Frank wrote on Apr 25
th, 2023 at 12:34pm:
The Arabs can blame only themselves.
They certainly would have needed to be much more enlightened than they were, to accept the UN partition plan......
When hostilities began, the UN lost control.....and (long story short) Israel now controls nearly all of the former Palestine Mandate....
Quote:The resolution called for the withdrawal of British forces and termination of the Mandate by 1 August 1948, and establishment of the new independent states by 1 October 1948.
The leaders of the Jewish Agency for Palestine accepted parts of the plan, while Arab leaders refused it.
Israel was being carved out of Arab land, so...
Quote:As a result of the war, Egypt occupied the Gaza Strip,[25] and in September 1948, formed the All-Palestine Government in Gaza, partly as an Arab League move to limit the influence of Jordan over the Palestinian issue.
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King Abdullah I of Jordan sent the Arab Legion into the West Bank with no intention of withdrawing it following the war. Jordan annexed the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, granting citizenship to the Arab refugees and residents living in the West Bank against the objection of many Arab leaders who still hoped to establish an Arab state of Palestine. The country's name was changed in 1949 from Transjordan to Jordan and Palestinians were given seats in the Jordanian Parliament. A royal decree in March 1949 forbade the use of the term "Palestine" in legal documents, and other measures[clarification needed] were designed to emphasize that there would not be an independent Palestine.[26] He also banned any opinion contrary to unification of the two territories and outlawed all All-Palestine Government activity within territories under his control.
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Yes, sad as it is.
UN res 181 and 242 would have been the 'just' solution, but justice is no match for ideology...