At the end of the 19th century Jerusalem awakens from a long Ottoman sleep and becomes the center of international attention once again. The years-lon...
The British Mandate helps the Jews change the economic and geographic reality in Palestine as well as begin to challenge the demographic balance. The ...
The large-scale sale of land to the Jews leaves tens of thousands of fellahin without land who then move to the slums on the outskirts of the developi...
World War II causes a turnabout in British policy and the imposition of strict restrictions on the Jewish settlement in an effort to placate the Arabs...
War breaks out even before the British leave Palestine. The Palestinians take over the transportation routes until the Jewish settlement raises money ...
While the war still rages, the Palestinians realize that this is what is for them a Nakba - a disaster. Their position grows even worse in the second ...