* 1948 – The Hadassah medical convoy massacre: In an ambush, 79 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital and a British soldier are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarra near Jerusalem.

Roughly 5000 Arabs are slaughtered and massacred, and only a mere 400 Jews are killed within the scope of the conflict.

" According to The Economist: " Mr Morris also said, in an interview that stunned his supporters, that Israel was justified in uprooting the Palestinian ' fifth column ' once the Arabs had attacked the infant state, and that the number executed or massacred — some 800, on his reckoning — was ' peanuts ' compared with, say, the massacres in Bosnia in the 1990s.

The groups had conflicting ideals ( for example: the Haganah was willing to internationalize Jerusalem in order to have a unified, peaceful state, but Jerusalem was of the utmost importance to the Stern Gang and the Irgun ), but they managed to retain more organization and cooperation than the Arab armies. In the main text of O Jerusalem !, it is related that the Stern Gang and the Irgun massacred the Arab village of Deir Yassin, outraging Arabs and Jews alike.

As the latter incident demonstrates, the Byzantines could not avoid capture of their precious secret weapon: the Arabs captured at least one fireship intact in 827, and the Bulgars captured several siphons and much of the substance itself in 812 / 814.

The British responded with the Peel Commission ( 1936 – 37 ), which recommended that an exclusively Jewish territory be created in the Galilee and along much of the western coast ( requiring the expulsion of 200, 000 Arabs ) the rest becoming an exclusively Arab area.

When the Arabs conquered the region much later, their name for the river became Guadalete ( River Lethe, in Arabic ).

Furthermore, in the film, Lawrence is only made aware of the Sykes – Picot Agreement very late in the story and is shown to be appalled by it whereas the " real " Lawrence, while fighting alongside the Arabs, knew about it much earlier.

In the 7th century, after a brief rule under the Turkish Khaganats, it was conquered by the Arabs and then the Mongols and much later, by the Russians.

The Portuguese were able to wrest much of the coastal trade from Arabs between 1500 and 1700, but, with the Arab seizure of Portugal's key foothold at Fort Jesus on Mombasa Island ( now in Kenya ) in 1698, the pendulum began to swing in the other direction.

During the 18th and 19th centuries, the Mazrui and Omani Arabs reclaimed much of the Indian Ocean trade, forcing the Portuguese to retreat south.

Zenaga was once spoken throughout much of Mauritania, but fell into decline when its speakers were defeated by the Maqil Arabs in the Char Bouba war of the seventeenth century.

There are also names for China based on a certain ethnic group other than Han, much like the Western rendering of all Arabs as " Saracens ".

The relative austerity of the Senussi message was particularly suited to the character of the Cyrenaican Bedouins, whose way of life had not changed much in the centuries since the Arabs had first accepted the Prophet Mohammad's teachings.

Only those sand fields or stone mountains that would require the investment of hard labor and great expense to make them good for planting remain uncultivated and that's because the Arabs do not like working too much in the present for a distant future.

The Jews were now much stronger than the Arabs in the Jerusalem sector.

In the 1834 Safed Great Plunder, much of the Jewish quarter was destroyed by rebel Arabs, who plundered the city for many weeks.

The battlements of the Arabs had a more decorative and varied character, and were continued from the 13th century onwards not so much for defensive purposes as for a crowning feature to the walls.

Despite Britain's dependence on American economic aid, the British refused, claiming that they were experiencing too much resistance from the Arabs and Jews already in Palestine and feared what would happen if more were allowed to enter.

It is prominently present in the Armenian people, Sephardi Jews ( and, to a much lesser extent, Ashkenazi Jews ), Cypriots, Turks and Arabs.

Given its small staff of only 24 men, the Einsatzgrupppe Ägypten would have needed as much help as possible from the local Arabs and from the Afrika Korps to kill the roughly 50, 000 Jews of Egypt, to say nothing of the half million or so Jews of the Yishuv.

Although Pétain had long since gone it still included much of Coeurs Vaillants edited version: the British were referred to as " the police "; some cursing remarks made by a Jew about Arabs who have blocked the road were not included ; and Tintin's Zionist-lookalike was still named Durand.

The original Portuguese fort had a height of 15 meters, but the much taller Oman Arabs added 3 meters upon capturing the fort.

The Arabs were migrants from old ages when the entire Iraq belonged to the Persia and their culture is much persianised rather than looking like present day Arabs of the Persian Gulf states.

As quick as Cato is to point out how badly the Christians have treated the Arabs, Mr. Fairbanks and Gretchen are quick to point out how much the Arabs used slavery against their own people in the past.

While later Arabic sources make the conquest of Hispania a singular event undertaken at the orders of the governor Musa ibn Nosseyr of Ifriqiya, according to the Chronicle, which was written much nearer in date to the actual events, the Arabs began disorganised raids and only undertook to conquer the peninsula with the fortuitous death of Roderic and the collapse of the Visigothic nobility.

The attack on Aqaba ( one of the more stirring and memorable scenes in the film with a spectacular pan shot of dust rising up from behind the charging Arabs while Turkish cannons are aimed harmlessly out to sea ) was reconstructed in a dried river bed in southern Spain ; it consisted of over 300 buildings and was meticulously based on the town's appearance in 1917.

However, a percentage of the indigenous Assyrian population ( known as Ashuriyun by the Arabs ) resisted this process, Assyrian Aramaic language and Church of the East Christianity were still dominant in the north, as late as the 11th and 12th centuries AD.

The Arabs were unable to succeed in converting the population because of constant revolts from the mountain tribes in the Afghan area.

The Arabs were unable to succeed in converting the population of that area because of constant revolts from the mountain tribes.

The population of the Banda Islands prior to Dutch conquest is generally estimated to have been around 13, 000-15, 000 people, some of whom were Malay and Javanese traders, as well as Chinese and Arabs.

The remaining 5 % of Djibouti's population primarily consists of Arabs, Ethiopians and Europeans ( French and Italians ).

There also exists a small Nepali population, large numbers of Arabs, Filipinos and an economic elite of Sinhalese from Sri Lanka.

The Arabs converted the indigenous Berber population to Islam, but Berber tribes retained their customary laws.

Arabs, who make up 20. 4 % of the population, are the largest ethnic minority in Israel.

The current mayor is a Christian. The greater Nazareth metropolis area had a population of 210, 000, including 125, 000 ( 59 %) Israeli Arabs and 85, 000 Jews ( 41 %).

The population consisted of nomadic and settled Arabs and a significant proportion of slaves brought originally from East Africa.

In 1988, Ze ' evi established the Moledet ( Homeland ) party advocating the population transfer of Arabs from Judea and Samaria ( West Bank ) and the Gaza Strip to the neighboring Arab countries.

Syria's population is 71 % Sunni Muslim ( includes most Arabs and Kurds, and 16 % other Muslim groups ( including 11. 0 % Alawi, Shi ' a Muslims ( 1. 1 % Imami / Twelvers and 1. 0 % Ismailis / Seveners ), 3. 2 % Druze, 1. 3 % Nusairism, 0. 7 Alevism ( all Turkomans ), Yezidism 0. 2 %) and 10 % Christian, with a Syrian Jewish community of a few dozen.

The central claim of Kahanism is that the vast majority of the Arabs of Israel are now, and will continue to be, enemies of Jews and Israel itself, and that a Jewish theocratic state, governed by Halakha, absent of a voting non-Jewish population and including Israel, the West Bank, Gaza Strip, areas of modern-day Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and even Iraq should be created.

The majority of the Jewish population lived on the outskirts of Hebron along the roads to Be ' ersheba and Jerusalem, renting homes owned by Arabs, a number of which were built for the express purpose of housing Jewish tenants, with a few dozen within the city around the synagogues.

Although the population exchange of the Arabs of Palestine with Jews from across the Arab world took place around the period of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the idea of the transfer of Arabs from Palestine, usually to Iraq ( where there was a sizable Iraqi Jewish population ), had been considered about half a century beforehand.

The future of Palestine was contentious from the beginning of the Palestine Mandate since the British declared support for a " Jewish national home in Palestine " even though most of the population were Muslim, Jewish and Christian Arabs.

The Arab population in the Jewish areas was to be removed, by force if necessary, and vice versa, although this would mean the movement of far more Arabs than Jews.

In attempt to close the gap between Arab and Jewish education sectors, the Israeli education minister announced an affirmative action policy, promising that Arabs would be granted 25 % of the education budget, more than their proportional share in the population ( 18 %).

Although his status as " leader of the Arabs " was badly damaged by the Israeli victory over the Arab armies in the Six-Day War, as well as Egypt's failure to win the subsequent War of Attrition against Israel, many in the general Arab population still view Nasser as a symbol of Arab dignity and freedom.

Despite the interest of Baghdad displayed in Ray, the number of Arabs there was insignificant, and the population consisted of Persians of all classes.

Under the Arabs, the Christian population was persecuted and moved to the mountains.