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In reply to the discussion: Israel Is A Terrorist State: Turkey PM [View all]AldoLeopold
(617 posts)was because of what you posted in the first place.
On 29 November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution recommending the adoption and implementation of a plan to resolve the Arab-Jewish conflict by partitioning Palestine into two states, one Arab and one Jewish, and the City of Jerusalem.[25] Each state would comprise three major sections, linked by extraterritorial crossroads; the Arab state would also have an enclave at Jaffa. The Jews would get 56% of the land,[26] of which most was in the Negev Desert; their area would contain 498,000 Jews and 407,000 Arabs. The Palestinian Arabs would get 43% of the land, which had a population of 725,000 Arabs and 10,000 Jews. In consideration of its religious significance, the Jerusalem area, including Bethlehem, with 100,000 Jews and an equal number of Palestinian Arabs, was to become a Corpus separatum, to be administered by the UN.[27][28] The Jewish leadership accepted the partition plan, without reservation, as "the indispensable minimum,"[29] glad to gain international recognition but sorry that they did not receive more.[30]
I'd say the UN had a huge part to play in this. And we, the US, were the UN in 1947. Now I will say that the international assistance to Israel in the forms of arms and money was insubstantial in the 48 war - in fact, the British seemed to support the Arab league moreso than Israel. I never said we held their hands and walked them into Israel. I simply asked glacier if ever people in Israel regretted their decision to return and create a state. I'd certainly be asking myself that question if I were an Israeli. We all do that kind of soul-searching in such a crisis which has lasted so long.
There's no doubt they valiantly fought their own battles from then until now.