FACT CHECK · HISTORY
Claim: Terror only started because of the occupation
FALSETHE ANSWER
Attacks on Jews hit 1920, 1921, 1929 (Hebron: 67 dead) and 1936-39. Fatah (1959) and PLO (1964) formed and raided before 1967. Occupation is real context, not the start.
SOURCE
Shaw Commission 1930; PLO Charter 1964 Art. 24; B. Morris, Righteous Victims
PEOPLE ALSO SAY
- “Because of the occupation”
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- “It started with the occupation”
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