PA Daily hypocritically accuses Israel of “betraying” the UN partition plan, ignoring the fact that the Arabs rejected the plan, instead launching a war

Excerpt of an op-ed by Yahya Rabah, member of the Fatah Leadership Committee in Gaza and regular columnist for the official PA daily

Headline: “Israel did not succeed in hiding its true nature”

“The presumption is that Israel was established on the basis of international [UN] Resolution No. 181 from 1947 (i.e., the UN partition plan), but it betrayed this resolution from the first moment of its existence; it obtained a larger territory than what the resolution gives it, and it expelled most of our people and made us a people of refugees (refers to the results of the Arab rejection of the partition plan and war to wipe out Israel -Ed.).”

UN Resolution 181 (the UN partition plan for Palestine) was passed by the UN General Assembly in 1947. It called for the partition of the British Mandate of Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states, with Jerusalem as a separate entity under the rule of a special international body. The Arab state was meant to be comprised of the western Galilee, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, and the remaining territory of the Mandate west of the Jordan River would be the state of Israel - Jordan (known at the time as Transjordan) had already been established in what had been the part of the Mandate that was east of the Jordan River. The resolution was accepted by the Jewish Agency for Palestine, but Arab leaders and governments rejected it, and launched a war to destroy Israel.