web sites, information anything is helpful, i've tried researching this and i'm having trouble finding a clear answer.
2007-04-23 08:13:16 · 10 answers · asked by lpguitarpl4yer 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
What do you call it when some organize groups take your house by force and make a refugee and homeless out of you.
2007-04-24 14:24:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because they lost their land when the Zionists took charge in the late 1940's. That is, the State of Israel displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who had been living there for millenia. Israel was only possible by a land grab move, and that's precisely what happened.
At first, the jewish settlement of what is now Israel was an immigration and settlement movement, and they got along with just occasional skirmishes with their Arab neighbors. Once the Arab states grew frustrated with the influx of so many jews in the 1940's (they saw the handwriting on the wall, in other words), they declared war on Israel, and that is what led to the war of 1948. To be sure, the Israelis couldn't have survived militarily if they hadn't displaced the Palestinians. But, that doesn't mean a wrong wasn't committed againstthe displaced Palestinians.
2007-04-23 08:22:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Because to the Palestinians, the Israelis are on Palestinian land. After WW2 came the Oslo Accords, which gave half of the land from Palestine to the Jews so they could have a country. Palestine was on the german side of the war. After the Jews were given the land and created the country of Israel, the Palestinians decided to try and take the land back thru war. They lost and lost more land, then tried again and lost again. So Palestine is now about a quarter of what it used to be.
Be clear on how they lost the land. They were on the Axis Powers side of WW2. At the Oslo Accords it was decided that Palestine would be chopped in half and the other half given to become Israel.
2007-04-23 08:21:38 · answer #3 · answered by PMW1718 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Well in November 1947 the UN decided that Palestine must be shared between the Arabs and the Jews...so they decided to create two states there:Israel and Palestine...Israel was created in a land where Arabs used to live for centuries...this forced many Palestinians to leave their land and live in refugees camps outside Israel...
http://www.alnakba.org/
2007-04-23 23:36:50 · answer #4 · answered by Tinkerbell05 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
We Palestinians call it "Nakba"= catastrophe. And the Israelis call it "independence war". It's simple, we consider it a catastrophe like any other people who would consider the fall of their country and the creation of another one on their land a catastrophe.
2007-04-24 12:04:14 · answer #5 · answered by MagicWand 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because apparently the British and French had been promising that land to the Palestinians for many years prior to WWII. After WWII, the United Nations essentially gave that land to Israel as compensation for the Nazi atrocities.
2007-04-23 10:01:22 · answer #6 · answered by jdkilp 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
because Palestinians were willing to share the land with Israelis but Israelis didn't use that in a good way, and wanted to prove that the land is theirs and they have treated Palestinians in a really bad way, from torture to killing their children, that's why they find it catastrophe...
2007-04-23 08:22:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
pretty dang simple, the new state of Israel was planted in a place called Palestine (land of the Palestinians). it was their land.
2007-04-23 08:18:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
I think you have it backwards. Israel IS a state, and the Palestinians are trying to form one.
2007-04-23 08:18:01 · answer #9 · answered by lei 5 · 0⤊ 5⤋
...I don't know.. and I have to ask.. why do the Israelie consider the formation of the state of Palistine a catastrophe/
2007-04-23 08:18:54 · answer #10 · answered by Debra H 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋