Frank wrote on Oct 12
th, 2023 at 9:22pm:
On 29 November 1947 the UN General Assembly voted on the partition plan, adopted by 33 votes to 13 with 10 abstentions. The Jewish side accepted the UN plan for the establishment of two states. The Arabs rejected it and launched a war of annihilation against the Jewish state..
History.
Just so. But the story didn't end there, eh?
Quote:The Arab population of the Mandate territory suffered as a result of the Arab refusal to accept the partition plan. Some 700,000 heeded their leaders' calls to flee or left after being caught up in the fighting. The large numbers who stayed in Israel became full citizens, with equal rights, while their brethren were kept by their Arab hosts in perpetual refugee status to serve as pawns in the political struggle against Israel.
Meanwhile, some 800,000 Jews were expelled from Arab countries, finding refuge and a new home in Israel.
At war's end, Egypt had control of the Gaza Strip and Jordan annexed the West Bank. Neither saw fit to establish a Palestinian state in the territory they were to control for 19 years until the Six Day War of 1967.
https://mfa.gov.il/Jubilee-years/Pages/1947-UN-General-Assembly-Resolution-181-T...Palestinians were used as pawns by neighbouring states. They had lived there, on their own land in their own towns and cities, for centuries. When Israel took the West Bank and Gaza strip in 67, they took the land of Jordanians and Egyptians too.
1967. That's two generations ago. Israel imported settlers to squat illegally on the Arabs' seized land, armed and trained the settlers in military tactics and overlooked their crimes against the local population. They overzealously prosecuting the latter, many of them children, often for "tresspass" on their own land. They erected checkpoints, fortifications, trenches and razor wire. Those squatters gave the locals hell, and the rest - October 2023 - is history.