Prager University] | ||
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[[Category:Israeli Wars]] | [[Category:Israeli Wars]] | ||
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Revision as of 04:58, June 27, 2016
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.
Contents
See also
List of Conflicts
- 1929 Hebron massacre
- 1948 Arab-Israeli War
- Suez Crisis
- Six-Day War
- War of Attrition
- Yom Kippur War
- 1982 Lebanon War
- 1978-2000 South Lebanon conflict
- Gulf War
- Second Intifada
- 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict
- Operation Pillar of Defense
Further reading
- Tucker, Spencer C., ed. The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict A Political, Social, and Military History (4 vol. 2008)
Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Mitchell G. Bard
Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict by Benny Morris
The Fight for Jerusalem by Dore Gold
The Case for Israel by Alan M. Dershowitz
Info sites
Myths & Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Fact and Fantasy in the Holy Land
Arab-Israeli conflict - Basic facts
The Smoking Gun: Arab Immigration into Palestine, 1922-1931
Concept wizard info, Visual information about the Middle East conflict
A History of Terrorism in Israel (since the 1920's)
MEI- Middle East regimes and Terrorism
Historical Accounts prior to conflict
The vast majority of travelogues and historical accounts of the Middle east describe this area as barren- that does not mean UN -populated- it does mean UNDER populated. Alexander Keith, recalling Volney's 1785 description (quoted above) fifty years later, commented: "In his day [Volney's] the land had not fully reached its last degree of desolation and depopulation." (The Land of Israel).
Other travelers and pilgrims recorded similar reports of the dreary state of the Land around the middle of the nineteenth century. Here are just a few examples:
Alphonse de Lamartine, in 1835: "...a complete eternal silence reigns in the town, on the highways, in the country ... the tomb of a whole people" (Recollections of the East, Vol. I, p. 308).
A contemporary German encyclopedia (Brockhaus, "Allegmeine deutsche Real- Encyklopaidie", Vol. VIII, p. 206, Leipzig, 1827) calls Palestine "desolate and roamed through by Arab robber-bands."
In 1849, the American W. F. Lynch described the desertion of Palestinian villages "caused by the frequent forays of the wandering Bedouin" (Narrative of the United States Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea, p. 489).
And again H. B. Tristram, in 1865: "... both in the north and south (of the Sharon plain), land is going out of cultivvation, and whole villages ar rapidly disappearing from the face of the earth. Since the year 1838, no less than 20 villages have been thus erased from the map (by the Bedouin) and the stationary population extirpated" (p. 490).
Mark Twain, 'Innocents Abroad' 1867:
""Desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds - a silent mournful expanse ... We reached Tabor safely ... We never saw a human being on the whole route" (p. 451, 480); "There is not a solitary village throughout its (the Jezreel Valley's) whole extent - not for thirty miles in either direction. There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents but not a single permanent habitation. One may ride ten miles, hereabouts, and not see ten human beings" (p. 448); "Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery, I think Palestine must be the prince. The hills are barren ... the valleys are unsightly deserts... It is a hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land... Palestine is desolate and unlovely... Palestine is no more of this workday world. It is sacred to poetry and tradition - it is dreamland" (pp. 564, 567).
Referring to the same era, the Christian historian James Parkes writes in Whose Land?: "Peasant and Bedouin alike have contributed to the ruin of the countryside on which both depend for a livelihood... In spite of the immense fertility of the soil, it is probable that in the first half of the nineteenth century the population sank to the lowest level it had ever known in historic times."
In 1738, the land was described by the English archaeologist Thomas Shaw as "lacking in people to till its fertile soil" (Travels and Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant). The French historian Conte Constantine Francois Volney writes:
"The peasants are incessantly making inroads on each other's lands, destroying their corn, durra, sesame and olive-trees, and carrying off their sheep, goats and camels. The Turks, who are everywhere negligent in repressing similar disorders, are attentive to them here, since their authority is very precarious. The Bedouin, whose camps occupy the level country, are continually at open hostility Alexander Keith, recalling Volney's 1785 description (quoted above) fifty years later, commented: "In his day [Volney's] tthe land had not fully reache its last degree of desolation and depopulation." (The Land of Israel).
Other travelers and pilgrims recorded similar reports of the dreary state of the Land around the middle of the nineteenth century. Here are just a few examples:
Alphonse de Lamartine, in 1835: "...a complete eternal silence reigns in the town, on the highways, in the country ... the tomb of a whole people" (Recollections of the East, Vol. I, p. 308).
A contemporary German encyclopedia (Brockhaus, "Allegmeine deutsche Real- Encyklopaidie", Vol. VIII, p. 206, Leipzig, 1827) calls Palestine "desolate and roamed through by Arab robber-bands."
In 1849, the American W. F. Lynch described the desertion of Palestinian villages "caused by the frequent forays of the wandering Bedouin" (Narrative of the United States Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea, p. 489).
And again H. B. Tristram, in 1865: "... both in the north and south (of the Sharon plain), land is going out of cultivvation, and whole villages ar rapidly disappearing from the face of the earth. Since the year 1838, no less than 20 villages have been thus erased from the map (by the Bedouin) and the stationary population extirpated" (p. 490).
Mark Twain, 'Innocents Abroad' 1867:
""Desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds - a silent mournful expanse ... We reached Tabor safely ... We never saw a human being on the whole route" (p. 451, 480); "There is not a solitary village throughout its (the Jezreel Valley's) whole extent - not for thirty miles in either direction. There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents but not a single permanent habitation. One may ride ten miles, hereabouts, and not see ten human beings" (p. 448); "Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery, I think Palestine must be the prince. The hills are barren ... the valleys are unsightly deserts... It is a hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land... Palestine is desolate and unlovely... Palestine is no more of this workday world. It is sacred to poetry and tradition - it is dreamland" (pp. 564, 567).
Further sites
Update on victims - All4israel
Israel's War Against 'Palestinian' Terror
Amin Al Husseini - The Grand Mufti and father of today's jihad
In November 1941, the Mufti met with Hitler, who told him the Jews were his foremost enemy. The Nazi dictator rebuffed the Mufti's requests for a declaration in support of the Arabs, however, telling him the time was not right. The Mufti offered Hitler his “thanks for the sympathy which he had always shown for the Arab and especially Palestinian cause, and to which he had given clear expression in his public speeches....The Arabs were Germany's natural friends because they had the same enemies as had Germany, namely....the Jews....” Hitler replied. The Mufti and the Fuhrer
1941 The Farhud, the Mufti inspired Krystallnacht in Iraq
In 1948, nearly 900,000 Jews - indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa - lived in what are now known as the "Arab States." ~ Today, 99% of these indigenous Jewish communities no longer exist. ~ Arab governments forced us to leave, confiscated our personal and communal property and stripped us of our citizenships.
Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa
MEMRI: Middle East Media Research Institute (translating Arab media)
Basic articles
Twenty facts about Israel and the Middle East
Arab terrorism came before the (so called) "occupation"
Why Israel Is The Victim And The Arabs Are The Indefensible Aggressors In the Middle East
Who caused the Arab "refugee" problem? Refugee: Arab leaders told us to flee Israel in 1948
Israel's Right to Exist Questioned, Anti-Zionism or Anti-Semitism?
Israel and the Palestinians: no moral contest
How Strong Is the Arab Claim to Palestine?
The Arabs in the Holy Land - Natives or Aliens?
"Flaubert's Observations of Jerusalem and the Jews Living There [1850]"
Israel Has A Moral Right To Its Life Why reason and justice are on Israel's side
British National Archives unveil presence of Nazi S.S. agents in Mandatory Palestine, working closely with Palestinian leaders. Historical documents in Britain's National Archives in London show Nazis shipped arms to Palestinians
When being anti-Israel is anti-Semitic
March 2006 - 120 Years to first of Arabs' attack on Jews in "palestine" Israel, Petach Tikva 1886
As grand mufti, al Husseini presided as the Imam of the Al Aqsa mosque in ... 1929. Hebron Massacre, Amin Al-Husseini organizes more riots in Palestine
From Al Husseini to Hitler Radical Islam and the Nazi connection
Israel's struggle for Good VS Evil
Munich & morality tale of good vs. evil
The Islamization of Bethlehem by Arafat
