Filed under: Historical | Tags: episodes in middle east history, israel/palestine, zionist highlights
“Yet, as Ben-Gurion’s Palmach battalions in the winter of 1947 were poised to pounce on fields they had not tilled and orchards they had not planted and towns and villages they had not built or lived in, the Zionists, by accepting the 1947 UN partition according to their own lights, also wrapped themselves in the sanctimonious garb of moral superiority as adherents, in a posture of self-defense, to the impartial will of the international community. By the same token, the Palestinians, who since 1897 had stood in dread of occupation and displacement by an alien people, for whom partition was the negation of their elemental birthright to the territorial integrity of their ancestral homeland, and who were now at the receiving end of a more predatory partition plan than Peel’s ten years earlier, were dubbed the aggressors for not meekly submitting to the dismemberment of their country.”
Walid Khalidi – “Revisiting the UNGA Partition Resolution”
