who needs to take responsibility for the plight of the palestinians?
myth: the palestinians have never been offered a state of their own.
truth:
In 1937, the Peel Commission proposed the partition of Palestine and the creation of an Arab state.
In 1939, the British White Paper proposed the creation of an Arab state alone, but the Arabs rejected the plan.
In 1947, the UN would have created an even larger Arab state as
part of its partition plan.
From 1948 to 1967, Israel did not control the West Bank. The Palestinians could have
demanded an independent state from the Jordanians.
The 1979 Egypt-Israel peace negotiations offered the Palestinians autonomy, which would almost certainly have led to full independence.
The Oslo process that began in 1993 was leading toward the creation of a Palestinian state before the Palestinians violated their commitments and scuttled the agreements.
In 2000, Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered to create a Palestinian state,
but Yasser Arafat rejected the deal.
clearly the palestinian people are in dire need of a responsible government.
source: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mf22.html#v1
truth:
part of its partition plan.
demanded an independent state from the Jordanians.
but Yasser Arafat rejected the deal.
clearly the palestinian people are in dire need of a responsible government.
source: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mf22.html#v1