A HISTORY OF DISPLACEMENT: THE ISRAEL OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE
History has it that Ottoman Empire conquered the region where Palestine is, since 1517 and it remained so until the fall of the empire. The British army conquered and ruled Palestine since 1917 until a civil admiration was established in 1920 and a League of Nations (the then United Nations) approved Palestine as British mandate in 1922. Then came the Balfour Declaration, a public statement issued by British government in 1917 announcing its support for establishment of a 'National Home for the Jewish people' in Palestine which has small minority Jewish population. It will interest you to know that a British census of 1918 estimated 700,000 Arabs and 56,000 Jews. In 1920, the Third Palestine Congress in Haifa decried the British government's plans to support Zionist project and rejected Balfour Declaration as a violation of International Law and of the rights of the indigenous population. The British pay no heed to the Palestinians' concerns and began to facilitate the ...