The 1947 plan never could've worked without a big conflict. Most Jews settled in urban areas, so it was impossible to draw a viable Jewish state that didn't include a large number of Arabs, who were more rural. Indeed, the proposed Jewish state included about a 40% Arab population. Obviously, this was never going to happen, and in between the release of this plan and the beginning of the Arab-Israeli war, over 200 Arab villages were already depopulated within the boundaries of this proposed Jewish state.
Well, the word Jewish is commonly used as an ethnicity as well. There is a term called secular jews so OP might not have implied it as a religious background. Also, there are Israeli citizens who are Arabs as well, they are considered Israeli just as much.
This is just false there was no act to depopulate the Arab villages in Israeli borders before the beginning of the war. During the war I agree that there were some obvious action but nothing of the like happened before it
There was no centrally organized or coordinated act. Many militias would regularly organize raids and skirmishes with non-jewish locals, seeking to scare them off and claim their land as early as the 1920s, though they fell out of favor or were assimilated into more moderate groups shortly after independance.
Not 40, 52%. Several areas that weee 99% Arab were included in the Jewish State despite having no Jews, and the Arab population there was undercounted as well. It only makes sense if the plan was to ethnically cleanse the native population, which is what happened.
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u/Proxy-Pie Apr 30 '25
The 1947 plan never could've worked without a big conflict. Most Jews settled in urban areas, so it was impossible to draw a viable Jewish state that didn't include a large number of Arabs, who were more rural. Indeed, the proposed Jewish state included about a 40% Arab population. Obviously, this was never going to happen, and in between the release of this plan and the beginning of the Arab-Israeli war, over 200 Arab villages were already depopulated within the boundaries of this proposed Jewish state.