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OCTOBER

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01/10/1946	Zionist terror attack on British Embassy in Rome.
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06/10/1973	War of Yom Kippur: Egypt and Syria attempt to liberate their occupied territories (Sinai and Golan Heights respectively).
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08/10/1990	Al Aqsa Mosque Massacre.
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08/10/1996	Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's first public visit to Israel to talk with Israeli President Ezer Weizman at his private residence.
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15/10/1953	Commando unit 101 led by Ariel Sharon massacred civilians at Qibya.
	Read more in English at www.palestinehistory.com/mass04.htm
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16/10/1886	David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973) was born at Plonsk, Poland as David Gryn.
	He was one of the most prominent founders of zionism along with Theodor Herzl and Chaim Weizmann. Ben Gurion was among those wo brought the project to fruition as far as being now revered as the “father of the nation”. In opposition, the Palestinians regard him as a nocious and racist character largely instrumental in their dispossession.
	Ben Gurion spent his life since his teens working for the furtherance of the zionist enterprise. At the age of 18, he joined a socialist-oriented zionist group named “Poalei Zion” (“Workers of Zion”) which is considered as predecessor to the present Labour Party. He moved to Palestine in 1906 where he participated to the kibbutzim movement and to the Zionist militias until he was expelled by the Turkish authorities. He came back to Palestine after the war under the uniform of the Jewish Legion - Jabotinsky's militia integrated into the British army – and he founded segregationist trade-union Histadrut and was chairman at the WZO (World Zionist Organisation) and Jewish Agency (aimed at fostering Zionist immigration to Palestine).
	In that time, he evolved from his youth beliefs upon confrontation to realities: it was not possible to reach Jewish majority through immigration and the Palestinians opposed the expoliation of their homeland. Then after, Ben Gurion and the bulk of zionism moved to embraced far more radical lines of thoughts and action , and especially support to ethnic cleansing policies which where implemented in 1948 (Nakba).
	After he proclaimed the state of Israel in May 1948, Ben Gurion served as Prime Minister and Minister of Defense and contributed to the development of the new state and its polical life until 1953 and intermitently until he died.
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24/10/1945	The United Nations Organisation was founded.
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27/10/1978	The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to Menachem Begin (Israel) and Anwar Sadat (Egypt).
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29/10/1948	Al-Duwayima Massacre by the regular armed forces of Israel (between 80 and 100 civilians reported killed).
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29/10/1956	Israel attacks Egypt with aid of France and Britain.
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29/10/1956	Massacre at Kufr Kasem (49 dead):
	Kafr Qassem is a town in a zone within the state of Israel known as the “Triangle”, where Arabs remained a majority even after 1948 ethnic cleansing and it borders with the West Bank which was to be conquered 11 years after these events. As all Arab-majority areas, it was under military regime until decades after the state of Israel was created.
	On that day – at the very moment when Israel attacked Egypt in collusion with France and the United Kingdom, the border guard toured the Triangle town to inform that the curfew was moved from 6 p.m. to 5 p.m. The “mukhtar” (local chieftain) protested that there was no time to make it known to the inhabitants who were at work outside the town.
	At 4.55 p.m. the soldiers took position and when the workers came back to town, 43 were shot in cold blood, for the crime of breaching a new curfew hour they knew nothing about.
	Pressure from left-wing and Arab members of parliament and close-related medias forced the authorities to open an investigation and a military trial. Colonel Yishishkar Shedmi who changed the curfew hour and reportedly gave the go-ahead, was only convicted for exceeding his competence. The other indicted were condemned to penalties ranging from 7 and 17 years, though all of them were released before they served three years.
	Major Avraham Melinki who was comander of the border police at the town and ordered to shoot was promoted shortly after his release from jail. He went ahead with his military career and Prime Minister Ben Gurion assigned him to managing security of Dimona nuclear reactor. He manned a mechanised brigade in 1967 and was wounded in 1973 when his helicopter crashed to the ground in occupied Golan.
	In 1991 reporter Rupik Rozenthal accessed military and justice archives and uncovered that the operation was part of a plan designed at evicting the Palestinians to Jordan in case of a Jordanian intervention in the conflict alongside Egypt... which did not happen and so the plan was not carried out in full.
	Read more in English at: www.kufur-kassem.com/english/english.htm