“Israel’s illegal occupation of post- 1976 Palestinian and Arab land,”
A bald faced lie! There has NEVER been a nation/state named Palestine. The closest has been an administrative district under several different empires, only one of which survived into the 20th century.
As far as the land itself, the Palestinian Mandate of Britain covered Israel, Jordan, Iraq, and parts of Syria. The Brits added Iran to the goody sack at some point.
This URL is lengthy, but does a pretty good job of covering the central points of the issue.
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2001/11/19/011119fa_FACT2?currentPage=all
Israel was established by the UN. It was the first state created by the UN.
The Arabs didn’t like the plan and had been trying to get it changed since 1919, when the plan was first trotted out.
The Parition plan assigned the Arabs living in the Levant their own land, named Jordan. A king was imported to run the place. Jordan ( Trans-Jordan back then) ran from Israel to Iraq. The West bank was mostly Jewish, Gaza was mostly Arabic. That is the way it stood in 1948, when the Arabs invaded or tried to. Israel won. They won by surviving, not by keeping the land the UN gave them. The Arabs kept that land; Gaza, the West bank and parts of Jerusalem.
The UN didn’t do a thing about this land grab. Then in ’57, the Jews were rented by the French and British to attack Gaza and the Sinai to pin down Egyptian troops while British and French forces tried to take the Suez canal away from Egypt. Ike stopped that.
Then in ’67, when a group of Arabic nations joined together to attack Israel, Israel got in the first blow and in what became known as the 6 day war, RECAPTURED the land the Arabs stole in ’48 &’49.
That is the land we are talking about today.
I have two questions for all those Jew hating, Muslim lovin, terrorist supporters out there;
First, if The West Bank and Gaza are Palestinian land, then why didn’t Jordan and Egypt return them to Palestian while they controlled those lands?
Second, since the UN signed off on the British plan to give that land to Israel, why should Israel give it to the Arabs, who have no claim beyonds renters rights. That is correct, the “Palestinians” (sneer quotes) have NEVER held legal title to any of that land. A fact the World Court pointed out back in the 70′s.
The Entire issue of Palestine is the Arabs trying to con the West into giving them what they took by force, but were unable to keep by force.
They want the West to do their dirty work. Many in the west are actually foolish enough to fall for it.
