New York (20 October 2022) -- There are reasonable grounds to conclude that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory is now unlawful under international law due to its permanence and the Israeli Government’s de-facto annexation policies, according to the first report to the General Assembly issued today by the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel.

Underlining that under international humanitarian law the occupation of territory in wartime is a temporary situation and does not deprive the occupied Power of its statehood nor its sovereignty, the three-person Commission called on the General Assembly to request an urgent Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice on the legal consequences of Israel’s continued refusal to end its occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

“Recent statements by the Secretary-General and numerous member States have clearly indicated that any attempt at unilateral annexation of a State’s territory by another State is a violation of international law and is null and void; 143 member States including Israel last week voted in favour of a General Assembly resolution reaffirming this”, stated Navi Pillay, Chair of the Commission. “Unless universally applied, including to the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, this core principle of the United Nations Charter will become meaningless”, she added.

In reaching its findings, the Commission reviewed the policies and actions employed by the Governments of Israel to maintain the occupation, and annex parts of the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The Commission’s review was based on interviews with experts and stakeholders, and submissions received following a call for submissions issued on 22 September 2021.

The 28-page report focuses on the sustenance and advancement of the settlement enterprise, including statements made by Israeli officials indicating the intent to maintain permanent control over the land in violation of international law. The Commission concludes that by continuing to occupy the territory by force, Israel incurs international responsibilities and remains accountable for violations of the rights of the Palestinians individually and as a people.

“By ignoring international law in establishing or facilitating the establishment of settlements, and directly or indirectly transferring Israeli civilians into these settlements, successive Israel governments have set facts on the ground to ensure permanent Israeli control in the West Bank”, Ms. Pillay stated.

In producing its report, the Commission reviewed Israel’s expropriation and exploitation of land and natural resources, and Israel’s restrictive urban planning and zoning policies in the West Bank, noting that land is often confiscated for military purposes but is then used for settlement construction. The Commission reviewed statements by Israeli officials indicating that Palestinian construction is seen as an impediment to Israeli settlements, requiring action such as confiscation, demolitions and displacement. The Commission also observed similar processes in East Jerusalem where the restrictive planning and zoning regimes, which have obstructed adequate housing, infrastructure and livelihoods, have contributed to shrinking space for Palestinians.

The report also points to Israeli Government policies which have had a serious and multi-faceted impact on all areas of Palestinian life, including access to clean and affordable water, which has impacted the entire Palestinian agricultural sector, limiting opportunities for livelihoods particularly affecting women.

“There is so much ‘silent harm’ and psychological trauma, that may not be immediately apparent, resulting from the erosion of economic, social and cultural rights. These debilitating processes have severe short and long-term consequences and must be urgently addressed”, said Commissioner Miloon Kothari.

The Commission dedicated a significant part of its report to reviewing the impact of Israel’s occupation and de-facto annexation policies on Palestinian human rights, noting the coercive environment intended to force Palestinians to leave their homes and alter the demographic composition of certain areas. To this effect, the Commission reviewed the demolition of homes and destruction of property, the excessive use of force by security forces, mass incarceration, settler violence, restrictions of movement, and limitations on access to livelihoods, basic necessities, services and humanitarian assistance.

The Commission emphasised that this ongoing coercive environment has fragmented Palestinian society and ensured that Palestinians are unable of fulfil their right to self-determination among other rights. The Commission also noted the extremely harmful impact of the air, land and sea blockade of Gaza on Palestinian human rights.

The report outlines a specifically damaging impact on children, who experience constant military presence, arrest and detention, frequent attacks and acts of violence, restrictions on movement, home demolition and destruction of infrastructure and property...

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/10/commission-inquiry-finds-israeli...

wombatwoody wrote on Oct 28^th, 2022 at 4:56pm:


The West Bank and Gaza were not the territory of another State in 1967 when Israel occupied them.  They were the occupied territories - not  States - by other States, Jordan and Egypt respectively, which together with Syria, attacked Israel in the 1967 war and lost. These Occupied Territories were then occupied by Israel.

The last time they were part of a State was when they were part of the Ottoman Empire which, obviously, no longer exists.


Muslim lands are 29.13 million sq km, about 20% of the total land area of Earth.  The WB and Gaza are about 6,100 sq kms. Or about 0.03% of the total Muslim lands.

wombatwoody wrote on Oct 28^th, 2022 at 4:56pm:



No, it isn't.

I found 'a 2nd opinion'........         



THIS, is international law.....

Quote:
https://aijac.org.au/resource/international-law-and-the-arab-israel-conflict/



In 1948, and 1967, Arab states surrounding the Jewish state, attacked the Jewish state, seeking to annihilate [totally remove] the Jewish state.

The Jewish state, in order to secure its own defence [once it defeated those Arab attackers] has seized some of the territory [from which Arab states previously attacked the Jewish state].




wombatwoody,

.....THESE THINGS HAPPENED BECAUSE it was Allah's will,
.....that the Arabs forces who attacked the Jewish state [1948, 1967],
would be defeated,

AND,

it was Allah's will, that through their defeat, the Jewish state would then seize MORE of its own ancient homeland, specifically, the ancient territory of JUDEA,
which the moslems had seized from others, many centuries before.



.



QUESTION;
When moslems steal another peoples land, it becomes moslem land, forever ?

Well, sorry,      NO!

e.g.
Because the Ottomans entered WWI on the side of the Germans,     moslems [Ottomans] lost sovereignty over their territories in the M.E. after WWI.

Those who gained sovereignty over the Ottomans territories in the M.E. after WWI,      eventually set aside, a small portion of those Ottomans territories in the M.E. to form a Jewish homeland, on their [the Jewish] ancient homeland, land.

And then, the local moslems, WENT BERSERKO.    < ---- that is a technical term.

And the poor dears are still crying in their tea, to this day!



IMAGE.....

http://www.protestwarrior.com/nimages/signs/large/pw_sign_22.gif     IF NO IMAGE....view the image in your browser, in an open browser page

/sarc off

Yadda wrote on Oct 28^th, 2022 at 10:48pm:


The AIJAC is a Jewish lobby group.

Great source!   

wombatwoody wrote on Oct 29^th, 2022 at 5:12am:


Population transfers would be illegal if the Occupied Territories had been the territories of a State or States at the time of their occupation by Israel.
If they has occupied, say, Lebanon.

But the Occupied territories were not part of any state since the end of the Ottoman Empire, the last State they formed part o since then they have been occupied by various States but formed no part of any.

Jasin wrote on Oct 29^th, 2022 at 5:43am:


Jewish authors, Israel Shahak, whose father lost his life in a Nazi death camp, and Norton Mazvinsky, a professor of history, have pointed out that while Islamic fundamentalism gets all the attention, i.e. the 'war on terror', it would be unwise to ignore the Jewish/Zionist variety.

In their book, Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, they explain that Jewish religious extremism is a very real threat to the world. To make their point, they provide examples of Jewish law, and how it impacts Jewish life in Israel, and more importantly, Jewish military and other public policies, which also impacts the United States and the world, especially the Muslim world.

From the Preface:


Although possessing nearly all the important social scientific properties of Islamic and Christian fundamentalism, Jewish fundamentalism is practically unknown outside of Israel and certain sections of a few other places...

As students of contemporary society and as Jews, one Israeli, one American, with personal commitments and attachments to the Middle East, we cannot help seeing Jewish fundamentalism in Israel as a major obstacle to peace in the region. Nor can we help being dismayed by the dismissal of the perniciousness of Jewish fundamentalism to peace and to its victims by those who are otherwise knowledgeable and astute and so quick to point out the violence inherent in other fundamentalist approaches to existence...

In the 1990s, Israeli sociologists and scholars in other academic fields have focused more attention than ever before upon the social effects in Israeli society of Jewish fundamentalists. The overwhelming opinion of these scholars is that the adherents of Jewish fundamentalism in Israel are hostile to democracy .The fundamentalists oppose equality for all citizens, especially non-Jews and Jewish "deviants" such as homosexuals. The great majority of religious Jews in Israel, influenced by fundamentalists, share these views to some extent. In a book review published on October 14, 1998, Baruch Kirnrnerling, a distinguished Israeli sociologist, citing evidence from a study conducted by other scholars, commented:

The values of the [Jewish] religion, at least in its Orthodox and nationalistic form that prevails in Israel, cannot be squared with democratic values. No other variable—neither nationality, nor attitudes about security, nor social or economic values, nor ethnic descent and education—so influences the attitudes of [Israeli] Jews against democratic values as does religiosity.

Seffi Rachlevsky in his book states that Rabbi Kook, the Elder, the revered father of the messianic tendency of Jewish fundamentalism (who is featured in our book), said "The difference between a Jewish soul and souls of non-Jews—all of them in all different levels—is greater and deeper than the difference between a human soul and the souls of cattle." ... Rachlevsky pointed out that Rabbi Kook's entire teaching was based upon the Lurianic Cabbala, the school of Jewish mysticism that dominated Judaism from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. One of the basic tenants of the Lurianic Cabbala is the absolute superiority of the Jewish soul and body over the non-Jewish soul and body. According to the Lurianic Cabbala, the world was created solely for the sake of Jews; the existence of non-Jews was subsidiary. If an influential Christian bishop or Islamic scholar argued that the difference between the superior souls of non-Jews and the inferior souls of Jews was greater than the difference between the human soul and the souls of cattle, he would incur the wrath of and be viewed as an anti-Semite by most Jewish scholars regardless of whatever less meaningful, positive statements he included...

The fact is that certain Jews, some of whom wield political influence, consider Jews to be superior to non-Jews and view the world as having been created only or primarily for Jews...

The fundamentalists also justify their own belief in Jewish superiority and their feeling of contempt for non-Jews; they seek to reproduce the mythical golden age in which their views would dominate. We have written this book in order to reveal the essential character of Jewish fundamentalism and its adherents. This character threatens democratic features of Israeli society. We believe that awareness is the necessary first step in opposition...

We believe that a critique of Jewish fundamentalism, which entails a critique of the Jewish past, can help Jews acquire more understanding and improve their behavior towards Palestinians, especially in the territories conquered in and occupied since 1967. We hope that our critique will also motivate other people in the Middle East to engage in criticism of their entire past in order to increase their knowledge of themselves and improve their behavior towards others in the present. All of this could constitute a major factor in bringing peace to the Middle East.

PRESS RELEASES
SPECIAL PROCEDURES
27 October 2022

Report (A/77/356)

NEW YORK (27 October 2022) – Israel’s occupation is illegal and indistinguishable from settler-colonialism, which must end as a pre-condition for the Palestinians to exercise their right to self-determination, the UN’s independent expert on the occupied Palestinian territory said today.

“For over 55 years, the Israeli military occupation has prevented the realisation of the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people, violating each component of that right and wilfully pursuing the “de-Palestinianisation” of the occupied territory,” said Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, in a report to the General Assembly.

Albanese’s report found that the Israeli occupation violates Palestinian territorial sovereignty by seizing, annexing, fragmenting, and transferring its civilian population to the occupied territory. The occupation endangers the cultural existence of the Palestinian people by erasing or appropriating symbols expressing Palestinian identity and violates Palestinians’ ability to organise themselves as a people, free from alien domination and control, by repressing Palestinian political activity, advocacy and activism.

“This is, in essence, proof of the intent to colonise the occupied territory, and manifests Israel’s policies of domination through the “strategic fragmentation” of the occupied territory,” the expert said.

According to the report, the international community’s political, humanitarian, and economic approaches to resolving the Israel/Palestine “conflict” have failed without exception.

“These approaches conflate root causes with symptoms and serve to normalise Israel’s illegal occupation instead of challenging it. This is immoral and renders the regulatory and remedial function of international law futile,” Albanese said.

The report calls for “a paradigm shift”, which entails moving away from the narrative of “conflict” between Israel and the Palestine and recognising Israel’s “intentionally acquisitive, segregationist and repressive settler-colonial occupation.”

Albanese urged the international community to formally acknowledge and condemn the settler-colonial nature of the Israeli occupation, demand an immediate end to the illegal occupation, and call on Israel to withdraw its military presence and support to Israeli civilians in the colonies. She cautioned all States against making withdrawal subject to negotiations between Israel and Palestine.

“Meaningful discussions on a political solution for Palestine can only begin when the illegal occupation is dismantled once and for all,” the expert said.

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/dismantling-israels-illegal-occupation-is-a-...

Baronvonrort wrote on Oct 29^th, 2022 at 10:30pm:

Im sure when the Italian Mafia-Vatican starts genociding all Moslems (who no longer have an empire) like the Palestinians.

I'm sure they will be asking for Israeli help, rather than throwing stones.

Frank wrote on Oct 30^th, 2022 at 8:50am:


Israeli bias is fully exposed in wombatwoody's post:

"The Rejection of Arab Self-Determination: The Struggle for Palestine and the Roots of the Arab-Israeli Crisis, by Jeremy R. Hammond". #13.

https://www.palestinehome.org/history-of-palestine-annotated-1/history-the-un-pa...

The USA has been dishonest in all its dealings with the Palestinians.

This is just that latest example of the whole US administration acting as Israel's spokesperson and uttering only Israeli propaganda.

Israeli Jews don't even realize what a mess they created for themselves.

Once the ICJ Decision is promulgated in the UN countries will be bound to shun Israel and treat it as a pariah state until it complies with the ICJ ruling.

The US will not be able to help Israel out of this hole because any entities that help Israel commit crimes will themselves be guilty of the crime.

Israeli Jews with half a brain will be leaving Israel.

No rational investor will be investing money in Israel.

Bvr should clear the trash from his garage to make room for his ethnic group, Jewish refugees from Israel.

Hamas has defeated Israel. The unarmed defenseless women and children of Gaza will escort the Jewish refugees onto the boats and planes and speed their exit to their new homelands.

Israeli Jews have committed genocide on Judaism, Zionism, and the former state of Israel, soon to be Palestine..

Tell the UN fantasists to go there and stand a watch.

Baronvonrort wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2024 at 11:50pm:


UN Resolution 181 neither partitioned Palestine nor conferred any legal authority to the Zionists for their unilateral declaration of Israel's existence.

There is a widely accepted belief that United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 “created” Israel, based upon an understanding that this resolution partitioned Palestine or otherwise conferred legal authority or legitimacy to the declaration of the existence of the state of Israel. However, despite its popularity, this belief has no basis in fact, as a review of the resolution’s history and examination of legal principles demonstrates incontrovertibly.

read more:

https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2010/10/26/the-myth-of-the-u-n-creation-of-...

Laugh till you cry wrote on Jul 24^th, 2024 at 7:06pm:



The thing about you, throbbo, is that there is NO conversation to be had with you.
You are the grusome Islamic Pallos writ small - no dialogue, no listening, no compromise, no nuffin.

Don’t be fooled. The ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 19 July that Israel’s occupation of Palestine is unlawful is earth-shattering. Israel is a rogue state, according to the world’s highest court.

For that reason, the judgment will be studiously ignored by the cabal of western states and their medias that for decades have so successfully run cover for Israel...

Western politicians and columnists will keep emphasising that the World Court is offering nothing more than an “advisory opinion” and one that is “non-binding”.

What they won’t point out is that this opinion is the collective view of the world’s most eminent judges on international law, the people best positioned to rule on the occupation’s legality.

And it is non-binding only because the western powers who control our international bodies plan to do nothing to implement a decision that doesn’t suit them.

Nonetheless, the ruling will have dramatic consequences for Israel, and its western patrons, even if those consequences will take months, years or even decades to play out...


Apartheid rule

The World Court’s ruling is most significant in that it permanently blows apart western states’ cover story about Israel.

The judges point out that Israel’s permanent occupation of the territories, and its transfer of Jewish settlers into them, has necessitated the development of two separate and distinct systems of laws.

One is for the Jewish settlers, enshrining for them the rights enjoyed by Israelis. Palestinians, by contrast, must submit to the whims of an alien and belligerent military regime.

There is a word for such an arrangement: apartheid.

Over the past decade, a consensus had already emerged in the world’s human rights community - from Amnesty International to Human Rights Watch - that Israel was an apartheid state.

Now the world’s highest judicial body has declared that it agrees.

Apartheid is a crime against humanity. This means that Israeli officials are war criminals, quite aside from the crimes they are currently committing in Gaza.

That was why the Israeli media reported panic inside the Israeli government at the ICJ ruling.

Officials fear that it will leave the International Criminal Court, its sister court, with no option but to issue arrest warrants against Netanyahu and his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, as already requested by its chief prosecutor.

It is also likely to strengthen the ICC’s resolve to prosecute more senior Israeli officials for crimes associated with Israel’s settlement programme.

A former Israeli foreign ministry official told the Haaretz newspaper that the World Court ruling had punctured Israel’s claim to be a western-style state: “The democratic aura is no longer protecting us as it did before."


https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/icj-clears-fog-hiding-western-support-isra...

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Aug 20^th, 2024 at 11:51pm:


Wrong as usual: Israel ceased to exist under the emperor  Hadrian, and all Jews were expelled from the land.

In 1947, the West-dominated UN voted to partition  Palestine, resulting in the birth of "Islamic terrorism". 


Quote:


Oz blacks have only got back 50% of the land; you want Israelis to get 100% of their former lands. 

tallowood wrote on Aug 21^st, 2024 at 1:21pm:



The 4th century figures are misleading; the Christian Byzantines banished Jews from Jerusalem, even if a majority in 'Palestina'  were in fact Jews. 

In fact the conquering Caliph in the 7th century allowed Jews to return to Jerusalem.

But the point is: "Judea" - eradicated by Hadrian - ceased to belong to Jews, until the UN partitioned Palestine, allowing Jews to reclaim half of Palestine.

As for the illegal Jewish occupation: both Hamas and Netanyahu are war criminals sought by the ICC for war crimes, as noted by Senator Bernie Sanders (a Jew)  recently.        

tallowood wrote on Aug 21^st, 2024 at 2:23pm:


And what has any of that to do with the fact Jews were a minority in Palestine during the British Mandate era, leading up to the UN Partition? 

And Israel's current illegal occupation of  the WB.

wombatwoody wrote on Aug 22^nd, 2024 at 10:36pm:


... and Blaxie, Wentie and Lawsie went across the mountains (some now say with a native guide or something - Jesus - just take the easy way and follow the tracks - and how did they see them sweeping plains etc from Mt Victoria - or even get down... it was all trees - I suspect a lot of ball's chat is in our early histories here), and came upon the Bathurstites who were seven nations stronger - and then came the hosts of Britain to make treaties with them and then even show them mercy when they rose up and were defeated.

Is no mercy - is no Aborigine.... Bathurst Rules.... Sydney Basin Rules.. Everywhere Else Rules... Is No Mercy - Is No Aborigines Left... instead they are expanding in number... rooting the white out of Australia, alongside Albo and his New Abos coming in droves...  WTF is wrong with that man? Does he hate the place so much he needs to flood it with Third Worlders and terrorists?  It's not our fault the kids at school called him WOG and stole his lunch money.... he wanted to be Albo, not his sainted Irish mother's name...

"Hi - meet me dad - otherwise known as The Invisible Man...."

Jeez - them Jebusites sound dangerous.... but they weren't Beyond the Pale Stinians (HAMAS) then... not even Arabs... just a few goat herders ...

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2024 at 5:37am:


... and Blaxie, Wentie and Lawsie went across the mountains... [quote]

The Jews themselves were eventually dispossessed from "The Promised Land" - which they had conquered from orhers - by a succession of world empires; you are now arguing the Jews have a right to repossess it, even though they were in a minority during the Palestine Mandate era.

Whereas it seems Oz blacks were indeed the first human inhabitants of Oz, until the 'modern' world entered Oz in 1788...   

wombatwoody wrote on Aug 22^nd, 2024 at 10:36pm:


Where are the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites?

thegreatdivide wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2024 at 1:11pm:


... and Blaxie, Wentie and Lawsie went across the mountains... Quote:


Are you arguing that the Aborigines have the right to re-possess Australia?  Including your home and land, of course.

Israel was always a Jewish nation, and was approved as such by a world vote in 1948.... it has every right to exist, unlike the mythical 'Palestine'.

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2024 at 7:12pm:


Yes; like I said, the UNSC is incapable of keeping the peace, because deluded "freedom values" ideologues like you (operating from tribal instinct, not reason)  forced the veto onto the UNSC. 

That's why war is still the method of dispute settlement between nations, negating the UN Charter itself, with the UNSC reduced to  "grabbing the moral high ground"  -while babies are slaughtered by grown men. 

Quote:


Says the one who acquiesces in baby killing.

Deplorable.

The Jews had a nation and sovereignty - not just a few wandering sub-tribal groups that never numbered more than 20-30 at any one time, and that was where the food was good, say - down on the coast.

The Aborigines were never driven out of Australia... they were partially assimilated until the useless tools came along and filled their ears with 'rights' and other nonsense... the Jews were forced out and now they've taken it back with world backing.  You have a problem with that?

YOU are actually advocating that Israel either go down or literally smash all the rest to ensure its peace and survival.  YOU and your kind are the war-mongers and troublemakers and are causing the wars on wars there by encouraging the Arabs to wage wars they can't win - but there are always costs in human lives.  Don't encourage the rat-bags too much in the Arab world.... most of them can't think that well....  Allahu Akbar.... at Sydney U of course they are Yahoo Akbars and should have their student privileges withdrawn NOW!

Why don't the rainbow crowd head off to Gaza to help out?  A.  Because they'd spend the rest of their lives just hanging around... the 'women' would be enslaved and taught their 'place' in the Islamist world or be stoned or slit or shot.

Now then - free tickets to Gaza for the Rainbows Supporting Gazans ... who's in with a donation?

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2024 at 7:15pm:



THE UN’S PARTITION PLAN

An inexperienced UN, just two years old in 1947, entrusted the question of the future of Palestine’s fate into the hands of a Special Committee for Palestine, UNSCOP, none of whose members turned out to have any prior experience in solving conflicts or knew much about Palestine’s history...

The report UNSCOP came up with in the end envisaged that the two future states would be identical except for their internal demographic balance, and it therefore stressed the need for both entities to adhere to liberal democratic precepts. On 29 November 1947 this became General Assembly Resolution 181. It is clear that by accepting the Partition Resolution, the UN totally ignored the ethnic composition of the country’s population...

Partitioning the country – overwhelmingly Palestinian – into two equal parts has proven so disastrous because it was carried out against the will of the indigenous majority population. By broadcasting its intent to create equal Jewish and Arab political entities in Palestine, the UN violated the basic rights of the Palestinians, and totally ignored the concern for Palestine in the wider Arab world at the very height of the anti-colonialist struggle in the Middle East. Far worse was the impact the decision had on the country itself and its people. Instead of calming the atmosphere, as it was meant to do, the resolution only heightened tensions and directly caused the country to deteriorate into one of the most violent phases in its history.


THE ARAB AND PALESTINIAN POSITIONS

The Palestinian leadership decided from the start to boycott the UN proceedings. This decision features often in contemporary Israeli propaganda as proof that the Palestinians themselves – not Israel – should be held responsible for the fate that befell them in 1948. Palestinian historiography has successfully fended off such accusations by exposing the extent to which the procedures the UN opted to follow were unjust and illegal, and by exploring the raison d’être behind the establishment of UNSCOP.

By opting for partition as its primary objective, the UN ignored a basic principled objection the Palestinians were voicing against the plan, with which mediators had been familiar since Britain made the Balfour Declaration thirty years earlier. Walid Khalidi succinctly articulated the Palestinian position as follows: ‘The native people of Palestine, like the native people of every other country in the Arab world, Asia, Africa, America and Europe, refused to divide the land with a settler community.’

Within a few weeks of UNSCOP starting its work, the Palestinians realised the cards had been stacked against them: the final result of this process would be a UN resolution on partitioning the country between the Palestinians, as the indigenous population, and a settler colony of newcomers, many of whom had arrived only recently. When Resolution 181 was adopted in November 1947, their worst nightmare began to unfold in front of their eyes: nine months after the British had announced their decision to leave, the Palestinians were at the mercy of an international organisation that appeared ready to ignore all the rules of international mediation, which its own Charter endorsed, and was willing to declare a solution that in Palestinian eyes was both illegal and immoral. Several leading Palestinians at the time demanded that its legality be tested in the International Court of Justice (founded in 1946), but this was never to happen. One does not have to be a great jurist or legal mind to predict how the international court would have ruled on forcing a solution on a country to which the majority of its people were vehemently opposed.

The injustice was as striking then as it appears now, and yet it was hardly commented on at the time by any of the leading Western newspapers then covering Palestine: the Jews, who owned less than six per cent of the total land area of Palestine and constituted no more than one third of the population, were handed more than half of its overall territory. Within the borders of their UN-proposed state, they owned only eleven per cent of the land, and were the minority in every district. In the Negev – admittedly an arid land but still with a considerable rural and Bedouin population, which made up a major chunk of the Jewish state – they constituted one per cent of the total population...

Again in the words of Walid Khalidi, Resolution 181 was ‘a hasty act of granting half of Palestine to an ideological movement that declared openly already in the 1930s its wish to de-Arabise Palestine.’ And thus Resolution 181’s most immoral aspect is that it included no mechanism to prevent the ethnic cleansing of Palestine...

The expected Arab and Palestinian rejection of the plan allowed Ben-Gurion and the Zionist leadership to claim that the UN plan was a dead letter the day it was accepted – apart, of course, from the clauses that recognised the legality of the Jewish state in Palestine. Its borders, given the Palestinian and Arab rejection, said Ben-Gurion, ‘will be determined by force and not by the partition resolution.’ As would be the fate of the Arabs living in it.


The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine  by Ilan Pappe, Chapter 3: Partition and Destruction: UN Resolution 181 and its Impact

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Aug 24^th, 2024 at 2:09pm:


You are as mentally incompetent as Fraudiver; you look at names and borders on a map which have long disapppeared in the course of history. 

That 'Kingdom of Israel' (shown on your map)  - already separated  from the 'Kingdom of Judea' because of civil war among the Jews after the short-lived Israeli 'golden age' under King Solomon (ruled  c.950 BC) , was soon subsumed by the Assyrian Empire c.720 BC.  (Judea itself fell to the Babylonian Empire c. 600 BC).