72 Years Ago Today, The UN Partitioned Palestine Creating Jewish And Arab States lidblog.com/israel-was-cre… via @yidwithlid
@yidwithlid Seventy-two years ago today the United Nations passed Resolution 181 which called for the partition of British-ruled Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state (back then Jews living in the Holy Land were called Palestinians).
@yidwithlid Even France voted in favor of the partition plan which may have been the last time France voted in favor of Israel at the UN. And in what started a pattern that continues for Middle East votes today Great Britain didn’t have the guts to take a stand (they abstained).
@yidwithlid On that very same day, November 29th, 1947 the Arab world declared war on the nascent Jewish State, and seventy-one years later most of the Arab league still refuses to acknowledge that Jewish State’s existence.
@yidwithlid Nor do they allow her citizens to raise their children in peace: The Arab League announced its intention to occupy Palestine militarily to forcibly prevent the establishment of a Jewish state.
@yidwithlid On November 30th, passengers on a Jewish bus driving on the Coastal Plain near Kfar Sirkin were attacked. An eight-man Arab gang from Jaffa ambushed the bus killing five and wounding others.
@yidwithlid Half an hour later they ambushed a second bus, southbound from Hadera, killing two more. Arab snipers attacked Jewish buses in Jerusalem and Haifa
@yidwithlid As Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said in May 2009:
And the simple truth is that the root of the conflict was, and remains, the refusal to recognize the right of the Jewish people to a state of their own, in their historic homeland.
And the simple truth is that the root of the conflict was, and remains, the refusal to recognize the right of the Jewish people to a state of their own, in their historic homeland.
@yidwithlid "The Arabs rejected any Jewish state, in any borders. Those who think that the continued enmity toward Israel is a product of our presence in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, is confusing cause and consequence."
@yidwithlid "The attacks against us began in the 1920s, escalated into a comprehensive attack in 1948 with the declaration of Israel’s independence, continued with the fedayeen attacks in the 1950s, and climaxed in 1967, on the eve of the Six Day War....
@yidwithlid ....in an attempt to tighten a noose around the neck of the State of Israel. All this occurred during the 50 years before a single Israeli soldier ever set foot in Judea and Samaria."
@yidwithlid Despite being treated as the scapegoat for all the world’s problems, Israel has spent much of the past seven decades as the Middle East version of Reagan’s shining city upon the hill, which may be one of the reasons she is hated so much.
@yidwithlid In an Orwellian twist contrived by Arab countries, the UN in 1977 declared Nov. 29 a “Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.” This distorted the original UN decision beyond recognition – using it to undermine, rather than promote, the cause of peace.
@yidwithlid Amos Oz’s father told his young son on Nov. 29, 1947, “From now on, from the moment we have our own state, you will never be bullied just because you are a Jew and because Jews are so-and-so’s. Not that. Never again. From tonight that’s finished here. Forever.”
@yidwithlid Unfortunately, Amos Oz’s dad was wrong. Israel and Jews all over the world are bullied and just because we are Jewish. Former President Obama, much of the Democratic Party, ....
@yidwithlid ....most Muslim countries, and the organization that gave birth to the Jewish State, the United Nations are doing their best to lead the rest of the world in making Mr. Oz a liar.
@yidwithlid Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu outlined it brilliantly in his speech before Congress in 2011. He talked about how Israel has been ready to establish a Palestinian State for decades, but there has been one hold-up.
@yidwithlid “You see, our conflict has never been about the establishment of a Palestinian state. It has always been about the existence of the Jewish state.
This is what this conflict is about….
This is what this conflict is about….
@yidwithlid They were simply unwilling to end the conflict. And I regret to say this: They continue to educate their children to hate. They continue to name public squares after terrorists.
@yidwithlid And worst of all, they continue to perpetuate the fantasy that Israel will one day be flooded by the descendants of Palestinian refugees.
@yidwithlid This must come to an end. President Abbas must do what I have done. I stood before my people, and I told you it wasn’t easy for me, and I said…“I will accept a Palestinian state.” It is time for President Abbas to stand before his people and say…“I will accept a Jewish state.”
@yidwithlid Here are a few things about Israel that the UN, the EU, Arab League or even the Democratic Party don’t understand. Jews were in the Holy Land since the time of Abraham, over 4,000 years ago. He even purchased land there in Hebron (the overpaid).
@yidwithlid Abraham’s grandson Jacob (Israel) purchased land at Shechem. Though the numbers have varied Jews have lived in the Holy Land continuously since Joshua crossed the Jordan River 3,500 years ago (by the way the Jordan River is more like a creek).
@yidwithlid The top of the Temple Mount was purchased from Araunah the Jebusite, by King David for the precise purpose of building Jewish Temples about 3,000 years ago. Jews lived in Jerusalem ever since.
@yidwithlid The UN vote seventy-two years ago UN didn’t give the Jews the right to live in the holy land, neither did any country or the land purchases by biblical heroes.
@yidwithlid The landlord was never the Arabs (before the partition in 1947 there was never a state of Palestine). Jews have lived in the Holy Land continuously for the past 3,500 years because of an unbreakable contract with the real landlord— God.
@yidwithlid We may have been punished at times with exile but God always promised our return. The UN may have voted for partition, but they were simply acting as the agent of God, and if they didn’t pass that resolution, he would have found another way.
@yidwithlid About 2,600 years ago the prophet Jeremiah was sitting in prison as the Armies of Nebuchadnezzar were about to invade the Kingdom of Judea. His cousin Hanamel visited him and asked the prophet to buy his land in the field in his hometown of Anathoth.
@yidwithlid Needless to say, property values were not great since Jerusalem was being besieged by what was then the most powerful army in the world. It didn’t seem as if it would be a good investment.
@yidwithlid But God told Jeremiah to buy the land, not because the prophet would ever get to enjoy it, but as a symbol, that one day the Jews would return to the land. And on November 29, 1947, God kept his promise.
@yidwithlid Somewhere buried under the ground in the biblical city of Anathoth the bill of sale is buried, as an everlasting symbol to the Jewish people’s eternal covenant with God, a covenant that was recognized by the UN 71years ago via General Assembly Resolution 181.
@yidwithlid Below you will find a video explaining the passage of UN 181, the vote by country, and an actual copy of the resolution passed seventy-one years ago today.
