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Originally Posted by willravel
But what about the Arabs in Palestine/Israel? Where was their vote? Where was the vote of the majority of the population? Outside influences may all have their big opinions and such, be they UN or Arab neighbor, but why was the population of the land being carved up not given an opportunity to vote? The simple answer is that Palestine would be Arab run, with Jews in it (like Lebanon, but without the Hezbollah), and the members UN wouldn't have that. ...As I tried to make clear, the majority Arab population of what is not Israel said 'no' to the UN's ruling. What right did the UN have to ignore them? .....
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Will...do you really believe there were democratic institutions in place in Palestine before Partition?
Under the defacto "government" or authoritarian rule of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (an ally of Hitler), even after he was convicted at the Nuremburg trials as a war criminal and living in exile in Egypt under the protection of Nasser)
the simple answer is that the Arabs in Palestine/Israel had no right to vote on anything that affected their lives. The majority Arab population did what the Mufti ordered them to do.
In fact, there is a body of evidence that suggests that the Mufti ordered the Arab population to leave their homes after the Partition vote (with a promise that they could return after the Jews were driven from the land), which was what really initiated the Arab refugee problem. (I know there is a counter argument that the new Israeli govt ordered the Arabs to leave).
While the Mufti was in exile in Egypt after WW II, his nephew, a 17 yr old Egyptian named Mohammed Abder Rauf Arafat Al-Kudwa Al-Husseini, better known as
Yasir Arafat, began to work for him and carry out his jihad against all Jews and any moderate Muslims who accepted the Jews in Palestine (this was even before Partition).
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I know the above may further feed Roachboy's comment...
"history" that makes this conflict "clear" is fine in the way that any narrative of a sufficiently high level of vagueness is--it serves the purpose of making things appear "clear" by simply ignoring everything that would complicate it....but you really cant ignore the role of the Grand Mufti in creating the 20th century Pan Arab terrorist movement against the Jews in the Middle East...it is part of the history.