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Irgun and Stern Gang orchestrated the Deir Yassin massacre in 1948 to drive out Palestinians of what became Israel and created a new generation of fighters who turned to some of the methods including bombings and anarchist strategy that Zionists used for Israel's creation
Speaking about the Palestinian right to resist against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas War, former Saudi intelligence chief Turki al-Faisal said he would prefer civil insurrection and disobedience that brought down the British Empire in India
Highly religious Americans tended to be much more sympathetic toward Israel, which is seen as a fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies, entitling it to divine privileges other nations may not claim
Jewish communities in the Gulf states have been emerging from the shadow of the Arab-Israeli conflict and adopting a more public profile including through open celebration of their holidays' thanks to the Abraham Accords
Israel recognized Mujama Al-Islamiya, a precursor to Hamas, by registering it as a charity and allowed it to set up a university, and build mosques, clubs, and schools as it sought to counter the secular nationalist Palestine Liberation Organization
Bitter fruits of British colonialism—India's division in 1947 and expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland for Israel's creation a year later—informed Indian policies towards Palestine until the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rose to power in 2014
Britain and France secretly hammered out the Sykes-Picot accord in 1916 to arbitrarily redraw borders by marking straight lines with a rude chinagraph pencil and a ruler on the Middle East's map as their shared spoils of the First World War without letting the region's people have a say in it
