Here is a brief history of Israel’s occupation of Palestine this time in 2023
Palestine used to be part of the Ottoman Empire more than 100 years ago. During the First World War, which was when the Empire weakened and collapsed, which later became the Republic of Turkey, Britain seized control of it. In 1917, in a letter written by British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lionel Walter Rothschild, he supported “providing a home for the Jews” in Palestine, which opened the door for Israel.
Balfour’s proposal also called for the protection of the Arabs and said that “nothing shall be done which will violate the civil and religious rights of non-Jewish nations,” although he did not announce his opinion. His work is political or national. TRTAFRIKA Hausa newspaper has published this history.
When the British began to return the Jews to Palestine, the number of Jews was only nine out of 100 in Palestine. After the Jews in Europe began to return there under the approval of the British, the number increased to about 27 percent of the number in 1922 and 1935. The establishment of Israel The massacre of Jews during World War II in Europe in the 1940s under Hitler’s rule became one of the main reasons why they emigrated to Palestine. This happened despite the fact that in 1939, Britain imposed a law stating that the number of Jewish immigrants to Palestine every year should not exceed 10,000. After the Second World War, the General Assembly of the United Nations reached a decision where it asked to divide Palestine into two parts between the Arabs and the Jews on November 29, 1947. This gave the opportunity to establish the state of Israel.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel on May 14, 1948 after the British mandate on Palestine ended, the Jewish People’s Council met at the Tel Aviv Museum, where it announced the establishment of the State of Israel.
The United States recognized the country the night the Jews were founded and the USSR three days later.
The war of 1948 The creation of Israel caused a great war between Israel and the neighboring Arab countries, a war that Israel won, expanding the country further than it was before. Palestine calls it “al Naqba,” which means “catastrophe,” at the same time that Israel’s victory has displaced 700,000 Palestinians. Between 1949 and 1960, up to one million Jewish refugees and an additional 250,000 who escaped the Holocaust fled to Israel, as reported by the BBC.
Establishment of the PLO In 1959, Yasser Arafat and his friends launched Fatah, which is a Palestinian resistance group in Kuwait, which is a small country in the Gulf region to show resistance to the Israeli occupation. In 1964, Arafat and other Palestinian leaders decided to unite to form the PLO in order to form a unity organization to fight Israel.
27The war between the Arabs and Israel In 1967, the six-day war broke out between Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Syria.
Israel has succeeded in capturing East Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Jordan River, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights and the Sinai. Peter R Mansoor, writing for the Hoover Institution, stated that, “Although the Golan Heights and most of the West Bank and the Jordan River are under Israeli control, yet Israel has returned the Sinai region to Egypt as a part of the Camp David Accords in 1978 and the withdrawal of Israeli positions in Gaza in 2005.” 1973 war In 1973, another war was fought, which was the Arab-Israeli war in October. Egypt and Syria fought a war during the religious holiday of Yom Kippur (October 6 of the year). Yasser Arafat’s speech at the United Nations In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on November 13, 1974, then PLO leader Yasser Arafat rejected the label of “terrorists” (“otherwise, the Americans in the struggle to free themselves from British colonialism, would have been terrorists; and how the Europeans stood up against the Nazis would have become terrorism”) where he asked the United Nations to try to maintain peace in the Middle East. “Today, I came with an olive tree in one hand, and the gun of a freedom fighter in the other hand. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand The Palestinian uprising for the first time The uprising that the Palestinians started for the first time started after what Israel called a mistake and the Palestinians on their part called it an incitement to fight: “On the 8th of December 1987, an Israeli hostage Herzel Boukiza beat up some Palestinian workers who were returning home at the Erez/Beit Hanoun checkpoint. Four workers from Jabalya and Maghazi in Gaza were killed in a terrorist attack. From there, demonstrations and riots began; which the war ended after the “Accord” was signed. The Oslo Accords
In October 1991, Spain organized a peace conference in Madrid with the cooperation of the United States and the USSR. The conference gathered representatives from Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Palestine. This discussion continued in Washington and Moscow in 1992. As stated by the US State Department, “By 1993, no agreement had been reached on the talks held in Washington, where the secret talks between Israel and Palestine and Israel and Jordan had been preceded by the situation. He created the Israeli-Palestinian agreement, which is called the Oslo agreement. It was made in September 1993 and then the agreement between Israel and Jordan in October 1994. In 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian PLO leader Yasser Arafat signed the Oslo Accords. A year later, Arafat established a Palestinian Authority after Israel withdrew from most of Gaza and the city of Jericho in the West Bank and the Jordan River. In 1994, Jordan and Israel signed a peace accord in October, and in December, Rabin, Arafat and Shimon Peres became Nobel laureates. Killing Rabin Yitzhak Rabin was later assassinated in 1995 by an Israeli extremist, making Peres Prime Minister. Reviewing Dan Ephron’s book for the New Yorker, Dexter Filkins wrote: “When the Oslo meeting heated up, [Rabin’s assassin, Yigal] Amir became convinced that Rabin was trying to betray Israel.” and especially those who take a place to sit; then he organized a rally in the occupied areas to ignore the agreements where he even tried to establish their forces.”
In October 1991, Spain organized a peace conference in Madrid with the cooperation of the United States and the USSR. The conference gathered representatives from Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Palestine. This discussion continued in Washington and Moscow in 1992. As stated by the US State Department, “By 1993, no agreement had been reached on the talks held in Washington, where the secret talks between Israel and Palestine and Israel and Jordan had been preceded by the situation. He created the Israeli-Palestinian agreement, which is called the Oslo agreement. It was made in September 1993 and then the agreement between Israel and Jordan in October 1994. In 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian PLO leader Yasser Arafat signed the Oslo Accords. A year later, Arafat established a Palestinian Authority after Israel withdrew from most of Gaza and the city of Jericho in the West Bank and the Jordan River. In 1994, Jordan and Israel signed a peace accord in October, and in December, Rabin, Arafat and Shimon Peres became Nobel laureates. Killing Rabin.
Yitzhak Rabin was later assassinated in 1995 by an Israeli extremist, making Peres Prime Minister. Reviewing Dan Ephron’s book for the New Yorker, Dexter Filkins wrote: “When the Oslo meeting heated up, [Rabin’s assassin, Yigal] Amir became convinced that Rabin was trying to betray Israel.” and especially those who take a place to sit; then he organized a rally in the occupied areas to ignore the agreements where he even tried to establish their forces.” The Palestinian uprising for the second time There was a third uprising between 2000 and 2005 and it was worse than the first. The peace agreement fell apart and the Israelis and Palestinians became angry with each other. Zack Bauchamp, who writes for Vox, added that by the time the Second Rebellion ends [the peace-seeking side of Israel that says Israel should be rewarded for its tolerance and settlement because peace becomes ineffective. Doubts about the peace plan have increased, which has complicated the future efforts to reach an agreement with the two countries.” The Institute for Middle East Studies (IMEU) reported to the B’Tselem Human Rights Organization that it calculated that between 2000 and the start of Operation Cast Lead in December 2008, Israel’s security forces killed 4,878 Palestinians. They killed 1063 Israelis. America’s trust in Israel In September 2016, the United States signed a 10-year military aid agreement with Israel which means it will spend 38 billion dollars. As reported by Reuters, this agreement is the largest of its kind in the world. In 2017, Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. the fact that the Palestinians were not happy.
In March 2018, Trump posted a message on Twitter saying: “After 52 years, it is time for the United States to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which is of great benefit to Israel’s security and the area!” Even though Turkey and other countries of the world have condemned this, Israel has continued to build some places for the squatters to live in the occupied areas after Trump issued a statement. Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ The Israeli-Palestinian conflict continued throughout 2018. In 2019, many elections were held in Israel but there was no winner between Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz, who did the reason for the third election in March 2020. By this time, US President Donald Trump hosted Netanyahu and Gantz at the White House before announcing his Mideast Peace Plan. Palestine has openly rejected this plan, as well as the League of Arab States and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The ‘Deal of the Century’, as Trump called it, is seen as unwise and has made Palestine sacrifice its independence in order to seek financial aid, which has ended the two-state plan. Source TRTAFRIKA Hausa
