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Illegal UN Sham Partition Torching Palestine Into Civil War a USA-UK Colonial Crime Against Humanity

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'Have your cake and eat it 'two.' 'One state solution and two state solution at the same time.' With all the intellectual prowess that immigrating Jews were bringing as engineers, doctors, scientists and workers knowledgeable in advanced technology, and the international financial connections available to their leaders, both sides might have opted to stay mixed, legislating a great degree of regard for cultural, religious and distinctions that would see Jews sharing economic social benefits with Arabs in a democratic Israel-Palestine or Palestine-Israel smack in a sea of Arab nations accepting a Jewish lead in the affairs of a prospering single unique mixed Jewish-Arab state.

Instead of the above described scenario of a dynamic democratic independent Jewish-Arab prosperous co-existence the planned war, which has since engulfed the Holy Land, is succinctly described in a looking back article in the New York Times of November 21, 1982, titled THE PARTITION OF PALESTINE 35 YEARS AGO, by Peter Grose, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Some 30 Jewish military commanders huddled around a wireless set in their clandestine Jerusalem hideout, straining to hear through the static the votes of diplomats gathered half a world away at a gray old skating rink in Flushing Meadows, across the river from Manhattan. "

Whatever the outcome, the soldiers in Jerusalem were prepared for trouble. "If the vote is positive, the Arabs will make war on us," said Yitzhak Sadeh, a leader of the Jewish defense forces. "And if the vote is negative, then it is we who will make war on the Arabs."

The UN plan for partition, which had, until near the end, been properly titled "Proposal" (for the UN had no authority but to recommend action), while still being deliberated and argued, had already provoked, quite understandably, Arab outrage at a UN plan for recolonization of Palestine by immigrant Europeans, and had been fully expected, if approved, to produce an immediate outbreak of violence from the Arab population. Arabs would have subsequently if not earlier recognized an insidiously planned sudden vacuum of government authority and the obviously conspiratorial nature of a precipitous withdrawal of British forces as part of a shockingly obvious calculated-to-result-in-civil-war termination of the British Mandate even as a well armed revisionist Zionist para-military awaited the UN announcement. In addition, it was known that hard line Zionist leaders had agreed to the plan only reluctantly, having openly cited a desire for all the land of what was the ancient Jewish kingdom of David and Solomon a thousand years BC.


Despite the ominous warnings, on 29 November 1947, the UN General Assembly passed the resolution recommending the partition of Palestine. The proposed Jewish state was allotted 56 percent of the land, even though the Jewish community comprised less than one-third of the population of Palestine at the time and owned no more than 7 percent of the land, including 714 km2 acquired by Zionist colonization associations mostly from large landowners who did not live in Palestine (which had caused enormous Arab suffering and emigration).The dispersal of the Arab and Jewish populations in the country also meant that nearly half the population of the proposed Jewish state consisted of Palestinian Arabs, who owned nearly 90 percent of the land.


The UN General Assembly by its charter was and still is only granted the power to make recommendations, therefore, UN General Assembly Resolution 181 was actually not legally binding, but there was no significant expression of doubt about the de facto power of the UN resolution and its having torched Palestine.

With the announcement of the partition resolution, the Jewish and Arab communities of British Mandate Palestine immediately began to clash in violence. After the partition resolution, the British, again unilaterally, brought the date of the end of its mandate forward to May 14. The violence became more and more deadly, while the British organized their withdrawal and intervened only on an occasional basis. According to a special UN commission, during the first two months of the Civil War, around 1,000 people were killed and 2,000 people injured, and by the end of March, the figure had risen to 2,000 dead and 4,000 wounded.

Supposedly in response to the civil war already raging, or making it look like a response, US President Harry S. Truman made a statement on 25 March proposing UN trusteeship rather than partition. This dissimulating statement, clearly so woefully belated to have any effect by a US president who had overseen all his administration's threats and arm twisting machinations to accrue the votes needed for the passing of the partition resolution which brought the deadly violence about, must be seen as pure window dressing - a pretending that a civil war had not been contemplated by the plainly absurd UN resolution plan announcement was not intended, was not expected, to explode the Holy Land into an already planned and prepared for civil war. It was the kind of preposterous 'statement of concern' America's close ally and parent colonial power, pompous Great Britain, was famous for. In this case, it was to make the US look innocent of the carnage already underway, and fully expected to continue. No further action was taken, nor even discussed by anyone anywhere. So much for the 'looking good' aimed consumption by a monopolized Wall Street investor controlled and cooperating press.

As the last British were leaving on May 14 ending the Mandate, in Tel Aviv, Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the State of Israel.

More than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs - about half of the prewar Palestine's Arab population - fled or were expelled from their homes during the 1948 Palestine war precipitated by the UN partition resolution.

An example of why and how is excerpted from Albert Einstein's signed New York Times published letter to the New York Times, December 4, 1948, from Einstein and other prominent Jews, denouncing Menachem Begin, a future prime minister of Israel.

It is in its actions that the terrorist party betrays its real character; from its past actions we can judge what it may be expected to do in the future.

Attack on Arab Village

A shocking example was their behavior in the Arab village of Deir Yassin. This village, off the main roads and surrounded by Jewish lands, had taken no part in the war, and had even fought off Arab bands who wanted to use the village as their base. On April 9 (THE NEW YORK TIMES), terrorist bands attacked this peaceful village, which was not a military objective in the fighting, killed most of its inhabitants -- 240 men, women, and children -- and kept a few of them alive to parade as captives through the streets of Jerusalem. Most of the Jewish community was horrified at the deed, and the Jewish Agency sent a telegram of apology to King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan. But the terrorists, far from being ashamed of their act, were proud of this massacre, publicized it widely, and invited all the foreign correspondents present in the country to view the heaped corpses and the general havoc at Deir Yassin.

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