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The war against the Jewish state began long before Israel was established | The Jerusalem Post

Jpost · 🇺🇸 public United States · · 888 words · By JACOB SIVAK
Israeli-Arab Conflict Ottoman-Jewish Relations Zionist History
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What to know about Israeli-Arab Conflict

You could start with 1948 and Israel’s War of Independence, a war initiated by the Arabs of the land and the surrounding Arab countries because they could not accept the UN Partition Plan.

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What happened

You could start with 1948 and Israel’s War of Independence, a war initiated by the Arabs of the land and the surrounding Arab countries because they could not accept the UN Partition Plan.

Why it matters

Or, you could describe it as a century-long conflict beginning with the Balfour Declaration, as the Palestinian-American historian Rashid Khalidi does in his 2020 book The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine.

Common ground

In fact, the war against the Jewish state began almost 150 years ago, well before the Balfour Declaration and before the first Zionist Congress organized by Theodor Herzl in Basel in 1897.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Appeal to Pity, Selective Omission: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder identified 3 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Loaded Language 90% confidence
Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.
Found in this article: eFinder flagged this technique because the story's framing or source language may guide readers toward a particular interpretation. Review the claim checks and evidence below to separate what is directly supported from what is implied by wording or emphasis.
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Appeal to Pity 80% confidence
Evoking sympathy to win support rather than using logical arguments.
Found in this article: eFinder flagged this technique because the story's framing or source language may guide readers toward a particular interpretation. Review the claim checks and evidence below to separate what is directly supported from what is implied by wording or emphasis.
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Selective Omission 70% confidence
Deliberately leaving out important context or facts that would change interpretation.
Found in this article: eFinder flagged this technique because the story's framing or source language may guide readers toward a particular interpretation. Review the claim checks and evidence below to separate what is directly supported from what is implied by wording or emphasis.
Why it matters: Recognizing selective omission helps readers compare the article's framing with the underlying facts and with coverage from other sources.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 17 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “the pogroms of 1834 in Safed and Hebron (500 Jews were killed in Safed alone during a month-long orgy of looting, raping, and killing), and again in Safed in 1838.”
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Multiple sources confirm the 1834 looting/pogrom of Safed and Hebron, as well as a subsequent attack in Safed in 1838.
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web search NEUTRAL — The 1834 looting of Safed Hebrew: ביזת צפת בשנת תקצ"ד. (also known as the 1834 Safed pogrom) was a month-long attack on the Jewish community of Safed in the Sidon Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire during t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1834_looting_of_Safed
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web search NEUTRAL — 1834 hebron & safed pogroms.1838 SAFED RIOT. Just four years after the 1834 Safed pogrom, the local Arabs and Druzed once again attacked the Jewish community of Safed.
https://www.debbielechtman.com/blogs/news/a-history-of-pogro…
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web search NEUTRAL — In Safed, 18 Jews were killed, and homes and synagogues were looted.Riots and attacks on Jews occurred, with Jewish shops and synagogues targeted by mobs. Farhud Pogrom, Baghdad, Iraq (1941).
https://medium.com/@myarmush/a-response-to-the-truth-about-a…
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Claim 2: “during the 1800s, the Jewish population of Palestine, also referred to as Southern Syria by the Ottomans, was very small, only about 5% of the approximate total of 500,000.”
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While evidence confirms the term 'Southern Syria' was used by Ottomans, the specific population statistics (5% of 500,000) for the 1800s were not found in the provided evidence.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Roman Palestine is the term used by historians for the region of Palestine during the period in its history when it stood, to varying degrees, under the rule of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Palestine
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mandatory Palestine, officially known as Palestine, was a British administrative territory between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine. From 1922, under the terms of the League of Nations, it was…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The region of Palestine, also known as historic Palestine or land of Palestine, is a geographical area in West Asia. It generally encompasses the area inhabited by the modern states of Israel and Pale…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_(region)
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Claim 3: “the terrible earthquake of 1837 that devastated the Jewish quarters of Safed and Tiberius, killing thousands of Jews.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general definitions of earthquakes and does not mention a specific 1837 earthquake in Safed and Tiberius.
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web search NEUTRAL — An earthquake, also called a quake, tremor, or temblor, is the shaking of the Earth 's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake
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web search NEUTRAL — Latest Earthquakes The Latest Earthquakes application supports most recent browsers, .
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
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web search NEUTRAL — An earthquake is the shaking of the ground caused by a sudden release of energy along fault lines when tectonic plates move. The world's longest fault line is the San Andreas Fault in California.
https://earthquakemap.live/
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Claim 4: “in 1901 when Herzl offered to help pay off the Ottoman debt in return for a charter to allow Jewish settlement in the Holy Land.”
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Claim 5: “The third, the Consolidated Regulations (1900-1901), consisted of rules to prevent Jewish pilgrims from overstaying their visit to the Holy Land and involved a “Special Commission for the Prevention of Jewish Immigrants from Settling in Palestine.””
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Claim 6: “the first group of Biluim... consisted of 14 university students from the then Russian city of Kharkiv”
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Claim 7: “Most of the arrivals came from Eastern Europe, especially Russia, pushed by the violence against Jews (pogroms) that broke out following the assassination of Czar Alexander II in 1881.”
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Claim 8: “The first (1881-82) decreed that foreign Jews could settle anywhere in the empire except Palestine.”
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Claim 9: “The second (1882) banned the sale of land in Palestine to foreign Jews, even if they were Ottoman citizens.”
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Claim 10: “Rashid Khalidi does in his 2020 book The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine [describe the conflict as beginning with the Balfour Declaration]”
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Wikipedia and other sources confirm that Rashid Khalidi's 2020 book 'The Hundred Years' War on Palestine' covers the period from 1917 (the year of the Balfour Declaration) to 2017.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hundred Years' War was a 14th-15th century Anglo-French conflict. It may refer to: First Hundred Years' War, 12th–13th century Anglo-French conflict Second Hundred Years' War, ca. 18th century Anglo-…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Years'_War_(disambigua…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Rashid Ismail Khalidi (Arabic: رشيد خالدي; born November 18, 1948) is a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East and the Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia Univ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_Khalidi
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 is a 2020 book by Rashid Khalidi, in which the author describes the Zionist claim to Palestine in the ce…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hundred_Years'_War_on_Pale…
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Claim 11: “the First Aliyah, the first organized wave of Jewish immigrants that began in 1881... By the time it ended, in 1903, the Jewish population in the Land of Israel had doubled.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of dictionary definitions of the word 'first' and does not contain historical data regarding the First Aliyah.
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web search NEUTRAL — 1 day ago · The meaning of FIRST is preceding all others in time, order, or importance. How to use first in a sentence.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/first
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web search NEUTRAL — FIRST definition: 1. (a person or thing) coming before all others in order, time, amount, quality, or importance: 2…. Learn more.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/first
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web search NEUTRAL — first /fɜrst/ adj. being before all others with respect to time, order, rank, importance, etc.: I was the first guest to arrive. Automotive low (def. 18):[before a noun] When we put the car in first g…
https://www.wordreference.com/definition/First
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Claim 12: “Israel’s War of Independence [began in 1948], a war initiated by the Arabs of the land and the surrounding Arab countries because they could not accept the UN Partition Plan.”
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Multiple sources, including Wikipedia and other web results, confirm the 1948 war began following the UN Partition Plan, starting as a civil war and escalating into an invasion by five Arab nations after Israel's declaration of independence.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Israeli Declaration of Independence, formally the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel (Hebrew: הכרזה על הקמת מדינת ישראל), was proclaimed at the Tel Aviv Museum on 14 May 1948 …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Declaration_of_Indepen…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 1948 Arab–Israeli War (15 May 1948 – 10 March 1949), also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the civil war in Mandatory Palestine (29 November 1947 – 14 May 1948) as the second and fina…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab–Israeli_War
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 1948 Palestine war (30 November 1947 – 10 March 1949) was fought in the territory of what had been, at the start of the war, British-ruled Mandatory Palestine. It began as a civil war between the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestine_war
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Claim 13: “the cholera epidemic of 1831 that devastated the crowded cities where most of the Jewish population lived”
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Evidence mentions a cholera epidemic in 1831 generally and in Poland, but does not specifically confirm it devastated the Jewish population in Palestine.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The region of Palestine is part of the Levant, a land bridge between Africa and Eurasia that has traditionally served as the "crossroads of Western Asia, the Eastern Mediterranean, and Northeast Afric…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Palestine
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Palestine Jewish Colonization Association (Hebrew: חברה להתיישבות יהודית בארץ־ישראל), commonly known by its Yiddish acronym PICA (Hebrew: פיק"א), was a Zionist organization established in 1924 to …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Jewish_Colonization_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal developed by the United Nations for the future government of Mandatory Palestine following the termination of the British Mandate. Drafte…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_…
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Claim 14: “only 200 individuals were in the first contingent from Yemen.”
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Claim 15: “the first Zionist Congress organized by Theodor Herzl in Basel in 1897”
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Extensive authoritative evidence from Wikipedia and Britannica confirms the First Zionist Congress was organized by Theodor Herzl in Basel in 1897.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The First Zionist Congress was the inaugural congress of the Zionist Organization (ZO) held in the Stadtcasino Basel in the city of Basel on August 29–31, 1897. Two hundred and eight delegates from 17…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Zionist_Congress
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Theodor Herzl (2 May 1860 – 3 July 1904) was a Hungarian Jewish journalist and lawyer who was the father of modern political Zionism. Herzl formed the Zionist Organization and promoted Jewish immigrat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Herzl
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Zionist Congress was established in 1897 by Theodor Herzl as the supreme organ of the Zionist Organization (ZO) and its legislative authority. In 1960, the names were changed to World Zionist Cong…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Zionist_Congress
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Claim 16: “A smaller component came from Yemen, in part because of improved travel conditions that accompanied an Ottoman takeover of Yemen, but also pushed by anti-Jewish measures.”
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Claim 17: “the Sultan, Abdul Hamid II, was also anxious to pursue policies that would benefit the many Arab subjects in his domain”
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