Britain and US helped with the establishment of Israel via “immoral policies that are contrary to all… human rights”
Op-ed by Ahmed Saif, columnist for official PA daily:
“Sixty seven years ago yesterday, the UN General Assembly approved a decision to partition Palestine into a Palestinian state and a Jewish state, to grant special international status to Jerusalem, and to establish economic union between the states…
Britain allowed approximately 400,000 Jews to settle in Palestine, and paved the way for the establishment of the State of Israel. Instead of safeguarding the independence of Palestine – and what is more, instead of carrying out the partition and setting up an international committee to oversee it – it forged an alliance with Zionism, and announced its withdrawal, leaving behind the armed and trained Zionist gangs, which numbered 62,000 men and were aided by 14,000 British policemen, to carry out Plan Dalet in April [1948], a few weeks before the Nakba (i.e., ‘the catastrophe,’ Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel), with the aim of occupying and uprooting the Palestinian towns and villages… According to the historians, what happened was that Washington, with the excuse of the holiday of Thanksgiving, succeeded in coordinating with the leaders of the Zionist movement the postponement of the vote by three days, during which it succeeded in convincing Liberia and the Philippines to support partition, in order to gain two thirds of the vote. According to the former US defense minister, the means employed by the West, especially Washington, were disgraceful, immoral and scandalous.
Truman evaded the promises made by Washington and its agreements with the Arabs, out of a lust for the Jews’ money and support of him in the elections…
Britain prepared everything for the establishment of the State of Israel, and the Zionist movement came to an agreement with President Truman regarding the recognition of Israel, in the event that it declared its establishment, as indeed happened ten minutes later. [Thus began] a new chapter in which the Zionist lobby took over the reins of US policy-making on the Palestinian issue and the Middle East in general.
Washington, with the aid of its special ally Britain, took upon itself to finance the establishment of Israel, with money and through the adoption of a Middle East policy whose strategic aim was to defend Israel. This involved the adoption of immoral policies that are contrary to all democratic claims and human rights, and implied the continuation of the Palestinian Nakba and the institution of regimes and rulers that would conform to these policies… Sixty-seven years later, under [Benjamin] Netanyahu, the most ‘loyal’ [adherent] to the traditions of the racist terrorist Zionist movement, the partition proposal has become an unbearable pest and resounding moral scandal.”
“Sixty seven years ago yesterday, the UN General Assembly approved a decision to partition Palestine into a Palestinian state and a Jewish state, to grant special international status to Jerusalem, and to establish economic union between the states…
Britain allowed approximately 400,000 Jews to settle in Palestine, and paved the way for the establishment of the State of Israel. Instead of safeguarding the independence of Palestine – and what is more, instead of carrying out the partition and setting up an international committee to oversee it – it forged an alliance with Zionism, and announced its withdrawal, leaving behind the armed and trained Zionist gangs, which numbered 62,000 men and were aided by 14,000 British policemen, to carry out Plan Dalet in April [1948], a few weeks before the Nakba (i.e., ‘the catastrophe,’ Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel), with the aim of occupying and uprooting the Palestinian towns and villages… According to the historians, what happened was that Washington, with the excuse of the holiday of Thanksgiving, succeeded in coordinating with the leaders of the Zionist movement the postponement of the vote by three days, during which it succeeded in convincing Liberia and the Philippines to support partition, in order to gain two thirds of the vote. According to the former US defense minister, the means employed by the West, especially Washington, were disgraceful, immoral and scandalous.
Truman evaded the promises made by Washington and its agreements with the Arabs, out of a lust for the Jews’ money and support of him in the elections…
Britain prepared everything for the establishment of the State of Israel, and the Zionist movement came to an agreement with President Truman regarding the recognition of Israel, in the event that it declared its establishment, as indeed happened ten minutes later. [Thus began] a new chapter in which the Zionist lobby took over the reins of US policy-making on the Palestinian issue and the Middle East in general.
Washington, with the aid of its special ally Britain, took upon itself to finance the establishment of Israel, with money and through the adoption of a Middle East policy whose strategic aim was to defend Israel. This involved the adoption of immoral policies that are contrary to all democratic claims and human rights, and implied the continuation of the Palestinian Nakba and the institution of regimes and rulers that would conform to these policies… Sixty-seven years later, under [Benjamin] Netanyahu, the most ‘loyal’ [adherent] to the traditions of the racist terrorist Zionist movement, the partition proposal has become an unbearable pest and resounding moral scandal.”