Tel-Aviv was once a suburb of the old city, Jaffa....

[kentuck]

This is a fairly good historical account of the Jews in Israel pre-1948.
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As a result of the city's expansion, the need arose to broaden the city limits. Over a nine
year period (1879-1888), the Ottoman administration demolished the walls, filling in and
paving their course to make a main thoroughfare around the Old City (today Yefet Street).
In the adjacent area houses, stores, khans and storehouses were erected.
In the northern part of Jaffa, Jewish residents built the neighborhoods of Neve Zedek
(1887) and Neve Shalom (1890). At the beginning of the 20th century, Jaffa was still under
Ottoman rule. At that time there was a significant rise in Jewish immigration to the Holy
Land, and the lack of dwelling accommodations led to the establishment of what was then
a suburb - Tel Aviv.
During World War 1, at the time of the struggle between British and Turkish forces
in Palestine, all the residents of Jaffa (including Jews) who refused to accept Turkish
nationality were banished. On November 16, 1917, a victorious British army marched into
Jaffa. The city, like the other parts of the country, passed into the hands of the British
government, and its citizens returned to reside there once again.
Rapid growth of the Jewish community in Jaffa caused open hostility toward it on the part
of the city's Arab residents. Anti-Jewish riots by the Arabs in 1920, 1936 and 1939 brought
about a mass exodus of Jaffa's Jews to Tel Aviv. Many buildings in Jaffa were torn down
by the British to give them greater mobility and better control over the gangs of rioters.
Close to the time of the British withdrawal from Palestine (April 1948), the troops of the
two Jewish underground paramilitary organizations, the Haganah and Irgun Zvai Leumi
("Etzel") began preparing for military action against the Arabs of Jaffa. First the Etzel
soldiers shelled Jaffa from the area of Neve Shalom. After some difficult fighting, the
Jewish troops reached the seashore and bisected Jaffa by cutting off the Manshiya quarter
from the rest of the city. Afterwards Haganah forces captured the main Arab bases in the
area surrounding Jaffa and encircled the city. On May 14, 1948, the Arabs of Jaffa signed
a surrender agreement. Two years later, Jaffa and Tel Aviv were united to become one
city, Tel Aviv-Jaffa.

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[billbuckhead]

1. So the British destroyed a Muslim area through immigration

Any lessons there? I guess they need Syria's water now for all those immigrants.

[porphyrian]

2. Yeah, colonialism is so good to indigenous cultures. - n/t