Ethnic cleansing of palestine Flashcards
What does the term bitachon refer to?
meta-term used by Zionists to over a range of issues and justify policies against the local Palestinian population
What is Hutchinson’s definition of ethnic cleansing?
expulsion by force in order to homogenise the ethnically mixed population of a particular region or territory
What is the UN recognised definition of ethnic cleansing?
separation of men from women, detention of men, explosion of houses and subsequently repopulating the remaining houses with another ethnic group
What important distinction did Drazen Petrovic include in his definition of ethnic cleasning?
He associated ethnic cleansing with nationalism and the making of new nation states and national struggle
Which definition includes Nakba of 1948?
Popular definitions, such as the wikipedia version
When did zionism emerge?
Late 1880s in central and eastern Europe
Who was the father of zionism?
Theodor Herzl
When did Herzl die?
1904
What does Eretz Israel men?
name for Palestine in the Jewish religion
What does Hagana mean?
Defence
When was the first Arab Revolts?
1936
Who led the Zionist movements from mid 1920s until mid 1960s?
David Ben-Gurion
Where is David Ben-Gurion from?
Plonsk, Poland - arrived in Palestine in 1906
What were the two “magic words” used by Ben-Gurion about achieving the Jewish state?
Force and opportunity!
What was special about Ben-Gurion’s approach to seizing land compared to other zionists?
He meant that purchasing land would not be sufficient, one needed to use military force and operations to claim the land
What is Gimel?
Place C: revised plan of A and B - amied to prepare the military forces of Jewish community for the offensive campaign
Had list of human targets.
Included: killing palestinian leadership, jewish opposers, damaging palestinian infrastructure
What was Dalet?
Plan D: plan that sealed the fate of the palestinians - called for the total expulsion from their homeland
Explain UN’s partition plan
the country would be divided into two states, bound together as a federation and the City of Jerusalem would be under international regime by the UN
When was the UN partition plan consilidated
29th of November in 1947, resolution 181
Why did the US accept the plan?
- Compensate the Jews after Holocaust
- Lack of knowledge and expertise about the Palestinian cause - UN was only 2 years old
- Because Palestinian leadership had been opposed to the partitioning of their land - boycott UN proceedings in protest
When did the US become involved in the conflict?
1967
