Zionist Activist Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) formulated a Zionist plan and summoned its first known congress in 1897 in Basel, Switzerland. The congress was originally planned for Munich, Germany, but suddenly was moved to Basel to avoid opposition. (Fact Check)

The “Irgun” (now IDF) is the Zionist arrogant military, that was determined to be a terrorist organization by the United States, United Nations and the British.

The “Irgun”, comprising young Jews, who were given violent military training in the West. These violent gangs were responsible for the massacre of the Palestinians. (FACT CHECK)

The violent  “Irgun” Jewish Zionist military confronted the Palestinians, overtaking Palestinian homes, olive trees, and land from 1918 leading up to the 1948 Nakba (genocidal violence) and the ongoing war crimes against humanity, including genocide by the belligerent Zionist IDF (military) propped up by the United States of American Zionism.

The contemporary Arab–Israeli conflict has its origins in the 30 years from 1918 to 1948 when Palestine was under British rule. In 1918 Zionism was a small movement with few adherents in Palestine; by 1948 it violently forced a “state” against the wishes of the majority of the population.  Of all the events that took place in Palestine during the mandate period, the British administration’s harsh military crackdown on leaders of an Arab general strike in 1936, called in protest against increased Jewish immigration, was probably the most highly instrumental in bringing about the establishment of a violent Jewish state. In 1937 the Arab strike degenerated into a fairly widespread armed revolt against the British and Jews. British authorities, determined to put an end to the violence, increased the number of troops in Palestine and, joined by Jewish militia, arrested, executed and deported Arab leaders and their followers. When the revolt came to an end in March 1939, more than 4,000 Arabs had been killed and at least 15,000 wounded. The destruction of the main Arab political leadership in the revolt, and the emergence of the Jewish defence force, the Haganah, as well as the Jewish terrorist group, the “Irgun”, as major players in the mandate, greatly hindered Palestinian efforts to counter the establishment of the Jewish “state” a decade later.

In the 1850s Russia and France went to war partly to determine which country the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, at that time the ruler of Palestine, would allow to act as protector of the area’s Christian holy sites.

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https://empathymatters.org/now/middle-east-nakba