Palestine and Zionism
The History of Oppression of the Palestinian People. A Critical Account of the Myths of Zionism
By Yossi Schwartz, Internationalist Socialist League (Section of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency in Israel / Occupied Palestine), April 2019, www.thecommunists.net
Contents
Part I
I. The Zionist Myths about the Jews
The Zionist Myth: Palestine belongs to “God’s chosen people”
The Patriarch Abraham
The Myth about Moses
King David
The People of the Second Temple
II. The Zionist Myth about the Palestinians
The UN Partition Plan in 1947
Genetic Evidence?
III. The Arabs Connection to Palestine
The Real History of Palestine
The Christians in Palestine
Palestine under the Moslems
The Crusaders
Palestine under the Ottomans
Part II
Zionism and British Imperialism
The 1929 Clashes
V. The Creation of Israel and the Expulsion of the Palestinians
The War of 1948
The Zionists Aim in the 1948 War
Stalinism supported Israel’s reactionary war in 1948
The Palestinian Refugees
The Jewish Refugees
VI. Israel as a Colonial Settler State and the Palestinians’ Resistance
The Military Regime
The War of 1956
The War of 1967
Why war?
Alone in the war?
The “Miracle”
The War of 1973
The PLO
The Left Fronts
Land Day
The First Intifada
The Oslo Agreement
The Wars in Lebanon
The Occupation of 1967
Gaza
Tables
Table 1. Share of Palestinian vs. Jewish land ownership as of April 1st, 1943
Table 2. Population Growth in Palestine, 1922-1946
Table 3. Statistics: Total Casualties, Arab-Israeli Conflict
Table 4. Palestinians killed in the Occupied Territories (including East Jerusalem)
Table 5. Israelis killed in the Occupied Territories (including East Jerusalem)
Table 6. Palestinians within the Green Line
Table 7. Israelis killed within the Green Line
Maps
Map 1. British Promises of Arab Independence (1915)
Map 2. Arab Countries Occupied by Britain and France after World War One
Map 3. Palestinian Loss of Land 1946 - Present