POLI 347 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Israel Defense Forces, United Nations Partition Plan For Palestine, Arab Legion
8 Oct 2018
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Towards partition: 1938: at the evian conference, world powers agreed to do nothing in response to jews fleeing nazi persecution. Peel commission suggested to give a big portion to arab and relatively small area to the. Jewish people, it was excepted by the zionist side rejected by the arab side. France), addressed rise of nazism, flee of jews; they decided to do nothing in response to the flew, as they have no where to go. This makes palestine a desirable option for them. As the war came to an end, as the allied armies swept in, although germany captured a lot of death camps, western countries became more aware about the holocaust in europe. Full extent of the general information was began with the liberation of these camps: 1945: the shoah (holocaust) was a turning point, bringing international sympathy to the zionist and creating massive jewish refugee flow.
