zionists attitude

• When did Britain hand over Palestine to the UN?


  May 1948.
• When was the UN Partition Plan set up?

  1947
• How much territory was the UN Partition Plan going to give the Jews, which only had 1/3 of the population?

  55%
• What was the Arab response to the UN Partition Plan?

  the Arab Higher Committee rejected this.
• When was the Jewish Agency set up?

  1929
• what was the Jewish Agency?


  created by Chaim Weizmann- Its purpose is to assist and encourage Jews worldwide to help develop and settle Israel.
• What was the Jewish response to the UN Partition Plan?

  the Jewish Agency accepted this officially, but some were not pleased as this excluded Jerusalem and some Jewish settlements were to be included in the Arab state
• when was the civil war in Palestine?

  1947-48
• why did fighting in Palestine intensify from Dec. 1947?

  Britain announced that they would leave Palestine in May 1948
• Why were the Jews more successful in the civil war in Palestine?

  their forces had well-trained soldiers and they acted defensively 1st to protect their land and to gain Jewish settlements from the Arabs. Palestinian Arabs had no organised military forces and leaders were divided.
• what was Plan D?


  the Haganahs' aims were to take over an British installations evacuated by the British and expel as many Palestinians as possible from the future Jewish state.
• what happened April 1948?


  massacre at Deir Yassin
• what happened at Deir Yassin?


  Jewish forces began the forcible expulsion of Arabs from villages inside what was to become the Jewish state.
• How many Arabs fled from the borders of the new Jewish state by May 1948?

  over 300,000
• what conference was held in 1945 and what was decided?

  the zionist conference, decided to take active oppostition to british rule in palestine and the leaders of Haganah worked with the Stern and Irgun gang to target the British military bases, raliways, trains and bridges.
• why did the zionists want USA on their side?

  to put pressure on britain to leave palestine and to agree to a separate Jewish state.
• how many jews were in the US during ww2- to the end?

  4.5 million, who all mainly were zionists by the end of the war and believed that a state was needed for the jewish refugees who survived the holocaust
• what was the biltmore declaration, may 1942?


  American zionist conference declared their support for a 'jewish commonwealth' in palestine
• after the war, what did the american zionsists do and to the members of the US government and congress in order to win support?

  launched a propaganda offensive, addressed meeting, held rallies, placed advertisements and lobbied US members.
• what did Truman call on the british government to do to allow?

  in april 1946, he called for the immediate entry of 100,000 jewish refugees into palestine
• why did zionists target british rule in palestine?

  britain stopped boatloads of illegal jewish immigrants from landing in palestine
• in april 1946, what happened to 6 bristish soldiers?

  murdered by jewish terrorist group.
• what happened in july 1946 at the king david hotel in jerusalem-british military headquaters?

  bombed by the Irgun, killing 88 people including 15 jews
• what happened at the officers club in february 1947?

  20 british soldiers killed by jewish terrorits group