Interesting Facts about the Arab Israeli Struggle - I

Origins of Terrorism in the Middle East
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Who Started Terrorism in the Arab-Israeli Conflict?


- Bombs in Cafes: first used by Zionists in Palestine on March 17th, 1937 in Jaffa.


- Bombs on Buses: first used by Zionists in Palestine Aug. 20th-Sep. 26, 1937.


- Bombs in Market Places: first used by Zionists on July 6th, 1938 in Haifa.


- Bombing of Hotels: first used by Zionists on July 22nd, 1946 in Jerusalem.


- Bombing of Foreign Embassies: first used by Zionists on October 1st, 1946 in Rome (against the British).


- Mining of Ambulances: First used by Zionists on October 31st, 1946 in Petah Tikvah.


- Letter Bombs: first used by Zionists in June 1947 against British targets in UK.








(for documentation, cosult The Arab Women's Information Committee and The Institute for Palestine Studies, Who Are the Terrorists? Aspects of Zionist and Israeli Terrorism, (Beirut: Insitute for Palestine Studies, 1972).





-1- Zionist Colonialization

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"Moshe Dayan, former Chief of Staff and Minister of Defense, was uninhibited in his summary of the nature of Zionist colonization before students at the Israel Institute of Technology (The Techniyon):



We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs, and we are building here a Hebrew, Jewish state. Instead of Arab villages, Jewish villages were established. You do not even know the names of these villages and I do not blame you, because these geography books no longer exist. Not only the books, but also the villages do not exist."



-2- Arab Villages wiped

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The following table was prepared by Israel Shahak, Chairperson of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights, under the heading " Arab Villages Destroyed in Israel." [65]http://takingaimradio.com/hhz/ch05.htm

The Right to resist

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You might be interested to know that international agreements consider resistance of occupation of one's country a legitimate act and one of the human rights..

In 1977 article 1(4) of the First Additional Protocol (IAP) to the Geneva Conventions expanded the application of the IHL to

"…armed conflicts in which peoples are fighting against colonial domination and alien occupation and against racist régimes in the exercise of their right of self-determination...". and :

The right to self-determination was acknowledged by the international community in UN General Assembly Resolution 181 of 29 November 1947, and recently by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in its Advisory Opinion on the Wall (section 118).