I look forward to finishing this, but I will admit... so many articles like this require a base knowledge of regional history and/or stopping to go read other articles to understand all of the references. It feels like there is such a high barrier to entry to really understand the situation in Israel. I have no idea what any of the following are, and it slows my learning: the Nakba Tisha B’Av Jaffa Safed Knesset I'm not trying to complain... just... acknowledging that learning the history of the Middle East is no small feat, and I hope people are patient with slow learners like me.
The Nakba: translates into "the catastrophe", is the word Palestinians use to relate to their displacement from their original homes/towns/cities in 1948. Jaffa: Arabic town which is now part of Tel-Aviv/Jaffa. It is in the south of Tel-Aviv and predominantly Arabic. Even though heavy gentrification is pushing the Arabic population out of it. Safed: An Arabic city in the north that is now predominantly Jewish. Knesset: Israeli parliament I will leave this here as a continuation of the above posted piece: https://conquer-and-divide.btselem.org/map-en.html