The Washington Post's chronology of Palestinian-Israeli conflict are replete with Palestinian talking points: There are some curious omissions in the Post's narrative

American Thinker ^ | 05/18/2021 | Michael Berenhaus

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In "Israeli-Palestinian conflict: A chronology" (5/16/21), The Washington Post begins the chronology of the conflict with "a coalition of Arab states, allied with Palestinian factions, battle Israeli forces."

In the Post's account, the battle "grows" at the "end of the British Mandate for Palestine and Israel's declaration of Independence in May 1948." There is no explanation for why this conflict "grows." The Post doesn't feel it necessary to state that the war began as an Arab attempt "to drive the Jews into the sea," as the Arab leaders put it, while the Jews were forced to fight for their lives.

The local Arabs, who decades later started calling themselves Palestinians, were actually offered a state of their own by the U.N. — two states for two peoples. But they and the neighboring Arab countries — who made no distinction between Palestinians and other Arabs — wanted it all. O

nly 30 years before that, there were no sovereign Arab nations — not one — it was all ruled by the Turks as the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire lasted for 400 years. So Palestinians weren't at all different from Jordanians, Egyptians, Syrians, etc. They conveniently named themselves Palestinians to project the image that "Palestine" had been their country since time immemorial.

Yes, the chronology curiously left out the offer for a Palestinian state in 1947 by the U.N. and several offers fairly recently, one of which would have given the Palestinians 100% of the West Bank (including land swaps), 100% of Gaza, and a capital in East Jerusalem. There was even an offer to repatriate many of the original Palestinians who had been displaced from Israel in prior wars.

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The one-sided chronology was replete with Palestinian talking points. Nowhere was it mentioned that at the same time as Palestinians were displaced in the 1948 war, 100% of all Jews living in the West Bank and East Jerusalem were either murdered or expelled by the Arabs.

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