Originally posted by Vad
I won't look for this in geography books, I studied not only geography.
Let do not talk about Hezzbollah. First, it's politics, and second, Vulcan doesn't like islam subjects.
Let look into the history. First terrorists on the Middle East were Jews. Arab world had no idea about terror methods until Jews came there. Ask Britons, they should remember King David Hotel, Natanya, Lord Moyne in Cairo, etc. Hostages, letter-bombs - all that were brought to Midle East by Jews, illiterate arab peasants just had no idea about existing of such things.
But looks like they can learn.
OK Vad, lets look at history and see who learned from whom:
First, for those that claim the Jews "stole" Arab land:
The Jews first established a Jewish nation in Canaan around 1300BC, that's about 3,300 years ago. Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the 1st Temple in 587BC afterwhich Babylonian, Persian, Greek Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Empires, Islamic and Christian crusaders, Ottoman Empire, and the British Empire all ruled the area.
Arabs were an almost non-existant population in the region the Roman's renamed "Palestine" until the fall of the Byzantine empire (a Christian empire BTW) and the six Muslim crusades of 632-750AD during which the Arabs conquered all of what's now called the Middle East, Persia, North Africa and Spain. Palestine was occupied by both Jews and Christians before the Muslim crusades. The first Christian Crusade to retake the Holy Land from the Muslims came in 1099 (so much for who started what and the oft-quoted idea that the Crusades were just an evil Christian attack on innocent little Muslims).
After the fall of the Ottoman Empire following WWI the Palestine region was controlled by the Brits. It was during this time the "modern" conflict began.
-The first attacks by Arabs against the Jews in modern times began in 1920. In March, Arabs attacked Jews in Galilee.
-Apr4-7 1920 the first large Arab/Jewish conflict were the Nebi Musa riots in which an Arab mob attacked and killed 5 jews.
-In 1929 the Palistine Riots (133 Jews dead).
-What could arguably be called the first terrorist attack by the Arabs against the Jews was probably the Hebron Massacre in 1939 where Arabs murdered 67 Jews after which they occupied the town and held it until the 1967 war.
-1936 "The Great Uprising". Probably the first conflict that could be called a war. The Arabs revolted against the Brits for allowing Jewish immigration. 4000 Arabs, 400 Jews and 200 Brits died. The great majority of the Arabs were killed by the Brits (including 140 executed). The Jewish Irgun terrorist organization was formed during the uprising.
-From 1939-1945 the Black Hand, an Islamist terrorist group conducted what could have been the first purely religiously motivated terrorist activities against the Jews destroying synagoges, Jewish businesses and killing 6 Jews.
-In 1930 20 Arabs were killed by a bomb and 13 more killed by shooters. The attack isn't credited to any particular group.
-From 1940 to 1949 Lehi, Irgun and Haganah all participate in attacks on British forces and all three are arguably Jewish terrorist organizations.
-1946. Irgun bombs the King David Hotel killing 91. The hotel was the British administration headquarters, not a civilian hotel. The Brits were warned of the attack about half an hour before the bomb went off but they didn't evacuate the building.
Since you're historically challenged, I'll remind you that Israel was not established until 1948. Since 1948 over 3,200 Jews have been murdered by Arab terrorists and thousands injured.
