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Full history of Israel over the years. After WWII It goes on for decades.Note there is never a suggestion mentioning Palestinian people because they don’t exist. Can’t post whole history here, look at link:
The United Nations unjustly partitioned Palestine.
• Israel was created to compensate the Jews for the Holocaust.
• The partition plan gave the Jews most of the land, including all the fertile areas.
• Israel usurped all of Palestine in 1948.
• Before 1948, the Palestinian Arabs were never offered a state.
• The UN should have created a unitary Palestinian state.
• Arab leaders were prepared to compromise to avoid bloodshed.
The Jews started the war with the Arabs in 1948.
• The United States was the only nation that criticized the Arab attack on Israel.
• The West’s support of Israel allowed the Jews to conquer Palestine.
• The Arab economic boycott was a response to the creation of Israel.
MYTH
The United Nations unjustly partitioned Palestine.
FACT
As World War II ended, the magnitude of the Holocaust became known.This accelerated demands for a resolution to the question of Palestine so the Displaced Persons, survivors of Hitler’s Final Solution, might find sanctuary in their own homeland. The existing Jewish community, the yishuv, was also thriving and ready for independence.
The British tried to work out an agreement acceptable to Arabs and Jews, but their insistence on the former’s approval guaranteed failure because the Arabs would not make any concessions.
The British subsequently turned the issue over to the UN in February 1947.
The UN established a Special Commission on Palestine (UNSCOP) to devise a solution. Delegates from eleven nations went to the area and found what had long been apparent: the conflicting national aspirations of Jews and Arabs could not be reconciled.1
When they returned, the delegates of seven nations—Canada, Czechoslovakia, Guatemala, The Netherlands, Peru, Sweden, and Uruguay—recommended the establishment of two separate states, Jewish and Arab, to be joined by economic union, with Jerusaleman internationalized enclave. Three nations—India, Iran, and Yugoslavia—recommended a unitary state with Arab and Jewish provinces. Australia abstained.
The Jews of Palestine were not satisfied with the small territory allotted to them by the Commission, nor were they happy that Jerusalem was severed from the Jewish State; nevertheless, they welcomed the compromise. The Arabs rejected UNSCOP’s recommendations.
The ad hoc committee of the UN General Assemblyrejected the Arab demand for a unitary Arab state. The majority recommendation for partition was viewed as a more just solution and subsequently adopted by a vote of 33 to 13 with ten abstentions on November 29, 1947.2
MYTH
Israel was created to compensate the Jews for the Holocaust.
FACT
The Holocaust demonstrated the need for a haven where Jews would control their fate and not be dependent on the goodwill of others. It also gave the quest for statehood greater urgency and generated sympathy for the survivors in the American Jewish community and the general public.
This created a certain amount of pressure on the Truman administration to support partition. Truman explained his position in his memoirs, “My purpose was then and later to help bring about the redemption of the pledge of the Balfour Declarationand the rescue of at least some of the victims of Nazism.” He said his policy was neither pro-Arab nor pro-Zionist; it was American because “it aimed at the peaceful solution of a world trouble spot” and “was based on the desire to see promises kept and human misery relieved.”4
In May 1947, Soviet delegate Andrei Gromyko said:
The fact that no Western European State has been able to ensure the defense of the elementary rights of the Jewish people and to safeguard it against the violence of the fascist executioners explains the aspirations of the Jews to establish their own State. It would be unjust not to take this into consideration and to deny the right of the Jewish people to realize this aspiration.5
This statement was disingenuous; the Soviet Union’ssupport for creating a Jewish state had nothing to do with the Holocaust or compassion for the Jews. The Soviets were primarily interested in seeing the British leave Palestine.
Continued, quite long, the damn negotiations were through various years
(https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/myths-facts-partition-and-the-war-of-1948#google_vignette