had restricted entry since one thousand nine hundred nine and now that the common enemy hitler was defeated the jews were yesterday s allies. it became a matter of safeguarding the future political interests for which the british needed the arab states they reversed their promise to build a home for the jews in palestine a shock for the jewish people a violent response came from the underground zionist militant movement. in july nine hundred forty six it bombed the king david hotel in jerusalem the british administrative headquarters. ninety one people were killed. the british response was severe detained a group members were held in the old prison where they were reportedly tortured and some were executed. the more moderate had another group rejected terrorism it wanted to take action as in conspicuously as possible and try to smuggle in jews
story of danny on trial he lived out his parents training they believed in a peaceful middle east without hatred and without borders. but even as a child danny learned that this togetherness shouldn t be taken for granted. arab extremists attacked the jewish quarter of hebron and nine hundred twenty nine killing sixty seven people including his uncle s entire family. danny was just ten years old. a shawn that was a disaster. and utterly inhuman or that people were slaughtered and burned. as. many accounts play in the grand mufti of jerusalem i mean a hussaini the british had appointed him the supreme muslim cleric a representative of the arab population he was to ensure noor in order that hebron
the neighboring arab countries and overcrowded poorly supplied camps. so the arab states didn t really want this population in their midst. so they wanted them to return they also wanted the refugees to return because they understood that a mass return of refugees to israel would topple the israeli state it with undermine the israeli state. the refugees pawns in the conflict with israel. the situation is most devastating in lebanon their state last night many professions they cannot buy land them marginalized. what happened then still continues today. even sadder fled to lebanon on the two children. the family went on to have fifteen members accommodated in a two room apartment. as
displaced persons to this day there was still a difference of opinion. i would say that most of the people for who fled their homes fled their homes as a result of the war in the sense of battle approaching their homes fear of being harmed in battle a general fear of living under jewish a rule which they did not want and so on i would say a minority is a small minority in fact that the end of the day were physically expelled by the jews in the sense that the state in their homes a jewish force conquered their village or town and ordered them to leave in twenty four hours a small minority one hundred thousand maybe less is left the country or left their homes as a result of that type of expulsion order i would say that even a smaller number left as a result of direct orders from arab commanders or officials. the
today there s nothing left of her once or the name is a range from the mouth. of. the village leader to whom we went to present our concerns announced from the minaret of the mosque that we should leave the village so what were we supposed to do we had to go. they said we should go away for seven days and then we d be able to return how they betrayed us if the interval. behind. them from the city. at that time sat a trust in god and in the village leader the arab militias would defeat the jews soon but that promise of seven days ten and into decades. saddle share this fate her seven hundred and fifty thousand palestinians. where they refugees were