Palestine under British rule wasn’t neutral territory — it was engineered instability.
1920–1948 saw imperial agendas, demographic shifts, and broken promises.
The echoes are still deafening.
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https://brewminate.com/a-history-of-mandatory-palestine-1920-1948/
Israel has driven the region to a 4,000-km swash of violence from Libya to Iran through its reckless, lawless, and warmongering actions, all ultimately aimed at preventing a State of Palestine by “remaking” the Middle East. By Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares Other News The attack by Is
We could soon see several nuclear powers pitted against each other and dragging the world closer to nuclear annihilation, warns Jeffrey Sachs. By Jeffrey D. Sachs Common Dreams For nearly 30 years, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has driven the Middle East into war and destruct
#TIL about the Palestinian key -
The #PalestinianKey is the Palestinian symbol of their homes lost in the #Nakba, when more than half of the population of #MandatoryPalestine were either #expelled or fled violence in the #1948Nakba #Palestinian expulsion and flight and subsequently denied the right to return.
Almost 75 years later the key remains a potent #symbol and reminder of physical and emotional #loss and #injustice.
Doing some research on #Israel v. #Palestine tonight. To understand everything, I went back to the #BalfourDeclaration. A couple interesting footnotes from my research so far:
#Palestine was actually ruled by the #OttomanEmpire, and they lost that land when the lost in #WWI. The #LeagueOfNations then gave the land to #Britain who decided to split the land between Jews and Arabs. Neither state from what I’m seeing was actually autonomous though, and technically owned and ruled by #Britain still.
While there were some skirmishes here and there (I will dig deeper into what these skirmishes actually were eventually), the first major armed conflict in regards to fighting over this territory between Jews and Arabs was actually caused by the Arabs, when they murdered two Jews and then Jews murdered two Arabs in response. It led to the Arabs rising up against #Britain in 1936 in the #GreatRevolt, arguing for independence from #Britain and an end to immigration and property rights for Jews withing #MandatoryPalestine.
I’ll need to dig more into the weeds on this but, interestingly this does not really paint the Palestinian side in a particularly positive light.
Watched A Tale of Love and Darkness.
Absolutely brilliant. And the first time I’ve actually heard Natalie Portman speaking #Hebrew.
Now I need to read some Amos Oz.
Eine Geschichte von Liebe und Finsternis: Directed by Natalie Portman. With Natalie Portman, Gilad Kahana, Amir Tessler, Moni Moshonov. The story of Amos Oz's youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories we tell become the stories we live.
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