Posted on 11/28/2017 10:23:48 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Seventy years ago, the United Nations created Israel. At least, that’s how Turtle Bay’s boosters and Israel’s critics remember it.
In reality, the UN General Assembly’s vote of Nov. 29, 1947, to partition Palestine merely recognized reality. The Jews had built their state; the UN acknowledged this fact. And getting the history right is essential to any hope of lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Early Zionists started arriving to join their fellow Jews in their ancestral land at the end of the 19th century. Bit by bit (or “a dunam here, a dunam there,” as their slogan went) they built up not only their numbers but their institutions. By the partition vote, there was a state in place.
This week that historic vote is commemorated twice, demonstrating the difference between two national movements.
At the Queens Museum, the site of the 1947 tally, Israelis and Americans (including Vice President Mike Pence) reenacted the drama on Tuesday. They also tried to revive the euphoria among Zionists, as they celebrated around the world, from New York to Tel Aviv.
At Turtle Bay, meanwhile, the General Assembly will solemnly mark the date on Wednesday, as it does every year, by conducting an “international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people” — remembering one of the only consequential decisions the UN ever took by celebrating those who rejected it.
Unlike the Queens festivities, speakers at Turtle Bay will lament the fact that only half of the partition plan’s promise was fulfilled: Palestine, while recognized at the UN as a non-voting state, is still not independent. It’s yet to be recognized by many of the leading democracies, including America.
Why? Because the Arabs, as they were called in the 1947 partition plan, never really undertook the tasks required to become a state.
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That is never what the “Palestinians” wanted. They invented the name “Palestinian” to tell the world that they are out to destroy Israel and nothing else.
Correction: they want to destroy Israel and create a new Caliphate.
[ Seventy years ago, the United Nations created Israel ]
And the world has no idea what’s coming.
[[To get a state, Palestinians should do what the Zionists did]]
What is that? Become God’s chosen people and obey God and conquer the land that God gave to them? Sorry- that position has already been taken by the Jewish people
Suicidal Israelis are even now sending their courts into the fray. Soon the Palestinians will have a state without firing a shot, so to speak, gifted to them by ultra-left Israelis.
IDF forces destroy Jewish homes in Netiv Ha’avot
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In reality, the UN General Assembly’s vote of Nov. 29, 1947, to partition Palestine merely recognized reality. The Jews had built their state;
Uhmmm...no, jackass.
The state of Israel existed thousands of years before you...
Balfour was a confirmation of God’s providence for the Jewish people.
Idiot...
The modern state of Israel is not a continuation of David’s kingdom. For most of it’s history it was a tributary of some other overlord nation. The so called idiot you mock is — did you read the whole thing- pro Israel and is praising the cleverness and far thinking of the early Zionists who made a nation from scratch.
I think it is clear as day; it isn’t about a 2 state solution. It is about a 1 state solution that involves the annihilation of Israel.
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There already is a Palestinian state. It’s called Jordan.
At the Queens Museum, the site of the 1947 tally, Israelis and Americans (including Vice President Mike Pence) reenacted the drama on Tuesday. They also tried to revive the euphoria among Zionists, as they celebrated around the world, from New York to Tel Aviv. At Turtle Bay, meanwhile, the General Assembly will solemnly mark the date on Wednesday, as it does every year, by conducting an “international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people” — remembering one of the only consequential decisions the UN ever took by celebrating those who rejected it.As long as the UN continues to pretend that there is such a nationality as "Palestinian" and such a state as "Palestine", it will have the same irrelevance.
My first thought is to send a copy of this article to the kurds in Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Turdkey.
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