Palestinians in Rebellion

<p class=ql-align-justify><em>Palestinians in Rebellion</em> shows that while Israelis and Palestinians have uneasily co-habited The Land of Israel/Palestine during the past century Israel has thrived as an independent startup country while the Palestinian state entity never came into being and instead has been controlled by Britain Egypt Jordan and then Israel.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Since May 2021 a major revolt of the Palestinians against Israeli rule has taken place. Taking advantage of their concurrent missile attack on Israeli cities from Hamas-controlled Gaza the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria as well as within Israel proper rose in rebellion using advanced weaponry and demonstrating unprecedented temerity in confronting Israeli troops thereby causing enormous fatalities on both sides.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>In addition deterioration in Israeli security conditions has unfolded while a serious rift persists between right-wing reformist Israelis who won the majority of the votes in the November 2022 elections and the liberal constituency which lost the elections and cannot accept its loss and admit its rival's new control.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>(About the Author)</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Raphael Israeli has taught Islamic Chinese and Middle Eastern history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. A graduate of Hebrew University in history and Arabic literature he earned a Ph.D. in Chinese and Islamic history from the University of California Berkeley. Now retired he has been a Fellow of the Harry Truman Research Institute at Hebrew University and the Jerusalem Center since the1970s. He is the author of over 90 books and 100 articles.</p><p><br></p>