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State of Palestine

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{{Infobox country
|name=State of Palestine
|leader_title2=Prime Minister
|map_width=290
|image_map=Map_of_Palestine.svg
|established_date1=15 November 1988
|established=1988
|established_event1=Declaration of Independence
|leader_name2=Mohammad Shtayyeh
|leader_name1=Mahmoud Abbas
|native_name=دولة فلسطين
|leader_title1=President
|official_languages=Arabic
|year_exile_start=1948
|largest_city=Gaza City
|capital_exile=Ramallah
|image_coat=Coat of arms of Palestine.svg
|capital=Jerusalem
|capital_type=Capital (partially occupied by the [[Israel|Zionist Entity]])
|image_flag=Flag of Palestine.png
|map_caption=Map of Palestine, including areas occupied by Israel.}}
'''Palestine''', officially the '''State of Palestine''', is an independent state in [[West Asia]] that is almost entirely occupied by the Zionist Entity.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr|date=2023-08-11|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr/285485/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230812011330/https://www.mintpressnews.com/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr/285485/|archive-date=2023-08-12}}</ref>

== History ==

=== Medieval history ===
During the [[Mamluk Sultanate]], the Palestinian city of Jenin was a central station for the postal service between Cairo and Damascus. The [[Ottoman Empire (1299–1922)|Ottoman Empire]] ruled Palestine for 401 years, starting in the 16th century.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Miko Peled|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr|date=2023-08-11|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr/285485/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230812011330/https://www.mintpressnews.com/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr/285485/|archive-date=2023-08-12}}</ref>

=== Early Zionist settlement ===
[[File:Colonization of Palestine.png|thumb|Colonization of Palestine from 1947 to 2005]]
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, a movement known as [[Zionism]] was formed, advocating a homeland for [[Judaism|Jewish]] people in the, then [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|British]] occupied, land of Palestine. At the same time, the majority Arabic population, who had lived in Palestine for generations, desired independence from the British in the form of an independent Arabic state. In 1917 the British released the Balfour Declaration, which expressed full support to the Zionist movement. The Palestinian people, angered by the British completely ignoring their interests, began protests and rioting against Jewish occupation as early as 1920. These protests were largely led by Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Alex Winder|newspaper=Palquest|title=Great Arab Revolt, 1936-1939|date=2024-06-14|url=https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/en/highlight/158/great-arab-revolt-1936-1939|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129095425/https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/en/highlight/158/great-arab-revolt-1936-1939|archive-date=January 29th 2024|retrieved=June 14th 2024|quote=The combined impact of Britain's military and diplomatic efforts brought the rebellion to an end in the late summer of 1939. Over the revolt's three years, some 5,000 Palestinians had been killed and nearly 15,000 wounded. The Palestinian leadership had been exiled, assassinated, imprisoned, and made to turn against one another. At the same time, the White Paper—despite its limitations—offered certain concessions to the rebels' demands. Whatever gains Palestinians might have made through the revolt, however, were quickly overtaken by the larger geopolitical processes of World War II , and the combined British-Zionist assault on Palestinian political and social life during the revolt had a long-lasting impact.}}</ref>

=== Arab Revolt (1936–1939) ===
Starting April 19, 1936, a mass [[Strike action|strike]] against the British instatement of Zionism in the region was formulated. The strike was organized by the Arab Higher Committee, a Palestinian independence movement under the leadership of Amin al-Husseini. This strike eventually led to violent insurgency against British rule in the countryside. The British reacted to these strikes as any imperialist power would; through violent suppression. The British seized and searched property, often without warrants, tortured Palestinian prisoners, and deported Palestinian people from their homeland. There were also many violent encounters between Palestinian resistance, the British army, and Zionist paramilitary groups.

By the time it concluded in September 1939, more than 5,000 Arabs, over 300 Jews and 262 Britons had been killed, and at least 15,000 Arabs were wounded.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Alex Winder|newspaper=Palquest|title=Great Arab Revolt, 1936-1939|url=https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/en/highlight/158/great-arab-revolt-1936-1939|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129095425/https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/en/highlight/158/great-arab-revolt-1936-1939|archive-date=January 29th 2024|retrieved=June 14th 2024|quote=The combined impact of Britain's military and diplomatic efforts brought the rebellion to an end in the late summer of 1939. Over the revolt's three years, some 5,000 Palestinians had been killed and nearly 15,000 wounded. The Palestinian leadership had been exiled, assassinated, imprisoned, and made to turn against one another. At the same time, the White Paper—despite its limitations—offered certain concessions to the rebels' demands. Whatever gains Palestinians might have made through the revolt, however, were quickly overtaken by the larger geopolitical processes of World War II , and the combined British-Zionist assault on Palestinian political and social life during the revolt had a long-lasting impact.}}</ref>

Lastly, these strikes resulted in the further deterioration of Palestinian resistance, which gave the Zionists easy access to the Palestinian rural areas, intensifying their ethnic cleansing campaigns.

=== Partition plan (UN Resolution 181) ===

==== The Plan ====
Unable to resolve the conflict between Palestinians and settlers, Britain withdrew from Palestine in February 1947 and transferred the matter to the UN, which in turn created and entrusted it to [[UNSCOP]] (United Nations Special Committee on Palestine) in May 1947.

While UNSCOP did deliberate about the possibility of a democratic one-state solution, whose future would be determined through democratic organs, they ended up adopting a partition plan which divided Palestine into two states: "Israel", occupying 56% of all Palestinian land and containing the Eastern Galilee, a coastal area (including Haifa, Tel Aviv, and most fertile lowland plains) and most of the Negev, and Palestine, consisting of the remaining territories, except for Jerusalem, which was to be considered ''corpus separatum''.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Alex Winder|newspaper=Palquest|title=UN Partition Plan, 1947|url=https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129081137/https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|archive-date=2024-1-9|retrieved=2024-6-20|quote=The proposed Jewish state covered some 56 percent of Mandate Palestine divided into three barely contiguous parts/areas: the eastern Galilee (including Safad, Tiberias, Baysan, and the Sea of Galilee), a coastal area (about two-thirds of Palestine's coast, including Haifa, Tel Aviv, and the fertile lowland plains), and most of the Negev (excluding Bir al-Sabi' and a strip/area running about half-way down the border with Egypt, but giving access to the Red Sea). Of Mandate Palestine's sixteen districts, nine were allotted to the Jewish state, only one of which had a Jewish majority; the UN-proposed Jewish state as a whole had an Arab “minority” approaching 47 percent.}}</ref> Additionally, it is also worth mentioning that even within the UN-proposed state, settlers owned only 11% of the land and were the minority in every single district, further adding to the absurdity that was this plan.<ref>{{Citation|author=Ilan Pappe|year=2006|title=The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine|chapter=Chapter 3|section=The Arab and Palestinian Positions|page=34|quote=The injustice was as striking then as it appears now, and yet it was hardly commented on at the time by any of the leading Western newspapers then covering Palestine: the Jews, who owned less than six per cent of the total land area of Palestine and constituted no more than one third of the population, were handed more than half of its overall territory. Within the borders of their UN -proposed state, they owned only eleven per cent of the land, and were the minority in every district|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacedod4irl7doqf2n5iym5sa2eyrmk6ql2zs7yq7yznvezr26fielzc?filename=Ilan%20Pappe%20-%20The%20Ethnic%20Cleansing%20of%20Palestine-Oneworld%20%282006%29.pdf|publisher=Oneworld|isbn=9781851684670|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F}}</ref>

After November 1947, as a way of protesting against the blind-eye that the UN was turning to the Palestinians who overwhelmingly rejected the proposed plan, the [[Arab Higher League|Arab League]] and the [[Arab Higher Committee]] decided to boycott further negotiations with [[UNSCOP]].<ref>{{Citation|author=Ilan Pappe|year=2006|title=The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine|title-url=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F|chapter=Chapter 3|section=The UN's Partition Plan|page=32|quote=The Arab League, the regional inter-Arab Organisation, and the Arab Higher Committee (the embryonic Palestinian government) decided to boycott the negotiations with UNSCOP prior to the UN resolution, and did not take part in the deliberations on how best to implement it after November 1947. Into this vacuum the Zionist leadership stepped with ease and confidence, quickly setting up a bilateral dialogue with the UN on how to work out a scheme for the future of Palestine.|publisher=Oneworld|isbn=9781851684670|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F|trans-lang=English}}</ref>

==== The Palestinian Response ====
As stated earlier, the Arab League further refused to negotiate with [[UNSCOP]]. This fact is often used to support the argument that Palestinians would have a better state had they accepted the Partition Plan. However, this couldn't be further from the truth, as in order to say this one has to ignore the entire history of the Zionist movement, its settler-colonial ambitions, very much aligned with European Imperialist nations<ref>{{Citation|author=Stephen Halbrook|year=1972|title=The Class Origins of Zionist Ideology|title-url=https://annas-archive.org/md5/879dffa8a9c9ef6fbfe91cdab7f68448|section=Herzl|page=98|quote=Throughout these and other talks, Herzl reiterates the identity of interests between imperialism and Zionism, arguing that British support of his plans would ensure pro-British fifth columnists as well as markets. "In some short years the Empire would be richer by a rich colony," and, he adds, in reference to the Jews: "at one stroke England will get ten million secret subjects," "ten million agents for her greatness and her influence," who would also cater to the English market|pdf=https://momot.rs/d3/y/1718971011/10000/u/zlib3_files/20231230/annas_archive_data__aacid__zlib3_files__20231230T013219Z--20231230T013220Z/aacid__zlib3_files__20231230T013219Z__26743366__kNxsYfF3cX3amMvvjmitV6~/2H3F3jCCKsEUBAZrWLVeZw/The%20Class%20Origins%20of%20Zionist%20Ideology%20--%20Stephen%20Halbrook%20--%201972%20--%20University%20of%20Californa%20--%20879dffa8a9c9ef6fbfe91cdab7f68448%20--%20Anna%E2%80%99s%20Archive.pdf|city=California|publisher=University of California Press|trans-lang=English}}</ref>, and how it always advocated for the systematic expulsion of the Palestinians from their own land.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Decolonize Palestine|title=Myth: Israel was created as penance for the Holocaust|url=https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/israel-penance-for-holocaust/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240521001122/https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/israel-penance-for-holocaust/|archive-date=May 21 2024|retrieved=June 21 2024|quote=“We should go east, into Transjordan. That would be a test for our movement.”
“Nonsense… isn’t there enough land in Judea and Galilee?”
“The land in Judea and Galilee is occupied by the Arabs.”
“Well, we’ll take it from them.”
“How?” (Silence.)
“A revolutionary doesn’t ask naive questions.”
“Well then, ‘revolutionary,’ tell us how.”
“It is very simple, we’ll harass them until they get out… Let them go to Transjordan.”
“And are we going to abandon all of Transjordan?” asks an anxious voice.
“As soon as we have a big settlement here we’ll seize the land, we’ll become strong, and then we’ll take care of the Left Bank [of the Jordan River], we’ll expel them from there, too. Let them go back to the Arab countries.”}}</ref> By allowing this plan to come into fruition, the UN had fundamentally violated its own human rights charter.

Several leading Palestinians also attempted to get the [[International Court of Justice]] (ICJ) involved in order to question the ethics of the plan, namely if the UN had the authority to forcefully execute the resolution<ref>{{Citation|author=Walid Khalidi|year=1997|title=Revisiting the UNGA Partition Plan Resolution|title-url=https://www.palquest.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|page=9|quote=The Arab delegations requested that before a decision be taken, the International
Court of Justice be asked for its opinion on the following subjects: (a) whether or not Palestine was included in the Arab territories that had been promised independence by Britain at the end of World War I; (b) whether partition was consistent with the objectives and provisions of the Mandate; (c) whether partition was consistent with the principles of the UN Charter; (d) whether its adoption and forcible execution were within the competence or jurisdiction of the UN; and (e) whether it lay within the power of any UN member or group of members to implement partition without the consent of the majority of the people living within the country.|pdf=https://www.palquest.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|publisher=Journal of Palestine Studies|trans-lang=English}}</ref> without the approval of the overwhelming majority of Palestinians<ref>{{Citation|author=Walid Khalidi|year=1997|title=Revisiting the UNGA Partition Resolution|title-url=https://www.palquest.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|page=1|quote=The partition resolution meant, in effect, the establishment of a Zionist state on Palestinian soil irrespective of the wishes of the overwhelming majority of its inhabitants and was taken by the Zionist leadership as a green light to launch their long-contemplated and delayed conquest of such a state.|pdf=https://www.palquest.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|publisher=Journal of Palestine Studies|trans-lang=English}}</ref> violated the UN human rights charter; a counter resolution was passed to give the UN the authority to do so.<ref>{{Citation|author=Walid Khalidi|year=1997|title=Revisiting the UNGA Partition Resolution|title-url=https://www.palquest.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|page=9|quote=The draft counter resolution that said that the UN did have the authority was carried by only 21 votes to 20 in the Ad Hoc Committee whose total membership was 57.|pdf=https://www.palquest.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|publisher=Journal of Palestinian Studies|trans-lang=English}}</ref>

Furthermore, it is natural that Palestinians rejected this plan, as it went directly against their interests (and violated their right of self-determination) and would further intensify the ethnic cleansing operations. Therefore, it is obvious that such a plan could only be enacted by overwhelming force, since it is obviously impossible to forcibly expand the colonizer's reach from 6%<ref>{{Citation|author=Ilan Pappe|year=2006|title=The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine|chapter=Chapter 3|section=The Arab and Palestinian Positions|page=34|quote=The injustice was as striking then as it appears now, and yet it was hardly commented on at the time by any of the leading Western newspapers then covering Palestine: the Jews, who owned less than six per cent of the total|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacedod4irl7doqf2n5iym5sa2eyrmk6ql2zs7yq7yznvezr26fielzc?filename=Ilan%20Pappe%20-%20The%20Ethnic%20Cleansing%20of%20Palestine-Oneworld%20%282006%29.pdf|publisher=Oneworld|isbn=9781851684670|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F|trans-lang=English}}</ref> to almost 56%<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Decolonize Palestine|title=Myth: Had Palestinians accepted the 1947 partition plan, they would have had a state by now|url=https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/had-palestinians-accepted-the-1947-partition-plan-they-would-have-had-a-state-by-now/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240521000358/https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/had-palestinians-accepted-the-1947-partition-plan-they-would-have-had-a-state-by-now/|archive-date=May 21 2024|retrieved=June 21 2024|quote=If we consider that most of this population arrived during the 4th and 5th Aliyot (Between 1924-1939), then the majority of those demanding partition of the land had barely been living there for 20 years at the most. To make matters worse, the UN partition plan allotted approximately 56% of the land of mandatory Palestine to the Jewish state.}}</ref> of all Palestinian land without Palestinian support.

==== The Zionist Response ====
While the Zionists had adopted the idea of a "Jewish Commonwealth", a maximalist idea, since the Biltmore Conference<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Interactive Encyclopaedia of the Palestine Question|title=Biltmore Conference Declaration|date=1942-5-11|url=https://www.palquest.org/en/historictext/6723/biltmore-conference-declaration|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129055122/https://www.palquest.org/en/historictext/6723/biltmore-conference-declaration|archive-date=2024-1-29|retrieved=2024-7-22|quote=The Conference declares that the new world order that will follow victory cannot be established on foundations of peace, justice and equality, unless the problem of Jewish homelessness is finally solved. The Conference urges that the gates of Palestine be opened; that the Jewish Agency be vested with control of immigration into Palestine and with the necessary authority for upbuilding the country, including the development of its unoccupied and uncultivated lands; and that Palestine be established as a Jewish Commonwealth integrated in the structure of the new democratic world.

Then and only then will the age old wrong to the Jewish people be righted.}}</ref>, David Ben-Gurion was more than keen on accepting the Resolution. However, this did not stop him from making claims that the UN had given very non-Zionist conditions to work with, therefore the final borders of "Israel" would be decided by force.<ref>{{Citation|author=Ilan Pappe|year=2006|title=The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine|section=The Jewish Reaction|page=36|quote=The expected Arab and Palestinian rejection of the plan allowed Ben-Gurion and the Zionist leadership to claim that the UN plan was a dead letter the day it was accepted - apart, of course, from the clauses that recognised the legality of the Jewish state in Palestine. Its borders, given the Palestinian and Arab rejection, said Ben-Gurion, 'will be determined by force and not by the partition resolution'. As would be the fate of the Arabs living in it.|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacedod4irl7doqf2n5iym5sa2eyrmk6ql2zs7yq7yznvezr26fielzc?filename=Ilan%20Pappe%20-%20The%20Ethnic%20Cleansing%20of%20Palestine-Oneworld%20%282006%29.pdf|city=Israel|publisher=Oneworld Publications|isbn=9781851684670|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F|trans-lang=The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine}}</ref>

=== Zionist colonization (1948–present) ===
[[File:West Bank.png|thumb|239x239px|Green: Palestinian control Red: Joint control Blue and pink: "Israeli" control]]
{{Main article|Palestinian genocide}}[[File:Palestinian resistance groups.png|thumb|Diagram of ten different Palestinian resistance groups]]

== Territory ==
Before 1948, Palestine consisted of all of the land on the land on the Sinai Peninsula outside of Egypt. In 1948, the area was forcibly partitioned into two states, "Israel" and Palestine. The Zionist Entity was not satisfied with its territory and soon annexed 60% of Palestinian land in the Arab–"Israeli" War.<ref>{{Citation|author=|year=1948|title=Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordinance (1948)|chapter=|section=|page=57|quote=|pdf=|city=|publisher=israellawresourcecenter.org|isbn=|doi=|lg=|mia=|title-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170624062229/http://www.israellawresourcecenter.org/israellaws/fulltext/areajurisdictionpowersord.htm|chapter-url=|trans-title=|trans-lang=}}</ref> During the Six-Day War in 1967, the Zionist Entity invaded the rest of Palestine and annexed East Jerusalem.<ref>{{Citation|author=|year=2018|title=Milestones: 1961–1968|chapter=|section=|page=|quote=|pdf=|city=|publisher=Office of the Historian|isbn=|doi=|lg=|mia=|title-url=|chapter-url=|trans-title=|trans-lang=}}</ref> Most of the West Bank is now occupied by "Israel".<ref>{{News citation|journalist=|date=2003-12-17|title=Applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including Jerusalem, and the other occupied Arab territories|url=http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/97360ee7a29e68a085256df900723485/d6f5d7049734efff85256e1200677754|newspaper=United Nations|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070603050844/http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/97360ee7a29e68a085256df900723485/d6f5d7049734efff85256e1200677754|archive-date=2007-06-03|retrieved=2022-01-03}}</ref>

== Further reading ==

* [[:Category:Palestinian resistance reading list|Palestinian resistance reading list]]
* [[:Category:Library works about Palestine|All library works about Palestine]]
* ''[[Library:Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine|Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine]]''

== References ==
[[Category:Countries targeted by imperialist aggression]]
[[Category:Countries]]
[[Category:Stubs]]
[[Category:Asian countries]]
<references />
[[Category:Anti-imperialist states]]

State of Palestine

2024-07-22T22:07:41Z

Xkyfal18: fixed spelling mistakes.

{{Infobox country
|name=State of Palestine
|leader_title2=Prime Minister
|map_width=290
|image_map=Map_of_Palestine.svg
|established_date1=15 November 1988
|established=1988
|established_event1=Declaration of Independence
|leader_name2=Mohammad Shtayyeh
|leader_name1=Mahmoud Abbas
|native_name=دولة فلسطين
|leader_title1=President
|official_languages=Arabic
|year_exile_start=1948
|largest_city=Gaza City
|capital_exile=Ramallah
|image_coat=Coat of arms of Palestine.svg
|capital=Jerusalem
|capital_type=Capital (partially occupied by the [[Israel|Zionist Entity]])
|image_flag=Flag of Palestine.png
|map_caption=Map of Palestine, including areas occupied by Israel.}}
'''Palestine''', officially the '''State of Palestine''', is an independent state in [[West Asia]] that is almost entirely occupied by the Zionist Entity.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr|date=2023-08-11|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr/285485/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230812011330/https://www.mintpressnews.com/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr/285485/|archive-date=2023-08-12}}</ref>

== History ==

=== Medieval history ===
During the [[Mamluk Sultanate]], the Palestinian city of Jenin was a central station for the postal service between Cairo and Damascus. The [[Ottoman Empire (1299–1922)|Ottoman Empire]] ruled Palestine for 401 years, starting in the 16th century.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Miko Peled|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr|date=2023-08-11|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr/285485/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230812011330/https://www.mintpressnews.com/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr/285485/|archive-date=2023-08-12}}</ref>

=== Early Zionist settlement ===
[[File:Colonization of Palestine.png|thumb|Colonization of Palestine from 1947 to 2005]]
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, a movement known as [[Zionism]] was formed, advocating a homeland for [[Judaism|Jewish]] people in the, then [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|British]] occupied, land of Palestine. At the same time, the majority Arabic population, who had lived in Palestine for generations, desired independence from the British in the form of an independent Arabic state. In 1917 the British released the Balfour Declaration, which expressed full support to the Zionist movement. The Palestinian people, angered by the British completely ignoring their interests, began protests and rioting against Jewish occupation as early as 1920. These protests were largely led by Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Alex Winder|newspaper=Palquest|title=Great Arab Revolt, 1936-1939|date=2024-06-14|url=https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/en/highlight/158/great-arab-revolt-1936-1939|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129095425/https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/en/highlight/158/great-arab-revolt-1936-1939|archive-date=January 29th 2024|retrieved=June 14th 2024|quote=The combined impact of Britain's military and diplomatic efforts brought the rebellion to an end in the late summer of 1939. Over the revolt's three years, some 5,000 Palestinians had been killed and nearly 15,000 wounded. The Palestinian leadership had been exiled, assassinated, imprisoned, and made to turn against one another. At the same time, the White Paper—despite its limitations—offered certain concessions to the rebels' demands. Whatever gains Palestinians might have made through the revolt, however, were quickly overtaken by the larger geopolitical processes of World War II , and the combined British-Zionist assault on Palestinian political and social life during the revolt had a long-lasting impact.}}</ref>

=== Arab Revolt (1936–1939) ===
Starting April 19, 1936, a mass [[Strike action|strike]] against the British instatement of Zionism in the region was formulated. The strike was organized by the Arab Higher Committee, a Palestinian independence movement under the leadership of Amin al-Husseini. This strike eventually led to violent insurgency against British rule in the countryside. The British reacted to these strikes as any imperialist power would; through violent suppression. The British seized and searched property, often without warrants, tortured Palestinian prisoners, and deported Palestinian people from their homeland. There were also many violent encounters between Palestinian resistance, the British army, and Zionist paramilitary groups.

By the time it concluded in September 1939, more than 5,000 Arabs, over 300 Jews and 262 Britons had been killed, and at least 15,000 Arabs were wounded.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Alex Winder|newspaper=Palquest|title=Great Arab Revolt, 1936-1939|url=https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/en/highlight/158/great-arab-revolt-1936-1939|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129095425/https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/en/highlight/158/great-arab-revolt-1936-1939|archive-date=January 29th 2024|retrieved=June 14th 2024|quote=The combined impact of Britain's military and diplomatic efforts brought the rebellion to an end in the late summer of 1939. Over the revolt's three years, some 5,000 Palestinians had been killed and nearly 15,000 wounded. The Palestinian leadership had been exiled, assassinated, imprisoned, and made to turn against one another. At the same time, the White Paper—despite its limitations—offered certain concessions to the rebels' demands. Whatever gains Palestinians might have made through the revolt, however, were quickly overtaken by the larger geopolitical processes of World War II , and the combined British-Zionist assault on Palestinian political and social life during the revolt had a long-lasting impact.}}</ref>

Lastly, these strikes resulted in the further deterioration of Palestinian resistance, which gave the Zionists easy access to the Palestinian rural areas, intensifying their ethnic cleansing campaigns.

=== Partition plan (UN Resolution 181) ===

==== The Plan ====
Unable to resolve the conflict between Palestinians and settlers, Britain withdrew from Palestine in February 1947 and transferred the matter to the UN, which in turn created and entrusted it to [[UNSCOP]] (United Nations Special Committee on Palestine) in May 1947.

While UNSCOP did deliberate about the possibility of a democratic one-state solution, whose future would be determined through democratic organs, they ended up adopting a partition plan which divided Palestine into two states: "Israel", occupying 56% of all Palestinian land and containing the Eastern Galilee, a coastal area (including Haifa, Tel Aviv, and most fertile lowland plains) and most of the Negev, and Palestine, consisting of the remaining territories, except for Jerusalem, which was to be considered ''corpus separatum''.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Alex Winder|newspaper=Palquest|title=UN Partition Plan, 1947|url=https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129081137/https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|archive-date=2024-1-9|retrieved=2024-6-20|quote=The proposed Jewish state covered some 56 percent of Mandate Palestine divided into three barely contiguous parts/areas: the eastern Galilee (including Safad, Tiberias, Baysan, and the Sea of Galilee), a coastal area (about two-thirds of Palestine's coast, including Haifa, Tel Aviv, and the fertile lowland plains), and most of the Negev (excluding Bir al-Sabi' and a strip/area running about half-way down the border with Egypt, but giving access to the Red Sea). Of Mandate Palestine's sixteen districts, nine were allotted to the Jewish state, only one of which had a Jewish majority; the UN-proposed Jewish state as a whole had an Arab “minority” approaching 47 percent.}}</ref> Additionally, it is also worth mentioning that even within the UN-proposed state, settlers owned only 11% of the land and were the minority in every single district, further adding to the absurdity that was this plan.<ref>{{Citation|author=Ilan Pappe|year=2006|title=The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine|chapter=Chapter 3|section=The Arab and Palestinian Positions|page=34|quote=The injustice was as striking then as it appears now, and yet it was hardly commented on at the time by any of the leading Western newspapers then covering Palestine: the Jews, who owned less than six per cent of the total land area of Palestine and constituted no more than one third of the population, were handed more than half of its overall territory. Within the borders of their UN -proposed state, they owned only eleven per cent of the land, and were the minority in every district|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacedod4irl7doqf2n5iym5sa2eyrmk6ql2zs7yq7yznvezr26fielzc?filename=Ilan%20Pappe%20-%20The%20Ethnic%20Cleansing%20of%20Palestine-Oneworld%20%282006%29.pdf|publisher=Oneworld|isbn=9781851684670|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F}}</ref>

After November 1947, as a way of protesting against the blind-eye that the UN was turning to the Palestinians who overwhelmingly rejected the proposed plan, the [[Arab Higher League|Arab League]] and the [[Arab Higher Committee]] decided to boycott further negotiations with [[UNSCOP]].<ref>{{Citation|author=Ilan Pappe|year=2006|title=The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine|title-url=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F|chapter=Chapter 3|section=The UN's Partition Plan|page=32|quote=The Arab League, the regional inter-Arab Organisation, and the Arab Higher Committee (the embryonic Palestinian government) decided to boycott the negotiations with UNSCOP prior to the UN resolution, and did not take part in the deliberations on how best to implement it after November 1947. Into this vacuum the Zionist leadership stepped with ease and confidence, quickly setting up a bilateral dialogue with the UN on how to work out a scheme for the future of Palestine.|publisher=Oneworld|isbn=9781851684670|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F|trans-lang=English}}</ref>

==== The Palestinian Response ====
As stated earlier, the Arab League further refused to negotiate with [[UNSCOP]]. This fact is often used to support the argument that Palestinians would have a better state had they accepted the Partition Plan. However, this couldn't be further from the truth, as in order to say this one has to ignore the entire history of the Zionist movement, its settler-colonial ambitions, very much aligned with European Imperialist nations<ref>{{Citation|author=Stephen Halbrook|year=1972|title=The Class Origins of Zionist Ideology|title-url=https://annas-archive.org/md5/879dffa8a9c9ef6fbfe91cdab7f68448|section=Herzl|page=98|quote=Throughout these and other talks, Herzl reiterates the identity of interests between imperialism and Zionism, arguing that British support of his plans would ensure pro-British fifth columnists as well as markets. "In some short years the Empire would be richer by a rich colony," and, he adds, in reference to the Jews: "at one stroke England will get ten million secret subjects," "ten million agents for her greatness and her influence," who would also cater to the English market|pdf=https://momot.rs/d3/y/1718971011/10000/u/zlib3_files/20231230/annas_archive_data__aacid__zlib3_files__20231230T013219Z--20231230T013220Z/aacid__zlib3_files__20231230T013219Z__26743366__kNxsYfF3cX3amMvvjmitV6~/2H3F3jCCKsEUBAZrWLVeZw/The%20Class%20Origins%20of%20Zionist%20Ideology%20--%20Stephen%20Halbrook%20--%201972%20--%20University%20of%20Californa%20--%20879dffa8a9c9ef6fbfe91cdab7f68448%20--%20Anna%E2%80%99s%20Archive.pdf|city=California|publisher=University of California Press|trans-lang=English}}</ref>, and how it always advocated for the systematic expulsion of the Palestinians from their own land.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Decolonize Palestine|title=Myth: Israel was created as penance for the Holocaust|url=https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/israel-penance-for-holocaust/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240521001122/https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/israel-penance-for-holocaust/|archive-date=May 21 2024|retrieved=June 21 2024|quote=“We should go east, into Transjordan. That would be a test for our movement.”
“Nonsense… isn’t there enough land in Judea and Galilee?”
“The land in Judea and Galilee is occupied by the Arabs.”
“Well, we’ll take it from them.”
“How?” (Silence.)
“A revolutionary doesn’t ask naive questions.”
“Well then, ‘revolutionary,’ tell us how.”
“It is very simple, we’ll harass them until they get out… Let them go to Transjordan.”
“And are we going to abandon all of Transjordan?” asks an anxious voice.
“As soon as we have a big settlement here we’ll seize the land, we’ll become strong, and then we’ll take care of the Left Bank [of the Jordan River], we’ll expel them from there, too. Let them go back to the Arab countries.”}}</ref> By allowing this plan to come into fruition, the UN had fundamentally violated its own human rights charter.

Several leading Palestinians also attempted to get the [[International Court of Justice]] (ICJ) involved in order to question the ethics of the plan, namely if the UN had the authority to forcefully execute the resolution<ref>{{Citation|author=Walid Khalidi|year=1997|title=Revisiting the UNGA Partition Plan Resolution|title-url=https://www.palquest.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|page=9|quote=The Arab delegations requested that before a decision be taken, the International
Court of Justice be asked for its opinion on the following subjects: (a) whether or not Palestine was included in the Arab territories that had been promised independence by Britain at the end of World War I; (b) whether partition was consistent with the objectives and provisions of the Mandate; (c) whether partition was consistent with the principles of the UN Charter; (d) whether its adoption and forcible execution were within the competence or jurisdiction of the UN; and (e) whether it lay within the power of any UN member or group of members to implement partition without the consent of the majority of the people living within the country.|pdf=https://www.palquest.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|publisher=Journal of Palestine Studies|trans-lang=English}}</ref> without the approval of the overwhelming majority of Palestinians<ref>{{Citation|author=Walid Khalidi|year=1997|title=Revisiting the UNGA Partition Resolution|title-url=https://www.palquest.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|page=1|quote=The partition resolution meant, in effect, the establishment of a Zionist state on Palestinian soil irrespective of the wishes of the overwhelming majority of its inhabitants and was taken by the Zionist leadership as a green light to launch their long-contemplated and delayed conquest of such a state.|pdf=https://www.palquest.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|publisher=Journal of Palestine Studies|trans-lang=English}}</ref> violated the UN human rights charter; a counter resolution was passed to give the UN the authority to do so.<ref>{{Citation|author=Walid Khalidi|year=1997|title=Revisiting the UNGA Partition Resolution|title-url=https://www.palquest.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|page=9|quote=The draft counter resolution that said that the UN did have the authority was carried by only 21 votes to 20 in the Ad Hoc Committee whose total membership was 57.|pdf=https://www.palquest.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|publisher=Journal of Palestinian Studies|trans-lang=English}}</ref>

Furthermore, it is natural that Palestinians rejected this plan, as it went directly against their interests (and violated their right of self-determination) and would further intensify the ethnic cleansing operations. Therefore, it is obvious that such a plan could only be enacted by overwhelming force, since it is obviously impossible to forcibly expand the colonizer's reach from 6%<ref>{{Citation|author=Ilan Pappe|year=2006|title=The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine|chapter=Chapter 3|section=The Arab and Palestinian Positions|page=34|quote=The injustice was as striking then as it appears now, and yet it was hardly commented on at the time by any of the leading Western newspapers then covering Palestine: the Jews, who owned less than six per cent of the total|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacedod4irl7doqf2n5iym5sa2eyrmk6ql2zs7yq7yznvezr26fielzc?filename=Ilan%20Pappe%20-%20The%20Ethnic%20Cleansing%20of%20Palestine-Oneworld%20%282006%29.pdf|publisher=Oneworld|isbn=9781851684670|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F|trans-lang=English}}</ref> to almost 56%<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Decolonize Palestine|title=Myth: Had Palestinians accepted the 1947 partition plan, they would have had a state by now|url=https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/had-palestinians-accepted-the-1947-partition-plan-they-would-have-had-a-state-by-now/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240521000358/https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/had-palestinians-accepted-the-1947-partition-plan-they-would-have-had-a-state-by-now/|archive-date=May 21 2024|retrieved=June 21 2024|quote=If we consider that most of this population arrived during the 4th and 5th Aliyot (Between 1924-1939), then the majority of those demanding partition of the land had barely been living there for 20 years at the most. To make matters worse, the UN partition plan allotted approximately 56% of the land of mandatory Palestine to the Jewish state.}}</ref> of all Palestinian land without Palestinian support.

==== The Zionist Response ====
While the Zionists had adopted the idea of a "Jewish Commonwealth", a maximalist idea, since the Biltmore Conference<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Interactive Encyclopaedia of the Palestine Question|title=Biltmore Conference Declaration|date=1942-5-11|url=https://www.palquest.org/en/historictext/6723/biltmore-conference-declaration|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129055122/https://www.palquest.org/en/historictext/6723/biltmore-conference-declaration|archive-date=2024-1-29|retrieved=2024-7-22|quote=The Conference declares that the new world order that will follow victory cannot be established on foundations of peace, justice and equality, unless the problem of Jewish homelessness is finally solved. The Conference urges that the gates of Palestine be opened; that the Jewish Agency be vested with control of immigration into Palestine and with the necessary authority for upbuilding the country, including the development of its unoccupied and uncultivated lands; and that Palestine be established as a Jewish Commonwealth integrated in the structure of the new democratic world.

Then and only then will the age old wrong to the Jewish people be righted.}}</ref>, David Ben-Gurion was more than keen on accepting the Resolution. However, this did not stop him from making claims that the UN had given very un-Zionist conditions to work with, therefore the final borders of "Israel" would be decided by force.<ref>{{Citation|author=Ilan Pappe|year=2006|title=The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine|section=The Jewish Reaction|page=36|quote=The expected Arab and Palestinian rejection of the plan allowed Ben-Gurion and the Zionist leadership to claim that the UN plan was a dead letter the day it was accepted - apart, of course, from the clauses that recognised the legality of the Jewish state in Palestine. Its borders, given the Palestinian and Arab rejection, said Ben-Gurion, 'will be determined by force and not by the partition resolution'. As would be the fate of the Arabs living in it.|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacedod4irl7doqf2n5iym5sa2eyrmk6ql2zs7yq7yznvezr26fielzc?filename=Ilan%20Pappe%20-%20The%20Ethnic%20Cleansing%20of%20Palestine-Oneworld%20%282006%29.pdf|city=Israel|publisher=Oneworld Publications|isbn=9781851684670|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F|trans-lang=The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine}}</ref>

=== Zionist colonization (1948–present) ===
[[File:West Bank.png|thumb|239x239px|Green: Palestinian control Red: Joint control Blue and pink: "Israeli" control]]
{{Main article|Palestinian genocide}}[[File:Palestinian resistance groups.png|thumb|Diagram of ten different Palestinian resistance groups]]

== Territory ==
Before 1948, Palestine consisted of all of the land on the land on the Sinai Peninsula outside of Egypt. In 1948, the area was forcibly partitioned into two states, "Israel" and Palestine. The Zionist Entity was not satisfied with its territory and soon annexed 60% of Palestinian land in the Arab–"Israeli" War.<ref>{{Citation|author=|year=1948|title=Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordinance (1948)|chapter=|section=|page=57|quote=|pdf=|city=|publisher=israellawresourcecenter.org|isbn=|doi=|lg=|mia=|title-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170624062229/http://www.israellawresourcecenter.org/israellaws/fulltext/areajurisdictionpowersord.htm|chapter-url=|trans-title=|trans-lang=}}</ref> During the Six-Day War in 1967, the Zionist Entity invaded the rest of Palestine and annexed East Jerusalem.<ref>{{Citation|author=|year=2018|title=Milestones: 1961–1968|chapter=|section=|page=|quote=|pdf=|city=|publisher=Office of the Historian|isbn=|doi=|lg=|mia=|title-url=|chapter-url=|trans-title=|trans-lang=}}</ref> Most of the West Bank is now occupied by "Israel".<ref>{{News citation|journalist=|date=2003-12-17|title=Applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including Jerusalem, and the other occupied Arab territories|url=http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/97360ee7a29e68a085256df900723485/d6f5d7049734efff85256e1200677754|newspaper=United Nations|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070603050844/http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/97360ee7a29e68a085256df900723485/d6f5d7049734efff85256e1200677754|archive-date=2007-06-03|retrieved=2022-01-03}}</ref>

== Further reading ==

* [[:Category:Palestinian resistance reading list|Palestinian resistance reading list]]
* [[:Category:Library works about Palestine|All library works about Palestine]]
* ''[[Library:Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine|Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine]]''

== References ==
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State of Palestine

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{{Infobox country
|name=State of Palestine
|leader_title2=Prime Minister
|map_width=290
|image_map=Map_of_Palestine.svg
|established_date1=15 November 1988
|established=1988
|established_event1=Declaration of Independence
|leader_name2=Mohammad Shtayyeh
|leader_name1=Mahmoud Abbas
|native_name=دولة فلسطين
|leader_title1=President
|official_languages=Arabic
|year_exile_start=1948
|largest_city=Gaza City
|capital_exile=Ramallah
|image_coat=Coat of arms of Palestine.svg
|capital=Jerusalem
|capital_type=Capital (partially occupied by the [[Israel|Zionist Entity]])
|image_flag=Flag of Palestine.png
|map_caption=Map of Palestine, including areas occupied by Israel.}}
'''Palestine''', officially the '''State of Palestine''', is an independent state in [[West Asia]] that is almost entirely occupied by the Zionist Entity.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr|date=2023-08-11|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr/285485/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230812011330/https://www.mintpressnews.com/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr/285485/|archive-date=2023-08-12}}</ref>

== History ==

=== Medieval history ===
During the [[Mamluk Sultanate]], the Palestinian city of Jenin was a central station for the postal service between Cairo and Damascus. The [[Ottoman Empire (1299–1922)|Ottoman Empire]] ruled Palestine for 401 years, starting in the 16th century.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Miko Peled|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr|date=2023-08-11|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr/285485/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230812011330/https://www.mintpressnews.com/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr/285485/|archive-date=2023-08-12}}</ref>

=== Early Zionist settlement ===
[[File:Colonization of Palestine.png|thumb|Colonization of Palestine from 1947 to 2005]]
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, a movement known as [[Zionism]] was formed, advocating a homeland for [[Judaism|Jewish]] people in the, then [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|British]] occupied, land of Palestine. At the same time, the majority Arabic population, who had lived in Palestine for generations, desired independence from the British in the form of an independent Arabic state. In 1917 the British released the Balfour Declaration, which expressed full support to the Zionist movement. The Palestinian people, angered by the British completely ignoring their interests, began protests and rioting against Jewish occupation as early as 1920. These protests were largely led by Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Alex Winder|newspaper=Palquest|title=Great Arab Revolt, 1936-1939|date=2024-06-14|url=https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/en/highlight/158/great-arab-revolt-1936-1939|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129095425/https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/en/highlight/158/great-arab-revolt-1936-1939|archive-date=January 29th 2024|retrieved=June 14th 2024|quote=The combined impact of Britain's military and diplomatic efforts brought the rebellion to an end in the late summer of 1939. Over the revolt's three years, some 5,000 Palestinians had been killed and nearly 15,000 wounded. The Palestinian leadership had been exiled, assassinated, imprisoned, and made to turn against one another. At the same time, the White Paper—despite its limitations—offered certain concessions to the rebels' demands. Whatever gains Palestinians might have made through the revolt, however, were quickly overtaken by the larger geopolitical processes of World War II , and the combined British-Zionist assault on Palestinian political and social life during the revolt had a long-lasting impact.}}</ref>

=== Arab Revolt (1936–1939) ===
Starting April 19, 1936, a mass [[Strike action|strike]] against the British instatement of Zionism in the region was formulated. The strike was organized by the Arab Higher Committee, a Palestinian independence movement under the leadership of Amin al-Husseini. This strike eventually led to violent insurgency against British rule in the countryside. The British reacted to these strikes as any imperialist power would; through violent suppression. The British seized and searched property, often without warrants, tortured Palestinian prisoners, and deported Palestinian people from their homeland. There were also many violent encounters between Palestinian resistance, the British army, and Zionist paramilitary groups.

By the time it concluded in September 1939, more than 5,000 Arabs, over 300 Jews and 262 Britons had been killed, and at least 15,000 Arabs were wounded.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Alex Winder|newspaper=Palquest|title=Great Arab Revolt, 1936-1939|url=https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/en/highlight/158/great-arab-revolt-1936-1939|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129095425/https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/en/highlight/158/great-arab-revolt-1936-1939|archive-date=January 29th 2024|retrieved=June 14th 2024|quote=The combined impact of Britain's military and diplomatic efforts brought the rebellion to an end in the late summer of 1939. Over the revolt's three years, some 5,000 Palestinians had been killed and nearly 15,000 wounded. The Palestinian leadership had been exiled, assassinated, imprisoned, and made to turn against one another. At the same time, the White Paper—despite its limitations—offered certain concessions to the rebels' demands. Whatever gains Palestinians might have made through the revolt, however, were quickly overtaken by the larger geopolitical processes of World War II , and the combined British-Zionist assault on Palestinian political and social life during the revolt had a long-lasting impact.}}</ref>

Lastly, these strikes resulted in the further deterioration of Palestinian resistance, which gave the Zionists easy access to the Palestinian rural areas, intensifying their ethnic cleansing campaigns.

=== Partition plan (UN Resolution 181) ===

==== The Plan ====
Unable to resolve the conflict between Palestinians and settlers, Britain withdrew from Palestine in February 1947 and transferred the matter to the UN, which in turn created and entrusted it to [[UNSCOP]] (United Nations Special Committee on Palestine) in May 1947.

While UNSCOP did deliberate about the possibility of a democratic one-state solution, whose future would be determined through democratic organs, they ended up adopting a partition plan which divided Palestine into two states: "Israel", occupying 56% of all Palestinian land and containing the Eastern Galilee, a coastal area (including Haifa, Tel Aviv, and most fertile lowland plains) and most of the Negev, and Palestine, consisting of the remaining territories, except for Jerusalem, which was to be considered ''corpus separatum''.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Alex Winder|newspaper=Palquest|title=UN Partition Plan, 1947|url=https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129081137/https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|archive-date=2024-1-9|retrieved=2024-6-20|quote=The proposed Jewish state covered some 56 percent of Mandate Palestine divided into three barely contiguous parts/areas: the eastern Galilee (including Safad, Tiberias, Baysan, and the Sea of Galilee), a coastal area (about two-thirds of Palestine's coast, including Haifa, Tel Aviv, and the fertile lowland plains), and most of the Negev (excluding Bir al-Sabi' and a strip/area running about half-way down the border with Egypt, but giving access to the Red Sea). Of Mandate Palestine's sixteen districts, nine were allotted to the Jewish state, only one of which had a Jewish majority; the UN-proposed Jewish state as a whole had an Arab “minority” approaching 47 percent.}}</ref> Additionally, it is also worth mentioning that even within the UN-proposed state, settlers owned only 11% of the land and were the minority in every single district, further adding to the absurdity that was this plan.<ref>{{Citation|author=Ilan Pappe|year=2006|title=The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine|chapter=Chapter 3|section=The Arab and Palestinian Positions|page=34|quote=The injustice was as striking then as it appears now, and yet it was hardly commented on at the time by any of the leading Western newspapers then covering Palestine: the Jews, who owned less than six per cent of the total land area of Palestine and constituted no more than one third of the population, were handed more than half of its overall territory. Within the borders of their UN -proposed state, they owned only eleven per cent of the land, and were the minority in every district|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacedod4irl7doqf2n5iym5sa2eyrmk6ql2zs7yq7yznvezr26fielzc?filename=Ilan%20Pappe%20-%20The%20Ethnic%20Cleansing%20of%20Palestine-Oneworld%20%282006%29.pdf|publisher=Oneworld|isbn=9781851684670|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F}}</ref>

After November 1947, as a way of protesting against the blind-eye that the UN was turning to the Palestinians who overwhelmingly rejected the proposed plan, the [[Arab Higher League|Arab League]] and the [[Arab Higher Committee]] decided to boycott further negotiations with [[UNSCOP]].<ref>{{Citation|author=Ilan Pappe|year=2006|title=The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine|title-url=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F|chapter=Chapter 3|section=The UN's Partition Plan|page=32|quote=The Arab League, the regional inter-Arab Organisation, and the Arab Higher Committee (the embryonic Palestinian government) decided to boycott the negotiations with UNSCOP prior to the UN resolution, and did not take part in the deliberations on how best to implement it after November 1947. Into this vacuum the Zionist leadership stepped with ease and confidence, quickly setting up a bilateral dialogue with the UN on how to work out a scheme for the future of Palestine.|publisher=Oneworld|isbn=9781851684670|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F|trans-lang=English}}</ref>

==== The Palestinian Response ====
As stated earlier, the Arab League further refused to negotiate with [[UNSCOP]]. This fact is often used to support the argument that Palestinians would have a better state had they accepted the Partition Plan. However, this couldn't be further from the truth, as in order to say this one has to ignore the entire history of the Zionist movement, its settler-colonial ambitions, very much aligned with European Imperialist nations<ref>{{Citation|author=Stephen Halbrook|year=1972|title=The Class Origins of Zionist Ideology|title-url=https://annas-archive.org/md5/879dffa8a9c9ef6fbfe91cdab7f68448|section=Herzl|page=98|quote=Throughout these and other talks, Herzl reiterates the identity of interests between imperialism and Zionism, arguing that British support of his plans would ensure pro-British fifth columnists as well as markets. "In some short years the Empire would be richer by a rich colony," and, he adds, in reference to the Jews: "at one stroke England will get ten million secret subjects," "ten million agents for her greatness and her influence," who would also cater to the English market|pdf=https://momot.rs/d3/y/1718971011/10000/u/zlib3_files/20231230/annas_archive_data__aacid__zlib3_files__20231230T013219Z--20231230T013220Z/aacid__zlib3_files__20231230T013219Z__26743366__kNxsYfF3cX3amMvvjmitV6~/2H3F3jCCKsEUBAZrWLVeZw/The%20Class%20Origins%20of%20Zionist%20Ideology%20--%20Stephen%20Halbrook%20--%201972%20--%20University%20of%20Californa%20--%20879dffa8a9c9ef6fbfe91cdab7f68448%20--%20Anna%E2%80%99s%20Archive.pdf|city=California|publisher=University of California Press|trans-lang=English}}</ref>, and how it always advocated for the systematic expulsion of the Palestinians from their own land.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Decolonize Palestine|title=Myth: Israel was created as penance for the Holocaust|url=https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/israel-penance-for-holocaust/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240521001122/https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/israel-penance-for-holocaust/|archive-date=May 21 2024|retrieved=June 21 2024|quote=“We should go east, into Transjordan. That would be a test for our movement.”
“Nonsense… isn’t there enough land in Judea and Galilee?”
“The land in Judea and Galilee is occupied by the Arabs.”
“Well, we’ll take it from them.”
“How?” (Silence.)
“A revolutionary doesn’t ask naive questions.”
“Well then, ‘revolutionary,’ tell us how.”
“It is very simple, we’ll harass them until they get out… Let them go to Transjordan.”
“And are we going to abandon all of Transjordan?” asks an anxious voice.
“As soon as we have a big settlement here we’ll seize the land, we’ll become strong, and then we’ll take care of the Left Bank [of the Jordan River], we’ll expel them from there, too. Let them go back to the Arab countries.”}}</ref> By allowing this plan to come into fruition, the UN had fundamentally violated its own human rights charter.

Several leading Palestinians also attempted to get the [[International Court of Justice]] (ICJ) involved in order to question the ethics of the plan, namely if the UN had the authority to forcefully execute the resolution<ref>{{Citation|author=Walid Khalidi|year=1997|title=Revisiting the UNGA Partition Plan Resolution|title-url=https://www.palquest.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|page=9|quote=The Arab delegations requested that before a decision be taken, the International
Court of Justice be asked for its opinion on the following subjects: (a) whether or not Palestine was included in the Arab territories that had been promised independence by Britain at the end of World War I; (b) whether partition was consistent with the objectives and provisions of the Mandate; (c) whether partition was consistent with the principles of the UN Charter; (d) whether its adoption and forcible execution were within the competence or jurisdiction of the UN; and (e) whether it lay within the power of any UN member or group of members to implement partition without the consent of the majority of the people living within the country.|pdf=https://www.palquest.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|publisher=Journal of Palestine Studies|trans-lang=English}}</ref> without the approval of the overwhelming majority of Palestinians<ref>{{Citation|author=Walid Khalidi|year=1997|title=Revisiting the UNGA Partition Resolution|title-url=https://www.palquest.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|page=1|quote=The partition resolution meant, in effect, the establishment of a Zionist state on Palestinian soil irrespective of the wishes of the overwhelming majority of its inhabitants and was taken by the Zionist leadership as a green light to launch their long-contemplated and delayed conquest of such a state.|pdf=https://www.palquest.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|publisher=Journal of Palestine Studies|trans-lang=English}}</ref> violated the UN human rights charter; a counter resolution was passed to give the UN the authority to do so.<ref>{{Citation|author=Walid Khalidi|year=1997|title=Revisiting the UNGA Partition Resolution|title-url=https://www.palquest.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|page=9|quote=The draft counter resolution that said that the UN did have the authority was carried by only 21 votes to 20 in the Ad Hoc Committee whose total membership was 57.|pdf=https://www.palquest.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|publisher=Journal of Palestinian Studies|trans-lang=English}}</ref>

Furthermore, it is natural that Palestinians rejected this plan, as it went directly against their interests (and violated their right of self-determination) and would further intensify the ethnic cleansing operations. Therefore, it is obvious that such a plan could only be enacted by overwhelming force, since it is obviously impossible to forcibly expand the colonizer's reach from 6%<ref>{{Citation|author=Ilan Pappe|year=2006|title=The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine|chapter=Chapter 3|section=The Arab and Palestinian Positions|page=34|quote=The injustice was as striking then as it appears now, and yet it was hardly commented on at the time by any of the leading Western newspapers then covering Palestine: the Jews, who owned less than six per cent of the total|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacedod4irl7doqf2n5iym5sa2eyrmk6ql2zs7yq7yznvezr26fielzc?filename=Ilan%20Pappe%20-%20The%20Ethnic%20Cleansing%20of%20Palestine-Oneworld%20%282006%29.pdf|publisher=Oneworld|isbn=9781851684670|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F|trans-lang=English}}</ref> to almost 56%<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Decolonize Palestine|title=Myth: Had Palestinians accepted the 1947 partition plan, they would have had a state by now|url=https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/had-palestinians-accepted-the-1947-partition-plan-they-would-have-had-a-state-by-now/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240521000358/https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/had-palestinians-accepted-the-1947-partition-plan-they-would-have-had-a-state-by-now/|archive-date=May 21 2024|retrieved=June 21 2024|quote=If we consider that most of this population arrived during the 4th and 5th Aliyot (Between 1924-1939), then the majority of those demanding partition of the land had barely been living there for 20 years at the most. To make matters worse, the UN partition plan allotted approximately 56% of the land of mandatory Palestine to the Jewish state.}}</ref> of all Palestinian land without Palestinian support.

==== The Zionist Response ====
While the Zionists had adopted the idea of a "Jewish Commonwealth", a maximalist idea, since the Biltmore Conference<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Interactive Encyclopaedia of the Palestine Question|title=Biltmore Conference Declaration|date=1942-5-11|url=https://www.palquest.org/en/historictext/6723/biltmore-conference-declaration|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129055122/https://www.palquest.org/en/historictext/6723/biltmore-conference-declaration|archive-date=2024-1-29|retrieved=2024-7-22|quote=The Conference declares that the new world order that will follow victory cannot be established on foundations of peace, justice and equality, unless the problem of Jewish homelessness is finally solved. The Conference urges that the gates of Palestine be opened; that the Jewish Agency be vested with control of immigration into Palestine and with the necessary authority for upbuilding the country, including the development of its unoccupied and uncultivated lands; and that Palestine be established as a Jewish Commonwealth integrated in the structure of the new democratic world.

Then and only then will the age old wrong to the Jewish people be righted.}}</ref>, David Ben-Gurion was more than keen on accepting the Resolution. However, this did not stop him from making claims that what he was given very un-Zionist conditions to work with, therefore the final borders of "Israel" would be decided by force.<ref>{{Citation|author=Ilan Pappe|year=2006|title=The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine|section=The Jewish Reaction|page=36|quote=The expected Arab and Palestinian rejection of the plan13 allowed Ben-Gurion and the Zionist leadership to claim that the UN plan was a dead letter the day it was accepted - apart, ofcourse, from the clauses that recog- nised the legality of the Jewish state in Palestine. Its borders, given the Palestinian and Arab rejection, said Ben-Gurion, 'will be determined by force and not by the partition resolution'. As would be the fate of the Arabs living in it.|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacedod4irl7doqf2n5iym5sa2eyrmk6ql2zs7yq7yznvezr26fielzc?filename=Ilan%20Pappe%20-%20The%20Ethnic%20Cleansing%20of%20Palestine-Oneworld%20%282006%29.pdf|city=Israel|publisher=Oneworld Publications|isbn=9781851684670|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F|trans-lang=The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine}}</ref>

=== Zionist colonization (1948–present) ===
[[File:West Bank.png|thumb|239x239px|Green: Palestinian control Red: Joint control Blue and pink: "Israeli" control]]
{{Main article|Palestinian genocide}}[[File:Palestinian resistance groups.png|thumb|Diagram of ten different Palestinian resistance groups]]

== Territory ==
Before 1948, Palestine consisted of all of the land on the land on the Sinai Peninsula outside of Egypt. In 1948, the area was forcibly partitioned into two states, "Israel" and Palestine. The Zionist Entity was not satisfied with its territory and soon annexed 60% of Palestinian land in the Arab–"Israeli" War.<ref>{{Citation|author=|year=1948|title=Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordinance (1948)|chapter=|section=|page=57|quote=|pdf=|city=|publisher=israellawresourcecenter.org|isbn=|doi=|lg=|mia=|title-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170624062229/http://www.israellawresourcecenter.org/israellaws/fulltext/areajurisdictionpowersord.htm|chapter-url=|trans-title=|trans-lang=}}</ref> During the Six-Day War in 1967, the Zionist Entity invaded the rest of Palestine and annexed East Jerusalem.<ref>{{Citation|author=|year=2018|title=Milestones: 1961–1968|chapter=|section=|page=|quote=|pdf=|city=|publisher=Office of the Historian|isbn=|doi=|lg=|mia=|title-url=|chapter-url=|trans-title=|trans-lang=}}</ref> Most of the West Bank is now occupied by "Israel".<ref>{{News citation|journalist=|date=2003-12-17|title=Applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including Jerusalem, and the other occupied Arab territories|url=http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/97360ee7a29e68a085256df900723485/d6f5d7049734efff85256e1200677754|newspaper=United Nations|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070603050844/http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/97360ee7a29e68a085256df900723485/d6f5d7049734efff85256e1200677754|archive-date=2007-06-03|retrieved=2022-01-03}}</ref>

== Further reading ==

* [[:Category:Palestinian resistance reading list|Palestinian resistance reading list]]
* [[:Category:Library works about Palestine|All library works about Palestine]]
* ''[[Library:Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine|Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine]]''

== References ==
[[Category:Countries targeted by imperialist aggression]]
[[Category:Countries]]
[[Category:Stubs]]
[[Category:Asian countries]]
<references />
[[Category:Anti-imperialist states]]

Michael Parenti

2024-07-22T20:19:46Z

Xkyfal18: small improvement

{{Infobox politician
|website=michael-parenti.org|image=Michael Parenti, Democracy and the Pathology of Wealth, 44m30s.jpg
|name=Michael Parenti
|birth_date={{birth date and age|1933|9|30}}
|birth_place=[[New York City]], [[State of New York|New York]], [[United States of America|United States]]|nationality=[[Statesian]]
|political_orientation=[[Anti-imperialism]] [[Marxism–Leninism]]}}

'''Michael John Parenti''' (born September 30, 1933) is a Statesian political scientist, academic historian and cultural critic who wrote on scholarly and popular subjects. He taught at US and international universities and was a guest lecturer before campus and community audiences. Michael Parenti is the father of [[Christian Parenti]].

Parenti's writings covered a wide range of subjects: U.S. politics, culture, ideology, [[political economy]], [[imperialism]], [[fascism]], [[communism]], [[democratic socialism]], free-market orthodoxies, conservative judicial activism, religion, ancient history, modern history, historiography, repression in academia, news and entertainment media, technology, [[environmentalism]], [[sexism]], [[racism]], [[Venezuela]], the wars in [[Iraq War|Iraq]] and [[Yugoslav Wars|Yugoslavia]], ethnicity, and his own early life.<ref name="webarticles">{{Web citation|title=Articles and Other Published Selections|url=http://michaelparenti.org/articles.html|access-date=25 December 2007|publisher=Michael Parenti|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026092449/http://michaelparenti.org/articles.html |archive-date=26 October 2007}}</ref><ref name="contrary">{{Citation|title-url=https://archive.org/details/contrarynotionsm0000pare/page/403|author=Michael Parenti|title=Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader|year=2007|publisher=City Lights Books|isbn=978-0-87286-482-5|page=403}}</ref><ref name="webbooks">{{Web citation|title=Books by Michael Parenti|url=http://michaelparenti.org/books.html|access-date=25 December 2007|publisher=Michael Parenti}}</ref>

In 1974, Parenti ran in Vermont on the democratic socialist [[Green Mountain Peace and Justice Party|Liberty Union Party]] ticket for [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] and received 7.1% of the vote.<ref>{{Web citation|url=https://electionarchive.vermont.gov/elections/search/date:1974-11-05/office_id:5|website=VT Elections Database|title=Elections Results Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|author=Bernie Sanders|url=https://archive.org/details/outsiderinhouse00bern|title=Outsider in the House|year=1997|chapter=You Have to Begin Somewhere}}</ref> This run was done with [[Bernie Sanders]] who at the time was friends with Parenti. This friendship ended when [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization|NATO]] waged war on [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2006)|Yugoslavia]]. While Bernie stood with the [[Imperialism|imperialists]], Parenti stood with the anti-imperialists.<ref>{{Web citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLNQEHbusSA|website YouTube|title=Michael Parenti on Bernie Sanders}}</ref>

== Recordings ==

* 1986: [https://youtu.be/7mW4ic0Iu2M ''Monopoly Culture and Academic Freedom''] at the University of Vermont, April 9, 1986
* 1986: [https://youtu.be/xP8CzlFhc14 ''Reagan and the Russian–US Intervention in the Cold War''] at the University of Colorado Boulder, April 15, 1986
* 1986: [https://youtu.be/VKg1Jj3AjfM ''Michael Parenti at Loyola University''] at Loyola University New Orleans, April 23, 1986
* 1986: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUWrgLpazwE ''Anti-Sovietism in the Media''] at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, November 20, 1986
* 1987: [https://youtu.be/QIFMB2NW3WY ''The Political Uses of Religion''] in Denver, Colorado, April 18, 1987
* 1988: [https://youtu.be/4vKfejeruhk ''Superpatriotism and the Importance of Being Number One''] in Boulder, Colorado, August 1, 1988
* 1989: [https://youtu.be/4YZK7JCWtYI ''The Sword and the Dollar''] in Thunder Bay, Ontario, October 27, 1989
* 1990: [https://youtu.be/MfDnQPtijjc ''Human Nature and Politics''] in Los Angeles, California, May 1990
* 1991: [https://youtu.be/5Bz1s3CM9zs ''Corporatism and the U.S. Political Scene''], 1991
* 1993: [https://youtu.be/nKwypf9qPto ''Conspiracy and State Power''] at the University of Vermont, April 21, 1993
* 1993: [https://youtu.be/9g3kRHo_vpQ Inventing Reality], October 17, 1993
* 1997: [https://youtu.be/d9Zkw2oUWlY ''The Hidden Ideology of the News Media''] at the University of Vermont, Burlington, April 9, 1997
* 1999: ''[https://vimeo.com/753160661 The U.S. Empire and the War against Yugoslavia]'' at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church, Berkeley, 1999
* 1999: [https://vimeo.com/758356846 ''Berkeley Mother's Day for Peace 1999''] at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Civic Center Park, Berkeley, May 9, 1999
* 1999: ''[https://youtu.be/GEzOgpMWnVs The U.S. War on Yugoslavia]'' in Seattle, Washington, May 16, 1999
* 2002: [https://youtu.be/V_PNyYPR46E ''The Corporate War Against Democracy''] at Portland State University, September 14, 2002
* 2002: [https://youtu.be/_aJArigViMU ''Terrorism, Globalism, and Conspiracy''] at St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church, Vancouver, October 9, 2002
* 2003: [https://youtu.be/ikZ4ChX1WAo ''The Assassination of Julius Caesar''] in Venice, Colorado, June 29, 2003
* 2004: ''[https://youtu.be/FZqwlNpXelg Creating a Sustainable Economy]'' at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Long Beach, California, June 24, 2004
* 2005: [https://youtu.be/wpAOZkH09C8 ''Holier Than Though''], May 23, 2005
* 2005: [https://youtu.be/MufGs0MQrPg ''Iraq and the Future of US Foreign Policy''] at Wesleyan University, Connecticut, April 18, 2005
* 2005: ''[https://youtu.be/OOF56wYTl1w The Darker Myths of Empire: Heart of Darkness Series]'' at the College of DuPage, November 16, 2005
* 2007: [https://youtu.be/8a2lisF4XGg ''Lies, Wars, & Empire''] at Binghamton University, October 9, 2007
* 2010: [https://youtu.be/GEzOgpMWnVs ''Deep Ideology: How Reactionary Agendas Shape Political Awareness''] at the University Inn & Conference Center, Santa Cruz, May 14-16, 2010
* 2011: [https://youtu.be/QTWbnHsE2ow ''The Face of Imperialism and The 99% Solution''] at the University of Guelph, November 2, 2011
* 2012: [https://youtu.be/wheMfMqu-H4 ''Democracy and the Pathology of Wealth''] at the La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley, January 6, 2012
* 2013: [https://youtu.be/bHUDfF2ztEg ''Michael Parenti on the Threat of US Imperialism''] in Vancouver, British Columbia, November 2013
* 2015: [https://youtu.be/fcImfx8tunI ''Capitalism vs. Reality''] in Springfield, Illinois, October 6, 2015

== References ==
<references />
[[Category:Statesian communists]]
[[Category:Statesian Marxists]]
[[Category:Statesians of Italian descent]]

Chauvinism

2024-07-06T23:13:29Z

Xkyfal18:

{{stub}}
'''Chauvinism''' is the practice of discriminatory superiority against a group, usually against certain groups of peoples. It often stems from reactionaries who attempt to blame every single contradiction of capitalism on those groups in order to further divide the proletariat.

Furthermore, it rises as material conditions decline or as a result of a crisis when the Bourgeoisie attempt to foster class peace to divert the Proletariat away from class struggle.
[[Category:Bigotry]]

Chauvinism

2024-07-06T23:12:53Z

Xkyfal18: updated definition of chauvinism, ty for the help red

{{stub}}
'''Chauvinism''' is the practice of discriminatory superiority against a group, usually against certain groups of peoples. It often stems from reactionaries who attempt to blame every single contradiction of capitalism on those groups in order to further divide the proletariat. It rises as material conditions decline or as a result of a crisis when the Bourgeoisie attempt to foster class peace to divert the Proletariat away from class struggle.
[[Category:Bigotry]]

Honoré de Balzac

2024-06-26T16:39:53Z

Xkyfal18: fixed date of death (he died in 1850)

{{Infobox politician|name=Honoré de Balzac|image_size=250|birth_name=Honoré Balzac|birth_date=20 May 1799|death_date=18 August 1850|nationality=French|image=Honoré de Balzac.png}}

'''Honoré de Balzac''' (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. He wrote 30 novellas and short stories and 60 full-length novels, including ''The Human Comedy'', a detailed portrayal of French society between the overthrow of [[Napoleon Bonaparte|Napoleon]] and the [[French Revolution of 1848|revolutions of 1848]] that includes around 2,000 characters.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=Ben Curry|newspaper=In Defence of Marxism|title=The revolutionary dialectic of Balzac’s 'Human Comedy'|date=2024-05-24|url=https://www.marxist.com/the-revolutionary-dialectic-of-balzac-s-human-comedy.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240612220855/https://www.marxist.com/the-revolutionary-dialectic-of-balzac-s-human-comedy.htm|archive-date=2024-06-12}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Balzac was born in 1799, the same year that Napoleon took power.<ref name=":0" />

== ''The Human Comedy'' ==
Balzac wrote ''The Human Comedy'' as a series of several books. The first volume, ''Les Chouans'', is set in 1799 and depicts revolutionary [[Peasantry|peasants]] fighting against guerrillas who joined the monarchist cause just to rob dead [[Republicanism|republicans]]. The [[Counterrevolution|counterrevolutionaries]] ask their leader for titles and estates in exchange for their allegiance to the deposed [[Louis XVII Bourbon|king]]. The later volumes ''Lost Illusions'' and ''Père Goriot'' occur after the nobility was restored to power but was not able to reestablish feudal property relations due to the rising [[bourgeoisie]]. ''Lost Illusions'' praises the revolutionary republican Michel Chrestien, whom Balzac described as "one of the noblest creatures who every trod on the soil of France." ''Père Goriot'' is a modern retelling of the [[William Shakespeare|Shakespearean]] tragedy ''King Lear'' centered around the impoverished nobleman Eugene de Rastignac, who can become rich either by seducing the daughter of the [[Bank|banker]] de Nucingen or by working with the criminal Vautrin. Rastignac chooses Vautrin and agrees with him that "wealth is virtue."<ref name=":0" />

== Political views ==
Balzac believed that [[religion]] and [[monarchism]] were necessary for society and hoped to be able to join the aristocracy through [[marriage]]. Although he did not consider himself a [[Materialism|materialist]] or a [[Revolution|revolutionary]], but he wrote in a realist style and rejected the [[Romanticism|Romantic]] [[Idealism|idealization]] of the [[Kingdom of France (987–1792)|past]]. His works portrayed the [[aristocracy]] negatively.<ref name=":0" />

== References ==
[[Category:Writers]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Balzac, Honoré}}

State of Palestine

2024-06-21T20:46:43Z

Xkyfal18: added sourcing + a few revisions, WIP.

{{Infobox country
|name=State of Palestine
|leader_title2=Prime Minister
|map_width=290
|image_map=Map_of_Palestine.svg
|established_date1=15 November 1988
|established=1988
|established_event1=Declaration of Independence
|leader_name2=Mohammad Shtayyeh
|leader_name1=Mahmoud Abbas
|native_name=دولة فلسطين
|leader_title1=President
|official_languages=Arabic
|year_exile_start=1948
|largest_city=Gaza City
|capital_exile=Ramallah
|image_coat=Coat of arms of Palestine.svg
|capital=Jerusalem
|capital_type=Capital (partially occupied by the [[Israel|Zionist Entity]])
|image_flag=Flag of Palestine.png
|map_caption=Map of Palestine, including areas occupied by Israel.}}
'''Palestine''', officially the '''State of Palestine''', is an independent state in [[West Asia]] that is almost entirely occupied by the Zionist Entity.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr|date=2023-08-11|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr/285485/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230812011330/https://www.mintpressnews.com/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr/285485/|archive-date=2023-08-12}}</ref>

== History ==

=== Medieval history ===
During the [[Mamluk Sultanate]], the Palestinian city of Jenin was a central station for the postal service between Cairo and Damascus. The [[Ottoman Empire (1299–1922)|Ottoman Empire]] ruled Palestine for 401 years, starting in the 16th century.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Miko Peled|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr|date=2023-08-11|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr/285485/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230812011330/https://www.mintpressnews.com/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr/285485/|archive-date=2023-08-12}}</ref>

=== Early Zionist settlement ===
[[File:Colonization of Palestine.png|thumb|Colonization of Palestine from 1947 to 2005]]
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, a movement known as [[Zionism]] was formed, advocating a homeland for [[Judaism|Jewish]] people in the, then [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|British]] occupied, land of Palestine. At the same time, the majority Arabic population, who had lived in Palestine for generations, desired independence from the British in the form of an independent Arabic state. In 1917 the British released the Balfour Declaration, which expressed full support to the Zionist movement. The Palestinian people, angered by the British completely ignoring their interests, began protests and rioting against Jewish occupation as early as 1920. These protests were largely led by Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Alex Winder|newspaper=Palquest|title=Great Arab Revolt, 1936-1939|date=2024-06-14|url=https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/en/highlight/158/great-arab-revolt-1936-1939|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129095425/https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/en/highlight/158/great-arab-revolt-1936-1939|archive-date=January 29th 2024|retrieved=June 14th 2024|quote=The combined impact of Britain's military and diplomatic efforts brought the rebellion to an end in the late summer of 1939. Over the revolt's three years, some 5,000 Palestinians had been killed and nearly 15,000 wounded. The Palestinian leadership had been exiled, assassinated, imprisoned, and made to turn against one another. At the same time, the White Paper—despite its limitations—offered certain concessions to the rebels' demands. Whatever gains Palestinians might have made through the revolt, however, were quickly overtaken by the larger geopolitical processes of World War II , and the combined British-Zionist assault on Palestinian political and social life during the revolt had a long-lasting impact.}}</ref>

=== Arab Revolt (1936–1939) ===
Starting April 19, 1936, a mass [[Strike action|strike]] against the British instatement of Zionism in the region was formulated. The strike was organized by the Arab Higher Committee, a Palestinian independence movement under the leadership of Amin al-Husseini. This strike eventually led to violent insurgency against British rule in the countryside. The British reacted to these strikes as any imperialist power would; through violent suppression. The British seized and searched property, often without warrants, tortured Palestinian prisoners, and deported Palestinian people from their homeland. There were also many violent encounters between Palestinian resistance, the British army, and Zionist paramilitary groups.

By the time it concluded in September 1939, more than 5,000 Arabs, over 300 Jews and 262 Britons had been killed, and at least 15,000 Arabs were wounded.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Alex Winder|newspaper=Palquest|title=Great Arab Revolt, 1936-1939|url=https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/en/highlight/158/great-arab-revolt-1936-1939|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129095425/https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/en/highlight/158/great-arab-revolt-1936-1939|archive-date=January 29th 2024|retrieved=June 14th 2024|quote=The combined impact of Britain's military and diplomatic efforts brought the rebellion to an end in the late summer of 1939. Over the revolt's three years, some 5,000 Palestinians had been killed and nearly 15,000 wounded. The Palestinian leadership had been exiled, assassinated, imprisoned, and made to turn against one another. At the same time, the White Paper—despite its limitations—offered certain concessions to the rebels' demands. Whatever gains Palestinians might have made through the revolt, however, were quickly overtaken by the larger geopolitical processes of World War II , and the combined British-Zionist assault on Palestinian political and social life during the revolt had a long-lasting impact.}}</ref>

Lastly, these strikes resulted in the further deterioration of Palestinian resistance, which gave the Zionists easy access to the Palestinian rural areas, intensifying their ethnic cleansing campaigns.

=== Partition plan (UN Resolution 181) ===

==== The Plan ====
Unable to resolve the conflict between Palestinians and settlers, Britain withdrew from Palestine in February 1947 and transferred the matter to the UN, which in turn created and entrusted it to [[UNSCOP]] (United Nations Special Committee on Palestine) in May 1947.

While UNSCOP did deliberate about the possibility of a democratic one-state solution, whose future would be determined through democratic organs, they ended up adopting a partition plan which divided Palestine into two states: "Israel", occupying 56% of all Palestinian land and containing the Eastern Galilee, a coastal area (including Haifa, Tel Aviv, and most fertile lowland plains) and most of the Negev, and Palestine, consisting of the remaining territories, except for Jerusalem, which was to be considered ''corpus separatum''.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Alex Winder|newspaper=Palquest|title=UN Partition Plan, 1947|url=https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129081137/https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|archive-date=2024-1-9|retrieved=2024-6-20|quote=The proposed Jewish state covered some 56 percent of Mandate Palestine divided into three barely contiguous parts/areas: the eastern Galilee (including Safad, Tiberias, Baysan, and the Sea of Galilee), a coastal area (about two-thirds of Palestine's coast, including Haifa, Tel Aviv, and the fertile lowland plains), and most of the Negev (excluding Bir al-Sabi' and a strip/area running about half-way down the border with Egypt, but giving access to the Red Sea). Of Mandate Palestine's sixteen districts, nine were allotted to the Jewish state, only one of which had a Jewish majority; the UN-proposed Jewish state as a whole had an Arab “minority” approaching 47 percent.}}</ref> Additionally, it is also worth mentioning that even within the UN-proposed state, settlers owned only 11% of the land and were the minority in every single district, further adding to the absurdity that was this plan.<ref>{{Citation|author=Ilan Pappe|year=2006|title=The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine|chapter=Chapter 3|section=The Arab and Palestinian Positions|page=34|quote=The injustice was as striking then as it appears now, and yet it was hardly commented on at the time by any of the leading Western newspapers then covering Palestine: the Jews, who owned less than six per cent of the total land area of Palestine and constituted no more than one third of the population, were handed more than half of its overall territory. Within the borders of their UN -proposed state, they owned only eleven per cent of the land, and were the minority in every district|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacedod4irl7doqf2n5iym5sa2eyrmk6ql2zs7yq7yznvezr26fielzc?filename=Ilan%20Pappe%20-%20The%20Ethnic%20Cleansing%20of%20Palestine-Oneworld%20%282006%29.pdf|publisher=Oneworld|isbn=9781851684670|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F}}</ref>

After November 1947, as a way of protesting against the blind-eye that the UN was turning to the Palestinians who overwhelmingly rejected the proposed plan, the [[Arab Higher League|Arab League]] and the [[Arab Higher Committee]] decided to boycott further negotiations with [[UNSCOP]].<ref>{{Citation|author=Ilan Pappe|year=2006|title=The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine|title-url=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F|chapter=Chapter 3|section=The UN's Partition Plan|page=32|quote=The Arab League, the regional inter-Arab Organisation, and the Arab Higher Committee (the embryonic Palestinian government) decided to boycott the negotiations with UNSCOP prior to the UN resolution, and did not take part in the deliberations on how best to implement it after November 1947. Into this vacuum the Zionist leadership stepped with ease and confidence, quickly setting up a bilateral dialogue with the UN on how to work out a scheme for the future of Palestine.|publisher=Oneworld|isbn=9781851684670|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F|trans-lang=English}}</ref>

==== The Palestinian Response ====
As stated earlier, the Arab League further refused to negotiate with [[UNSCOP]]. This fact is often used to support the argument that Palestinians would have a better state had they accepted the Partition Plan. However, this couldn't be further from the truth, as in order to say this one has to ignore the entire history of the Zionist movement, its settler-colonial ambitions, very much aligned with European Imperialist nations<ref>{{Citation|author=Stephen Halbrook|year=1972|title=The Class Origins of Zionist Ideology|title-url=https://annas-archive.org/md5/879dffa8a9c9ef6fbfe91cdab7f68448|section=Herzl|page=98|quote=Throughout these and other talks, Herzl reiterates the identity of interests between imperialism and Zionism, arguing that British support of his plans would ensure pro-British fifth columnists as well as markets. "In some short years the Empire would be richer by a rich colony," and, he adds, in reference to the Jews: "at one stroke England will get ten million secret subjects," "ten million agents for her greatness and her influence," who would also cater to the English market|pdf=https://momot.rs/d3/y/1718971011/10000/u/zlib3_files/20231230/annas_archive_data__aacid__zlib3_files__20231230T013219Z--20231230T013220Z/aacid__zlib3_files__20231230T013219Z__26743366__kNxsYfF3cX3amMvvjmitV6~/2H3F3jCCKsEUBAZrWLVeZw/The%20Class%20Origins%20of%20Zionist%20Ideology%20--%20Stephen%20Halbrook%20--%201972%20--%20University%20of%20Californa%20--%20879dffa8a9c9ef6fbfe91cdab7f68448%20--%20Anna%E2%80%99s%20Archive.pdf|city=California|publisher=University of California Press|trans-lang=English}}</ref>, and how it always advocated for the systematic expulsion of the Palestinians from their own land.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Decolonize Palestine|title=Myth: Israel was created as penance for the Holocaust|url=https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/israel-penance-for-holocaust/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240521001122/https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/israel-penance-for-holocaust/|archive-date=May 21 2024|retrieved=June 21 2024|quote=“We should go east, into Transjordan. That would be a test for our movement.”
“Nonsense… isn’t there enough land in Judea and Galilee?”
“The land in Judea and Galilee is occupied by the Arabs.”
“Well, we’ll take it from them.”
“How?” (Silence.)
“A revolutionary doesn’t ask naive questions.”
“Well then, ‘revolutionary,’ tell us how.”
“It is very simple, we’ll harass them until they get out… Let them go to Transjordan.”
“And are we going to abandon all of Transjordan?” asks an anxious voice.
“As soon as we have a big settlement here we’ll seize the land, we’ll become strong, and then we’ll take care of the Left Bank [of the Jordan River], we’ll expel them from there, too. Let them go back to the Arab countries.”}}</ref> By allowing this plan to come into fruition, the UN had fundamentally violated its own human rights charter.

Several leading Palestinians also attempted to get the [[International Court of Justice]] (ICJ) involved in order to question the ethics of the plan, namely if the UN had the authority to forcefully execute the resolution<ref>{{Citation|author=Walid Khalidi|year=1997|title=Revisiting the UNGA Partition Plan Resolution|title-url=https://www.palquest.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|page=9|quote=The Arab delegations requested that before a decision be taken, the International
Court of Justice be asked for its opinion on the following subjects: (a) whether or not Palestine was included in the Arab territories that had been promised independence by Britain at the end of World War I; (b) whether partition was consistent with the objectives and provisions of the Mandate; (c) whether partition was consistent with the principles of the UN Charter; (d) whether its adoption and forcible execution were within the competence or jurisdiction of the UN; and (e) whether it lay within the power of any UN member or group of members to implement partition without the consent of the majority of the people living within the country.|pdf=https://www.palquest.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|publisher=Journal of Palestine Studies|trans-lang=English}}</ref> without the approval of the overwhelming majority of Palestinians<ref>{{Citation|author=Walid Khalidi|year=1997|title=Revisiting the UNGA Partition Resolution|title-url=https://www.palquest.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|page=1|quote=The partition resolution meant, in effect, the establishment of a Zionist state on Palestinian soil irrespective of the wishes of the overwhelming majority of its inhabitants and was taken by the Zionist leadership as a green light to launch their long-contemplated and delayed conquest of such a state.|pdf=https://www.palquest.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|publisher=Journal of Palestine Studies|trans-lang=English}}</ref> violated the UN human rights charter; a counter resolution was passed to give the UN the authority to do so.<ref>{{Citation|author=Walid Khalidi|year=1997|title=Revisiting the UNGA Partition Resolution|title-url=https://www.palquest.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|page=9|quote=The draft counter resolution that said that the UN did have the authority was carried by only 21 votes to 20 in the Ad Hoc Committee whose total membership was 57.|pdf=https://www.palquest.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|publisher=Journal of Palestinian Studies|trans-lang=English}}</ref>

Furthermore, it is natural that Palestinians rejected this plan, as it went directly against their interests (and violated their right of self-determination) and would further intensify the ethnic cleansing operations. Therefore, it is obvious that such a plan could only be enacted by overwhelming force, since it is obviously impossible to forcibly expand the colonizer's reach from 6%<ref>{{Citation|author=Ilan Pappe|year=2006|title=The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine|chapter=Chapter 3|section=The Arab and Palestinian Positions|page=34|quote=The injustice was as striking then as it appears now, and yet it was hardly commented on at the time by any of the leading Western newspapers then covering Palestine: the Jews, who owned less than six per cent of the total|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacedod4irl7doqf2n5iym5sa2eyrmk6ql2zs7yq7yznvezr26fielzc?filename=Ilan%20Pappe%20-%20The%20Ethnic%20Cleansing%20of%20Palestine-Oneworld%20%282006%29.pdf|publisher=Oneworld|isbn=9781851684670|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F|trans-lang=English}}</ref> to almost 56%<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Decolonize Palestine|title=Myth: Had Palestinians accepted the 1947 partition plan, they would have had a state by now|url=https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/had-palestinians-accepted-the-1947-partition-plan-they-would-have-had-a-state-by-now/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240521000358/https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/had-palestinians-accepted-the-1947-partition-plan-they-would-have-had-a-state-by-now/|archive-date=May 21 2024|retrieved=June 21 2024|quote=If we consider that most of this population arrived during the 4th and 5th Aliyot (Between 1924-1939), then the majority of those demanding partition of the land had barely been living there for 20 years at the most. To make matters worse, the UN partition plan allotted approximately 56% of the land of mandatory Palestine to the Jewish state.}}</ref> of all Palestinian land without Palestinian support.

=== Zionist colonization (1948–present) ===
[[File:West Bank.png|thumb|239x239px|Green: Palestinian control Red: Joint control Blue and pink: "Israeli" control]]
{{Main article|Palestinian genocide}}[[File:Palestinian resistance groups.png|thumb|Diagram of ten different Palestinian resistance groups]]

== Territory ==
Before 1948, Palestine consisted of all of the land on the land on the Sinai Peninsula outside of Egypt. In 1948, the area was forcibly partitioned into two states, "Israel" and Palestine. The Zionist Entity was not satisfied with its territory and soon annexed 60% of Palestinian land in the Arab–"Israeli" War.<ref>{{Citation|author=|year=1948|title=Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordinance (1948)|chapter=|section=|page=57|quote=|pdf=|city=|publisher=israellawresourcecenter.org|isbn=|doi=|lg=|mia=|title-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170624062229/http://www.israellawresourcecenter.org/israellaws/fulltext/areajurisdictionpowersord.htm|chapter-url=|trans-title=|trans-lang=}}</ref> During the Six-Day War in 1967, the Zionist Entity invaded the rest of Palestine and annexed East Jerusalem.<ref>{{Citation|author=|year=2018|title=Milestones: 1961–1968|chapter=|section=|page=|quote=|pdf=|city=|publisher=Office of the Historian|isbn=|doi=|lg=|mia=|title-url=|chapter-url=|trans-title=|trans-lang=}}</ref> Most of the West Bank is now occupied by "Israel".<ref>{{News citation|journalist=|date=2003-12-17|title=Applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including Jerusalem, and the other occupied Arab territories|url=http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/97360ee7a29e68a085256df900723485/d6f5d7049734efff85256e1200677754|newspaper=United Nations|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070603050844/http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/97360ee7a29e68a085256df900723485/d6f5d7049734efff85256e1200677754|archive-date=2007-06-03|retrieved=2022-01-03}}</ref>

== Further reading ==

* [[:Category:Palestinian resistance reading list|Palestinian resistance reading list]]
* [[:Category:Library works about Palestine|All library works about Palestine]]
* ''[[Library:Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine|Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine]]''

== References ==
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[[Category:Anti-imperialist states]]

State of Palestine

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{{Infobox country
|name=State of Palestine
|leader_title2=Prime Minister
|map_width=290
|image_map=Map_of_Palestine.svg
|established_date1=15 November 1988
|established=1988
|established_event1=Declaration of Independence
|leader_name2=Mohammad Shtayyeh
|leader_name1=Mahmoud Abbas
|native_name=دولة فلسطين
|leader_title1=President
|official_languages=Arabic
|year_exile_start=1948
|largest_city=Gaza City
|capital_exile=Ramallah
|image_coat=Coat of arms of Palestine.svg
|capital=Jerusalem
|capital_type=Capital (partially occupied by the [[Israel|Zionist Entity]])
|image_flag=Flag of Palestine.png
|map_caption=Map of Palestine, including areas occupied by Israel.}}
'''Palestine''', officially the '''State of Palestine''', is an independent state in [[West Asia]] that is almost entirely occupied by the Zionist Entity.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr|date=2023-08-11|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr/285485/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230812011330/https://www.mintpressnews.com/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr/285485/|archive-date=2023-08-12}}</ref>

== History ==

=== Medieval history ===
During the [[Mamluk Sultanate]], the Palestinian city of Jenin was a central station for the postal service between Cairo and Damascus. The [[Ottoman Empire (1299–1922)|Ottoman Empire]] ruled Palestine for 401 years, starting in the 16th century.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Miko Peled|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr|date=2023-08-11|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr/285485/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230812011330/https://www.mintpressnews.com/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr/285485/|archive-date=2023-08-12}}</ref>

=== Early Zionist settlement ===
[[File:Colonization of Palestine.png|thumb|Colonization of Palestine from 1947 to 2005]]
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, a movement known as [[Zionism]] was formed, advocating a homeland for [[Judaism|Jewish]] people in the, then [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|British]] occupied, land of Palestine. At the same time, the majority Arabic population, who had lived in Palestine for generations, desired independence from the British in the form of an independent Arabic state. In 1917 the British released the Balfour Declaration, which expressed full support to the Zionist movement. The Palestinian people, angered by the British completely ignoring their interests, began protests and rioting against Jewish occupation as early as 1920. These protests were largely led by Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Alex Winder|newspaper=Palquest|title=Great Arab Revolt, 1936-1939|date=2024-06-14|url=https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/en/highlight/158/great-arab-revolt-1936-1939|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129095425/https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/en/highlight/158/great-arab-revolt-1936-1939|archive-date=January 29th 2024|retrieved=June 14th 2024|quote=The combined impact of Britain's military and diplomatic efforts brought the rebellion to an end in the late summer of 1939. Over the revolt's three years, some 5,000 Palestinians had been killed and nearly 15,000 wounded. The Palestinian leadership had been exiled, assassinated, imprisoned, and made to turn against one another. At the same time, the White Paper—despite its limitations—offered certain concessions to the rebels' demands. Whatever gains Palestinians might have made through the revolt, however, were quickly overtaken by the larger geopolitical processes of World War II , and the combined British-Zionist assault on Palestinian political and social life during the revolt had a long-lasting impact.}}</ref>

=== Arab Revolt (1936–1939) ===
Starting April 19, 1936, a mass [[Strike action|strike]] against the British instatement of Zionism in the region was formulated. The strike was organized by the Arab Higher Committee, a Palestinian independence movement under the leadership of Amin al-Husseini. This strike eventually led to violent insurgency against British rule in the countryside. The British reacted to these strikes as any imperialist power would; through violent suppression. The British seized and searched property, often without warrants, tortured Palestinian prisoners, and deported Palestinian people from their homeland. There were also many violent encounters between Palestinian resistance, the British army, and Zionist paramilitary groups.

By the time it concluded in September 1939, more than 5,000 Arabs, over 300 Jews and 262 Britons had been killed, and at least 15,000 Arabs were wounded.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Alex Winder|newspaper=Palquest|title=Great Arab Revolt, 1936-1939|url=https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/en/highlight/158/great-arab-revolt-1936-1939|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129095425/https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/en/highlight/158/great-arab-revolt-1936-1939|archive-date=January 29th 2024|retrieved=June 14th 2024|quote=The combined impact of Britain's military and diplomatic efforts brought the rebellion to an end in the late summer of 1939. Over the revolt's three years, some 5,000 Palestinians had been killed and nearly 15,000 wounded. The Palestinian leadership had been exiled, assassinated, imprisoned, and made to turn against one another. At the same time, the White Paper—despite its limitations—offered certain concessions to the rebels' demands. Whatever gains Palestinians might have made through the revolt, however, were quickly overtaken by the larger geopolitical processes of World War II , and the combined British-Zionist assault on Palestinian political and social life during the revolt had a long-lasting impact.}}</ref>

Lastly, these strikes resulted in the further deterioration of Palestinian resistance, which gave the Zionists easy access to the Palestinian rural areas, intensifying their ethnic cleansing campaigns.

=== Partition plan (UN Resolution 181) ===

==== The Plan ====
Unable to resolve the conflict between Palestinians and settlers, Britain withdrew from Palestine in February 1947 and transferred the matter to the UN, which in turn entrusted it to [[UNSCOP]].

While UNSCOP did deliberate about the possibility of a democratic one-state solution, whose future would be determined through democratic organs, they ended up adopting a partition plan which divided Palestine into two states: "Israel", occupying 56% of all Palestinian land and containing the Eastern Galilee, a coastal area (including Haifa, Tel Aviv, and most fertile lowland plains) and most of the Negev, and Palestine, consisting of the remaining territories, except for Jerusalem, which was to be considered ''corpus separatum''.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Alex Winder|newspaper=Palquest|title=UN Partition Plan, 1947|url=https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129081137/https://palquest.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/Revisiting_the_UNGA_Partition_Resolution-Walid_Khalidi.pdf|archive-date=2024-1-9|retrieved=2024-6-20|quote=The proposed Jewish state covered some 56 percent of Mandate Palestine divided into three barely contiguous parts/areas: the eastern Galilee (including Safad, Tiberias, Baysan, and the Sea of Galilee), a coastal area (about two-thirds of Palestine's coast, including Haifa, Tel Aviv, and the fertile lowland plains), and most of the Negev (excluding Bir al-Sabi' and a strip/area running about half-way down the border with Egypt, but giving access to the Red Sea). Of Mandate Palestine's sixteen districts, nine were allotted to the Jewish state, only one of which had a Jewish majority; the UN-proposed Jewish state as a whole had an Arab “minority” approaching 47 percent.}}</ref> Additionally, it is also worth mentioning that even within the UN-proposed state, settlers owned only 11% of the land and were the minority in every single district, further adding to the absurdity that was this plan.<ref>{{Citation|author=Ilan Pappe|year=2006|title=The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine|chapter=Chapter 3|section=The Arab and Palestinian Positions|page=34|quote=The injustice was as striking then as it appears now, and yet it was hardly commented on at the time by any of the leading Western newspapers then covering Palestine: the Jews, who owned less than six per cent of the total land area of Palestine and constituted no more than one third of the population, were handed more than half of its overall territory. Within the borders of their UN -proposed state, they owned only eleven per cent of the land, and were the minority in every district|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacedod4irl7doqf2n5iym5sa2eyrmk6ql2zs7yq7yznvezr26fielzc?filename=Ilan%20Pappe%20-%20The%20Ethnic%20Cleansing%20of%20Palestine-Oneworld%20%282006%29.pdf|publisher=Oneworld|isbn=9781851684670|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F}}</ref>

Following this plan, which became known as UN Resolution 181, the [[Arab League]] and the [[Arab Higher Committee]] refused to negotiate any further with the [[United Nations General Assembly]] (UNGA), creating a power vacuum later weaponized by the colonizers.

==== The Palestinian Response ====
As stated earlier, the Arab League further refused to negotiate with the UNGA. This fact is often used to support the argument that Palestinians would have a better state had they accepted the Partition Plan. However, this couldn't be further from the truth, as in order to say this one has to ignore the entire history of the Zionist movement, its settler-colonial ambitions, very much aligned with European Imperialist nations<ref>{{Citation|author=Stephen Halbrook|year=1972|title=The Class Origins of Zionist Ideology|title-url=https://annas-archive.org/md5/879dffa8a9c9ef6fbfe91cdab7f68448|section=Herzl|page=98|quote=Throughout these and other talks, Herzl reiterates the identity of interests between imperialism and Zionism, arguing that British support of his plans would ensure pro-British fifth columnists as well as markets. "In some short years the Empire would be richer by a rich colony," and, he adds, in reference to the Jews: "at one stroke England will get ten million secret subjects," "ten million agents for her greatness and her influence," who would also cater to the English market|pdf=https://momot.rs/d3/y/1718971011/10000/u/zlib3_files/20231230/annas_archive_data__aacid__zlib3_files__20231230T013219Z--20231230T013220Z/aacid__zlib3_files__20231230T013219Z__26743366__kNxsYfF3cX3amMvvjmitV6~/2H3F3jCCKsEUBAZrWLVeZw/The%20Class%20Origins%20of%20Zionist%20Ideology%20--%20Stephen%20Halbrook%20--%201972%20--%20University%20of%20Californa%20--%20879dffa8a9c9ef6fbfe91cdab7f68448%20--%20Anna%E2%80%99s%20Archive.pdf|city=California|publisher=University of California Press|trans-lang=English}}</ref>, and how it always advocated for the systematic expulsion of the Palestinians from their own land <ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Decolonize Palestine|title=Myth: Israel was created as penance for the Holocaust|url=https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/israel-penance-for-holocaust/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240521001122/https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/israel-penance-for-holocaust/|archive-date=May 21 2024|retrieved=June 21 2024|quote=“We should go east, into Transjordan. That would be a test for our movement.”
“Nonsense… isn’t there enough land in Judea and Galilee?”
“The land in Judea and Galilee is occupied by the Arabs.”
“Well, we’ll take it from them.”
“How?” (Silence.)
“A revolutionary doesn’t ask naive questions.”
“Well then, ‘revolutionary,’ tell us how.”
“It is very simple, we’ll harass them until they get out… Let them go to Transjordan.”
“And are we going to abandon all of Transjordan?” asks an anxious voice.
“As soon as we have a big settlement here we’ll seize the land, we’ll become strong, and then we’ll take care of the Left Bank [of the Jordan River], we’ll expel them from there, too. Let them go back to the Arab countries.”}}</ref>. By allowing this plan to come into fruition, the UN had fundamentally violated its own human rights charter.

Furthermore, it is natural that Palestinians rejected this plan, as it went directly against their interests (and violated their right of self-determination) and would further intensify the ethnic cleansing operations. Therefore, it is obvious that such a plan could only be enacted by overwhelming force, since it is obviously impossible to forcibly expand the colonizer's reach from 6%<ref>{{Citation|author=Ilan Pappe|year=2006|title=The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine|chapter=Chapter 3|section=The Arab and Palestinian Positions|page=34|quote=The injustice was as striking then as it appears now, and yet it was hardly commented on at the time by any of the leading Western newspapers then covering Palestine: the Jews, who owned less than six per cent of the total|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacedod4irl7doqf2n5iym5sa2eyrmk6ql2zs7yq7yznvezr26fielzc?filename=Ilan%20Pappe%20-%20The%20Ethnic%20Cleansing%20of%20Palestine-Oneworld%20%282006%29.pdf|publisher=Oneworld|isbn=9781851684670|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F|trans-lang=English}}</ref> to almost 56%<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Decolonize Palestine|title=Myth: Had Palestinians accepted the 1947 partition plan, they would have had a state by now|url=https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/had-palestinians-accepted-the-1947-partition-plan-they-would-have-had-a-state-by-now/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240521000358/https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/had-palestinians-accepted-the-1947-partition-plan-they-would-have-had-a-state-by-now/|archive-date=May 21 2024|retrieved=June 21 2024|quote=If we consider that most of this population arrived during the 4th and 5th Aliyot (Between 1924-1939), then the majority of those demanding partition of the land had barely been living there for 20 years at the most. To make matters worse, the UN partition plan allotted approximately 56% of the land of mandatory Palestine to the Jewish state.}}</ref> of all Palestinian land without Palestinian support; it is impossible to realize Zionism's ambitions without the systematic expulsion of Palestinians.

=== Zionist colonization (1948–present) ===
[[File:West Bank.png|thumb|239x239px|Green: Palestinian control Red: Joint control Blue and pink: "Israeli" control]]
{{Main article|Palestinian genocide}}[[File:Palestinian resistance groups.png|thumb|Diagram of ten different Palestinian resistance groups]]

== Territory ==
Before 1948, Palestine consisted of all of the land on the land on the Sinai Peninsula outside of Egypt. In 1948, the area was forcibly partitioned into two states, "Israel" and Palestine. The Zionist Entity was not satisfied with its territory and soon annexed 60% of Palestinian land in the Arab–"Israeli" War.<ref>{{Citation|author=|year=1948|title=Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordinance (1948)|chapter=|section=|page=57|quote=|pdf=|city=|publisher=israellawresourcecenter.org|isbn=|doi=|lg=|mia=|title-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170624062229/http://www.israellawresourcecenter.org/israellaws/fulltext/areajurisdictionpowersord.htm|chapter-url=|trans-title=|trans-lang=}}</ref> During the Six-Day War in 1967, the Zionist Entity invaded the rest of Palestine and annexed East Jerusalem.<ref>{{Citation|author=|year=2018|title=Milestones: 1961–1968|chapter=|section=|page=|quote=|pdf=|city=|publisher=Office of the Historian|isbn=|doi=|lg=|mia=|title-url=|chapter-url=|trans-title=|trans-lang=}}</ref> Most of the West Bank is now occupied by "Israel".<ref>{{News citation|journalist=|date=2003-12-17|title=Applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including Jerusalem, and the other occupied Arab territories|url=http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/97360ee7a29e68a085256df900723485/d6f5d7049734efff85256e1200677754|newspaper=United Nations|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070603050844/http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/97360ee7a29e68a085256df900723485/d6f5d7049734efff85256e1200677754|archive-date=2007-06-03|retrieved=2022-01-03}}</ref>

== Further reading ==

* [[:Category:Palestinian resistance reading list|Palestinian resistance reading list]]
* [[:Category:Library works about Palestine|All library works about Palestine]]
* ''[[Library:Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine|Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine]]''

== References ==
[[Category:Countries targeted by imperialist aggression]]
[[Category:Countries]]
[[Category:Stubs]]
[[Category:Asian countries]]
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[[Category:Anti-imperialist states]]

State of Palestine

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State of Palestine

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Pig

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A '''pig''' ([[Latin]]: ''Sus scrofa domesticus''), also known as a '''swine''', '''hog''', '''domestic pig''', or '''domestic hog''', is the [[Domestication|domesticated]] version of a [[wild boar]].

== See also ==

* [[Police]] (often derisively called pigs, an offensive comparison on the pigs part)

State of Palestine

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Korean War

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{{Infobox military conflict|combatant1=[[File:Flag of the DPRK.svg|20px]] [[Democratic People's Republic of Korea]] [[File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg|20px]] [[People's Republic of China]] '''Major support:''' [[File:The Flag of the USSR.png|20px]] [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]]|conflict=Fatherland Liberation War|combatant2=[[File:Flag of the UN.png|20px]] [[United Nations]] Command (de jure; US-led) - [[File:South Korea flag.png|20px]] [[Republic of Korea]] - [[File:Flag of the United States.svg|20px]] [[United States of America]]|place=[[Korea|Korean Peninsula]], Sea of Japan, Yellow Sea|date=25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953 ''(de-facto)'' 25 June 1950 – present ''(de-jure)''|result=Military stalemate, inactive conflict (post-1953)|image=Korean war image.jpg|strength1='''Peak strength:''' [[File:Flag of the DPRK.svg|20px]] 266,600 [[File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg|20px]] 1,450,000 [[File:The Flag of the USSR.png|20px]] 26,000 '''Total:'' 1,742,000'''|strength2='''Peak strength:''' [[File:South Korea flag.png|20px]] 602,902 [[File:Flag of the United States.svg|20px]] 326,863 [[File:Flag of the UN.png|20px]] 42,569 '''Total:'' 972,334'''}}

The '''Korean War''', also known as the '''Fatherland Liberation War''' (Korean: 조국해방전쟁) in the [[Democratic People's Republic of Korea]] (DPRK), the '''War to Resist American Imperialism and Aid Korea''' (Chinese: 抗美援朝战争; pinyin: ''Kàngměi Yuáncháo Zhànzhēng'') in the [[People's Republic of China]] (PRC) and the '''6.25 War''' (Korean: 6·25 전쟁) in [[Republic of Korea|South Korea]], was a highly devastating armed conflict which developed in [[Korea]] after the peninsula was divided between North and South at the end of the [[Second World War]] with the surrender of [[Empire of Japan (1868–1947)|Japan]], who had been occupying Korea since 1910. The war is conventionally considered to have occurred from 1950 to 1953, however, this time frame conforms to the [[Bourgeoisie|bourgeois]] [[Imperialism|imperialist]] [[United States of America|U.S.]] perspective of the conflict and is challenged by [[Anti-imperialism|anti-imperialist]] narratives of the nature and timeline of the war. The main period of armed conflict ceased in 1953 with an armistice agreement, which the U.S. abrogated in 1958 by delivering nuclear weapons to South Korea.<ref>Lee Jae-Bong (2009-02-07). [https://apjjf.org/-Lee-Jae-Bong/3053/article.html "US Deployment of Nuclear Weapons in 1950s South Korea & North Korea's Nuclear Development: Toward Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula"] ''The Asia-Pacific Journal''. [https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://apjjf.org/-Lee-Jae-Bong/3053/article.html Archived] 2022-08-19.</ref> Although the armistice was signed in 1953, a peace agreement is still yet to be put in place, and the Korean peninsula remains divided.

The division of Korea into North and South was originally intended to be only temporary, with the United States and [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)|Soviet Union]] helping ease Korea's transition out of [[Empire of Japan (1868–1947)|Japanese]] [[Colonialism|colonial]] rule. While the Soviet Union promptly withdrew its troops from the North in 1948, the imperialist United States took steps to ensure the entrenchment of the Southern regime, holding elections and declaring the formations of the Republic of Korea in 1948 despite widespread opposition among the Korean masses, which the U.S. and Southern forces, working jointly with far-right paramilitary gangs, repressed in mass arrests and killings, such as in the case of the [[Jeju Uprising]]. The US carried out sexual slavery of Korean women during their occupation in line with Japan's colonial "[[comfort stations]]."<ref>{{Citation|author=Stephen Gowans|year=2018|title=Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom|page=33|quote=Sexual slavery carried on even after the fall of the Empire of the Rising Sun, resurrected by the South Korean army during the Korean War. It is perhaps of some significance that the ROK Army was, at the time, dominated at its highest levels by Koreans who had served in the Japanese Imperial Army, some of whom had even served in army units tasked with hunting down Kim Il-sung. Is it any surprise, then, that this very same army, with its historical connections to the Japanese through its officer corps, should set up a Japanese-style system of sexual bondage? It’s also of significance that at the time, the South Korean army was, as it has been throughout its history, under the operational control of a US commander. Hence, the United States was complicit in the sexual slavery practiced by the ROK Army|pdf=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sQ8X87LjIlmdGTOL1Gb_073PtRSrMmjL/view?usp=sharing|publisher=Baraka Books}}</ref> The North-South division of the Korean nation and the U.S. occupation of the South has persisted to the present day, South Korea being a "complete colony occupied by the U.S. military" in the words of the People's Democracy Party, a revolutionary workers' party in South Korea.<ref>People's Democracy Party and Liberation School. [https://www.liberationschool.org/korean-war-70-years/ “70 Years Too Long: The Struggle to End the Korean War – Liberation School.”] ''Liberation School – Revolutionary Marxism for a New Generation of Fighters'', 25 June 2020. [https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://www.liberationschool.org/korean-war-70-years/ Archived].</ref>

During the 1950-1953 conflict, the DPRK was supported by its sister socialist nations, the USSR and the People's Republic of China, and the Southern regime was backed by the United States and the U.S.-controlled [[United Nations]] Command (UNC). Although the United States led the UNC and provided the bulk of its troops and funding, the operation was referred to as "UN-led" and was called a "police action." The [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|USSR]] was absent during the decisions to form this joint security operation, as it was boycotting the United Nations due to the non-admission of PRC.<ref>[https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/presidential-inquiries/united-nations-korea "The United Nations in Korea."] Harry S. Truman Library. [https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/presidential-inquiries/united-nations-korea Archived] 2022-08-19.</ref>

== Events ==
[[File:The Japanese flag in front of the Japanese Government-General of Korea building in Seoul is replaced with the U.S. flag..png|thumb|U.S. forces lower the Japanese flag in Seoul and replace it with the U.S. flag.<ref>[http://jeju43peace.org/historytruth/fact-truth/factstruth_article2/ "Liberation from Japan in 1945."] Jeju 4.3 Peace Foundation. [https://web.archive.org/web/2/http://jeju43peace.org/historytruth/fact-truth/factstruth_article2/ Archive].</ref>]]

=== Background ===
The Soviets had agreed to an impromptu proposal from the American side that Korea should be divided along the 38th parallel for the purpose of acceptation of military surrender. The persistence of this divide in the Korean peninsula had been the result of a class conflict which broke out following the departure of the occupying [[Japan|Japanese]] colonial forces and differing occupation regimes. A revolutionary tide was sweeping the peninsula with People's Committees being formed and a united Korean People's Republic had been formed, constituting a heavy socialist presence much to the anguish of the then-temporary American Occupation forces.

According to Ahn Hak-sop, a former officer in the Korean People’s Army who was captured in 1952 and endured decades of torture as a political prisoner in the South until 1995:<blockquote>At first, I thought the US Army was a liberation army. But soon [[Douglas MacArthur|General MacArthur]] referred to the US as an occupying army. There was no word of liberation, only occupation; so I was suspicious, but only partly so. Although I was young, the whole nation was full with division between the rule of the US and Soviets. In September of 1945, Koreans went out to greet the US Army, but the US Army shot at them. After the Moscow Committee, the US Army said explicitly that they were there to block the Soviet Union. But in 1948, the Soviet Union withdrew all of their troops. But the US Army didn’t withdraw.

In almost every town, there was a People’s Committee for self-rule, but the US Army crushed the People’s Committees with tanks and soldiers. There was a lot of resistance and revolt at that time.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Liberation School|title=Still fighting for Korea’s liberation: An interview with Ahn Hak-sop|date=Jul 27, 2022|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/interview-with-ahn-hak-sop/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804035822/https://www.liberationschool.org/interview-with-ahn-hak-sop/|archive-date=2022-08-19}}</ref></blockquote>The [[Syngman Rhee]] regime in the South was marked by mass repressions against the revolutionary movements and political activity generally. He abolished the press and liquidated left-wing political opposition. Rhee claimed that [[Republic of Korea|South Korea]]'s army would be able to take the northern capital of Pyongyang in three days.<ref name=":0">{{News citation|author=Ernie Trory|newspaper=New Worker|title=The Invasion of North Korea|url=http://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/nkorea.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305021303/http://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/nkorea.htm|archive-date=2022-03-05}}</ref> There was a lot of migration between the two occupation zones: political refugees went to the North, the dispossessed classes of landlords and merchants who supported the Japanese occupation fled to the South. Extreme right-wing anti-communist gangs, such as the Northwest Youth League, proliferated in the South and worked jointly with U.S. and Southern forces to repress South Korean dissidents and suspected communists.

In 1949, there were frequent skirmishes between northern and southern troops on the 38th parallel. These skirmishes, most of which were started by the south, caused hundreds of deaths.<ref name=":12">{{Citation|author=Stephen Gowans|year=2018|title=Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom|chapter=The Campaign of 1950-1953|page=123–128|pdf=https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafykbzaced4iiga4ngtxusr2civjxewbili5jne2sbpefbx2s3im2kphattzc?filename=Stephen%20Gowans%20-%20Patriots%2C%20Traitors%20and%20Empires_%20The%20Story%20of%20Korea%E2%80%99s%20Struggle%20for%20Freedom-Baraka%20Books%20%282018%29.pdf|city=Montreal|publisher=Baraka Books|isbn=9781771861427|lg=https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=8435F6FF91279531705764823FDC2A7F}}</ref>

=== Beginning of war ===
South Korea invaded the DPRK on 25 June 1950.<ref name=":0" /> Years later, Rhee stated that the purpose of the war was to destroy [[communism]].{{Citation needed}} The southern government quickly collapsed, with Rhee and his inner circle fleeing. The [[Korean People's Army]] liberated [[Seoul]] within three days, and most of the southern soldiers immediately retreated or defected to the DPRK. By late August, the KPA controlled 90% of Korea, with the U.S. and ROK only controlling Busan in the southeast. Following their liberation, south Koreans reestablished the people's committees that the U.S. occupiers had disbanded. They confiscated the property of Japanese collaborators and carried out land reform. Retreating southern forces executed at least 300,000 leftists to prevent them from helping the KPA.<ref name=":12" />

=== UN invasion ===
The United States organized an invasion of Korea through the United Nations Security Council. The USSR was boycotting the Security Council to protest the [[Kuomintang]] instead of the PRC representing China at the UN instead. On 15 September 1950, [[Douglas MacArthur]] invaded Korea at Inchon near Seoul. He cut off KPA forces from the north and captured Seoul on 25 September. With [[Harry S Truman|Harry Truman]]'s authorization, MacArthur's forces crossed the 38th parallel and invaded the north on 30 September.<ref name=":12" />

=== Entry of People's China ===
The US invaders continued north towards the Yalu River which separates Korea from China. On 25 October, [[Mao Zedong]] deployed 300,000 soldiers of the [[People's Volunteer Army]] to Korea. Chinese and Korean forces drove the US back past the 38th parallel and liberated Pyongyang on 5 December. MacArthur threatened to use 50 nuclear bombs against Korea, but Truman declined. Though, the president In 1952, considered launching atomic bombs on Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Mukden, Vladivostok, Peking, Shanghai, Port Arthur, Dairen, Odessa, Stalingrad, and other industrial centres of the [[People's Republic of China|PRC]] and [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)|Soviet Union]] in order to reverse their loss.<ref>{{Citation|author=Domenico Losurdo, David Ferreira|year=2020|title=Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend|section=From “Socialism without the Dictatorship of the Proletariat” to the Cold War Clamp Down|page=120|quote=Not an unfounded concern if we consider January of 1952. To reverse the stalemate in military operations in Korea, Truman entertains a radical idea which he records in his diary: they could deliver an ultimatum to the USSR and the People’s Republic of China, clarifying in advance that failure to comply “means that Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Mukden, Vladivostok, Peking, Shanghai, Port Arthur, Dairen, Odessa, Stalingrad, and all the industrial centers of China and the Soviet Union would be eliminated.|lg=http://library.lol/main/fab891d8f6bbf7bb49e78240483751e4|trans-lang=Italian}}</ref> Instead, the US bombed Korea with 635,000 tons of conventional bombs and 32,557 tons of napalm, more explosives than had been used in the entire Pacific theater of the [[Second World War]]. The US killed roughly three million Koreans or 10% of the total population.

The US destroyed 600,000 houses, 8,700 factories, 5,000 schools, and 1,000 hospitals. By the end of the war, only two modern buildings were left in Pyongyang. Korean society moved underground, with farmers working at night and staying in bunkers during the day. By the fall of 1952, the US had destroyed all towns and cities in the DPRK, and they then bombed irrigation dams on the Yalu River, flooding thousands of acres of farmland.<ref name=":12" />

=== Armistice agreement ===
After three years, the war was essentially stalemated and an armistice agreement was signed that stopped the active fighting. The armistice was signed on 27 July 1953. The signed armistice established the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the de facto new border between the two nations, put into force a cease-fire, and finalized repatriation of prisoners of war. The DMZ runs close to the 38th parallel and has continued to separate north and south Korea since the agreement was signed in 1953.

== Aftermath ==

=== U.S. violation of armistice ===
Paragraph 13d of the agreement mandated that neither side introduce new weapons into Korea. However, at a meeting in 1957, the U.S. informed the north Korean representatives that the United Nations Command no longer considered itself bound by paragraph 13d of the armistice,<ref>[https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,809583,00.html "Korea: The End of 13d"] (1957-07-01). ''Time Magazine''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20220728030416/https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,809583,00.html Archived] 2022-07-28.</ref> and in 1958 the U.S. abrogated paragraph 13d of the armistice by introducing nuclear weapons into south Korea.<ref>Lee Jae-Bong (2009-02-07). [https://apjjf.org/-Lee-Jae-Bong/3053/article.html "US Deployment of Nuclear Weapons in 1950s South Korea & North Korea's Nuclear Development: Toward Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula"] ''The Asia-Pacific Journal''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20220819105903/https://apjjf.org/-Lee-Jae-Bong/3053/article.html Archived] 2022-18-19.</ref>

=== Continued U.S. occupation of south Korea ===
<blockquote>''See also: [[Republic of Korea]], [[United States imperialism]]''</blockquote>The armistice has never been replaced with a peace treaty and the two sides remain technically at war, with the U.S. occupying the south and retaining operational control over the south Korean military in wartime, and regularly engaging in provocative joint military exercises with south Korea aimed at "decapitating" DPRK's government,<ref>Flounders, Sara. [https://www.workers.org/2022/08/66398/ “Faced with U.S. ‘Decapitation Drill’/DPRK Korea Missile Launch Is Self-Defense.”] Workers World. August 26, 2022. [https://web.archive.org/web/20221014032939/https://www.workers.org/2022/08/66398/ Archived] 2022-10-14.</ref> while enforcing strict [[economic sanctions]] against DPRK as a form of siege warfare. The U.S. also blocks inter-Korean reconciliation efforts initiated between north and south Korea. For example, in January 2020 when south Korean President [[Moon Jae-in|Moon Jae-In]] expressed interest in developing tourism to north Korea, the US ambassador Harry Harris blocked this effort, claiming that "independent" tourism plans would have to undergo U.S. consultation. The U.S. ambassador emphasized that the items inside South Korean tourists' luggage could violate sanctions.<ref>[https://nodutdol.org/sanctions-of-empire/ "제국의 제재 - Sanctions of Empire."] Nodutdol. October 20, 2020. [https://nodutdol.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Sanctions-of-Empire.pdf PDF]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20220520095404/https://nodutdol.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Sanctions-of-Empire.pdf Archive].</ref> Through a combination of military, economic, and political means, the U.S. prevents north and south Korea from reconciling and continues to target and threaten the DPRK. The United States also has wartime control over south Korea's armed forces, with this being used to deploy south Korean troops to Iraq and Afghanistan (the wartime stipulation is seen as an empty reform of the original policy of total control).<ref>{{Citation|author=Stephen Gowans|year=2018|title=Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom|page=154-155|quote=Because the total armed forces of the ROK were under the complete control of the US until 1994, the US could deploy hundreds of thousands of troops from the south Korean army to Indochina, where they would fight for the US in the Vietnam War. Since then, the ROK has maintained control of their armed forces except in wartime, when a US general is required to take over. This has not stopped tens of thousands of ROK troops from being deployed to fight with the US in Iraq and Afghanistan. “A military exists to wage war. War-making can be defensive, what it’s supposed to be, or aggressive, what it shouldn’t be, but almost invariably is where the United States is concerned. Andrew Bacevich, a US historian and retired career US Army officer, points out that the function of the US military is not self defense, but ‘power projection’—the use, or threat, of violence to impose Washington’s will on other countries. Self-defense is what Homeland Security does. Washington’s granting the ROK control of Washington’s Power Projection Platform in the Pacific 155 the South Korean military in peacetime, i.e., when it’s not fulfilling its primary power projection function, is tantamount to the United States yielding control of an asset when it’s not in use but insisting on full command when it’s needed. In other words, Washington’s ceding peacetime operational control of its East Asian army in reserve—a military which has been historically used as a US auxiliary power projection force in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq—was nothing more than a sop to mollify South Koreans|pdf=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sQ8X87LjIlmdGTOL1Gb_073PtRSrMmjL/view?usp=sharing|publisher=Baraka Books}}</ref>

== International involvement/reactions ==
The Korean war became an international flashpoint because it represented the broad social struggle between two global camps which represented antagonistic class interests. Socialist governments supported the DPRK, while U.S. imperialism and the other imperialist countries, including Japan and [[Federal Republic of Germany|West Germany]], supported the south Korean government. The imperialists united under the command of the United States and fought a socialist camp based on antagonistic class interests. On the imperialist side, military forces from 26 capitalist countries fought alongside the U.S. forces.<ref name=":5">Becker, Brian. [https://www2.liberationschool.org/from-inter-imperialist-war-to-global-class-war-understanding-distinct-stages-of-imperialism/ “From Inter-Imperialist War to Global Class War: Understanding Distinct Stages of Imperialism – Liberation School.”] Liberation School – Revolutionary Marxism for a New Generation of Fighters. July 20, 2018. [https://web.archive.org/web/20221014031056/https://www2.liberationschool.org/from-inter-imperialist-war-to-global-class-war-understanding-distinct-stages-of-imperialism/ Archived] 2022-10-14.</ref>

=== United Nations ===
At the time the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)|Soviet Union]] was boycotting the [[Security Council of the UN|Security Council]] due to the dispute over the Chinese seat in the UN going to the representatives of the [[Kuomintang]] regime in [[Taiwan]], effectively disenfranchising the Chinese. While American influence already dominated the UN vis-a-vis the Marshall Plan, taking advantage of Soviet absence the US hijacked the United Nations Security Council for its own designs upon Korea.

=== United States ===
A Liberation School article characterizes U.S. involvement in Korea, after the Japan's defeat in the Second World War, saying: "The U.S. imperialists were terrified that the whole peninsula would go socialist, with Soviet help, if the Japanese occupation forces simply withdrew. When the Japanese government surrendered unconditionally to the United States on August 15, 1945 the U.S. government insisted that the Japanese occupation forces in southern Korea stay in place and hold Korea under subjugation until U.S. military forces could arrive and assume control, which they did almost three weeks later on Sept. 8. [...] When the U.S. military leadership decisively entered the war, they believed that they could reunite the Korean Peninsula under the leadership on the U.S.-sponsored puppet regime in the South."<ref name=":5" />

=== USSR ===
Although the Soviets did not enter the Korean War in a major way, it was Soviet-made weaponry and other Soviet industrial products helped supply the fighting troops.<ref name=":5" /> The Soviet Union provided MIG fighter planes to defend the DPRK, which were flown by Chinese, Soviet, and Korean pilots. They were limited in number to avoid too much direct conflict with the United States, which could have caused a larger war.<ref>{{Citation|author=Xiaoming Zhang|year=2002|title=Red Wings over the Yalu: China, the Soviet Union, and the Air War in Korea|title-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N-0b-94OJPcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Red+Wings+over+the+Yalu:+China,+the+Soviet+Union,+and+the+Air+War+in+Korea&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiVg8uE-c_3AhXuRjABHddnDa8Q6AF6BAgFEAI#v=onepage&q=Red%20Wings%20over%20the%20Yalu%3A%20China%2C%20the%20Soviet%20Union%2C%20and%20the%20Air%20War%20in%20Korea&f=false|publisher=Texas A&M University Press}}</ref>

=== People's Republic of China ===
The [[Korean People's Army]] in the north were joined in battle by hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the People’s Republic of China, which itself had just successfully completed a socialist revolution. The Chinese People's Volunteers fought alongside the Korean People's Army. The combined counter-offensive carried out by north Korean soldiers and their Chinese counterparts drove the United States and its allies back south below the 38th parallel.<ref name=":5" /> After the war, they helped the DPRK rebuild its infrastructure.

=== Non-Aligned Movement ===
The delegates of [[India]] and [[Egypt]] both initially voted in favour of the UN resolution declaring DPRK aggressor. Though the Egyptian delegate, Mahmoud Fawzi Bey, reverted to abstention. However, the Indian delegation went on to endorse even the second resolution which sanctioned the use of armed force against the DPRK, under U.S. pressure. This achieved in deceiving the opinions of several Asian people that DPRK was indeed the aggressor here. These acts undertaken without sufficient inquiry are termed by historian Karunakar Gupta as "not consistent with its professed policy of its non-alignment." [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/article/abs/how-did-the-korean-war-begin/E87C0302A6B899865E0CEA822EDD9492]
== Impact and legacy ==
[[File:Thatched huts go up in flames after B-26 bombers unload napalm bombs on a village near Hanchon, North Korea, on May 10, 1951 (AP photo).png|thumb|Thatched huts go up in flames after B-26 bombers unload napalm bombs on a village near Hanchon, North Korea, on May 10, 1951.]]

Although DPRK survived and claimed victory against U.S. forces, the war was very disastrous. 635,000 tons of bombs and 32,557 tons of [[napalm]] were used by the United States.<ref>{{Citation|author=Rosemary Foot|year=1990|title=A Substitute for Victory: The Politics of Peacemaking at the Korean Armistice Talks|title-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n5eSAAAACAAJ&dq=A+Substitute+for+Victory:+The+Politics+of+Peacemaking+at+the+Korean+Armistice+Talks&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiNv4r99s_3AhXVTTABHYh6D2QQ6AF6BAgIEAE|page=207–208|city=Ithaca|publisher=Cornell University Press}}</ref> More than 8,700 factories were destroyed and 90,000 hectares of farmland had been spoilt.[https://espressostalinist.com/2013/03/29/kcna-on-the-korean-war/] Even biowarfare was said to have been used against communist forces in the form of infected fleas.<ref>{{Citation|author=Andrea Andreen, et al.|year=1952|title=Report of the International Scientific Commission for the Investigation of Facts Concerning Biological Warfare in Korea and China|title-url=https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4334133-ISC-Full-Report-Pub-Copy.html|city=Beijing}}</ref> Massive civilian losses were incurred—approximately 4 million have been estimated. By 1952, the bombing was so complete that the U.S. Air Force had effectively run out of targets.<ref name=":6">Talmadge, Eric. [https://apnews.com/article/international-news-asia-pacific-ap-top-news-north-korea-dd6256bad51e458cb2e8a1bf64b5c2b6 “64 Years after Korean War, North Still Digging up Bombs.”] AP NEWS. Associated Press. July 24, 2017. [https://web.archive.org/web/20230313163201/https://apnews.com/article/international-news-asia-pacific-ap-top-news-north-korea-dd6256bad51e458cb2e8a1bf64b5c2b6 Archived] 2023-03-13.</ref> The strategic bombing operations against civilian populations is laid bare by the following words of General Curtis LeMay:<blockquote>There are no innocent civilians. It is their government and you are fighting a people, you are not trying to fight an armed force anymore. So it doesn't bother me so much to be killing the so-called innocent bystanders.<ref>Sherry, Michael (September 10, 1989). ''The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon'', p. 287 (from "LeMay's interview with Sherry," interview "after the war," p. 408 n. 108). Yale University Press. ISBN-13: 978-0300044140.</ref>

</blockquote>In the present day, DPRK citizens continue to find unexploded ordinance and be injured by old bombs that were dropped by the US and UN forces, and have to evacuate areas and send in bomb squads where such explosives are found, as well as educate citizens, especially children, about the explosives. Each of DPRK's nine provinces maintains a bomb squad. In 2016, the bomb squad that covers [[Hamhung]], DPRK's second-largest city, located in [[South Hamgyong Province]], reported handling 2,900 leftover explosives in an interview with AP News. The Hamhung area and the nearby port of Hungnam were hit particularly hard by U.S. bombers because they were an industrial center and home to the largest nitrogen fertilizer plant in Asia. Later rebuilt, the fertilizer plant is still functioning today and remains one of Hamhung’s most famous landmarks. Other areas where bombs may be found include places where railways were located during the war. The bomb squads respond to calls when ordnance is discovered and check construction sites before excavation work begins <ref name=":6" />

== Suppression of dissident narratives of the war ==
[[File:South Korean soldiers walk among dead political prisoners, Taejon, South Korea.jpg|thumb|July 1950 U.S. Army file photograph once classified "top secret", South Korean soldiers walk among dead political prisoners, Taejon (Daejeon), South Korea.]]
In the work ''From Occupation to War: Cold War Legacies of US: Army Historical Studies of the Occupation and Korean War'', Seoul National University professor Chung Yong Wook writes that "a divergent understanding" of this era "was repressed or rooted out by force in the US and around the ‘free world'" due to the official U.S. history of the war being written in the context of the emerging Cold War. Military historian Richard Robinson, who wrote a work critical of the U.S. role in Korea, ''Betrayal of a Nation'', was unable to find a publisher for his work and it remained in manuscript form. I.F. Stone's work ''The Hidden History of the Korean War'' (1952) which was also critical of U.S. conduct in Korea was removed from many libraries. Professor Chung notes that "military historians were not, in essence, allowed to criticize information given to them, nor did they have leeway in interpreting and critiquing facts, they were left only to describe ''sanitized'' history" at all stages of the information-gathering and history-writing process.<ref name=":1">Chung, Yong Wook. From Occupation to War; Cold War Legacies of US Army Historical Studies of the Occupation and Korean War. Korea Journal, vol. 60, no. 2 (summer 2020): 14–54. doi: 10.25024/kj.2020.60.2.14 © The Academy of Korean Studies, 2020. URL: https://kj.accesson.kr/assets/pdf/8518/journal-60-2-14.pdf [https://web.archive.org/web/20220725044626/https://kj.accesson.kr/assets/pdf/8518/journal-60-2-14.pdf Archive] URL. Suppression of counter-narratives ("Abstract" p. 15, PDF p.1); "sanitized history" (p. 20, PDF p. 7)</ref>
[[File:Prisoners lie on the ground before execution by South Korean troops near Daejon, South Korea, July 1950. Photo by U.S. Army Maj. Abbott.jpg|thumb|July 1950 U.S. Army file photograph once classified "top secret," prisoners lie on the ground before their execution by South Korean troops in Taejon (Daejeon), South Korea. Photo by U.S. Army Maj. Abbott.]]
According to Richard Robinson, who had been working as a historian for the military during the occupation, the official American military history of the occupation is "highly prejudiced and inaccurate" adding that the official U.S. histories were "written upon explicit orders not even to imply criticism of anything American" and says that "if the truth were known, the American occupation of South Korea was incredibly bungled by an incompetent and corrupt administration—all in the name of American democracy." Robinson had his work suppressed as he expressed criticism of the U.S. military government's failures in Korea and eventually was compelled to leave the country.<ref name=":1" /><ref>김환균 (2004-08-09). [http://www.mediatoday.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=25874 "'미국의 배반'이 미국에서 금서가 된 이유. (Why "American Betrayal" is Banned Reading in the U.S.)"] ''미디어오늘 (Media Today)''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20220724050252/http://www.mediatoday.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=25874 Archived] from the original on 2022-07-24.</ref>

Western civilian eyewitnesses of the Korean War, many of them leftists who published their eyewitness accounts as well as interviews and letters from captured soldiers behind North Korean lines, also had their work suppressed. In a research article entitled "Civil Liberties in the Korean War" appearing in the journal ''Modern Law Review'', Ewing, et. al. write, "The atrocities committed by the US-led UN forces are beyond dispute [...] Almost as shameful as the atrocities in Korea were the extreme steps taken to silence and eventually to punish those who sought to expose them." According to their research, the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|British]] government threatened eyewitnesses reporting on what they had seen in Korea with allegations of treason, which would have carried a death sentence. The British government also refused to renew some of these witnesses' passports, such as that of [[Alan Winnington]], author of the pamphlet "I Saw the Truth In Korea," whose passport the government did not restore for 14 years. Others subjected to silencing and intimidation tactics by the British government include women's movement activist [[Monica Felton]], solicitor [[Jack Gaster]], and journalist [[Michael Shapiro]]. Korean War eyewitness and [[Australia|Australian]] journalist [[Wilfred Burchett]] also had his passport revoked for several years due to his critical reporting, which included reporting on Korea.<ref name=":2">Ewing, K. D., Mahoney, J., & Moretta, A. (2018). [https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/94544925/Ewing_Korean_2017_Article.pdf "Civil Liberties and the Korean War."] Modern Law Review, 81(3), 395-421. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12339</nowiki> [https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/94544925/Ewing_Korean_2017_Article.pdf Archive].</ref>

Ewing, et. al. write in "Civil Liberties in the Korean War":<blockquote>What the experience of Winnington, Felton and Gaster expose is the importance of the administrative power of the state to threaten, intimidate and punish. That power could hardly be greater than in the use of treason as a weapon [...] Despite intimidation of the most appalling kind, Winnington, Felton and Gaster have left a body of work that is now of great contemporary significance, and it is work to which we may be encouraged to return if we are fully to understand the modern crisis in Korea. Those who need to read this work most urgently, however, are the ministers and officials in the government departments that so aggressively abused legal authority, unsuccessfully to deny the British people information about the full scale of the atrocities alleged to have been committed in their name.<ref name=":2" /></blockquote>Alan Winnington's reports of mass executions of political prisoners, reported in the Daily Worker, were denounced as an "atrocity fabrication" by the U.S. Embassy in London, although the [[Daejeon Massacre]], of which he made a report including photos of the mass graves, has since been proven true, with additional abundant photographic evidence now available. [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] and U.S. military intelligence documents were circulating before the Winnington report, but were classified as "secret" and have since been declassified. These reports told of the executions that Winnington had reported on.<ref name=":4">{{Web citation|author=Charles J. Hanley & Jae-Soon Chang|newspaper=The Asia-Pacific Journal|title=Summer of Terror: At least 100,000 said executed by Korean ally of US in 1950|date=July 2, 2008|url=https://apjjf.org/-Charles-J.-Hanley/2827/article.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://apjjf.org/-Charles-J.-Hanley/2827/article.html|archive-date=2022-08-26}}</ref>

A 2008 article in the Telegraph states that British journalist James Cameron wrote about mass prisoner shootings in the South Korean port city of Busan in the fall of 1950, but publisher Edward Hulton ordered the story removed at the last minute. The article further states that in 1953, after the war ended in stalemate, after the deaths of at least 2 million people, half or more of them civilians, "a US Army war crimes report attributed all summary executions here in Daejeon to the 'murderous barbarism' of North Koreans" and adds that "Such myths survived a half-century, in part because those who knew the truth were cowed into silence."<ref name=":3">[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/southkorea/1984746/Death-squads-and-mass-graves-the-full-horror-of-the-Korean-War-finally-unearthed.html “Death Squads and Mass Graves: The Full Horror of the Korean War, Finally Unearthed"] 19 May 2008. Telegraph. [https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/southkorea/1984746/Death-squads-and-mass-graves-the-full-horror-of-the-Korean-War-finally-unearthed.html Archived] 2022-08-26.</ref>

The Telegraph article also comments on the suppression of the narrative concerning the mass killings conducted by South Korean forces, sometimes under U.S. supervision at the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, as well as "cases in which the U.S. military is accused of the indiscriminate killing of South Korean civilians in 1950-51, usually in air attacks." Regarding the suppression of such realities, the article states "Through the postwar decades of South Korean right-wing dictatorships, victims' fearful families kept silent about that blood-soaked summer. American military reports of the South Korean slaughter were stamped 'secret' and filed away in Washington. Communist accounts were dismissed as lies." The article notes that it was not until South Korean truth commissions began investigations that the truth started to come out after the 1990s, sometimes prompted by chance discoveries of mass graves unearthed by natural disasters, stating that "corroboration comes from a trickle of declassified U.S. military documents" and refers to the hiding of this information as a "long-running cover-up."<ref name=":3" />
[[File:Darangshigul remains being investigated.jpg|thumb|In 1992, investigators from the 4.3 Research Institute study the long-hidden remains of massacre victims in Darangshi cave on Jeju island, where civilians including men, women, and children were suffocated to death 45 years prior, when south Korean government forces set fire to the narrow cave entrance.<ref>[http://www.jejuweekly.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=2483 "Darangshi Cave Unearths yet More Jeju Massacre Tragedy."] 2012-03-23. Jeju Weekly. [https://web.archive.org/web/20220903155605/http://www.jejuweekly.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=2483 Archived] 2022-09-04.
</ref>]]
An article in the Asia-Pacific Journal notes that "Even educated South Koreans remained ignorant of their country's past. As a young researcher in the late 1980s, Yonsei University's Park Myung-lim, today a leading Korean War historian, was deeply shaken as he sought out confidential accounts of those days from ordinary Koreans. "I cried," he said. "I felt, 'Oh, my goodness. Oh, Jesus. This was my country? It was true?'". As a doctoral student in the late 1980s, when South Korea's right-wing dictatorship was beginning to weaken somewhat, Park was among the few scholars to begin researching the mass killings. He was regularly harassed by the police. Previous attempts at exposing the killings, mainly by groups of aggrieved families of the victims, saw their leaders arrested and punished.<ref name=":4" />

The facts of the [[Jeju Uprising|Jeju massacre]], which occurred from 1948-49, just prior to the Korean War, were also officially suppressed for decades, only coming to light in January 2000 when a Special Act was decreed by the South Korean Government calling for an official investigation of the incident. According to researcher Kim Hun Joon in ''The Massacres at Mt. Halla: Sixty Years of Truth Seeking in South Korea'', "the massacres were systematically hidden from the general public, and calls for truth and justice were totally suppressed under consecutive anti-Communist military regimes until 1987."<ref>Kim, Hun Joon. (2014). ''The Massacres at Mt. Halla: Sixty Years of Truth Seeking in South Korea''. Cornell University Press.</ref>

Author Hyun Ki Young is noted in an article from ''The Jeju Weekly'' as being credited with writing the first public mention of the Jeju massacre in a 1978 short story. According to the article, Hyun "was unofficially arrested and tortured after the story’s publication," this being one example of the kind of violent suppression measures taken to silence mentions of the massacres in South Korean history. The article quotes Hyun and describes his experience with violent political repression:<blockquote>“After the publication of his story he attended a protest with a friend of his. They were both arrested. “I was tortured for three days. I was tortured by the [[National Intelligence Service|NIS]] [the Korean equivalent to the CIA],” said Hyun. There were two men, one holding Hyun from behind while the other beat him, threatening him to not write about the massacre again. In the booth of the restaurant Hyun, slight in stature, demonstrated how he was restrained and mimicked taking blows to his ribs. They made sure not to break his bones, he said. “If bones were broken there would be problems.” Evidence that this unofficial arrest and torture occurred. Technically Hyun had committed no crime. If they arrested him there would have to be a trial, one that would expose to the rest of Korea the truth of the Jeju Massacre.”<ref>Darryl Coote (2012.11.20). [http://www.jejuweekly.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=2841 "My Dinner With Hyun Ki Young"] ''The Jeju Weekly''. [https://web.archive.org/web/2/http://www.jejuweekly.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=2841 Archived] 2022-08-26.</ref></blockquote>On the topic of general censorship during the Korean War era, author Jeffrey Kaye writes that "When it comes to documents from the period of the Korean War, most Americans are totally unaware that during the 1950s and first half of the 1960s, the U.S. government 'engaged in wholesale confiscation of publications mailed into this country' from Communist countries. This meant any materials emanating from North Korea, China, the Soviet Union or other allied countries (such as those in East Europe at that time) were intercepted and destroyed by U.S. postal officials."<ref>{{Web citation|author=Jeffrey Kaye|newspaper=Medium|title=Massive Mail Censorship Program Hid North Korea Accusations of U.S. BW, Collaboration with Unit 731 War Criminals|date=2021-01-06|url=https://jeff-kaye.medium.com/censored-north-korea-accused-u-s-of-working-with-unit-731-war-criminals-on-bw-attacks-d7fd819ed8b7|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://jeff-kaye.medium.com/censored-north-korea-accused-u-s-of-working-with-unit-731-war-criminals-on-bw-attacks-d7fd819ed8b7|archive-date=2022-08-26|retrieved=2022-08-26}}</ref> In his article, he cites a 1959 article in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, "Foreign Communist Propaganda in the Mails: A Report on Some Problems of Federal Censorship" which deals with this policy in detail, stating that "thousands of publications containing 'foreign political propaganda' are intercepted on arrival in this country and destroyed. Precisely how much is destroyed and precisely what is destroyed (e.g., by title) remain somewhat a mystery because security policies censor much information on this censorship program." After listing a number of examples of the very broad application of this policy, which resulted in the seizure of many non-propaganda foreign materials as well as the loss of many "irreplaceable" materials that could have been used for academic study of international affairs, the authors state that "The total impact of this censorship on American, culture, science and research during this period can hardly be estimated in any quantitative way [...] It would seem unnecessary, here and now, to labor the point that what happened from 1951 to 1955 was unfortunate and undesirable as a matter of national policy--even if that policy is to be formulated in terms of the most narrow national self-interest."<ref>Shwartz, Murray L., and Paul, C.N. James. [https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7046&context=penn_law_review "Foreign Communist Propaganda in the Mails: A Report on Some Problems of Federal Censorship."] 1959. University of Pennsylvania Legal Scholarship Repository. [https://web.archive.org/web/20220826140106/https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7046&context=penn_law_review Archived] 2022-08-26.</ref>

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Haganah

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*Ethnic cleansing of the native Palestinian population|ideology=[[Zionism]]|allies=[[Irgun]] [[Stern Gang]] [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]] (sometimes)|opponents=[[Palestine]]|war=[[Palestinian genocide]]|merged_into=[[Israel Defense Forces|"Israel" Defense Force]]|dates=1920-1948}}

'''Haganah''' was a [[Zionist]] terrorist organization in [[Mandatory Palestine|British-occupied Palestine]] established in 1920. It played a major role in the Palestinian uprisings of 1929, 1936, the [[Nakba]] and the [[#Village Files|Village Files]], becoming a large part of the [[Israeli Occupation Force]] after the [[State of "Israel"]] was established in 1948, with its leader, [[David Ben-Gurion]], later becoming prime minister of the illegal colonial entity.<ref>{{Citation|author=Maher Charif|year=2023|title=Roots of Zionist Terrorism|title-url=https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/attachments/policypapers/Maher%20Charif%20Issue%20013%20Fixed.pdf}}</ref>

== Formation and purpose ==
The Haganah, literally meaning "defense" (הֲגָנָה) in Hebrew, was established in 1920. After 1936, under the influence of Orde Charles Wingate, a British official who understood the necessity of forming a military force to take Palestine by force, it quickly became the military wing of the Jewish Agency, the embryonic Zionist government in Mandatory Palestine.<ref>{{Citation|author=Ilan Pappé|year=2006|title=The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine|title-url=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F|chapter=Chapter 2|section=Military Preparations|page=15|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacedod4irl7doqf2n5iym5sa2eyrmk6ql2zs7yq7yznvezr26fielzc?filename=Ilan%20Pappe%20-%20The%20Ethnic%20Cleansing%20of%20Palestine-Oneworld%20%282006%29.pdf|publisher=Oneworld Publications|isbn=9781851685554|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F|trans-lang=English}}</ref> It was used to protect Zionist settlements bought by the JNF, Jewish National Fund, from absentee landlords and to attack, demoralize and break the Palestinian resistance.<ref>{{Citation|author=John Bierman; Colin Smith|year=1999|title=Fire in the Night: Wingate of Burma, Ethiopia and Zion|chapter=Chapter 6|page=83-85|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacebyqg32lcqoxqkgucc3qpcyhjpn42mltzrjxe3oshof3n6yzeyoxs?filename=Bierman%20J.%2C%20Smith%20C.%20-%20Fire%20in%20the%20Night_%20Wingate%20of%20Burma%2C%20Ethiopia%2C%20and%20Zion.pdf|publisher=Random House|isbn=9780375500619|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=AD9D8C668D523B860D7AE4BF74059ED1|volume=Book 2|trans-lang=English}}</ref>

== Village Files ==
During the Mandatory Period, Ben-Zion Luria, a young historian from the Hebrew University, proposed that the JNF conducted a program of reconnaissance on Palestinian villages, known as the "Village Files", using the Haganah for scouting and attack missions, as per [[Plan Dalet]].<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Decolonize Palestine|title=Myth: The ethnic cleansing of Palestine was an accident of war|url=https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/the-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestinians-was-an-accident-of-war/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240521000643/https://decolonizepalestine.com/myth/the-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestinians-was-an-accident-of-war/|archive-date=May 21 2024|retrieved=9 June 2024|quote=Deir Yassin was a small, pastoral village west of Jerusalem. The village was determined to remain neutral, and as such refused to have Arab soldiers stationed there. Not only were they neutral, they also had a non-aggression pact signed with the Haganah. This, however, did not save it from its fate, as it was in the territory of the Jewish state lined out in Plan D.

This meant that not only was it to be destroyed and have its population ethnically cleansed, an example needed to be made of it as to inspire terror in the surrounding villages. As a result this massacre was particularly monstrous.

On April 9th 1948, Zionist forces attacked the village of Deir Yassin under the cover of darkness. The Zionist forces shot indiscriminately and killed dozens of Palestinian civilians in their own homes. The number of those murdered ranges from roughly 100 to over 150, depending on estimation.}}</ref> These files contained quite a lot of information, such as a topographic map of the village population, soil fertility, sociopolitical composition and whether the village had helped the Palestinian resistance during the 1936 uprising.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Rona Sela|title=Scouting Palestinian Territory, 1940-1948: Haganah Village Files, Aerial Photos and Surveys|url=https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/JQ-52-Sela-Scouting_Palestinian_Territory_1940-1948_1_0.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129224332/https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/JQ-52-Sela-Scouting_Palestinian_Territory_1940-1948_1_0.pdf|archive-date=29 January 2024|retrieved=8 June 2024|quote=The surveys include general and verbal information about the villages. For example, number of inhabitants, the land and its use, the clans, the village mukhtar and also about security issues: how many weapons the residents possessed and of what type,
whether the village assisted the gangs during the troubles and which of the villagers
joined the gangs. in the first years of the surveys project, historical information about
each village was also compiled: when it was founded, whether it was located on an
ancient site and contained antiquities, where the inhabitants came from.}}</ref> To make the files even more detailed and useful, aerial photos were also taken with the help of the most talented photographers in the country, often being the last remaining evidence of the existence of Palestinian villages that were completely destroyed due to ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the Zionist Entity.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Rona Sela|newspaper=Palestine Studies|title=Scouting Palestinian Territory, 1940-1948: Haganah Village Files, Aerial Photos, pand Surveys|url=https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/JQ-52-Sela-Scouting_Palestinian_Territory_1940-1948_1_0.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129224332/https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/JQ-52-Sela-Scouting_Palestinian_Territory_1940-1948_1_0.pdf|archive-date=January 29 2024|retrieved=8 June 2024|quote=In retrospect, the Village Files (charts, sketches, drawings, maps and ground
photographs), the textual surveys and the aerial photographs in some cases constitute the only surviving/most recent testimony of the existence of Palestinian villages, just before they were forcibly emptied of their inhabitants. They are the last remaining vestiges of the villages before they were either destroyed or settled by Jewish immigrants who streamed into the country in its first years; villages which were erased from the Israeli map because of their Arab identity.}}</ref>

== References ==
<references />
[[Category:Zionist organizations]]

Haganah

2024-06-08T14:26:04Z

Xkyfal18: formatting based on General-KJ's sourcing guide

{{Infobox guerilla organization|name=Haganah|native_name=הַהֲגָנָה|allegiance=Zionist Entity|motives=*Establishment of a Zionist ethnostate in Palestine
*Ethnic cleansing of the native Palestinian population|ideology=[[Zionism]]|allies=[[Irgun]] [[Stern Gang]] [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]] (sometimes)|opponents=[[Palestine]]|war=[[Palestinian genocide]]|merged_into=[[Israel Defense Forces|"Israel" Defense Force]]|dates=1920-1948}}

'''Haganah''' was a [[Zionist]] terrorist organization in [[Mandatory Palestine|British-occupied Palestine]] established in 1920. It played a major role in the Palestinian uprisings of 1929, 1936, the [[Nakba]] and the [[#Village Files|Village Files]], becoming a large part of the [[Israeli Occupation Force]] after the [[State of "Israel"]] was established in 1948, with its leader, [[David Ben-Gurion]], later becoming prime minister of the illegal colonial entity.<ref>{{Citation|author=Maher Charif|year=2023|title=Roots of Zionist Terrorism|title-url=https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/attachments/policypapers/Maher%20Charif%20Issue%20013%20Fixed.pdf}}</ref>

== Formation and purpose ==
The Haganah, literally meaning "defense" (הֲגָנָה) in Hebrew, was established in 1920. After 1936, under the influence of Orde Charles Wingate, a British official who understood the necessity of forming a military force to take Palestine by force, it quickly became the military wing of the Jewish Agency, the embryonic Zionist government in Mandatory Palestine.<ref>{{Citation|author=Ilan Pappé|year=2006|title=The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine|title-url=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F|chapter=Chapter 2|section=Military Preparations|page=15|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacedod4irl7doqf2n5iym5sa2eyrmk6ql2zs7yq7yznvezr26fielzc?filename=Ilan%20Pappe%20-%20The%20Ethnic%20Cleansing%20of%20Palestine-Oneworld%20%282006%29.pdf|publisher=Oneworld Publications|isbn=9781851685554|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F|trans-lang=English}}</ref> It was used to protect Zionist settlements bought by the JNF, Jewish National Fund, from absentee landlords and to attack, demoralize and break the Palestinian resistance.<ref>{{Citation|author=John Bierman; Colin Smith|year=1999|title=Fire in the Night: Wingate of Burma, Ethiopia and Zion|chapter=Chapter 6|page=83-85|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacebyqg32lcqoxqkgucc3qpcyhjpn42mltzrjxe3oshof3n6yzeyoxs?filename=Bierman%20J.%2C%20Smith%20C.%20-%20Fire%20in%20the%20Night_%20Wingate%20of%20Burma%2C%20Ethiopia%2C%20and%20Zion.pdf|publisher=Random House|isbn=9780375500619|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=AD9D8C668D523B860D7AE4BF74059ED1|volume=Book 2|trans-lang=English}}</ref>

== Village Files ==
During the Mandatory Period, Ben-Zion Luria, a young historian from the Hebrew University, proposed that the JNF conducted a program of reconnaissance on Palestinian villages, known as the "Village Files", using the Haganah for scouting missions. These files contained quite a lot of information, such as a topographic map of the village population, soil fertility, sociopolitical composition and whether the village had helped the Palestinian resistance during the 1936 uprising.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Rona Sela|title=Scouting Palestinian Territory, 1940-1948: Haganah Village Files, Aerial Photos and Surveys|url=https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/JQ-52-Sela-Scouting_Palestinian_Territory_1940-1948_1_0.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129224332/https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/JQ-52-Sela-Scouting_Palestinian_Territory_1940-1948_1_0.pdf|archive-date=29 January 2024|retrieved=8 June 2024|quote=The surveys include general and verbal information about the villages. For example, number of inhabitants, the land and its use, the clans, the village mukhtar and also about security issues: how many weapons the residents possessed and of what type,
whether the village assisted the gangs during the troubles and which of the villagers
joined the gangs. in the first years of the surveys project, historical information about
each village was also compiled: when it was founded, whether it was located on an
ancient site and contained antiquities, where the inhabitants came from.}}</ref> To make the files even more detailed and useful, aerial photos were also taken with the help of the most talented photographers in the country, often being the last remaining evidence of the existence of Palestinian villages that were completely destroyed due to ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the Zionist Entity.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Rona Sela|newspaper=Palestine Studies|title=Scouting Palestinian Territory, 1940-1948: Haganah Village Files, Aerial Photos, pand Surveys|url=https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/JQ-52-Sela-Scouting_Palestinian_Territory_1940-1948_1_0.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129224332/https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/JQ-52-Sela-Scouting_Palestinian_Territory_1940-1948_1_0.pdf|archive-date=January 29 2024|retrieved=8 June 2024|quote=In retrospect, the Village Files (charts, sketches, drawings, maps and ground
photographs), the textual surveys and the aerial photographs in some cases constitute the only surviving/most recent testimony of the existence of Palestinian villages, just before they were forcibly emptied of their inhabitants. They are the last remaining vestiges of the villages before they were either destroyed or settled by Jewish immigrants who streamed into the country in its first years; villages which were erased from the Israeli map because of their Arab identity.}}</ref>

== References ==
<references />
[[Category:Zionist organizations]]

Haganah

2024-06-08T10:57:32Z

Xkyfal18:

{{Infobox guerilla organization|name=Haganah|native_name=הַהֲגָנָה|allegiance=Zionist Entity|motives=*Establishment of a Zionist ethnostate in Palestine
*Ethnic cleansing of the native Palestinian population|ideology=[[Zionism]]|allies=[[Irgun]] [[Stern Gang]] [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]] (sometimes)|opponents=[[Palestine]]|war=[[Palestinian genocide]]|merged_into=[[Israel Defense Forces|"Israel" Defense Force]]|dates=1920-1948}}

'''Haganah''' was a [[Zionist]] terrorist organization in [[Mandatory Palestine|British-occupied Palestine]] established in 1920. It played a major role in the Palestinian uprisings of 1929, 1936, the [[Nakba]] and the [[#Village Files|Village Files]], becoming a large part of the [[Israeli Occupation Force]] after the [[State of "Israel"]] was established in 1948, with its leader, [[David Ben-Gurion]], later becoming prime minister of the illegal colonial entity.<ref>{{Citation|author=Maher Charif|year=2023|title=Roots of Zionist Terrorism|title-url=https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/attachments/policypapers/Maher%20Charif%20Issue%20013%20Fixed.pdf}}</ref>

== Formation and purpose ==
The Haganah, literally meaning "defense" (הֲגָנָה) in Hebrew, was established in 1920. After 1936, under the influence of Orde Charles Wingate, a British official who understood the necessity of forming a military force to take Palestine by force, it quickly became the military wing of the Jewish Agency, the embryonic Zionist government in Mandatory Palestine <ref>{{Citation|author=Ilan Pappé|year=2006|title=The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine|title-url=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F|chapter=Chapter 2|section=Military Preparations|page=15|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacedod4irl7doqf2n5iym5sa2eyrmk6ql2zs7yq7yznvezr26fielzc?filename=Ilan%20Pappe%20-%20The%20Ethnic%20Cleansing%20of%20Palestine-Oneworld%20%282006%29.pdf|publisher=Oneworld Publications|isbn=9781851685554|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F|trans-lang=English}}</ref>. It was used to protect Zionist settlements bought by the JNF, Jewish National Fund, from absentee landlords and to attack, demoralize and break the Palestinian resistance <ref>{{Citation|author=John Bierman; Colin Smith|year=1999|title=Fire in the Night: Wingate of Burma, Ethiopia and Zion|chapter=Chapter 6|page=83-85|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacebyqg32lcqoxqkgucc3qpcyhjpn42mltzrjxe3oshof3n6yzeyoxs?filename=Bierman%20J.%2C%20Smith%20C.%20-%20Fire%20in%20the%20Night_%20Wingate%20of%20Burma%2C%20Ethiopia%2C%20and%20Zion.pdf|publisher=Random House|isbn=9780375500619|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=AD9D8C668D523B860D7AE4BF74059ED1|volume=Book 2|trans-lang=English}}</ref>.

== Village Files ==
During the Mandatory Period, Ben-Zion Luria, a young historian from the Hebrew University, proposed that the JNF conducted a program of reconnaissance on Palestinian villages, known as the "Village Files", using the Haganah for scouting missions. These files contained quite a lot of information, such as a topographic map of the village population, soil fertility, sociopolitical composition and whether the village had helped the Palestinian resistance during the 1936 uprising <ref>{{Web citation|author=Rona Sela|title=Scouting Palestinian Territory, 1940-1948: Haganah Village Files, Aerial Photos and Surveys|url=https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/JQ-52-Sela-Scouting_Palestinian_Territory_1940-1948_1_0.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129224332/https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/JQ-52-Sela-Scouting_Palestinian_Territory_1940-1948_1_0.pdf|archive-date=29 January 2024|retrieved=8 June 2024|quote=The surveys include general and verbal information about the villages. For example, number of inhabitants, the land and its use, the clans, the village mukhtar and also about security issues: how many weapons the residents possessed and of what type,
whether the village assisted the gangs during the troubles and which of the villagers
joined the gangs. in the first years of the surveys project, historical information about
each village was also compiled: when it was founded, whether it was located on an
ancient site and contained antiquities, where the inhabitants came from.}}</ref>. To make the files even more detailed and useful, aerial photos were also taken with the help of the most talented photographers in the country, often being the last remaining evidence of the existence of Palestinian villages that were erased from the Palestinian map due to ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the Zionist Entity <ref>{{Web citation|author=Rona Sela|newspaper=Palestine Studies|title=Scouting Palestinian Territory, 1940-1948: Haganah Village Files, Aerial Photos, pand Surveys|url=https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/JQ-52-Sela-Scouting_Palestinian_Territory_1940-1948_1_0.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129224332/https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/JQ-52-Sela-Scouting_Palestinian_Territory_1940-1948_1_0.pdf|archive-date=January 29 2024|retrieved=8 June 2024|quote=In retrospect, the Village Files (charts, sketches, drawings, maps and ground
photographs), the textual surveys and the aerial photographs in some cases constitute the only surviving/most recent testimony of the existence of Palestinian villages, just before they were forcibly emptied of their inhabitants. They are the last remaining vestiges of the villages before they were either destroyed or settled by Jewish immigrants who streamed into the country in its first years; villages which were erased from the Israeli map because of their Arab identity.}}</ref>.

== References ==
<references />
[[Category:Zionist organizations]]

Haganah

2024-06-08T10:44:11Z

Xkyfal18: Began working on the village files section.

{{Infobox guerilla organization|name=Haganah|native_name=הַהֲגָנָה|allegiance=Zionist Entity|motives=*Establishment of a Zionist ethnostate in Palestine
*Ethnic cleansing of the native Palestinian population|ideology=[[Zionism]]|allies=[[Irgun]] [[Stern Gang]] [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]] (sometimes)|opponents=[[Palestine]]|war=[[Palestinian genocide]]|merged_into=[[Israel Defense Forces|"Israel" Defense Force]]|dates=1920-1948}}

'''Haganah''' was a [[Zionist]] terrorist organization in [[Mandatory Palestine|British-occupied Palestine]] established in 1920. It played a major role in the Palestinian uprisings of 1929, 1936, the [[Nakba]] and in a program to draw topographic maps of Palestinian villages, known as the [[#Village Files|Village Files]], becoming a large part of the [[Israeli Occupation Force]] after the [[State of "Israel"]] was established in 1948, with its leader, [[David Ben-Gurion]], later becoming prime minister of the illegal colonial entity.<ref>{{Citation|author=Maher Charif|year=2023|title=Roots of Zionist Terrorism|title-url=https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/attachments/policypapers/Maher%20Charif%20Issue%20013%20Fixed.pdf}}</ref>

== Formation and purpose ==
The Haganah, literally meaning "defense" (הֲגָנָה) in Hebrew, was established in 1920. After 1936, under the influence of Orde Charles Wingate, a British official who understood the necessity of forming a military force to take Palestine by force, it quickly became the military wing of the Jewish Agency, the embryonic Zionist government in Mandatory Palestine <ref>{{Citation|author=Ilan Pappé|year=2006|title=The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine|title-url=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F|chapter=Chapter 2|section=Military Preparations|page=15|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacedod4irl7doqf2n5iym5sa2eyrmk6ql2zs7yq7yznvezr26fielzc?filename=Ilan%20Pappe%20-%20The%20Ethnic%20Cleansing%20of%20Palestine-Oneworld%20%282006%29.pdf|publisher=Oneworld Publications|isbn=9781851685554|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=44F7CEAB3B4EA784451D636BC648D02F|trans-lang=English}}</ref>. It was used to protect Zionist settlements bought by the JNF, Jewish National Fund, from absentee landlords and to attack, demoralize and break the Palestinian resistance <ref>{{Citation|author=John Bierman; Colin Smith|year=1999|title=Fire in the Night: Wingate of Burma, Ethiopia and Zion|chapter=Chapter 6|page=83-85|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacebyqg32lcqoxqkgucc3qpcyhjpn42mltzrjxe3oshof3n6yzeyoxs?filename=Bierman%20J.%2C%20Smith%20C.%20-%20Fire%20in%20the%20Night_%20Wingate%20of%20Burma%2C%20Ethiopia%2C%20and%20Zion.pdf|publisher=Random House|isbn=9780375500619|lg=http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=AD9D8C668D523B860D7AE4BF74059ED1|volume=Book 2|trans-lang=English}}</ref>.

== Village Files ==
During the Mandatory Period, Ben-Zion Luria, a young historian from the Hebrew University, proposed that the JNF conducted a program of reconnaissance on Palestinian villages, known as the "Village Files", using the Haganah for scouting missions. These files contained quite a lot of information, such as a topographic map of the village population, soil fertility, sociopolitical composition and whether the village had helped the Palestinian resistance during the 1936 uprising <ref>{{Web citation|author=Rona Sela|title=Scouting Palestinian Territory, 1940-1948: Haganah Village Files, Aerial Photos and Surveys|url=https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/JQ-52-Sela-Scouting_Palestinian_Territory_1940-1948_1_0.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129224332/https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/JQ-52-Sela-Scouting_Palestinian_Territory_1940-1948_1_0.pdf|archive-date=29 January 2024|retrieved=8 June 2024|quote=The surveys include general and verbal information about the villages. For example, number of inhabitants, the land and its use, the clans, the village mukhtar and also about security issues: how many weapons the residents possessed and of what type,
whether the village assisted the gangs during the troubles and which of the villagers
joined the gangs. in the first years of the surveys project, historical information about
each village was also compiled: when it was founded, whether it was located on an
ancient site and contained antiquities, where the inhabitants came from.}}</ref>. To make the files even more detailed and useful, aerial photos were also taken with the help of the most talented photographers in the country, often being the last remaining evidence of the existence of Palestinian villages that were erased from the Palestinian map due to ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the Zionist Entity <ref>{{Web citation|author=Rona Sela|newspaper=Palestine Studies|title=Scouting Palestinian Territory, 1940-1948: Haganah Village Files, Aerial Photos, pand Surveys|url=https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/JQ-52-Sela-Scouting_Palestinian_Territory_1940-1948_1_0.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129224332/https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/JQ-52-Sela-Scouting_Palestinian_Territory_1940-1948_1_0.pdf|archive-date=January 29 2024|retrieved=8 June 2024|quote=In retrospect, the Village Files (charts, sketches, drawings, maps and ground
photographs), the textual surveys and the aerial photographs in some cases constitute the only surviving/most recent testimony of the existence of Palestinian villages, just before they were forcibly emptied of their inhabitants. They are the last remaining vestiges of the villages before they were either destroyed or settled by Jewish immigrants who streamed into the country in its first years; villages which were erased from the Israeli map because of their Arab identity.}}</ref>.

== References ==
<references />
[[Category:Zionist organizations]]

Haganah

2024-06-07T14:37:02Z

Xkyfal18: fixed minor mistake.

Haganah

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Xkyfal18:

Haganah

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Xkyfal18: Replaced titles with headings

Haganah

2024-06-07T12:32:51Z

Xkyfal18: Began working on Haganah page; will write more when I can.