November 17, 2004
One of the founding myths of Zionism's 'return and redemption' was of 'a land without people for a people without land.'
Only part of that statement was right. The Jews may have been a people without a land, but Palestine was not a land without people. So the Jewish state was founded on a fiction. It ignored the existence of Palestine's local Arabs.
How was it possible for one country to serve two people? Therein lay the problem that continues to haunts us today.
The only solution was partition and the creation of two states. That is what the Peel Commission's Report recommended in 1937, as it foreshadowed the British withdrawal from Palestine as a mandatory power.
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How come that one can deny the existence of 3500 years of jews in the territories where Israel was founded just after the United Nations relevant resolution in 1947!... This kind of subjective comments can only serve the peace ennemies...