Octopus Game Part II – Hidden History of Palestine
Press TV (2024)
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Episode 2 begins by disputing Joe Biden’s claim that the concert attacked by Hamas militants was a “peace event” promoting improve understanding between Israeli and Palestinian youth. The Nova music festival was a Zionist event celebrating the Jewish Holiday Shemini Atzeret.
It then continues with the history of the 1948 Nakba (Catastrophe) when the majority of Palestinians were driven from their homes farms by terrorist Zionist gangs (see The Octopus Game Part II – The Hidden History of Palestine), most fled to either the West Bank or Gaza, territories yet to be seized by Zionist terrorists.
When the UN recognized Israeli independence in1948, they also approved the West Bank and Gaza as Palestinian territory, with the West Bank to be administered by Jordan and Gaza by Egypt. The majority of Arab states supported the UN decision to limit Palestine to the West Bank and Gaza (denying the millions of Palestinians displaced from their homes in Palestine’s interior the right to return).
Following the Shah’s overthrow in the 1979 Iranian revolution Iran would be an exception. They played an active role in building Palestinian resistance in Lebanon by sending Shia organizers to organize Lebanese Shia Muslims during the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990). In response, the US persuaded Sadam Hussein (a CIA asset installed as Iraqi president in 1979) to declare war on Iran in 1980-1988.
Meanwhile arbitrary shooting of Palestinians by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) led to the First Intifada in the West Bank and Gaza and to the formation of Hamas in 1987. Unlike the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), a secular leftist organization, Hamas was an Islamic organization committed to forming an Islamic state. To counter Hamas influence, on November 15, 1988 PLO leader Yasser Arafat declared the first Palestinian State consisting of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. In doing so he, like the UN and the Oslo Accords, accepted defined boundaries allocating 78% of historic Palestine to Israel.
The immense unpopularity of this move led to a steady decline in PLO influence and and an increase in the influence of Islamic groups, such as Islamic Jihad, Hamas and Hezbollah.
*The Oslo Accords are a pair of interim agreements between Israel and the PLO creating the Palestinian National Authority, tasked with conducting limited Palestinian self-governance over parts of the West Bank and Gaza and acknowledging the PLO as Israel’s partner in permanent-status negotiations about remaining issues around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It did not create a Palestinian state. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu officially opposes the formation of a Palestinian state.
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