Class 9: Issues of Internal Security and
Terrorism: "Gun Zionism" and the Emergence of Israel
The Emergence of Israel (from Nov 1947
partition map to map of 1949 Armistice lines (cf Smith, p.197) turned into
state)
- Nov 17, 1947 Transjordan/Zionist
nonaggression pact
- Nov 25...29, 1947 partition resolution (33-13,
10 abstain) - see video
- How implement partition: US policy in disarray
- Secy of State George C. Marshall vs. President Hary S. Truman.
Official Satte Department pollicy was to support a "temporary UN
trusteeship" for Palestine whereas Truman privately supported the
partition reoslution in a private meeting (March 18, 1948) with
Chaim Weizmann.
- Plan Dalet (Dec 1947, finalized March 10,
1948) to Arab areas, especially corridor to besieged Jerusalem - a
deliberate ethnic cleansing?
- Palestinian/Israeli battles of Dec 1947 to May
15, 1948, with Haganah's "aggressive defense" and Irgun to
Deir
Yassin (9 April 1948) followed by Haifa
and Jaffa flights of refugees - over 300,000 fled before May 15,
the day the state of Israel was proclaimed.
- Arab invasions and wars of May-June 1948, then
Operation Dani July 8-18 and more refugees: Lydda and Ramle July
12-13, 1948 looting and transfer of an additional 50,000
Palestinians - for a total of 400,000 to 450,000 during the wars
(in addition to the 300,000 before May 15).
- All That Remains : the
cleansed villages
- Stern Gang (Yitzhak Shamir) assassination of
Counte Bernadotte 18 Sept 1948, then October Negev
campaign.
- Your readings: and discussion
- look at your Blackboard
discussions - excellent work! What is a
bi-national
state ? cf Tony Judt, NYRB 2003.
- Dershowitz
- Were the Jews unwilling to share Palestine?
p 39 cf Edwatd Said about 1947-48 wheras Dershovitz 1920-1929,
focusing on Haj Amin Husseini "close ally and adviser to Adolph
HItler"?
- Have the Jews always rejected a two-state
solutrion? Again, Dershovitz discusses1937-1939, not responding
to "accusers" concerning 1947-48 period.
- Have the Jews Exploited the
Holocaust?
- Was the UN Partition Plan Unfair to
Palestinians?
- Were Jews a Minority in What Became Israel?
["land assigned to the Jewish contained approximately 538,000
Jews and 397,000 Arabs" p. 68 does not coincide with any
numbers from official UN sources or Pappe, p. 35, who states
there were 499,000 Jews to 438,000 Palestinians in the 56% of
the Palestine Mandate territory assigned to the state of Israel
in Nov. 1947]
- Did Israel Create the Arab Refugee
Problem?
- Pappe: "ethnic cleaning"?
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21 Sept. 2008
- Department
of Government, College
of Liberal Arts, University
of Texas at Austin.
- Questions, Comments, and Suggestions to
chenry@mail.utexas.edu
