Zionism

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Zionism
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A Century of Transfer
Following the outbreak of 1936, no mainstream
(Zionist) leader was able to conceive of future
coexistence without a clear physical separation
between the two peoples - achievable only by
transfer and expulsion. Publicly they all
continued to speak of coexistence and to
attribute the violence to a small minority of
zealots and agitators. But this was merely a
public pose..Prime Minister David Ben Gurion
summed up 'With compulsory transfer we (would)
have a vast area (for settlement)...I support
compulsory transfer. I don't see anything immoral
in it,'" Israel historian, Benny Morris,
"Righteous Victims."
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'If I knew that it was possible to save all the
children of Germany by transporting them to
England, but only half of them by transporting
them to Palestine, I would choose the second -
because we face not only the reckoning of those
children, but the historical reckoning of the
Jewish people.' David Ben Gurion, first Prime
Minister of Israel, quoted in Segev, The Seventh
Million
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Late 19th Century

• 6 population was Jewish
• Nearly half of Jews lived in Jerusalem
• Most of those were religious immigrants from
  Europe

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1948

• Population
• 1.2 million Arabs
• 600,000 Jews
• Land ownership
• 92 Palestinian
• Partition
• Israel received 56 of land

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1949
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Territorial expansion

• By the end of 1949, Israel controlled 78 of
  historic Palestine
• At the end of the Six-Day War, Israel annexed all
  remaining Palestinian lands

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Palestinian Refugees

• 1947-1949
• 750,000
• 1967
• 400,000
• Currently
• Estimated at between 5 million and 6.6 million

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Palestinian Refugees
Palestinian refugees are the largest and
longest-standing refugee population in the world
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Baraks Generous Offer
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Sharons Palestinian State
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Before their very eyes we are possessing the
land and the villages where they, and their
ancestors, have lived.We are the generation of
colonizers, and without the steel helmet and the
gun barrel we cannot plant a tree and build a
home.--Moshe Dayan, Israeli Minister of Defense,
Army Chief of Staff (quoted in Avi Shlaim, The
Iron Wall
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IWPS
15 team members from Britain, France, Austria,
South Africa, Canada, Netherlands, United States,
Australia. Ages range from 25 to 58. 4 are women
of color 2 identify as Muslim 4 identify as
Jewish Volunteers so far have been from Japan,
England, Ireland, South Africa, Italy, Germany,
US, Netherlands
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Hares, Salfit
Nablus
Qalqilya
Hares
Tel Aviv
Ramallah
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Salfit Settlements

• 22 villages
• 45 settlements
• 28 colonies
• 17 outposts
• Total population
• 50,000 Palestinian villagers
• 50,000 Israeli settlers
• Cost to Israel to move one settler to West Bank
  500,000

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Israeli settlement population in the West Bank
doubled during the Oslo period, from 200,000 to
400,000
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• 420 Israeli checkpoints in the Occupied
  Palestinian Territories
• Checkpoints increased during Oslo peace process

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Yellow plated (Israeli) cars can usually drive
around the checkpoints without stopping.
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Since September 2000 23 men, 19 women and 14
childrenhave died at checkpoints 9 stillbirths
and 43 total births have been reported
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• 606 Palestinians held in administrative
  detention without charge
• 15,000 Palestinians arrested or detained in last
  three years, almost half never charged with any
  crime

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Over 300 Palestinian children are held in Israeli
prisons or detention centers, mostly for alleged
stone throwing. Over 1000 kids have been
arrested since September 2000.
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Russian Reads World Peace Death to Arabs
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The wall in Qalqilya is 8 meters (26 feet) high
and topped with barbed wire. 10 of the
inhabitants of the city (10,000 of 40,000) have
left in the last two years because unemployment
has reached 80.
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The Apartheid Wall
The Apartheid Wall, begun in August 2002, is the
latest instrument to transfer Palestinians from
their lands. Since the wall was completed around
Qalqilya city, 10,000 of its 40,000 residents, or
25 of the population of the city, have relocated.
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Palestinians Resist the Wall Nonviolently, With
International and Israeli Supporters
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For more information

• http//www.cactus48.com/
• www.electronicintifada.net
• The 94 Percent Solution, http//www.merip.org/me
  r/mer216/216_halper.html
• The Iron Wall, Avi Shlaim
• The Question of Palestine, Edward Said

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International WomensPeace Service

• www.iwps.info