declaration the international Zionist movement waxed a massive campaign for Jewish immigration to the Holy Land.
By 1931 the number of Jewish settiers in the Yishue, the immigrant population, had risen to 117,00, or 17 per cent of the population. wealthy ackers abroad to buy every error was maaeto om upeastx trips of Yisin-controlled land, and t xclude Arab labour. Arab goods ane produce were boycotted. The Yishuo became a self-governing and near pushing back the boundaries of Arabcontrolled land.
Palestinian anger at the erosion of their territory and their treatment by the British resulted in the massive uprising of 1938, brutally crushed by the Britis arae selke o he Holocae Bor ed Rock of the Holocaust support for a Jewish state. In 1947 the United Nations decided on the partition of Palestine. In 1948 Britain withdrew and immediately war broke out, which pitted the neighbouring Arab armies Israeli forces.
Disappeared
The resulting Israeli victory created a new state way beyond the borders agreed by the UN. The West Bank was absorbed into Jordan. Palestine had disappeared. decisive victory. The new state it created was based on the expulsion of the Palestinians, an expulsion based on terror. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians they have never departed. perialist state. Its very existence gave imperialism, especially American imwithdrawal of the invading armies.
The P'alestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) was formed in 1964. armed detachments, the Fedayeen. Sec tions of the PLO, especially the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Popular Democratic Front, evolved land. in a left-wing direction.
Tension between Israel and its neighbours, especiaily wasser s Bxyp! reached flashpoint in 1967. Israel year, destroying the Egyptian airforce on the ground. Syria and Jordan were devastated.
Israel conquered the West Bank from desert from Egypt. The Palestinian ted Gaza strip came under direct Israeli control. To this day, the occupied territories have not been retured.
Catastrophe
Most Palestinians considered the 1967 defeat a catastrophe. This reinforced the idea that they had to rely on their own struggle to win their national rights.
But the Fedayeen fighters faced a major strategic problem - their reliance on bases in neighbouring Arab states controlled by reactionary regimes.
In September 1970 King Hussein of ces in his country, launching his army in a war to drive them out.
Ihe F'LO made its new neadquarters in Lebanon, powertul Atao natonaust ana tert-wus militias.
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