A history stained with innocent blood: A chronicle of Israel’s massacres in Palestine
People gather around bodies of Palestinians killed after a blast ripped through the Ahli Arab hospital in central Gaza after they were transported to Al-Shifa hospital, on October 17, 2023
Israel's history is replete with events that have raised serious accusations of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian population.
1896: Publication of Der Jundenstat (The Jewish State) by Theodore Herzl.
Basel Declaration: calls for the establishment of a home for Jewish in Palestine.
1901: Establishment of Jewish National Fund. Main idea behind it is to fundraising in the purpose of purchasing land.
1914: First World War starts.
1916: Great Arab Revolt.
The revolt was against the Ottoman rule and was initiated by Sharif Hussein in June 1916.
1917: Belfour Declaration.
1919: First Palestinian National Congress in Jerusalem send memoranda to Paris Peace Conference rejecting Balfour Declaration and demanding independence.
1920: Treaty of Sevres.
1920: Founding of Histadrust, a trade union which would organize the economic activities of Jewish workers.
1922:
Churchill White Papers or British White Papers main purpose was to exclude Trans-Jordan from scopes of Balfour Declaration.
The Council of the League of Nations approves the British Mandate for Palestine.
First British Census of Palestine counted 757,182 residents, of whom 83,794 were Jewish.
1933: Adolph Hitler assumes power over Germany.
1936: Beginning of Arab Revolt calling for an end to Jewish immigration and a stop to Jewish ownership of land in Palestine.
1937: Arab Higher Committee rejects the Royal Commission proposal known as Peel Commission.
1938: Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead Commission) report declares impracticability of Royal Commission's partition proposal.
1939: World War Two starts.
1942: Biltmore Conference.
It recommended an end to British Mandate and called for the founding of Jewish Commonwealth.
1945:
Arab League founded in Cairo.
End of World War Two.
1946:
Bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.
It was organized by Irgun a Jewish militia.
TransJordan gain independence.
Anglo-American Committee recommended admitting 100,000 Jewish refugees into Palestine.
1947:
UN General Assembly establishes a Special Committee on Palestine - UNSCOP.
UN General Assembly votes to partition Palestine by October 1948, resolution 181.
UN Proposes the division of Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states allocating 56.6% of Palestine to Jewish state and 43% to Arab state with international enclave around Jerusalem.
1948:
