Zionism movement and evolution of the transfer notion across the Zionist thought; the transfer of the Palestinian refugees

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Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTII

DECLARATIONIII

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1

Background1

Significance1

Research Objectives:1

Reliability/Dependability2

Validity2

Ethical Considerations3

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW4

Zionism - Definition and Early History4

Background4

The 'Empty Land'6

Disposable People6

Transfer7

The Transfer Committees8

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY9

CHAPTER 4: DISCUSSION11

The 1948 Exodus11

Lydda and Ramle11

The Haganah and Deir Yassin12

Clearing the Galilee12

Erasing Villages13

Legalizing Expropriation13

CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION15

REFERENCES16

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Background

Zionism, the movement for the national resurgence of the Jewish people, is demonized in the Saudi textbooks. It is presented as an evil movement, based on racism and aggression which are claimed to be an inherent part of the Jewish religion. Zionism's ultimate goal, according to the Saudi textbooks, is world domination, as stated in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which are described as the secret resolutions of the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, in 1897. Zionism's methods are as demonic as its goals, and it constitutes a grave danger to Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East. Zionism is said to be an ally of Western Imperialism and is compared to Nazism. However, although told from an Arab perspective, the story of Zionism's course of action in Palestine is narrated in matter-of-fact language

Significance

This research is of high importance as it will open new doors for future research and it will open new doors for more research.

Research Objectives:

The objectives of conducting this research are as follows:

How the Zionism movement originated?

What were the changes in the movement?

What were the reasons behind the transfer of refugees in 1948?

Reliability/Dependability

Long & Johnson (2000) provided several definitions of reliability, which they observed as being analogous to dependability, in their article regarding the requirement for rigor in qualitative research (p. 31). They cited Polit & Hungler (1995) in defining reliability as the ability of the instrument to measure that which it is measuring and LoBiond-Wood & Haber (1998) whose definition was “the consistency or constancy of a measuring instrument” (p. 30). As previously observed, the researcher herself is the research instrument. These definitions reiterate the requirement for the researcher to bracket out the preconceptions and remain as detached as possible (Long & Johnson, p. 30). Long & Johnson presented a third definition from Hammersley (1992) that stated that reliability in qualitative research “refers to the degree of consistency with which instances are assigned in the similar category by different observers or by the similar observer on different occasions” (p. 30). This last definition recognized a more active role for the researcher than the first two definitions, however, all “relate to confidence in data collection”.

Validity

While reliability referred to the constancy and repeatability of the ...