By Baylis Thomas
The thesis of The darkish facet of Zionism, coming up from new histories missed by means of the media, is that either the early Zionists and the Israelis sought their protection via army domination of the indigenous Arab inhabitants of Palestine. This procedure required fending off negotiations with the Palestinians in addition to demonstrating Israeli army may well via wars initiated opposed to Arab states against an Israeli takeover of Palestine.
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14. Text in Ha’aretz, Friday Supplement, December 1, 1995. Cited by Morris, Righteous Victims, 91. 15. S. to enter World War I on the British side and worried that Germany might be first to offer the Jews a state in Palestine. Moreover, Britain needed a foothold in the Middle East after Churchill, Lord of the Admiralty in World War I, decided to convert the British Navy from coal to oil burning. 16. Christopher Sykes, Crossroads to Israel (Cleveland: World Publishing, 1965), 30. 17. Howard Sachar, A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time.
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The RAF bombed Palestinian villages, killing some 5,000 to 10,000. Many tens of thousands were wounded and leaders were executed, imprisoned or exiled. 38 Another British commission, the Peel Commission, investigated in 1937. It concluded that Palestinian hatred and fear about the establishment of the Jewish national home had been largely responsible for the revolt. It recommended the end of the British mandate and a partitioning of Palestine. Ben-Gurion Sees the Need for Military Force Ben-Gurion (chairman of the Jewish Agency) acknowledged that frustrated Palestinian national aspirations lay behind the 1936 rebellion, as well as fears that a Jewish state was being thrust upon them.