JINSA says that Israel has been all for an Arab state since Partition

The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs' latest email report is pure propaganda:

Since 1947, Israel [sic] has agreed to a "two state solution" in which there would be a Jewish State of Israel and a Palestinian Arab State. Through wars and intifadas and BDS movements, Israel has asked only that its democratic existence as the national homeland of the Jewish people be recognized by its neighbors - and that the "secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force" promised by UN Resolution 242 be accepted.  The Arab states (save Jordan and Egypt) and the Palestinians have refused.

This is horse manure. Israel didn't exist in 1947, for one thing. The Zionists accepted Partition, but they never acted in good faith to effect that Partition. And this is the lesson: Partitions are imposed on conflicting ethnicities. Those groups don't happily agree to them.

Serbia doesn't recognize Kosovo. Still, Kosovo got a state. If the world had asked India or Pakistan to sign off on the existence of the other as constituted by that UN Partition, there would not be states there either (many disputed territories between the two).

The truth is that Partition was never imposed in Israel/Palestine; no the whole cake was given to Israel, with you-know-who's-blessing.

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  1. RE: “Since 1947, Israel [sic] has agreed to a “two state solution” in which there would be a Jewish State of Israel and a Palestinian Arab State.” ~ JINSA

    MY COMMENT: Then why do JINSA, AIPAC, ZOA etc. support the settlement project?

    EXCERPT FROM The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict, Published by Jews for Justice in the Middle East

    Were the Zionists prepared to settle for the territory granted in the 1947 partition?
    “While the Yishuv’s leadership formally accepted the 1947 Partition Resolution, large sections of Israel’s society — including…Ben-Gurion — were opposed to or extremely unhappy with partition and from early on viewed the war as an ideal opportunity to expand the new state’s borders beyond the UN earmarked partition boundaries and at the expense of the Palestinians.” ~ Israeli historian, Benny Morris, in “Tikkun”, March/April 1998.
    Public vs private pronouncements on this question.
    “In internal discussion in 1938 [David Ben-Gurion] stated that ‘after we become a strong force, as a result of the creation of a state, we shall abolish partition and expand into the whole of Palestine’…In 1948, Menachem Begin declared that: ‘The partition of the Homeland is illegal. It will never be recognized. The signature of institutions and individuals of the partition agreement is invalid. It will not bind the Jewish people. Jerusalem was and will forever be our capital. Eretz Israel (the land of Israel) will be restored to the people of Israel, All of it. And forever.” ~ Noam Chomsky, “The Fateful Triangle.”

    SOURCE – link to ifamericansknew.org

  2. Charon says:

    Wow, they had the nerve to mention resolution 242!? And out of context too. Israel interprets that resolution the way business lawyers interpret contracts. That they mention UN resolutions at all is absurd considering how many Israel is in violation of.

    The ol’ “Israel accepted, Arabs rejected and started a war” rhetoric

    A decade earlier in the wake of the Palestinian Arab revolt (in response to British occupation and the growing number of European Jewish colonists) a modification to the British mandate was recommended. The Peel Commission was established to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab areas. The Zionists rejected it. They don’t like to mention this one for obvious reasons. The Zionists were even mad when Jordan became independent too because they wanted part (or all) of it.

    After the rejection, the Zionists created outposts Southwest of Jerusalem and near Gaza on the outskirts of the Negev. If memory serves they didn’t even buy this land, they just stole it. This was so they could claim more land in a future Jewish partition which they sort of got their wish for in 1947.

    Here is something important that the propaganda leaves out. First of all, the partition plan could not be enforced. It was a recommendation that was expected to be accepted. It wasn’t. When the Palestinian Arabs revolted after it was approved, the SC withdrew the plan from the table and sent it to the GA. They sent an envoy, Folke Bernadotte, to assess the situation and the terrorist group Lehi murdered him. The USA pulled their support of the resolution and the plan has been shelved since (although it is acknowledged to be the basis of Israeli and Palestinian independence and the green line is based on it). Yitzhak Shamir was a Lehi leader and they tried to work with the Nazis. They have been commemorated by a ribbon showing that Israel is proud of their terrorist past.

  3. Keith says:

    The JINSA e-mail must be viewed in context. Of course it is propaganda, but it is more than that. It is propaganda with a purpose. The Zionists have excelled at imposing their narrative on the actual events so that objective reality has been pushed aside by Zionist mythology. This mythology has become tarnished of late. This is part of a never ending attempt to reimpose and buttress the Zionist narrative. If they can get away with it, they may return to the ‘Land without people for a People without land’ myth. Defending the group ideology is an important part of group cohesion. Examples are easy to find in the Mondoweiss comments section.

  4. Les says:

    Of course Hitler was defending Czechoslovakia’s independence when he managed to get the great powers to give him Sudetenland. At least Czechoslovakia was not asked to sign the agreement as the US and Israel expect of the PLO when it agrees to cede any or all of occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.

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