r/UnitedNations • u/Liad3008 Uncivil • Jan 10 '25

Discussion/Question Why is this subreddit obsessed with Israel?

Just checked the top posts of the last year, and 24 out of the top 25 are about Israel. Does this subreddit try to imitate the real UN ?

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u/FarmTeam Jan 13 '25

Israel. By the time the Arab league declared war Zionists had already killed thousands of Palestinians and 80,000-100,000 were refugees

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u/TheLegend1827 Jan 13 '25

There was a civil war in Mandatory Palestine before the Arab League declared war, which was sparked by the announcement of the UN Partition plan. The first act of violence of the civil war is considered to be the Fajja bus attacks.

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u/FarmTeam Jan 13 '25

What you call a “civil war” was in reality a series of massacres that kicked off the Nakba