X-Nico

unusual facts about Palestinian Arab



Hanna Eady

Hanna Eady is a Palestinian-American actor and playwright best known for co-writing Suhmata, a play about the destruction of the Palestinian Arab village of Suhmata, near Acre in what is now northern Israel.

Violence in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict 2008

Mercaz HaRav massacre: Eight Israeli civilians are killed and 9 wounded when a Palestinian Arab attacker opens fire at a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem.


see also

1834 Arab revolt in Palestine

Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal argue that the 1834 Palestinian Arab revolt was a formative event for the Palestinian sense of nationhood, in that it brought together disparate groups against a common enemy.

1926 in Mandatory Palestine

10 January - Musallam Bseiso, Palestinian Arab thinker, intellectual, journalist, and politician.

Arab Higher Committee

Anwar Nusseibeh, a Palestinian nationalist who believed that the best way to advance Palestinian interest was to operate within whichever regime was in power, criticized the Arab Higher Committee's performance during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War as being unaware and ineffective at best and ambivalent at worst to the needs of the Palestinian Arab population.

Beit Dajan

Bayt Dajan, a destroyed Palestinian Arab village in what is now Israel

Palestinian refugee

During the 1948 Palestine War, around 85% (720,000 people) of the Palestinian Arab population of what has become Israel left their homes, either driven by force, by fear, or by instruction of Arab leadership.

United Nations Conciliation Commission

The commission met from 12 to 25 February 1949 separately with Israeli and Arab governments, from 21 March in Beirut with Muhammad Nimr al-Hawari of the General Refugee Congress (GRC), the Palestinian Arab refugee delegation, and on 7 April in Tel Aviv with Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion.