Palestinian genocide

The Nakba
Map of Palestinian land occupied by Zionists since 1947
Date 2 November 1917 - present Location State of Palestine Result Ongoing Expulsion of many Palestinians from the State of Palestine Continued oppression of Palestinians Territorial changes Occupation of most of the Palestinian territory by the State of Israel
Groups involved
1917–1948 Zionist organizations United Kingdom Supported by: Russian Empire (until 1917) French Republic*United States of America 1948–present "State of Israel" Supported by: United Nations United States of America United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Canada European Union French Republic Arab Republic of Egypt (from 2005)	1917–1948 Sublime Ottoman State (until 1918) Ottoman Syria Palestinian organizations Supported by: Arab Kingdom of Syria (1919-1920) 1948-present State of Palestine West Bank Gaza Strip Syrian Arab Republic (from 1967) Golan Heights Republic of Lebanon (from 1978) Supported by: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Republic of Turkey Arab Republic of Egypt (until 1980) Islamic Republic of Iran (from 1985) Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (from 1996)
Units involved
British Armed Forces (until 1948) Jewish National Council (1920-1948) Haganah (1920-1948) Irgun (1931-1948) National Military Organization in Israel (1940-1948) Mahal volunteers (1947-1949) Israel Occupation Forces (1948-present)	Palestinian resistance groups Hamas DFLP Islamic Jihad Lion's Den PFLP League of Arab States Hezbollah

The Palestinian genocide, also known as the Nakba and wrongly called the "Israeli"-Palestinian conflict by the West, is the ongoing systematic genocide and oppression of the Palestinians by the "State of Israel". It is defined by the settler colonial project of the "Israeli state" known as Zionism and has pushed for the cultural destruction of the Palestinian people. The genocide has led to the rise of Palestinian resistance groups such as Hamas, the PFLP and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Resistance to the genocide has led to the Zionist Entity enacting a siege on the Gaza Strip with the goal of eliminating all Palestinian resistance as well as the population, so that it may be settled as well.

History

First World War

See main article: First World War

During the First World War, two of the main combatants on the Middle Eastern front were the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (UK), alongside its vast British Empire, and the Sublime Ottoman State. The region of Palestine was under the rule of the Ottomans as part of Ottoman Syria prior to the outbreak of the First World War. Under Ottoman rule, both Muslim Palestinians and the Jewish people recieved a level of relative equality as the Islamic Ottomans were open to sheltering Jewish communities that faced oppression by European powers, especially the French Republic.

The Ottomans entered the First World War on 2 November 1914 when the Russian Empire declared war on them due to their naval activities and their close ties to the German Empire, Russia's war-time enemy. Almost immediately upon Ottoman entry into the war, the British took advantage of their colonial power in Kuwait and Egypt to invade both Ottoman Iraq and Ottoman Syria. The Ottomans, which had placed their early war-time capabilities on trying to fight off the Russians in the Caucasus, failed to hold Palestine, losing the region by 1918. With British control in Palestine secured, they issued the Balfour Declaration on 2 November 1917. This declaration promised the Zionists, a political movement of Jews in Europe hoping to settler colonize Palestine, all of the Palestinian territory. As a result, Zionists began stepping up their activities in Palestine and officially launched their settler colonial project.

Nakba

The United Nations accepted Resolution 194 on 29 November 1947, which divided British Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state, with Jerusalem administered directly by the UN. Under the initial plan, Zionists controlled 54% of Palestine's territory but only made up a third of its population. Zionist forces soon began an ethnic cleansing campaign and forced almost a million Palestinians off their land. During and after the 1948 Arab–"Israeli" War, over 750,000 Palestinians (75% of the population) were dispossessed and became homeless in an event known as the Nakba.

In March 1948, more than 95% of Palestinians still lived on their original land. As part of Plan Dalet, implemented by the Zionist Entity's leader David Ben-Gurion, Zionist forces and their allies attacked peaceful Palestinian villages. On 9 April 1948, the Irgun militia killed almost the entire population of the Deir Yassin village near Jerusalem. Between December 1947 and January 1949, the "Israeli" military and Zionist militias committed at least 29 massacres of Palestinians.

After the withdrawal of British troops from the city of Haifa on 21 April 1948, the Haganah, the Zionist Entity's military, rolled barrel bombs filled with dynamite and gasoline into the city and shelled it with mortars. The army played screaming noises on loudspeakers and only 4,000 Palestinians out of the original 65,000 remained in the city.

By the early 1950s, 80% of Palestine was occupied by settlers and the rest was divided into the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Six Day War

In 1967, "Israel" attacked Palestine, Syria, and Egypt and occupied the West Bank, Gaza, Sinai Peninsula, and Golan Heights within five days. Due to the Six Day War, the Zionist Entity drove 300,000 more Palestinians off their land and occupied East Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine. Zionist forces used napalm with U.S. support.

First Intifada

In 1987, a group of Islamic mutual aid groups in Gaza united to form Hamas. In 1992, the occupier exiled hundreds of Hamas members, violating international law. The UN Security Council condemned the expulsions.

Oslo Accords

Zionist forces have occupied much of the West Bank since 1993. Green areas are still under Palestinian control.

In 1993, the Palestine Liberation Organization signed the Oslo Accords in an attempt to make peace with the Zionist entity. Zionists immediately violated the agreement by occupying parts of the West Bank and creating hundreds of checkpoints to limit Palestinian movement.

21st century

Second Intifada

• In 2006, after the Palestinian people in Gaza elected Hamas in a fair election, the occupier blockaded Gaza.
• In 2008, the United Nations Human Rights council mandated a report delving into the situation between Gaza and "Israel". It found many crimes committed by the Zionist Entity against the Palestinians, including:
  • that the blockade does not exonerate the Zionist Entity from providing humanitarian aid to Gaza (which they don't do),
  • inadequate warnings against bomb strikes, including the use of white phosphorus weapons against hospitals which are not military targets,
  • indiscriminate bombing in Gaza in retaliation for pinpointed strikes from Hamas (Hamas gives advance warning of their rocket fires which gives ample time for "Israel" to evacuate the population in shelters, most of which will be caught by the Iron Dome, both of which Gaza does not have),
  • violent, degrading, and arbitrary detentions of Palestinian civilians,
  • deliberate military disproportion used in retaliation.
• Over the course of seven weeks 2014, "Israel" killed over 500 Palestinian children and 850 adults in Gaza. Four boys playing at a beach in Gaza were killed by navy precision missiles, although the Zionist Entity claimed this was an "honest mistake."
• In October 2015, the Institute for Middle East Understanding shared quotes from senior Zionist Entity government officials depicting supremacist and racist statements against the Palestinian people in particular.

Great March of Return

• The "Israeli" Defense (or Occupation) Force, the Zionist Entity's military branch, receives and executes orders to shoot children with live ammunition. It was made most apparent during the 2018 Great March of Return, during which Palestinians peacefully marched towards the fence isolating Gaza, and were fired at with live ammunition including an as-of-yet unidentified chemical agent. Zionists snipers wounded several thousand Palestinians and murdered 223, including 46 children. As whistleblower Eran Efrati explained, soldiers do not decide by themselves to fire live ammunition—the order has to be decided, then given out to the soldier who executes it, then relayed back to command. Therefore, these can not be the acts of lone rogue soldiers.
• In 2019, "Israel" began an extensive facial recognition program in the West Bank. One former soldier of the Zionist Entity described it as the IDF's "secret 'Facebook' for Palestinians.'"
• In 2020, "Israel" used the spyware Pegasus against six Palestinian activists. Three of them were working with human rights groups designated as terrorist organizations by the Zionist Entity.
• In August 2022, "Israel" attacked Gaza, killing at least 43 people and injuring over 300.

City in Gaza destroyed by Zionists in October 2023

Diagram of ten resistance groups involved in the Al-Aqsa Flood

Operation Flood of Al-Aqsa (Third Intifada)

See main article: Operation Flood of Al-Aqsa

Apartheid

The Israeli state uses apartheid-like segregation in order to systematically oppress the Palestinians, treating them like lesser beings and stripping them of many human rights.

Mass incarceration

Since the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Flood, the occupier has imprisoned another 5,000 Palestinians, increasing the total prisoners to 10,000, including 170 children. The occupier has arrested 40% of Palestinian men at some point in their lives and prosecutes 500 to 700 children every year. Some are as young as 12.

Ethnostatism

Zionists with a sign saying "Israel über alles," a variation of the Nazi slogan "Deutschland über alles."

A large part of of the Palestinian genocide is the existence of Israel as a Jewish ethnostate. Due to this ethnostatism, the Palestinians living in land occupied by "Israel" are often treated as second-class citizens in their very own homes.

U.S. involvement

The USA was the first country to recognize the Zionist regime after it ocupied most of Palestine in 1948. In 1952, Zionist ruler David Ben-Gurion said that the Zionist Entity would never "explicitly contradict the wishes of the U.S. and Britain." Since 1972, the USA has vetoed 53 UN Security Council resolutions critical of Zionism.

See also

• Lebensraum
• Manifest Destiny

Further reading

• Palestinian resistance reading list
• All library works about Palestine