While the general idea is right, there is some sloppy thinking in this that I want to correct.
"Palestine" is a name that was given to the Land after the Bar-Kochba revolt by the Romans for the express purpose of pissing off the Jews. It had been Jehudah, Shomron, and the Northern Kingdom of Israel prior to that. So from around 200 C.E to 1948 the land was known as Palestine. There were Jews, Muslims, and Christians living in Palestine as long as it was called that.
In 1948, the partition plan was proposed, the Jews accepted it and the Arabs did not. Since at the time of the proposal, the whole land was called "Palestine," and was being governed by Britain, there was no entity by that name to accept or reject anything. It is enough, and the most accurate thing, to say simply that the Arabs rejected it.
The partition plan resulted in an Apartheid Wall being constructed that separated Jews from their holiest sites, broke up Jewish families, and resulted in population transfer of Jews to "West Jerusalem."
This caused Poet Yehudah Amichai to complain, in a pun that does not come well into English that he did not want a "ירושלים" but rather one big "ירושל". (The pun depends on the orthography of ירושלים being similar to the dual form in hebrew, and means that he would rather see Jerusalem united rather than divided.)
That wall came down in 1967 in the six day war. Currently Highway 60 and the Jerusalem Light Rail share roadbed where that wall once stood.
"Palestine" is a name that was given to the Land after the Bar-Kochba revolt by the Romans for the express purpose of pissing off the Jews. It had been Jehudah, Shomron, and the Northern Kingdom of Israel prior to that. So from around 200 C.E to 1948 the land was known as Palestine. There were Jews, Muslims, and Christians living in Palestine as long as it was called that.
In 1948, the partition plan was proposed, the Jews accepted it and the Arabs did not. Since at the time of the proposal, the whole land was called "Palestine," and was being governed by Britain, there was no entity by that name to accept or reject anything. It is enough, and the most accurate thing, to say simply that the Arabs rejected it.
The partition plan resulted in an Apartheid Wall being constructed that separated Jews from their holiest sites, broke up Jewish families, and resulted in population transfer of Jews to "West Jerusalem."
This caused Poet Yehudah Amichai to complain, in a pun that does not come well into English that he did not want a "ירושלים" but rather one big "ירושל". (The pun depends on the orthography of ירושלים being similar to the dual form in hebrew, and means that he would rather see Jerusalem united rather than divided.)
That wall came down in 1967 in the six day war. Currently Highway 60 and the Jerusalem Light Rail share roadbed where that wall once stood.
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