Committe on the Right of Israel to Have a Jewish State with Defensible Borders, and I'm still looking.
By the way, does the current UN have a clue?
What is the "palestinian people"? Syria? Jordan? What?
The muslim arabs in the vicinity of the nascent Jewish State rejected the UN proposal. 56 years ago...
Turning Israel's decisive military victories into a political defeat was a brilliant accomplishment of Soviet and Arab diplomats. Of course, it would never been possible without accomplices in the West on their way to turn Europe into Eurabia.
We feel that the Arabs and Jews are cousins in race, having suffered similar oppressions at the hands of powers stronger than themselves, and by a happy coincidence have been able to take the first step towards the attainment of their national ideals together.
Note the goodwill by Arab leaders towards Zionism at the time. That began to change under the leadership of Haj Amin al-Husseini, who instigated anti-Jewish riots among Palestinian Arabs in 1920. He became Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, the British appointed spiritual and defacto political leader of the Palestinians in 1921. He effectively remained their leader until he passed the reigns of power to his nephew, Yasser Arafat.
The 84 years of conflict we have endured can largely be traced to Husseini and to the British who appointed him and seemed to see conflict between Arab and Jew as a way to divide and conquer, to retain control of their "mandate".
The Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement. Our deputation here in Paris is fully acquainted with the proposals submitted yesterday by the Zionist Organization to the Peace Conference, and we regard them as moderate and proper. We will do our best, in so far as we are concerned, to help them through: we will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home.
With the chiefs of your movement, especially with Dr. Weizmann, we have had and continue to have the closest relations. He has been a great helper of our cause, and I hope the Arabs may soon be in a position to make the Jews some return for their kindness. We are working together for a reformed and revived Near East, and our two movements complete one another. The Jewish movement is national and not imperialist. Our movement is national and not imperialist, and there is room in Syria for us both. Indeed I think that neither can be a real success without the other.
I added the bold face for exmphasis. King Feisal, and most Arabs at the time, considered Palestine (which included what is now Israel) to be part of Syria. If that is correct then Palestinians are, in fact, ethnically Syrian.
Note the goodwill of the Arab leadership towards Zionism at the time. It certainly didn't last long, did it? The Palestinians talk of Jews as invaders. Those who didn't already live in British Palestine were invited in by the Arabs at the time.
The answer to your question was written in a letter by Emir Feisal al-Hussein (later King Feisal of Iraq and Trnasjordan) in 1919:
We feel that the Arabs and Jews are cousins in race, having suffered similar oppressions at the hands of powers stronger than themselves, and by a happy coincidence have been able to take the first step towards the attainment of their national ideals together.
The Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement. Our deputation here in Paris is fully acquainted with the proposals submitted yesterday by the Zionist Organization to the Peace Conference, and we regard them as moderate and proper. We will do our best, in so far as we are concerned, to help them through: we will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home.
With the chiefs of your movement, especially with Dr. Weizmann, we have had and continue to have the closest relations. He has been a great helper of our cause, and I hope the Arabs may soon be in a position to make the Jews some return for their kindness. We are working together for a reformed and revived Near East, and our two movements complete one another. The Jewish movement is national and not imperialist. Our movement is national and not imperialist, and there is room in Syria for us both. Indeed I think that neither can be a real success without the other.
I added the bold face for exmphasis. King Feisal, and most Arabs at the time, considered Palestine (which included what is now Israel) to be part of Syria. If that is correct then Palestinians are, in fact, ethnically Syrian.
Note the goodwill of the Arab leadership towards Zionism at the time. It certainly didn't last long, did it?
That began to change under the leadership of Haj Amin al-Husseini, who instigated anti-Jewish riots among Palestinian Arabs in 1920. He became Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, the British appointed spiritual and defacto political leader of the Palestinians in 1921. He effectively remained their leader until he passed the reigns of power to his nephew, Yasser Arafat.
The 84 years of conflict we have endured can largely be traced to Husseini and to the British who appointed him and seemed to see conflict between Arab and Jew as a way to divide and conquer, to retain control of their "mandate".
The Palestinians talk of Jews as invaders. Those who didn't already live in British Palestine were invited in by the Arabs at the time.