POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Unrwa, Dawn Chatty, United Nations Partition Plan For Palestine
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Forced population movements 1945 - 1951 week 16. Palestinian refugees dawn chatty and randa farah. Thesis: this is a historical article with no argumentative thesis, but the article seeks to understand why the palestinian case has remained marginalized and unresolved for more than half a century. It seeks to do this by examining how their history is intertwined with the european-jewish diaspora, the emergence of zionism as well as the dismemberment of the ottoman empire at the end of wwi. 1948 israel is born and war in palestine begins. December 1949 unwra set up to manage palestinian refugees. Today, palestinians rank as the largest refugee group after afghanis. Palestinian refers to the direct descendants of the ancient philistines, canaanites and hebrews. Empire century and the end of wwi, palestine was an integral part of the ottoman. As the empire began to crumble, european powers competed for control of its territory. Mcmahon/hussein treaty (great britain agreed to recognize and support the.
