may 14, 1948, just one day before david ben- gurion, leader of the jewish agency , announced the end of the british protectorate over palestine. this new country had taken over 78% of palestinian lands under the trusteeship. forcing more than 700,000 palestinians to leave their homes and become refugees in neighboring countries. their movement was calculated. palestine was not free. they say that palestine was barhut. palestine had its own nation, it was a nation of active , intelligent, intellectual and creative people , they built an infrastructure, not only in haifa, but also in jaffa, akka, sefa, tabrian , bisan, al-nasarah, ramla, quds, and in other cities of palestine, all these institutions were built by the palestinians themselves, and they themselves built their country's economy and the movement. zionism had calculated all this when they carried out ethnic cleansing and evicted the palestinians , leaving all these institutions and buildings for the use of jewish settlers and immigrants who came from all over the world. for example, when ethnic cleansing was carried out in t

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