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08/12/1987

The first Intifada begins.

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09/12/1969

Through resolution 2535 (XXIV) the United Nations General Assembly reaffirms Palestinian rights.

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11/12/1947

Zionists terrorist attacks on buses in Haifa.

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11/12/1948

United Nations General Assembly issues Declaration 194.

It starts by officialising the establishment of a Conciliation Commission formed by France, Turkey and the USA to guarantee public order and access to Jerusalem city and holy sites;

the resolution is best known for sanctioning that the Nakba refugees should be allowed to go back to their homes or receive compensation if they choose not to do so. Israel has ever since ignored the resolution although it was made a condition for its admission into the United Nations.

Full text in English of the Declaration at the UN website
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15/12/1961

Nazi SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962) sentenced to death in Jerusalem for his role in the Holocaust.

Soon after getting into the SD (security section of the SS) in 1934, he realised that specialising in Jewish questions would propel his career. Years before the nazi regime actually undertook mass murder, Eichmann was sent on a trip to Palestine in 1937 as a guest of the Zionist militia Haganah to discuss common Nazi-Zionist interests such as transportation of European Jews. He is reported to have been gifted there a medal bearing an engraved nazi Swastika on one side and a Zionist David star on the other and to have declared that “if I were a Jew I would be a Zionist”. He was expelled from Palestine by the British.

Lt Colonel Eichmann later rose to a top position in the Nazi hierarchy in 1939 when he was appointed to lead section 4 of the Gestapo and to design the Third Reich policy towards the Jews. He proved to be an efficient organiser in the implementation of the Holocaust in which his role was prominent.

He was captured by Israeli secret services in Argentina in 1961 where he lived under a false identity and brought to Israel to stand trial and finally hanged on May 31st, 1962 in an attempt to reinforce Israel’s alleged legitimacy as the legatee of the Holocaust victims. The prosecution indeed drew a large international attention and unrest in the Israeli establishment when undesired elements were unveiled the trial.

This is especially the case of the 1944 pact between Eichmann and Kastner which sealed the fate of the Hungarian Jewry. Dr Rudolf Kastner who was then vicechairman of the Jewish Agency Rescue Committee agreed with Eichmann that six hundred Jews considered useful for the Zionist enterprise (capital-holders, technicians, etc..) were to be saved on the condition that silence was kept about the rest in full knowledge that they were to be transported to the gas chambers. Kastner met his end in the form of a vengeance killing at the hand of a Hungarian Jew.

Read more in English at: www.historyplace.com

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16/12/1991

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) passed resolution 4686 repealing resolution 3379 which on November 10th 1975 stated that “Zionism is a form of racism”. This decision leads us to formulate two observations:

The UNGA is no more than an expression of member states whose attitudes waver depending on the balance powers of world politics. While the 1975 resolution was adopted in the peak of the cold war, the USSR had collapsed by 1991 and many countries who had supported UNGA 3379 sixteen years before were then more fearful of opposing the US wishes;

Through Resolution 4686 the UNGA merely stops asserting that “Zionism is a form of racism” and it does not say that “Zionism is NOT a form of racism”.
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16/12/1991

Israel deports 415 Palestinian civilians to Lebanon.

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17/12/1992

Israel began pulling its troops out of the West Bank city of Jenin, provisionally ending 28 years of occupation.

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30/12/1947

Ballad al Shaikh massacre of 60 Palestinians.

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30/12/1993

Israel and the Vatican signed an agreement on mutual recognition, allegedly pursueing the purpose to end 2,000 years of unfriendly Christian-Jewish relations.