CHRONICLE OF AN APARTHEID

PHASE I. Ideological preparation

S. XIX Zionism advocated since its inception the restoration of a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine, called by them Eretz Israel (Land of Israel).

1917 British Occupation : Lord Balfour promised "the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people" when they represent 8% of the population.

1945 End of World War II. Europe and the U.S. are committed to providing a solution to the claim of a Jewish State.

1947 UN partition Plan. Dividing the country into two states: Arabic (42'88% of the territory Arab representation 66'3%) and Jewish (56'47% of the territory's Jewish representation 33'7%), Jerusalem remained under international mandate (0'65% of the territory).

PHASE II. Expansion and conquest

1948 Nakba. Creation of the State of Israel in a part of Palestinian territory and start cleansing, in violation of UN resolutions.

1967 Naksa. Six Day War, Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.

1973 Yom Kippur War. Israel annexes the Golan Heights and Sinai.

PHASE III. Legitimization of the occupation and Impunity

1987 Launch of the First Intifada.

1993 Oslo Accords.

Launch of the second Intifada.

Sharon announces the construction of the Wall in breach of the Green Line borders recognized by the UN in 1967. In 2004, the International Court of Justice concluded that Israel had to stop its construction, but it continued.

2006 Victory of Hamas in Palestinian legislative elections. The EU and U.S. collaborate on the Israeli blockade of the funds of the entity democratically elected and Israel declares Gaza a hostile entity.

2008 Military attack against the Gaza Strip, "Operation Cast Lead." 1434 Gazans were dead, 960 of those were civilians. The UN Goldstone report about human rights violations in la Franja de Gaza by Israel, states that many of them involving war crimes, such as intentional attacks of the Israeli army against the civilian population and civilian objects.

ZIONISM

Zionism is the ideology that is totalitarian character of the strategy behind Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories which began to take shape in the late nineteenth century. Theodor Herzl (1860 – 1904) is considered as the founder of this theory but it is not only a theory, it is a complex conglomerate of people and institutions with major economic, political and military tried since 1947 to get Israel exempted from compliance with international law, and occupy Palestine with impunity despite being one of the states that violate laws, human rights and fundamental principles.

Main Zionist leaders and institutions

Jewish Agency for Israel

It is responsible for planning the Jewish immigration to Israel and facilitate the absorption after that. Since 1948 it has facilitated the immigration of 3 million Jews to Israel, and thereby it supports the Zionist expansionist plans.

David Ben Gurion

Jewish Agency chief between 1935 and 1948. He promoted settlements and activities directed against the Arab population. As Prime Minister of Israel, he maintained a policy of armed repression against attempts to return the Palestinian people, and he proclaimed the independence of Israel on May 14, 1948. He was involved in the bombing of the David Hotel, as well as trafficking in arms and explosives.

Ariel Sharon

Member of Unit 101, Israel's military organization in charge of expelling the Palestinian population in the border areas by terrorist acts. He was the promoter of the project of Jewish settlements and ideologist of the invasion of Lebanon (Sabra and Shatila massacre).He is currently being investigated for crimes against humanity.

Nakba

On November 29, 1947, the United Nations Organization (UN) passed Resolution 181, which was the partition of Palestine into a Jewish State, which was awarded the 56'47% of the land, and an Arab State, which accounted for 42'88%. Jerusalem would become an international zone (0'65%), under the UN administration.

The eviction of the native Palestinian population was carried out with extreme violence by Jewish resistance, causing a mass exodus of Palestinian families. It was a planned genocide to historians such as Ilan Pappe, of is Jewish origin, who defined it as a strategy of ethnic cleansing against the local Arab population by the Zionist entity.

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The process

Several days before the end of the British Mandate, groups of the Irgun (a paramiliatares Zionist organizations that was developed at that time) carried out a cruel attack on the village of Deir Yassin. Men, women and children were killed, sparking panic among the Arab population. Then begins the exodus of Palestinian families to neighboring countries.

While it was internationally considered that the first attack was perpetrated by the League of Arab States, it is necessary to take account of Israeli attacks against Palestinian civilians that had been occurring since before partition.

The Israeli occupation and clashes with the Arab armies, as a result left some 750 000 Palestinian refugees in camps in Gaza, West Bank, Syria and Lebanon, and about 418 towns and villages destroyed.