It was the first bullshit part, though.
The Palestinians couldn't have formed their own state in 1948 because heavily armed Zionists had seized the developed land and infrastructure necessary to establish and maintain one (because they needed it to establish and maintain Israel), had made close to a million of them refugees, were busily expelling thousands of others, and were absolutely against allowing anything of the sort in what they considered Eretz Yisrael.
It's not Israel's fault that the Muslims there didn't develop their land.
You're not this ignorant. You know as well as well as I do that much of Palestine was developed and openly coveted by Ben Gurion, Weitz, and other prominent Zionist leaders. You know this because you have read the excepts of their speeches and writings that I have posted over the years. You especially know about the extensive orange groves, and how Ben Gurion emphasized the importance of seizing them from the Palestinians because the proposed Jewish State was going to need the cash the citrus crop brought in each year.
Anyway, it's good to see you're finally at the point you can admit it was Palestinian land, even if you still think Jews had some kind of right to take it if the Palestinians weren't using it in a Zionist approved fashion.
The 48 partition was based on where people actually lived, not on where the resources were.
Not really. It was based on giving 30% of the population (mostly recently arrived immigrants from Europe) over 50% of the land and screwing over the indigenous population because the European powers preferred working with other Europeans in carving up the remains of the Ottoman Empire.
Had it been based on where people lived, the Jews would have been allocated 2 districts, one in Tel Aviv and the other in parts of Jerusalem. Being thinly scattered elsewhere and less than 1/3 of the population in total (up from about 1/10th of the population a mere 20 years prior), a fair allocation would have kept Palestine whole.
And the Jews had as many refugees to cope with as the Palestinians--and those refugees generally hadn't been able to keep their property, unlike the Palestinian ones. Israel simply marched on, the Palestinians sat and cried.
So the Palestinians should be more like the Zionists? Don't just sit and cry, grab a gun and use it? Does that include carrying out a Palestinian version of Plan Dalet or Plan Hiram? Because if so, wow, you've certainly changed your tune.
The Palestinians weren't organized, weren't well funded, and for the most part weren't armed. They were entirely incapable of withstanding the onslaught of Zionists flooding out of Europe with the specific intention of creating their own State in Palestine.
Nobody was well funded or armed.
The Zionists were well enough funded to have large shipments of arms and other supplies coming into ports like Haifa in the 1940s. Palestinians had nothing even close to that.
Derec makes it sound like all the Palestinians had to do was say "okay, this part here is Palestine and right over there is the border", and the Zionists would have respected that. It's horseshit, and everyone who knows anything about the history of the region knows it.
The Palestinians have never even tried.
Don't be silly.
The Palestinians were as active as Zionists in pressuring the British to recognize their State under the British Mandate rule. That led to the creation of Transjordan when the British left. Later, the King of Jordan recognized the right of the Palestinian people to form their own separate state. Zionists have never accepted it, largely because they claim they have a right to that part of the world that supersedes the rights of the indigenous people, and the US has supported the Zionists because reasons.
The Palestinians haven't yet achieved international recognition of their State, although they're getting pretty close, especially at the UN. But to say the Palestinian people have never even tried to form a state is utterly ridiculous. You're not this ignorant.
They're not interested in half, they want it all.
So did the Zionists who rejected the UN Partition Plan and carried out Plan Dalet instead.
Oh, that's right. You never remember that part, either.
