Marc39
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What I said was correct.
What is correct is Arabs initiated a war of extermination of the Jews...
Historian Bernard Lewis...
[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Islam-History-Bernard-Lewis/dp/0912050357]Amazon.com: Islam in History (9780912050355): Bernard Lewis: Books[/ame]On 29 November, 1947, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution approving the partition of mandatory Palestine into three components: a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an international zone. As the Mandate came to an end, the Jews began to form their state; the Palestinian Arab leaders and the Arab governments rejected the partition resolution and went to war to prevent its implementation
Of course the Palestinians rejected the partition and they had every right to do so. The partition plan died as it should have. The UN did not create Israel.
UN Res. 181, issued in 1947, calling for Israeli and Arab statehood never mentioned "Palestinians" The term "Palestinian" was first used by Arabs in the late 1960s. Jews, in fact, were known as Palestinians prior to Israeli statehood.
The Arabs rejected statehood in 1947, before which they rejected statehood in 1937.
Had Arabs accepted statehood, perhaps, today, they'd have a viable society, like the Israelis, instead of living as miserable professional refugees for 60 years.
Another example of poor decision-making on the part of ignorant Arabs.
The UN provided international legitimacy to Israeli statehood. It was the League of Nations, earlier, that established the legal foundation for Israeli statehood via issuance of the binding Palestine Mandate establishing Palestine as the Jewish National Home.
Now, even you know, Forum Dunce.