ANTB19H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: East Jerusalem, Arabs
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Tensions started rising between the natives and the new comers to the palestine (the british handed over the issue of palestine to un, and it was split into two parts: Celebration among the jews but the arabs weren"t happy about losing more than half of their land (56% jewish, and 44% arabs) Soon war broke out between israel and neighbouring arab countries (the arabs lost and israel captured over 78% of the land) Some never left palestine, but instead became refugee in their own country. Green line: out of reach for palestinians. Jerusalem divided east and west side and snipers werent present: jews can"t visit east and palestinians can"t return home. 1967: after 6 days of intense fighting the whole of palestine landed in the hands of the israel and all the palestines ended up us refugees (the lost of jerusalem and. Israel wanted to insure it"s conquest of jerusalem would be the final one.
