Last lecture!!

We left off- Israelis declaring Independence. Jordanians took over the east
The Palistenians ended up with nothing. Jordan arrived on May 16, 1948. The occupation by both Israel and Jordan was considered illegal by the UN. The “Catastrophe” referred both to the establishment of Israeli state and the assertion of Jordanian control of the West Bank. Jordan develops tourism when they realized there was a lot of money to be made. There was one hotel in 1948, and 70 hotels by 1967. The Israeles stay there till ’67 and ’68.
Soviets tell Syria that there is going to be an attack.

During the British Mandate, They were western occupiers in control of Palestine. They were in control of the King David Hotel and it was their administrative base for military operations in Trans Jordan. Igrugun (an armed paramilitary group that is not affiliated with a particular recognized state) bombed the hotel to kill what they perceived to be military targets– is this terrorism? Or enemy combats? Within 21st century Jerusalem the apartheid fence was put up. The Israelis are building the wall in and around the villages.