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The Long Way Home
American
soldiers get to camp and see Jews
Jews were all
starved and dying
Many soldiers
threw up from prisoners; Prisoners wanted them to leave
13,000 corpses
to bury
Soldiers burn
corpses and bunkers
�fight the war
as if there is no white paper, fight the white paper as if there is no war�
Ben Gurion
DP(displaced
person) camps are built for prisoners
Jewish brigade
wear stars on their arms
Jewish Brigade
fights with British army
Children were first to go to
Bad economy,
oil and jews affect British
Arabs cut off
oil to British because they are helping Jews
Don�t know
where to put Jews
Americans
holding jews looks like the Nazis holding the Jews
British turn
down Truman�s offer and only allow 1500 Jews in a month.
Patton said
jews were lower then Americans
Runaway Jews
and other Jews were snuck out of
Anglo
Chaim Weitzman
said jews can only enter
Americans
volunteered to help Jews into
63 ships left
to
Jews caught
were sent to
In 1946,
British got orders to allow 100,000 Jews into Palestine
British denies
this
Why doesn�t
They were anti
foreigners
Cold war
starts; immigrants cant come in
Jews blow up
King David hotel(British quarters)
91 people died
41 Jews killed
in
Borders were
kept open and 90,000 Jews were allowed from
Jews caught
were sent to DP camps in
DP camps have
the highest birth rate in the world for Jewish congregations
By 1946, 1,000
babies were born a month.
Jews were
allowed back into the U.S
British fed up
with Jews so send problem to the UN
British end
mandate over
UN starts a committee to deal with
The Exodus sets
sail to Palestine with Jewish Immigrants
British ships
fire at it and kill 3 people
Boats sent to
Boats then sent
to
UNSCOP wants to
split
2/3 of people
need to vote for partition
People tell
Trumann not to do it because it is 30,000,000 Arabs Vs. 600,000 Jews and
Jews will be pushed into Mediterranean
33 voted for
Jews getting
Terrorist
attacks start in Jerusalem
Bombs start in
British refuse
to help Jews
May 14, 1948
was the last day of British mandate of
States can be
declared but people may not recognize them
Ben Gurion
meets in
Prisoner camps
open and Jews were allowed to enter
Takes place in
1948
Arabs fight to
get the forts so the Jews and Arabs fight for them
Forts
controlled strategic wars
The Jewish army
was formed underground
Not official
and needed to make weapons
Only had 3 days
worth of ammo
Palmach had
3,000 soldiers in the beginning of the war
Ergum had 2,000
soldiers in it. Fought against the British
Ben Guryan said
the jews should hold onto
They failed to
do this
January 14th
Arabs move to attack jews
35 boys from
Yeshivah were killed and mutilated by Arabs
Children near
Arab villages were moved away
Bombs are going
off and Palestinian Jews blame British for helping the Arabs
There were no
supplies allowed into Jewish land so Jews were going to starve
Arab armies
went to attack jews in Jerusalem
November 1948
War starts
Jews win on May
11
Many Arabs died
and only 3,000 were left
Arabs and jews
fighting to get land when British leave
Golda Meir went
to meet with King Abdul to discuss stopping the war from starting
He said he wont
start a war if they don�t declare a state and stop immigrating
Golda said if
they want war they will bring war
Egyptian
spit-fires (war planes) attack Tel-Aviv
Jews barely
have any weapons
General of
British said the Jews would lose in 2 weeks
Egyptians plan
an attack on Tel-Aviv
All Arab armies
plan attacks on Jewish land
Jews fight back
with 2 artillery pieces and win
In Search Of Peace
Lehi and Yirgun
didn�t want to have a truce
Ben Gurion
didn�t want to allow war
Altuliana is a
ship with weapons that Ben Gurian wanted to stop from coming in
Ben Gurian
would have to fight Jew vs. Jew to stop (oy vey!)
Ship is
destroyed and 70 people died
Golda Meir
tries to get Jews out of
Jews were not
allowed to leave
More that 6,000
Israelis died in the war of Independence
Hundreds of
thousands of Arabs are left as refugees
May 11, 1942
Arab refugees
were used as �Political Pawns� to get settlements.
Refugees were
used as propaganda
120,000
Holocaust survivors came to
Operation magic
carpet: Jews that needed help would be taken on planes to
600,000 Jews came into
There were no
Jewish refugee camps.
6 Day War
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Abdul
Nasser is the leader in
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There
are terrorist training camps in
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Syrians will allow them to enter
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There
were skirmishes with Soviet planes over
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Planes from the soviets were hot down
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Victor
Semienoff says that
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Sadat
made the peace treaties for Israel
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Soviets say that
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Egyptian divisions are sent to
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All
the Arab weapons were Soviet and high class
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40,000
troops were sent to fight
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People
were told that
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Rabine
is the head of the Israeli Army
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Eshkol
decides to send 3,000 soldiers to fight because he didn�t want to provoke a war
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Israeli and Egyptian armies are separated by a UN Buffer
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Straits of
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UN
moves the buffer
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Yitzhak Rabine tells Eshkol that Israelis should attack because they are in
danger
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President Johnson says
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Egyptians were happy that the Straits of
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Jews
would rather commit suicide then go to war
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Arab
propaganda gave fears of another holocaust
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Bun
Guryan wanted to prevent going to war
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Nasser
goes to
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Aba
Iban goes to tell America to open the straits of Tiran
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President doesn�t want to make the first attack
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President thinks that
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Iban
tells that
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Eshkol
is general so he gets a lot of negativity
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Moshe
Dayan becomes the defense Minister
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Public
was happy Moshe Dayan was DM
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He is
a hero and he won the war in
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Moshe
Dayan believes that war is the only way
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