Zionist FAQs: Why did Arabs reject the proposed UN GA partition plan which split Palestine into Jewish and Arab states?

The 1947 UN GA proposed partition plan of Palestine is often used by Israelis and Zionists to obscure facts from those new to the argument. As demonstrated below, the myth has been concocted to legitimize Israel in the eyes of many Jews and Western people. It should be noted that each of the facts below can be independently verified either from the Israeli and Zionist sources or from the British Mandate's primary sources. Often, we have scanned the original pages to make it easier to verify our citations.

The best way to present the facts concerning this question is by asking the following questions:

1. Official UN Map: It was updated in August 1950 showing that Palestinians STILL OWN 94% of the lands
   Are you aware that Palestine's Jewish population was under 8% of the total population as of 1914? (Righteous Victims by Benny Morris, p. 83) It should be noted that the majority of the Jews residing in Palestine were not citizens of the country, but they had recently fled anti-Semitic Tsarists in Russia. Just in case you distrust our Zionist and British Mandate sources, HERE is the founder of the "Jewish state," David Ben-Gurion, confirming similar data as late as June 1966 (seven years before he died).
   
2. Are you aware that in 1914, Jewish land ownership in Palestine was under 2%?

3. Despite the active support of the British to establish a "Jewish National home" in Palestine (based on the British commitment in the Balfour Declaration), Palestine's Jewish population increased from under 8% in 1914 to 33% as of 1947 (Righteous Victims, p. 83). Here is a map illustrating Palestine's population distribution per district as of 1946. On the other hand, it should be emphasized that only 1 out of every 4 of the Jews as of 1948 were citizens of Palestine (Survey of Palestine, p. 208). In general, Jews preferred to retain the citizenship of their respective countries (such as Russian, Polish, Romanian, and German citizenship), which is a phenomenon that persists to this date. Thus, 3 out of every 4 Jews were either refugees or immigrants (legally or illegally)
   
   In a nutshell, it was Jews' choice not to be citizens of Palestine. At least that was the choice of 3 out of every 4 Jews. Now, when Zionist Jews reduced 90% of the indigenous citizens to 15% during the war of Nakba, do you honestly think those Jews made a good name for refugees? Is this a democracy that Jews should be proud of? Do such actions increase or decrease Jews' friends globally? Put yourself in Palestinians' shoes: why would you accept such an unjust partition?
   

   Abla Mohamad Daoud Dajani outside here family's looted house in Baq'ah neighborhood - Jerusalem. Click the image for more such pictures that document Palestinians' dispossession.

   It's worth noting that even after seven decades of ethnic cleansing, occupation, and dispossession, the demographic ratio between Palestinians (14+ million) and Israeli Jews (9+ million) is still the same as it was in December 1947, which was (and still is) 2 to 1 in favor of the Palestinian people. However, for Israel to maintain its "democratic Jewish state", and above all its so-called "Jewish character", it opted to ETHNICALLY CLEANSE 80% of the Palestinian people out of their homes, farms, lands, and businesses. Is that THE democratic liberal way to create a nation? Or was that idea borrowed from the fascists' handbook?
   

4. Are you aware that Jewish land ownership in Palestine was under 6% as of 1947? (Benny Morris, p. 170) Well, here is the UN's map illustrating Palestine's land ownership per district as of 1945. It should be EMPHASIZED that the state owned under 1% of the the lands.
   
   In layman's terms, from Palestinians' point of view: why should they accept partitioning their country when they already made 90% of citizens and owned over 94% of the land?
   
5. A family portrait of al-Dajani family in their house in al-Baq'a neighborhood just before Nakba, Jerusalem. Soon after the picture was taken, the house was looted.
   Are you aware that most of the European states who favored partition recently ganged upon their Jewish citizens and wished to rid themselves of those unwanted citizens? Many of those nations welcomed handing their Jewish citizens to the SS, and only a few stuck their necks out to protect them! This odd political reality was predicted by Theodor Herzl (the founder of Zionism) some 50 years earlier when he wrote: antisemites will become Zionist Jews' best allies! The sad political reality implied a political suicide for those nations' leaders to vote against partition even if they weren't antisemitic, plus bring upon them the wrath of the Zionist lobby. Therefore, to vote for partition was the path of maximum gains and the path of the least resistance.
   
   
   Browse hundreds of pictures showing Zionist Jews looting Palestinian properties.
   To give the reader a perspective on how Europeans felt about their Jewish citizens post WWII, David Ben-Gurion noted that in a recent Gallup Poll in 1947 taken in the American Zone of Germany, 14% of the Germans questioned had condemned Hitler's massacre of the Jews, 26% had been "neutral", and 60% had approved the killings. (Israel: A History, p. 147); a similar sentiment was wide spread in Poland after the WWII ended. Of course, the Jews’ situation was much worse in Ukraine, Belarus, Hungary, other eastern European nations, and even France (which gave birth to Zionism after the infamous Dreyfus Affair). Allow those facts to sink in for a minute, and ask yourself why Palestinians should pay for European antisemitism?
   
   Therefore, love it or hate, Europeans' antisemitism was exploited to the teeth by Zionist Jews, which is a fact that continues to be weaponized against Palestinians to this date; are you surprised?
   
   
   JFK said it BEST in 1939: Palestine Was Hardly Britain's to Give Away
   In a nutshell, those states who voted for the partition plan (which excluded the Global South) were made up of a strange coalition whose interests collided; yes, many were antisemites, but they also included states who felt guilty for how Jews were treated (as if they made the Holocaust a license for replacing Palestinians)! Of course, Palestinians had no voice, and by default, they were the weakest party; that's why they were scapegoated! In odd perverted fate, Zionist Jews and many European nations now portray Palestinians as the New Antisemites and those who ganged up on Europe's Jew got a free pass!
   
6. "Report On The State of Palestine" issued on March 28th, 1921 by the Third Palestine Arab Congress to Winston Churchill
   Shamelessly, often Jews and their supporters claim that Stalin's K.G.B. founded Palestinian nationalism in the early 1960s. On the other hand, once the votes on the U.N. partition plan have been tallied, we clearly find that not for Stalin, the U.N. would have NEVER been able to approve of the creation of the "Jewish state". As you can see from the vote tally, Stalin controlled the five critical votes representing the Eastern bloc, and without them, the YES vote would have been impossible. Do the simple math: a 2/3 majority was required for the YES vote. If Stalin (who is being portrayed by Zionists as pro-Palestinian anti-Zionist) hadn't approved of the creation of the "Jewish state," the number of YES votes would have decreased from 33 to 28, which entails dropping the YES vote rate to 28 out of a total of 46 nations. And that would have dropped the YES vote rate of 60.8% short of the needed 2/3 majority!
   
   
   The looted house of the renowned Palestinian Historian 'Aref al-'Aref in Beesheba
   To further destroy this gaslight of an argument, it is a well-established fact that Stalin was either the second or the first to recognize the "Jewish state." Honestly, sometimes we are baffled by Zionists' stupid arguments.
   
   As you see here, the vote on partition was delayed until the YES vote barely had the required 2/3 majority. Zionists and the U.S. kept postponing the vote until they managed to arm-twist and bribe many of the smaller nations. Ironically, these illegal and coercive activities continued to this date; actually, Zionists openly threaten those who would vote against them. Why change a winning formula?
   
   If this particular subject interests you, we have addressed it in depth in another section.
   
7. Hitler's Message To The West: If Jews are such noble citizens and you care about them, how come you're not letting them in?
   Are you aware that the United States of America arm-twisted a dozen small nations to coerce or buy their support for partitioning Palestine? For example, Greece and France were threatened with a foreign aid cutoff, Liberia was threatened with a rubber embargo, plus Firestone Company's president threatened to revoke his company's planned expansion in Liberia, bribing several Latin American countries by hinting at the possibility that the U.S. might fund the construction of a Pan-American highway, ... etc. (Righteous Victims p. 184, Jerusalem Post, and America And The Founding Of Israel p. 141-143).
   
   
   Browse hundreds of pictures depicting Palestinian culture.
   On this point, it is worth quoting President Truman to give the reader how intense the pressure campaign was in favor of voting for partition:

   "The facts were that not only were there pressure movements around the United Nations, unlike anything that had been seen there before, but that the White House, too, was subjected to a constant barrage. I do not think I ever had as much pressure and propaganda aimed at the White House as I had in this instance. The persistence of a few of the extreme Zionist leaders--actuated by political motives and engaging in political threats--disturbed and annoyed me." (American Presidents and the Middle East. Duke University Press, p. 157)

   The Zionist Version Of Lebensraum: A Map Of The Great Israel
   We urge you to watch President Truman explaining Nakba in plain English and the Americans' role in making it possible in under 50 seconds. Please pay attention to Mr. Truman's condescending tone of voice as if he were Colonial Secretary bossing his servants around:

   "We had several other people in the country, even among the Jews, the Zionists, who were against anything that had to be done if they could not have the whole of Palestine and everything handed to them on a silver plate, so they wouldn't have to do anything. It couldn't be done. We had to take it [referring to Palestine] in small doses..you can’t move 5 or 6 million people out of a country and fill it up with 5 or 6 million more and expect both sets of them to be pleased...but don't think that this decision to recognize Israel was an easy one. I had to make a compromise with the Arabs and divide Palestine. [Zionist] Jews want to chase all the Arabs in the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, and the Arabs want to chase the [Zionist] Jews into the Red Sea. What I was trying to do was to find a homeland for the Jews and still be just for the Arabs."

   
   
   
   Israeli Jews looting al-Musrara Palestinian Quarter, Jerusalem 1948
   If you have the time, we urge you to read Peter Grose's account (in Israel in the Mind of America") which you can browse for free after logging in at Archive.org. The whole book touches on so many taboo subjects that the Western mainstream rarely covers. If you have the time and the subject of the UN partition concerns you, please read chapters Nine and Ten. It should be noted that Mr. Grose was a reputable journalist and a historian who was the NY Times' bureau chief in Jerusalem. Peter's book is well-sourced and highly recommended. Trust us, it will be worth your time.
   
8. Usurped Palestinian city of Safad few years after Nakba
   Are you aware that two US Supreme Court justices, Frank Murphy and Felix Frankfurter, contacted the Philippines' ambassador in Washington, D.C., and sent telegrams to the Philippines' president, Manuel Roxas, warning that a vote against the proposed partition plan would alienate millions of Americans? Ten senators also cabled Roxas (Jerusalem Post).
   
9. Are you aware that the Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru spoke with anger and contempt for how the UN vote had been lined up? He said the Zionists had tried to bribe India with millions and at the same time his sister, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the Indian ambassador to the UN, had received daily warnings that her life was in danger unless "she voted right".
   
10. Were the British so STUPID as to promise COMPLETE INDEPENDENCE to Palestinians in 1939 (who, of course, "didn't exists") while the Indians had been DREAMING of such a thing for 400 years?
    Are you aware that the Jewish Agency budgeted a million dollars for its own bribery campaign? The money allocation appeared in the Jewish Agency's budget as "irregular political activity." (One Palestine Complete, p. 496) If you have the time, we urge you read what Peter Grose (in Israel in the Mind of America") wrote about the intense lobbying and bribery schemes that was organized by Zionists just before the UN voted on the partition plan (p. 247 - 254).
    
11. Fake Valor: Jewish Brigade, Italy April - 1945: The Impostering Hero, see me while I bomb the Nazis ONLY a few weeks before WWII ended. Only a few of the so-called yishuv saw action at war's end
    Are you aware that the Zionist leaders enjoyed a clandestine advantage by BUGGING the rooms of the UN Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP), and they knew what every committee member and witness was saying? (Righteous Victims, p. 182)
    
12. Are you aware that in March 1948, the United States, along with China and France, was withdrawing from its earlier commitments to partition Palestine and was pressing for "trusteeship" -- an extension of Great Power rule-- in Palestine beyond May 15th, 1948? (Benny Morris, p. 61) And on March 19th, 1948, Ben-Gurion responded to the idea of UN trusteeship in a press conference in Tel-Aviv as follows:

"It is we who will decide the fate of Palestine. We cannot agree to any sort of Trusteeship, permanent or temporary. The Jewish State exists because we defend it." (Israel: A History, p. 165)

It should be noted that Judah Magnus (one of the towering Zionist intellectual figures in the 20th century) supported such any idea (along with Albert Einstein), and in response to that Magnus received multiple death threats (see Peter Grose, p. 283-284) which is common nowadays for Jews who buck the trend. Please also note that since November 1947, the UN GA has failed to reaffirm the 1947 UN GA proposed partition plan.

13. The famous looted house of al-Sheikh Ali, Jaffa

    Are you aware that the 20th Zionist Congress, which convened in Zurich in August 1937, almost UNANIMOUSLY REJECTED the British proposed partition plan of Palestine (which became known as the Peel Commission Partition plan)? (Israel: A History, p. 88, and One Palestine Complete, p. 414). Although the proposed Peel Commission's partition plan was rejected (because the areas allocated to the "Jewish state" were "too small") the concept of partitioning the country was "adopted with restrictions" by the 20th Zionist Congress. Nahum Goldmann's account (who was one of the most most important founding fathers of the "Jewish state") was the most revealing about the Peel Partition Plan. Honestly it was jaw dropping to read how Zionist leaders dropped the ball two years before WWII, and how they kept dragging their feet, dithering, and when Zionists "conditionally accepted with sever conditions" the Peel Partition plan, by then it was so watered down, and by that time it was too late. The British walked away. What was tragically funny, when we inspected the 20th Zionist Congress' resolution it was a clear rejection of the Peel Commission (see it from Prof. Aaron Berman) but often Jews frame it differently:

    Zionist Jews looting Palestinian's shops in Beit Dajan, 1948

    Many of the most respected Zionist leaders were ardently against it, including men like Menachem Ussishkin, who, as I shall never forget, spent half a night in Jerusalem trying to change my attitude and that of the Radical Party. When I told him I was going to support the plan, he accused me of an unforgivable crime against the future of Palestine and the Jewish people. It was opposed by men like Berl Katzenelson, the most respected moral and intellectual leader of the Palestinian labor movement, and, for different reasons, by Louis Brandeis; Stephen Wise and all his friends were also against it.
    ....
    If the Zionist movement had accepted the proposal, then, spontaneously and without delay, it is quite conceivable that it might have been implemented. would then have had two years before the war broke out, and a country to which hundreds of thousands. Possibly millions of European Jews might have escaped. At the 1937 Zionist congress, at which I presided, after lengthy debates and several votes, a motion hedged with restrictive clauses was finally passed by a small majority expressing willingness to consider the partition plan. But it was already too late. The acceptance was too vague, and the British government itself had begun to waver in the face of categorical Arab rejection. The plan died.
    
    The Zionist movement's attitude toward this first partition plan was a major sin of our generation, second only to world Jewry's inadequate reaction to the Nazi peril and its irresponsible belief that Hitler would never carry out his threats. One of the motives that later led me to revive the idea of partition was the awareness that we ourselves bear some of the guilt for the annihilation of a third of our people. This may have been a decisive argument for many people, such as my friend Stephen Wise, who rejected the plan originally but later supported it vigorously. (Autobiography by Nahum Goldmann, p. 180-1)

    Click here to view the map proposed by the Peel Commission rejected by the 20th Zionist Congress, and click here to view a map proposed by the U.N. GA in 1947 for the partition of Palestine. While inspecting both maps, note the following:
    
    Adolf Eichmann & company coined a special Gold Medallion in honor of the Nazis' relationship with Zionists! Do you've any ideas why he visited Palestine in 1937?

    1) The Jewish population in Palestine as of 1937 was under 27% of the total population & definitely under 10% of citizens, as we have pointed out earlier.
    2) The Jewish population in Palestine in 1947 was under 33% of the total population.
    3) The Negev Desert was populated with Zionist Jews only in a few isolated colonies (under 1%) who allegedly bloomed it.
    4) The Peel Commission allocated the most fertile regions of Palestine to the "Jewish state," which included all of Galilee and a much wider area in the coastal region compared to the areas proposed by the UN GA in 1947.
    5) The 1947 UN GA proposed Partition plan did not advocate compulsory population transfer (ethnic cleansing) for Palestinians out of the areas allocated to the "Jewish State", where Palestinians made up 45% of the total population. On the contrary, compulsory population transfer was a major pillar for the success of the Peel Commission Partition plan.
    

    
    Jaffa National Christian Orthodox School (1938)

    We call upon your sense of fairness while contemplating the following questions:
    
    1) If the Peel Commission plan had been accepted by the Zionists in 1937, how many Jews might have been saved from the Nazi holocaust? In that respect, it's worth quoting Ben-Gurion, who wrote twenty years later:

    "Had partition [referring to the Peel Commission partition plan] been carried out, the history of our people would have been different, and six million Jews in Europe would not have been killed---most of them would be in Israel" (One Palestine Complete, p. 414).
    
    As you digest the earlier chilling citation of the founder of the "Jewish state", remember that it was Ben-Gurion who repeatedly said that accepting such partition in 1937 was a MISTAKE just a few years before Nakba during WWII, and he vowed not to accept the partitioning of Palestine. This is solid proof that accepting the partitioning of Palestine was only a ruse to buy time, which is exactly what kept happening since Nakba.

    2) Why is the rejection of the 1937 Peel Partition plan justifiable according to many Zionists, but the Arabs' rejection of the 1947 UN GA Partition plan is not?
    
    3) In Ben-Gurion's infamous letter to his son Amos on Oct 5th 1937 (when he advocated the use of force to dispossess Palestinians of their homes & lands); it was David himself who empathized with Arab rejection & anger over the issue of partition. Keep in mind that the partition plan of 1937 "gave" more to Palestinians than the 1948 version.
14. To give a different perspective on the issue, it's worth contemplating what Moshe Sharett, the 1st Israeli Foreign Minister, said in justification of why the Palestinian people would reject any Partition of their country. Sharett stated behind closed doors to the Zionist Actions Committee on April 22nd, 1937:

    
    Jaffa's fishermen in 1870

    "...in contrast to us they [Palestinian Arabs] would lose totally that part of Palestine which they consider to be an Arab country and are fighting to keep it such ... They would lose the richest part of Palestine [referring Peel Commission Partition plan]; they would lose major Arab assets, the orange plantations, the commercial and industrial centers and the most important sources of revenue for their government which would become impoverished; they would lose most of the coastal area, which would also be loss to the hinterland [Palestinian] Arab states. .... This would be such an uprooting, such a shock, the likes of which had never occurred and could drown the whole thing in rivers of blood. " (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 59-60), click here to read the full quote.

15. Are you aware that the Syrian proposal to refer the Palestine issue to the International Court of Justice at The Hague was defeated by a single vote, twenty-one votes against twenty? (Simha Flapan, p. 123)
    
16. Are you aware that Zionist leaders from all shades weaponized Jewish refugees' plight in the displaced persons camps to influence the UN's vote? Don't take our word for it; here it is from the NY Times' editor (Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, one of the most prominent American Jews in New York City) who stated on October 27th, 1946:
    Persecuted European Jews looting the ethnically cleansed village of Yazur, 1949

    "it is unfair to carry on this political controversy at the expense of the miserable tenants of the D.P. Camps," Mr. Sulzberger emphasized.
    "Nor will the philosophical and political ideal for Jewish statehood die by reason of delay if it deserves to live; but refugees will die if humanity too long delays their rescue" "I cannot rid myself of the feeling," he added, "that the unfortunate Jew of Europe's D.P. Camps are helpless hostages for whom statehood has been made only acceptable ransom."
    "I acknowledge," he continued," that those who view Jews as a race instead of as faith and faith only, as I do, have reasons for national aspirations which I don't share."
    "I acknowledge that those to whom a Jewish state has been a life-long goal can be expected to pursue it even when the costs are high, but it seems to me that the cost of statehood today in terms of human suffering is greater than people can be asked to bear." Click here for the full article. Well, you may learn a thing or two about Zionists' fake valor!

    If the subject of the DP camps after WWII is of any interest, then we recommend reading James D. Clowes 1988 thesis, you might learn how Polish Jews were nudged into leaving as the Iraqi Jews have learned after Nakba!

17. Zionist Jews renovating a looted house in the village of Deir Yassin soon after massacring the inhabitants of the village on April 9th, 1948
    To prove that Zionists' acceptance of the proposed UN partition plan was nothing but a ruse and the concept of the Greater Israel was always on their minds, it is worth quoting Peter Grose (a veteran NY Times' bureau chief in Jerusalem): The idea of partition lay dormant through the early 1940s. At the Biltmore Conference, David Ben-Gurion spoke of an undivided Palestine, for there was no point in conceding anything at that stage. Chaim Weizmann, however, kept his private hopes alive. "He cannot forget his partition plan," Moshe Shertok reported to a Zionist meeting in 1943. "If we were given any part of Palestine for a Jewish state, I think we would accept it." Mr. Shertok was right. In a remarkably frank interview with one of Churchill's private secretaries in October, Weizmann made explicit the theory of the toehold which the Arabs so feared. The British official jotted down Weizmann's remarks:
    General view of al-Maliha taken after Nakba, and in the foreground, Israelis are looting Palestinian properties

    He made it clear that he did not regard it as impossible to devise some form of partition which would be acceptable, and frankly gave his reason as being that it was possible to take two bites at the cherry. So long as sufficient elbow room was given at the start, he did not see why all the burden should fall on the present generation and why one could not look to the possibility of future expansion by some means or other.

    And he made the point directly in a letter to Welles:

    Our heritage in Palestine was cut down to the bone when Trans-Jordan was separated in 1922. What is left is clearly a unit, and further partition of it would deprive the settlement of finality. ( See Israel in The Mind of America by Peter Grose p. 238)

    
18. Are you aware that the 1947 UN GA proposed partition was outside the competence of the Assembly under the Charter of the United Nations? Nowhere in the UN's charter was there the power to partition any country, especially based on racial or religious grounds. Even if the UN had the power, the resolution to partition Palestine was not binding since it was endorsed by the General Assembly rather than the Security Council.
    
19. Notwithstanding the above facts, are you aware that the 1947 UN GA proposed partition granted the "Jewish state" ABOUT 60% of the total area of Palestine?
    
20. UN Partition Applied to the US
    Assuming that you are an American, based on the above facts, would you concede sovereignty and land ownership over 60% of your country to a foreign minority, such as Canadians and Mexicans, who own under 7% of the U.S.'s lands & make up 11% of the citizens? Click here for a map illustrating such a comparative partition of the U.S. in favor of one of its ethnic or religious minorities.
    
    If you do not accept such a plan for yourself as an American, then.
    
    Why ask the Palestinian people to concede 60% of their land in favor of an ALIEN foreign minority?
    
    Humor us: Why Palestinians wouldn't welcome such a partition of the US even if Americans (who are big Zionist supporters) pay the price! Doesn't that explain how Europeans felt when they voted for partition? It isn't obvious that most nations who voted for partition were cynical & wished to rid themselves of their Jewish population!
    
21. 
    Jaffa's famous Clock tower
    For a moment, let's assume that the above arguments and facts are nonsense to the average Israeli and Zionist and ask the following question:
    
    Assuming that as of 1947, Israeli Jews constituted a 2/3 majority of the total population, 89% of citizens, owned and operated 93% of Israel's lands, and contributed 55%-60% of the Israeli Gross Domestic Product (GDP), would you accept a U.N. IMPOSED partition of Israel in favor of an alien minority?
    
    It should be NOTED that currently, Palestinian-Israeli citizens make up 20-22% of the total Israeli population, so is it acceptable for the U.N. to partition Israel in a favorable way for its Palestinian-Israeli minority? As an Israeli Jew, would you accept a UN GA-imposed partition of your country?
    

22. We cannot help but draw a similarity with a famous Old Testament story when two women disputed the motherhood of a baby. They took their dispute to King Solomon, who decided to settle the dispute by cutting the baby in half. The baby's mother quickly objected to the King's decision and preferred giving up the baby rather than killing it. That is when the wise King recognized that she must be the mother, and the other woman was an impostor. Similarly, the Palestinian people refused the unjust resolution that called for the division of their country with alien colonizers.
    

23. Browse hundreds of pictures depicting Palestinian culture & folklore
    We ask you to contemplate Professor Philip Khouri Hitti's presentation during a hearing at the US House of Representatives in Feb. 1944 (when the last million were alive):

    These Arabs and Muslims cannot understand why the Jewish problem, which is not of their making, should be solved at their expense. They deeply sympathize with the afflicted Jews but are not convinced that Palestine solves the Jewish problem; Palestine does not qualify as a country without a people ready to receive a people without a country. They fail to understand why the American legislators, so solicitous for the welfare of the European Jews, should not lift the bars of immigration and admit Jewish refugees, millions of whom could be settled on the unoccupied plains of Arizona or Texas. This certainly falls within their jurisdiction. The word "reconstitute" in the resolution would no doubt interest them, and they would like to remake the map of Europe and put up their claim on Spain, which they occupied at a much later date and for a longer period of time. Some of them would raise the question of how the people of the United States would react to a suggestion from, say, Russia to reconstitute Oklahoma as an Indian Territory. [Click here to read the rest of the Hitti's presentation]

    It should be noted that during this infamous hearing, the majority of American Jewry (Zionists and non-Zionists alike) PLUS US lawmakers didn't make any effort to open the American gate to Europe's Jews, while at the same time, they were lobbying to make Palestine a Jewish commonwealth. YES, ladies and gentlemen, the Gentile Arab, Prof. Hitti, was one of the few to call a spade a spade: if you care about saving Jews' lives, you won't focus on creating the state first. Some groups of people decide early only to convert Europe's Jews' plight into a LEVER that would help in creating the "Jewish state".

24. 
    Browse hundreds of pre-Nakba Aerial Views & Village Maps.
    Dr. Walid Khalidi articulated the Palestinians' position as follows:
    
    "The native people of Palestine, like the native people of every other country in the Arab world, Asia, Africa, and Europe, refused to divide the land with a settler community."
    
25. What is tragically funny is that almost all Jewish religious establishments petitioned the UN against partition. Please don’t take our word for it, here, we directly quote JVL:

    This position was adopted by the bulk of the Orthodox world (except for a small faction of Orthodox Zionists, led by Chief Rabbi Abraham Kook and his followers) well up until the United Nations voted to partition Palestine on November 29, 1947. Representatives of another Orthodox party, Agudat Israel, actually asked the General Assembly to vote against partition. Tensions were at their highest between the Zionist and non-Zionist Jewish communities in Palestine in the 1920s, following the assassination of Jakob de Haan, a Dutch poet, former Zionist, and spokesman for Agudat Israel against the creation of a Jewish State. Here is an image grab if you care!

    Therefore, are they as anti-Zionist as Palestinians? They must be part of the worldwide antisemitic conspiracy against Jews!

Browse this gallery that shows hundreds of Palestinian land deeds that prove land ownership.

As will be demonstrated below, the decision by the Zionist leadership to accept the 1947 proposed UN GA Partition plan was nothing but a smoke screen, which was done solely to gain international recognition and support. This deception was a political ploy to gain initial international legitimacy for the existence of the "Jewish state," and this was well known to the Palestinian people. The reader is urged to contemplate the following Zionist leaders' quotes with an open mind. Note that most, if not all, of the quotes below are dated before the entry of any single Arab Army into British Mandated Palestine:

• In a letter Chaim Weizmann sent to the Palestine-British High Commissioner while the Peel Commission was convening in 1937, he stated:
  
  "We shall spread in the whole country in the course of time ..... this is only an arrangement for the next 25 to 30 years." (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 66)
  
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  Ben-Gurion emphasized that accepting the Peel Commission would not imply static borders for the future "Jewish state." In a letter Ben-Gurion sent to his son in 1937, he wrote:
  
  "No Zionist can forgo the smallest portion of the Land of Israel. [A] Jewish state in part [of Palestine] is not an end, but a beginning ..... Our possession is important not only for itself ... through this, we increase our power, and every increase in power facilitates getting hold of the country in its entirety. Establishing a [small] state .... will serve as a very potent lever in our historical effort to redeem the whole country." (Righteous Victims, p. 138)
  

• In 1938, Ben-Gurion made it clear that his support for the "Jewish state" on the part of Palestine was only a stepping stone for a complete conquest. He wrote:
  
  "[I am] satisfied with part of the country, but on the basis of the assumption that after we build up a strong force following the establishment of the state--we will abolish the partition of the country and we will expand to the whole Land of Israel." (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 107 & One Palestine Complete, p. 403)
  

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  Browse hundreds of pre-Nakba showing how villages were occupied and then destroyed

  One day after the UN vote to partition Palestine, Menachem Begin, the commander of the Irgun gang and Israel's future Prime Minister between 1977 and 1983, proclaimed:
  
  "The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized .... Jerusalem was and will forever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever." (Iron Wall p. 25)
  

• Newly arrived persecuted European Jewish refugees strolling in Jaffa, 1949

  Ben-Gurion was happy and sad when the U.N. voted to partition Palestine into two states, Palestinian and Jewish. He was happy because "finally" Jews could have their own " country ". On the other hand, he was sad because they had "lost" almost half of Palestine and because they would have to contend with a sizable Palestinian minority, well over 45% of the total population. In the following few quotes, you will see how he also stated that a "Jewish state" cannot survive being 60% Jewish, implying that something ought to be done to remedy the so-called "Arab demographic problem". He stated on November 30, 1947:

  "In my heart, there was joy mixed with sadness: joy that the nations at last acknowledged that we are a nation with a state, and sadness that we lost half of the country, Judea and Samaria, and, in addition, that we [would] have [in our state] 400,000 [Palestinian] Arabs." (Righteous Victims, p. 190)
  

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  While addressing the Central Committee of the Histadrut on December 30, 1947, Ben-Gurion stated:

  "In the area allocated to the Jewish State, there are not more than 520,000 Jews and about 350,000 non-Jews, mostly Arabs. Together with the Jews of Jerusalem, the total population of the Jewish State at the time of its establishment will be about one million, including almost 40% non-Jews. Such a [population] composition does not provide a stable basis for a Jewish State. This [demographic] fact must be viewed in all its clarity and acuteness. With such a [population] composition, there cannot even be absolute certainty that control will remain in the hands of the Jewish majority .... There can be no stable and strong Jewish state so long as it has a Jewish majority of only 60%." (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 176)
  

• Israeli Jews looting al-Musrara Palestinian Quarter, Jerusalem 1948
  Ben-Gurion commented on the proposed Peel Commission Partition plan as follows in 1937:
  
  "We must EXPEL ARABS and take their places .... and, if we have to use force to dispossess the Arabs of the Negev and Transjordan, but to guarantee our own right to settle in those places, we have force at our disposal." (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 66). Note the premeditated plan to ethnically cleanse the Negev and Transjordan, which were not allocated to the Jewish State by the Peel Commission; click here to view a map illustrating the areas allocated to the "Jewish State" by the Peel Commission in 1937.
  

• Moshe Sharett, director of the Jewish Agency's Political Department who later became Israel's first foreign minister, declared:
  
  "[W]hen the Jewish state is established--it is very possible that the result will be [population] transfer of [the Palestinian] Arabs." (Righteous Victims, p. 254)
  

• On February 7th, 1948, while addressing the Mapai Council, he responded to a remark that the "Jews have no land in the Jerusalem corridor" with the following:
  
  Who shall push who into the sea? Haifa's Palestinians are being loaded onto ships out of their homes, April 1948

  "The war will give us the land. The concept of 'ours' and 'not ours' are only concepts for peacetime, and during war, they lose all their meaning." (Benny Morris, p. 170 & Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 180)

• And on February 8th, 1948 Ben-Gurion also stated to the Mapai Council:
  
  "From your entry into Jerusalem, through Lifta, Romema [East Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood]. . . there are no [Palestinian] Arabs. One hundred percent Jews. Since Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans, it has not been Jewish as it is now. In many [Palestinian] Arab neighborhoods in the west, one sees not a single [Palestinian] Arab. I do not assume that this will change. . . .What had happened in Jerusalem. . . . is likely to happen in many parts of the country. . . in the six, eight, or ten months of the campaign, there will certainly be great changes in the composition of the population in the country." (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 180-181)
  
• In a speech addressing the Zionist Action Committee on April 6, 1948, Ben-Gurion clearly stated that war could be used as an instrument to solve the so-called "Arab demographic problem". He stated:

  "We will not be able to win the war if we do not, during the war, populate upper and lower, eastern and western Galilee, the Negev and Jerusalem area, even if only in an artificial way, in a military way. . . . I believe that war will also bring in its wake a great change in the distribution of [Palestinian] Arab population." (Benny Morris, p. 181 & Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 181)

  Note the premeditated plan to occupy and ethically cleanse areas, such as Galilee and Jerusalem, which were not allotted to the "Jewish State" by the 1947 UN GA Partition plan. Click here to view a map illustrating the areas allocated to the "Jewish State" by the 1947 UN GA partition plan.

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For a moment, let's assume that all the above is pure Arab propaganda, and let's contemplate what Ben-Gurion told Nahum Goldman (a prominent Zionist leader before he died):

"I don't understand your optimism," Ben-Gurion declared. "Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader, I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure, God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs. We come from Israel, it's true, but two thousand years ago, and what is that to them? There has been anti-Semitism by the Nazis, Hitler, and Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They only see one thing: we have come here and stolen their country. Why should they accept that? They may perhaps forget in one or two generations' time, but for the moment, there is no chance. So it's simple: we have to stay strong and maintain a powerful army. Our whole policy is there. Otherwise, the Arabs will wipe us out".

I was stunned by this pessimism, but he went on:
"I will be seventy years old soon. Well, Nahum, if you asked me whether I shall die and be buried in a Jewish state, I would tell you yes; in ten years, fifteen years, I believe there will still be a Jewish state. But ask me whether my son Amos, who will be fifty at the end of this year, has a chance of dying and being buried in a Jewish state, and I would answer: fifty-fifty."

"But how can you sleep with that prospect in mind," I broke in, "and be Prime Minister of Israel too?"

"Who says I sleep? he answered simply". (The Jewish Paradox by Nahum Goldman, p. 99)

Finally, it's hypocritical when on one hand Zionists use the UN GA partition plan as a pretext to legitimize Israel's existence, while they've rejected almost every other UN resolution since Israel's creation, chief among them UN GA resolution 194 that called for the immediate return to all Palestinian refugees to their homes in Israel. To suit Zionists' political agenda, they have deliberately chosen to ignore most, if not all, of the UN resolutions concerning Palestine and its people, of course, except for withdrawing from occupied southern Lebanon in May 2000. Sadly, Israel has accepted that UN resolution not because it was influenced by a UN, a U.S., or even European diplomatic pressure, but because it was compelled to do so by the heroic Lebanese resistance.

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