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So why do the surrounding Arab countries so detest their noble peace loving, life loving Arab Palestinian brothers? Is it actually possible because they know the Palestinians best?
"Publicly, the Zionist leadership accepted the UN partition plan, although they hoped somehow to expand the borders allotted to the Jewish state.The Arab rejection of the UN Partition Plan sealed the fate of the Palestinians. For which the Palestinians blame Israel. It's called Palestinian mentality.
And the Jews would then be wiped out by the muslims with your full approval. Way back in 1919 the British government had a deal with the local arab leaders to allocate 70% of the land to the muslims and 30% to the Jews. The land was thus given to the muslims and called trans Jordan. After WW2 the British renaged on the deal with the Jews and decided to given them just 15% and the rest to the muslims. The Jews accepted this and set about creating their own nation. The muslims wanted everything so attacked the Jews with the intention of wiping them out so they could never form a nation and taking the land for themselves. Things did not turn out how they expected and Israel came into being as a sovereign state. The only Jews that were against the partion plan were the extremist cult of Neturei Karta, who are of no significance.
"The Palestinian Arabs and the surrounding Arab states rejected the UN plan and regarded the General Assembly vote as an international betrayal.
"Some argued that the UN plan allotted too much territory to the Jews.
"Most Arabs regarded the proposed Jewish state as a settler colony and argued that it was only because the British had permitted extensive Zionist settlement in Palestine against the wishes of the Arab majority that the question of Jewish statehood was on the international agenda at all.
"Fighting began between the Arab and Jewish residents of Palestine days after the adoption of the UN partition plan. The Arab military forces were poorly organized, trained and armed.
"In contrast, Zionist military forces, although numerically smaller, were well organized, trained and armed.
"By the spring of 1948, the Zionist forces had secured control over most of the territory allotted to the Jewish state in the UN plan.
"On May 15, 1948, the British evacuated Palestine, and Zionist leaders proclaimed the state of Israel. Neighboring Arab states (Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq) then invaded Israel claiming that they sought to 'save' Palestine from the Zionists.
"In fact, the Arab rulers had territorial designs on Palestine and were no more anxious to see a Palestinian Arab state emerge than the Zionists."
The United Nations Partition Plan | Middle East Research and Information Project