HIS389H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Population Transfer, Peel Commission, Yishuv
Document Summary
The 1948 war is the most crucial turning point in the arab-israeli con ict. The names given to the war by either side indicate the meaning of the war for them both: for the. Jews, the 1948 war is the war of independence (or liberation), of the ful lment of the. The war war also the realization of the worst of fears of the arabs that had been building up since the beginning of the zionist immigration, viz. that the zionists would displace the arabs and take over the land. The consequences of the war is illustrated by looking at a map of palestine per the. Unga partition plan as compared to the map of israel after the armistice. It is likewise illustrated by looking at the demographics of palestine in 1946 to that of. The percentage of jews went from 30% to 88. 9%, thanks to the. 1,000,00+ immigration of jews into israel following the war.
