We have all heard a gazillion times that Israel accepted resolution 181 and the Palestinians rejected it. It is true that the Palestinians rejected the partition of their country as they had the right to do and as anyone else in the world would have done.P F Tinmore, et al,
Yes, they did. You are making arbitrary requirements so as to fit your agenda.
(COMMENT)Israel never claimed the land or recognized the proposed borders of resolution 181.
The Declaration of Independence clearly states it coordinated with the UNPC in accordance with General Assembly Resolution 181(II). The border dispute arose after the Invasion and External Interference of the Arab League. The resulting tactical military outcome changed some of the territorial controls.
However, let's look at Israel's so called acceptance.
1) Israel rejected the proposed borders and was attacking and expelling Palestinians outside of those borders before its declaration.So, what part of resolution 181 did Israel accept?
2) Israel rejected an international Jerusalem by attacking and expelling Palestinians from Jerusalem before its declaration.
3) Israel rejected the rights of the non Jewish population by attacking the Muslims and Christians in Palestine.
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You periodically make these claims as if there is some substance to them. You overlook the point that the Arab Armies conspired to attack Israel even before it was proclaimed. It was an effort, by the Arabs, to use force (right of conquest) to attain control of territory the UN said was Partitioned. The Arab chose invasion and war; discarding the Rule of Law. And they now live with the outcome of that set of decisions.
You cannot set your own criteria - under your agenda - and demand that - a half century after the fact, they be met. The Arab League Armies crossed their borders, invading the Partitioned Territory, and openly attacked the Jewish Nation in order to overturn the establishment of Israel. Remembering that Israel was established in accordance with the steps preparatory to independence set by the UN. The Arabs attempted to overturn by force, the right of self-determination exercised by the Israeli People. The Arabs were the aggressor, the external interference, and the territorial invader; leaving their sovereignty and entering another. They couldn't have been more in the wrong then if they were an Axis Power.
The concept of inalienable national rights of the people applies equally as well to the Jewish People as it does to the Palestinian People.
Most Respectfully,
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1) arab muslims had also rejected the borders, and in fact rejected the whole resolution. In doing so they also broke treaties that had been signed years earlier giving them trans Jordan and Syria. They had been attacking the Jews since 632 C.E. and expelling them from their land in Palestine.
2) arab muslims rejected an international Jerusalem by attacking and murdering jews that lived there contrary to the UN charter. They then declared Jerusalem a muslim city and started to remove all traces of Judaism from it.
3) arab muslims rejected the rights of the Jewish population by attacking the Jews in Palestine and claiming to want to wipe them all out.
So what did the arab muslims do to honour their treaties and UN res 181
