#2 - The United Nations created Israel
Claim: The United Nations, under UNSCOP, did not create Israel because both parties did not accept Resolution 181.
The reason for the partition in the first place
The UNSCOP came to the conclusion that the conflicting national aspirations of the Arabs and Jews could not be reconciled. The only solution was to partition two states, one Jewish the other Arab. Despite that the Jews were not happy with the small allotment of territory and they would not have Jerusalem they accepted the compromise. This despite the land allotted to the Jews was only 13% of the original British Mandate for a purposed Jewish state. The Arabs rejected it, despite there being 22 Arab states and one Jewish state.
Why there were no Arab representatives
The reason UNSCOP contained no representatives from any Arab country was because the Arab Higher Committee boycotted the Commission. The Arab League Secretary Azzam Pasha, speaking to Jewish Agency representatives David Horowitz, said, "The Arab world is not in a compromising mood. It's likely, Mr. Horowitz, that your plan is rational and logical, but the fate of nations is not decided by rational logic. Nations never concede; they fight. You won't get anything by peaceful means or compromise. You can, perhaps, get something, but only by the force of your arms. We shall try to defeat you. I am not sure we'll succeed, but we'll try. We were able to drive out the Crusaders, but on the other hand we lost Spain and Persia. It may be that we shall lose Palestine. But it's too late to talk of peaceful solutions." –(September 16, 1947)
Israel's legitimacy
Once the Ottoman Empire was defeated in World War 1, the land ceased belonging to the Turks and went to the Allied powers. The British and French in turn carved up the middle-east into nation states and turned it back to the Arabs to self-rule. The legitimacy of these Arab countries are never questioned. In the case of Palestine, the land essential became up for grabs once the British Mandate expired on May 14th 1948, the day Israel declared independence. Israel’s international “birth certificate” is validated by uninterrupted Jewish settlement from the time of Joshua onward; the Balfour Declaration of 1917; the League of Nations Mandate, which incorporated the Balfour Declaration; the United Nations partition resolution of 1947; Israel’s admission to the UN in 1949; and the recognition of Israel by most other states.
Israeli- Palestinian Conflict Part 3
Claim: The United Nations, under UNSCOP, did not create Israel because both parties did not accept Resolution 181.
The reason for the partition in the first place
The UNSCOP came to the conclusion that the conflicting national aspirations of the Arabs and Jews could not be reconciled. The only solution was to partition two states, one Jewish the other Arab. Despite that the Jews were not happy with the small allotment of territory and they would not have Jerusalem they accepted the compromise. This despite the land allotted to the Jews was only 13% of the original British Mandate for a purposed Jewish state. The Arabs rejected it, despite there being 22 Arab states and one Jewish state.
Why there were no Arab representatives
The reason UNSCOP contained no representatives from any Arab country was because the Arab Higher Committee boycotted the Commission. The Arab League Secretary Azzam Pasha, speaking to Jewish Agency representatives David Horowitz, said, "The Arab world is not in a compromising mood. It's likely, Mr. Horowitz, that your plan is rational and logical, but the fate of nations is not decided by rational logic. Nations never concede; they fight. You won't get anything by peaceful means or compromise. You can, perhaps, get something, but only by the force of your arms. We shall try to defeat you. I am not sure we'll succeed, but we'll try. We were able to drive out the Crusaders, but on the other hand we lost Spain and Persia. It may be that we shall lose Palestine. But it's too late to talk of peaceful solutions." –(September 16, 1947)
Israel's legitimacy
Once the Ottoman Empire was defeated in World War 1, the land ceased belonging to the Turks and went to the Allied powers. The British and French in turn carved up the middle-east into nation states and turned it back to the Arabs to self-rule. The legitimacy of these Arab countries are never questioned. In the case of Palestine, the land essential became up for grabs once the British Mandate expired on May 14th 1948, the day Israel declared independence. Israel’s international “birth certificate” is validated by uninterrupted Jewish settlement from the time of Joshua onward; the Balfour Declaration of 1917; the League of Nations Mandate, which incorporated the Balfour Declaration; the United Nations partition resolution of 1947; Israel’s admission to the UN in 1949; and the recognition of Israel by most other states.
Israeli- Palestinian Conflict Part 3
