...the pervasive idea that the UN authorized the creation of Israel demands specific correction.
No one here on this board on Team Israel argues that the UN authorized the creation of Israel. We all know that the UN does not possess the legal capacity to create States nor to authorize their creation. At best, the UN provides one possible source of recognition.
The UN sponsored a ridiculous partition-proposal to grant 56% of historic Palestine
There is no such thing as "historic" Palestine as a legal entity beyond a designation for a specific territory -- like Appalachia or the Pacific Northwest. These geographical designations do not in any way suggest or confer sovereignty.
Further, Palestine as relevant in this context included Jordan. Therefore, 77% of the territory was removed from any possibility of coming under Jewish sovereignty and assigned to Arab sovereignty. It is false to say that the partition plan granted 56% of Palestine to the Jewish people.
to a Jewish minority that legally owned less than 5% of the land.
Repeat after me: private land ownership is not sovereignty, private land ownership is not sovereignty.
Repeat after me: minorities have rights, minorities have rights
The Arab States of course rejected the recommendation, along with India.
That part is true. (Though slightly ironic since India was partitioned. Twice.)
Following this the Zionist terrorists
correction: The nascent State of Israel.
launched a well-organized terror-offensive /ethnic-cleansing
correction: launched a well-organized military defensive action against the illegally present regular and irregular armies of five Arab States, as well as hostile Arab residents who attacked Israel. Part of that defensive action, as was normal practice at the time, was to secure towns and villages. For a wide number of reasons involved in military action in residential places -- BOTH the Arab and Jewish residents were displaced.
driving 800,000 native Palestinians from their homes and property
note also that nearly one million Jewish people were actually ethnically cleansed from the surrounding ME countries. I know it was an actual ethnic cleansing because there was no WAR or hostilities occurring in those ME countries at the time and therefore had no cause or justification that is either legally or morally correct.
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in the wake of this crime
self-defense is not a crime
the foul Jews announced the 'new nation of Israel'
yes, they most certainly did, in keeping with the legal demands of the Mandate for Palestine which acknowledged an already existing right of the Jewish people to a homeland in their historical and ancestral territory.
---which in reality was occupied Palestine.
Which, according to all laws at the time was the place for the reconstitution of the national home (State) for the Jewish people. One can not occupy land one is legally entitled to.
Under heavy western pressure from the Truman administration the United Nations was directed to 'recognize and legitimize' the nation of Israel
Which the UN did thus adding a critical piece of the sovereignty criteria -- recognition and the ability to enter into agreements with other States and international entities.
--thereby violating the wording and spirit of its own charter, sworn to protect and defend the residency rights of native peoples
ALL peoples -- not just Arab peoples. That includes the rights of the Jewish people.