Israel’s dehumanisation of Palestinians is essential to justify its occupation and repression – both to its own citizens and to its Western allies, scholars told Al Jazeera. Rights groups say Palestinians are portrayed as a security and demographic threat to Jewish Israelis, necessitating violent raids, a blockade on Gaza since 2007 and a separation wall that fragments and reduces freedom of movement in the occupied West Bank. “There is certainly a continuum that has some deep resonances,”Davis said.
Palestine Catastrophe - From the British Mandate to the Nakba
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On the 76th Anniversary of the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe), the Der Yassin Massacre and the original partition of Palestine, comrade Ranjeet Brar outlines the history that lies behind the current NATO-backed Israeli genocide in Palestine.
The settler colonial state of Israel did not materialize from thin air, but was an integral part of the British and French plan of Sykes-Picot, to conquer and divide the Ottoman Empire, that was the real motivation for the 1914-18 World War. Britain wanted to extend its Middle Eastern colonies in order to better safeguard its existing colonial possessions and sea-routes to India, and in particular to control the vital and then newly-discovered oil reserves of the Middle East, that were already becoming of vital economic importance.
Fully two thirds of global oil reserves lie beneath the ground in the Arabian peninsula and East Asia. For this reason Anglo-American imperialism has created and backed Israel, the Saudi Monarchy, the Gulf states and Jordan as its unwavering allies in the quest to maintain its stranglehold over the region.
It is these economic interests that underlie all the terrorist outrages committed by the NATO states and their proxies in the region, from the Nakba, to the Iraq and Afghan wars, the Syrian and Libyan genocides, and the ongoing maintenance of the medieval theocracies that syphon off the region's wealth from the impoverished masses, grotesquely offering footballers $2bn contracts while the Palestinian people are slowly starved, bombed and strafed into oblivion. But their heroic resistance has turned the tide. They have refused to succumb to their allotted fate.
The temper of the masses is quickening. The balance of forces changing, and imperialism is very much in danger of loosing its hold on the region. When it does so the whole world will breathe a sigh of relief and hail the liberation of the Palestinian people and the advance of the revolutionary-democratic struggle of the Arab peoples.
Workers of all countries unite!
THE YEAR WAS 1917: The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population
How Palestinians were expelled from their homes
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The Palestinian catastrophe, explained.
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Around the time that Israelis celebrate Independence Day, Palestinians commemorate “The Nakba,” or “The Catastrophe.” The Nakba was a series of events, centered around 1948, that expelled hundreds of thousands Palestinians from their homeland and killed thousands. The Nakba isn’t the beginning of the story, but it’s a key part of Palestinian history — and the root of Israel’s creation.
Prior to the Nakba, Palestine had a thriving population — largely made up of Arabs — that had lived and worked the land for centuries. But with the founding of Zionism, years of British meddling, and a British pledge to help create a Jewish state in Palestine — things began to change drastically. By 1947, with increasing tensions between Jewish settlers and Palestinian Arabs — the British left Palestine, and the UN stepped in with a plan to partition the land into two states. What followed was known as Plan Dalet: operations by Israeli paramilitary groups that violently uprooted Palestinians. An estimated 15,000 Palestinians were killed, more than 500 villages were decimated, and roughly 750,000 Palestinians displaced.
Most who were expelled from their homes couldn’t return to historic Palestine. And today, millions of their descendants live in refugee camps in Gaza, the West Bank and surrounding countries. The history of the Nakba has been deliberately concealed and often ignored in western narratives around the creation of Israel. In this episode of Missing Chapter, we break down how the Nakba happened — and how it defined the future of Palestine.
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Check out the documentary “1948: Creation & Catastrophe” by Ahlam Muhtaseb and Andy Trimlett for more information about the events around the Nakba - https://tubitv.com/movies/513674/1948...
All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 was a great resource in helping us understand the Nakba - / all-that-remains
For our maps, we relied heavily on these organizations: Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs, Institute for Middle Eastern Understanding, Palestine Remembered and Zochrot
http://www.passia.org/maps/view/2https://imeu.org/topic/category/mapshttps://www.palestineremembered.com/M...https://www.zochrot.org/
This report by Ilan Pappe helped us understand how Zionist forces planned to destroy villages -
https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/...
On the 76th Annivsary of the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe), the Der Yassin Massacre and the original partition of Palestine, comrade Ranjeet Brar outlines the ...
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The origins of the Israel-Palestine conflict | Part 1
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The Balfour Declaration was signed in 1917. It set out British support for the creation of a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine. But when the Balfour declaration was signed the British had already promised Palestine to Arabs as an independent state and promised the French government that it would be an internationally administered zone – and even then, most of the land was still under Ottoman control.
So why did Britain make these three conflicting promises? How did it try to resolve them? And how did Britain’s strategy in the Middle East help to cause a century of conflict?
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... dehumanization of the Palestinian people and rejection of their nationality altogether. ... Palestinians want equal human rights and an end to their oppression.
"I don't want to use the language of humanization and dehumanization. I will continue to insist on our humanity. What Palestinians in Gaza are doing now is ...
days of talks on Palestine with leading historians ... Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. It ... Dehumanization and the Ongoing Nakba in Palestine ...
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For our maps, we relied heavily on these organizations: Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs, Institute for Middle Eastern Understanding, Palestine Remembered and Zochrot
http://www.passia.org/maps/view/2
https://imeu.org/topic/category/maps
https://www.palestineremembered.com/M...
https://www.zochrot.org/
This report by Ilan Pappe helped us understand how Zionist forces planned to destroy villages -
https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/... 
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