answersLogoWhite

0

Answer 1

Yes they did, in 1947 the Israelis took over Palestine, trying to wipe out every Palestinian when some survived after this tragedy happened. The Israeli's are saying that they did not try to wipe out every Palestinian and there wasn't even anyone there when we got there.

Answer 2

It's quite complicated and there are two questions in this question.

Firstly, did Israelis kill the Palestinians? Yes, but it was for the most part a conflict not a civilian massacre. There were certainly events that led to numerous Palestinian deaths and the removal of Palestinians from large swathes of land. Throughout the fighting (from 1947-1949) numerous Palestinians were forced from their homes inside what would become Israeli territory, culminating in the Israeli atrocities committed against the Palestinian people in such places as Deir Yassin. Other Palestinians left in fear that they too could be attacked and forced to leave. This climate of fear and and desire to leave was increased by Arab leaders who encouraged such activities claiming that it would get civilians out of the way while the fighting occurred. After the War and the elimination of Israel, the Palestinians would return without issue. This did not happen as Israel was victorious. Palestinians call this event (the overall war and removal from their homes) the Nakba or Great Catastrophe.

Secondly, did the Israelis steal Palestine. No. While Israel certainly acquired a lot more of the former British Mandate than they were initially given, this does not fall under theft since Israel was not fighting an expansionary war, but a defensive war. As concerns the original Israeli territory as allotted by the United Nations Resolution 181, allocating territory to Jewish State and to an Arab State (Palestine), this is settled law and completely legal. Therefore it is not theft. However, people chose to avoid the legal definitions of things when those do not accord with their personal feelings.

User Avatar

Wiki User

12y ago

What else can I help you with?

Continue Learning about General History

Is Israel right in killing Palestine?

It is unclear what "killing Palestine" means. Palestine is landmass and cannot be killed in any current understanding of that term. If "killing Palestine" is meant to mean "killing Palestinians", then no, Israel has no right to arbitrarily kill Palestinians. However, Israel currently finds itself in a situation where Palestinians Militants are attacking Israeli civilians and attempting to penetrate Israeli borders. These violent acts invoke Israel's right to self-defense, which Israel has just like every other nation has. In those cases, Israel has the right to defend itself up to and including the elimination of the threat.


What is the best way to volunteer in Palestine?

Kill everyone....


How many Palestinians did Jews kill?

Palestine was not involved in World War II. The Palestinians who died during World War II were those who went to fight in Europe (such as the Jewish Brigades in Italy and Hannah Senesh). Arab Palestinians emerged almost unscathed by the war.


What is an argument given by both Palestinians and Israelis regarding the conflict between them justifying their position?

The fundamental issue between Israel on the one side, and the Muslim nations and so-called Palestinian "refugees" on the other side, is the existence of a sovereign and democratic nation largely populated and controlled by Jews, in the place where Israel is.


How were the Palestinians induced to give up their land?

The Palestinians didn't lose their country. Actually, not all of them. Most of the Palestinians still live in what was called the British Mandate of Palestine. Most of them in the West Bank and the Gaza strip and in Israel still remains a large Arab community. The Arabs in Israel are called Israeli Arabs and make up about 20 % of the Israeli population and got equal rights. They are the only Arabs in the Middle East who are allowed to vote! The first homeland for the Arab/Palestinians was Transjordan, which was cut off from the British Mandate of Palestine in 1922. The remaining part would be available for a Jewish National Home. When the UN in 1947 wanted to share the rest of Palestine 50/50 into a Jewish State and another Arab State the Arabs rejected the partition and the Jews accepted it. The Arab/Palestinian spiritual leader called: 'Kill the Jews, my Muslim brothers!' 'Drive them into the sea'. After the British withdraw from Palestine, David Ben Gurion declared the Independence and rebirth of the Jewish State of Israel in 1948. Israel was the first independent Jewish State in the Jewish home region after 19 centuries of foreign rule and diaspora. Short after the Israeli Independence Declaration all the Arab countries attacked Israel. In the Israeli-Arab war (in Israel called the War of Independence) some more then 500 thousands of Arabs/Palestinians who lived between 1946-1948 in Palestine fled away. Most of them fled to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which was part of historical British Palestine. These people actually didn't leave what they call their Palestine! Those territories remained to become a Palestinian State. However Transjordan and Egypt who occupied it didn't give it to the Palestinians! There only goal was to destroy Israel, they didn't care about the 'Palestinians'. However a smaller group fled to Southern Lebanon and Syria. The Arabs locked them up into refugee camps so the people would grow and grow because of the poverty and the lack of hygienical care (condoms!). They used and use them as a demographic weapon against Israel. At the same time from 1948 to the 70s more then 1 million Jews fled from the Arab world to Israel from Persia, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Tunesia etc. (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_Arab_and_Muslim_countries) These people would have had no future in islamitic countries where Jews never have had equal rights. All the governments of the State of Israel from the Independence till now have announced as long as the Arabs don't recognize the right of the State of Israel to exist the Arabs should resolve their 'Palestinian' issue on their own ground (there are more then 15 MILLION square kilometers left, comparing to Israel which is only 22 thousand square kilometers). The UN thought most of the fled Arab Palestinians would also be happy to live in the West Bank under Jordanian Rule and the Gaza Strip and Egyptian Rule , the rule of their Arab brothers. This was true until in the 60s the PLO came to exist, to destroy Israel. Short there after in 1967 (the 6 Day War) Israel occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. They never drove the Palestinians living there away. There were refugees in 1967, but all of them returned. In the 90s the territories inhabited by Palestinians on the West Bank (most of the West Bank) got their own administration in the Palestinian National Authority. This is called the Israeli-Palestinian interim agreement. In 2005 Israel withdraw from the Gazastrip. The permanent status of these territories has to be achieved by negotiations between the Palestinian Authority and Israel which can lead to the creation of the first independent Palestinian State (if you don't count Jordan which is actually also a Palestinian State!) in the whole history next to the State of Israel. Obstacles are the Israeli settlements and the Arabs who don't want to recognize the right of existence of the State of Israel. You can say most of the Palestinians didn't lose there country. In Israel the remaining Palestinian Arabs have got equal rights as Jews, aswell as in the Palestinian territories they administrate themself, aswell as in Jordan most of the Palestinian refugees nowadays are Jordanian citizens. The West of Jordan is also included in historical Palestine at the time of the Arab Empire when most of the nowadays called Palestinian Arabs immigrated to Palestine from the Arab Peninsula. According to that theory, all the Palestinians still live in historical Palestine. *The only way to peace is when both parties understand each others stories and rights to live in the conflict territory!

Related Questions

Why people in palestine get affected when the war started in palestine?

After Israel took over the PALESTINIAN land the Israelis built a wall around the Palestinians. Then the Israel people started to kill and throw tear gas on the remaining people of Palestine. Although some Palestinians are all over the globe the true history still lives on! <3 Palestine !


Is Israel right in killing Palestine?

It is unclear what "killing Palestine" means. Palestine is landmass and cannot be killed in any current understanding of that term. If "killing Palestine" is meant to mean "killing Palestinians", then no, Israel has no right to arbitrarily kill Palestinians. However, Israel currently finds itself in a situation where Palestinians Militants are attacking Israeli civilians and attempting to penetrate Israeli borders. These violent acts invoke Israel's right to self-defense, which Israel has just like every other nation has. In those cases, Israel has the right to defend itself up to and including the elimination of the threat.


What is the PLO and whom does is represent?

the PLO is the Palestine's liberation organization. they represent the Palestinians and they are basically the people who kill the Israeli's.


Why are Israelis and Palestinians trying to kill each other?

There is no "why" since, by and large, the vast majority of those two populations are not trying to kill anyone. However, if the question seeks to ask about the causes of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, please see the Related Link below.


Who do the Palestinian Islamic Jihad threaten?

Jihad is a misunderstood concept to the world. The major Jihad is actually the struggle between yourself. A good Mujahid is the one who is able to resist the bad desires to lie, cheat, steal, kill etc. However there is the minor Jihad as well, which is the fight to defend the religion against attackers and invaders. In Palestine, the mujahideens are in a war with Israel. But for your information, It is only that those mujahideens are trying to protect their country. Israelis say it is their country and they have the duty to fight the Palestinians to take it back, and the Palestinians say it is originally their country and they have the duty to protect it. It is a conflict between Palestinian Muslims and Israeli Jews, as visualized by western and Israeli media. Refer to the related question below for more information.


Is it ethical for the government to kill and steal?

only if they dont steal from or kill me ... or kill and/or steal from the person who has your money... =( Don't ever touch a computer again.


Does Israel have the right to kill the innocent Palestinians?

Palestinian PerspectiveThey don't have the right to do that because there is no land that is called Israël it belongs to Palestine and Palestinians don't have the right to kill Israeli people but they need to defend themselves that's why they throw rocks all over the country they are defending themselves and Israeli people don't let Arabic people to buy a bottle of water in the shop and they don't let them go outside.Other PerspectiveIsrael does by International Law, Historical Precedent, Governmental Existence, National Consciousness, and normalization of relations with most world governments has the Right to Exist and a Right to Self-Sovereignty (contrary to the above answer's opening line). The way this question is phrased seems to imply that Israel is somehow guilty of some crime and the Palestinians are not. This is not the case. Both Israelis and Palestinians cause problems in the former British Mandate of Palestine have killed innocent bystanders. Neither is innocent in this. Throwing rocks at people, firing rockets at cities, and suicide bombing are all morally incorrect actions and those who commit them should not be surprised or astonished that Israelis do not just "sit there and take it". The Palestinians who engage in such behavior are provoking reaction.Of course, this is not to say that Israelis should target Palestinian children, families, or other non-involved parties and Israel's great shame is that some of its people are so obsessed with their religious fervor of settling the land that they curse out (verbally and violently) those who were originally there. It should be said that both Israelis and Palestinians do not have the right to kill innocents and should not target them in any way. When innocents die, on either side, it islamentable.As for the claims in Answer 1 that Israelis do not allow Palestinian Arabs to live a normal life with activities such as "buying a bottle of water" or "going outside", this is quite untrue. Palestinians in the West Bank have most of the basic freedoms to live a normal life. There are certainly constraints and there is certainly a military occupation in the West Bank, but it is nothing close to a Fascist Dystopia. As for the Gaza Strip, any prevention of civic liberty there would be directly caused by Hamas, not by Israel. Israel withdrew all of its settlers and security forces from Gaza in 2006, and handed over control to the Palestinian Authority. Israel now has no control over domestic policy there.


What are the release dates for Steal Kill Destroy - 2014?

Steal Kill Destroy - 2014 was released on: USA: 2014


What is the best way to volunteer in Palestine?

Kill everyone....


Why do Jews want to exterminate Palestinians?

There are two major misconceptions inherent in the wording of this question.Jews do not derive any pleasure from nor have any desire to inflict pain of the smallest measure on other human beings. There is no intentionality on the Israeli or Jewish part to hurt or kill Palestinians.What is going on between the Israelis and Palestinians is a conflict since both sides perpetrate violent activities, both have claims that they desire to acquire (and are using violence to achieve them), and both sides have suffered fatalities inflicted by the other side. The inequality of casualties alone does not justify the terms "extermination" or "genocide". Please read the Related Question below for more information on this.As for issue (1), since Jewish Israelis do kill Palestinians:There is an important distinction between actuality and intentionality. Actuality is what occurs, regardless of desires and intentionality is purpose and rationale. There is certainly an actuality that the Israeli Army has been responsible for the death of Palestinians and there is also certainly an actuality that Palestinian Militant and Terror Organizations have caused the death of fellow Palestinians. It is very important to note, however, that there is no intention in the Israeli Army, no memorandum, and no unofficial desire to kill Palestinian non-combatants. The deaths of Palestinians are regrettable and if the violence were to cease on both sides, Palestinians would not have to worry about being embroiled in a conflict where both their country and another could end them.


How many Palestinians did Jews kill?

Palestine was not involved in World War II. The Palestinians who died during World War II were those who went to fight in Europe (such as the Jewish Brigades in Italy and Hannah Senesh). Arab Palestinians emerged almost unscathed by the war.


What is an argument given by both Palestinians and Israelis regarding the conflict between them justifying their position?

The fundamental issue between Israel on the one side, and the Muslim nations and so-called Palestinian "refugees" on the other side, is the existence of a sovereign and democratic nation largely populated and controlled by Jews, in the place where Israel is.