1. The division plan of the Peel Commission:
In 1937, following the Arab revolt that broke out a year earlier, the British Peel commission came to Palestine and after inquiry recommended to divide Palestine into three parts:
Approximately 80 percent of the territory - an Arab state
Approximately 17 percent of the territory - a Jewish state
The rest, including Jerusalem and Bethlehem – would remain under British controlAlthough the program gave them most of the territory, the Arab leadership, headed by the Mufti Haj Amin Al Husseini, said no and renewed the Arab Revolt that was oppressed by the British.
2. UN partition plan:
On the 29th of November, 1947, after the recommendations of the UN commission of inquiry from 11 neutral countries unrelated to the conflict, the United Nations General Assembly came to the Resolution 181 which calls for the establishment of two states in Palestine:
Arab state on 45 percent from the territory
Jewish state on 55 percent from the territory
Jerusalem would be under international rule
Arab leadership again said no and on 30/11/47 the palestiniens issued a military attack on the Jewish community a day after the decision. This civil war became the War of Independence of Israel.
On 14/5/48, David Ben Gurion declared the State of Israel. A Day after, five Arab countries Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Jordan, invaded the young State and tried to destroy it. But the new Israeli army managed to stop the invasion at a great cost. Meanwhile the Kingdom of Jordan seized the West Bank including East Jerusalem, and Egypt, the Gaza Strip.
Thus the disaster that befell the Palestinians in 1948 is the result of Palestinian leadership insubordination, and acts of Arab states that thwarted the establishment of a Palestinian state. The war caused waves of refugees who fled or were expelled from areas of fighting. Arab countries did not allow the rehabilitation of their refugee brothers and their integration into the countries they fled to in order to perpetuate the hatred of Israel and so the problem would continue to be on the international agenda.
3. Ehud Barak's proposals at Camp David in 2000:
The Camp David summit was held in 2000 and was attended by the President of the U.S.A., Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat the head of the Palestinian authority. At the conference, Barak offered Arafat extreme proposals that included breaking Israeli taboos, and took big political risks in order to end the conflict. Among other things, Barak offered to allow the Palestinians to establish an independent state on 90% of the West Bank and Gaza Strip territory. He asked in return, for the annexation of approximately 10% of the territory where about 150,000 settlers were living in large concentrations. Barak also offered for the first time what no other Israeli prime minister would ever dare: to divide Jerusalem, and declare the Arab areas as the capital of Palestine and allow religious sovereignty on the Temple Mount.
The response to this proposal was met with violence again – and the second Intifada, in which over 1000 innocent Israeli civilians were killed in suicide bombing of the bombers. Palestinian society also paid a heavy price, as usual, for its leadership failures in human lives and economic damage.
“In September 2002, two years after the outbreak of the bloody Intifada, the Palestinian minister Nabil Amar wrote an unusual article in the newspaper "Al Hayat Al Jadida, entitled" An Open Letter to President Arafat. "Amar’s letter listed all the sins of the leadership and people, which led the Palestinian public to disaster," Have we not danced at the news of failure at the talks at Camp David? "Have we not vandalized the pictures of President Clinton who courageously laid on the table offers of a Palestinian state with small border adjustments?"
(From the book Boomerang by Raviv Drucker and Ofer Shalah).
Jewish state on 55 percent from the territory
Jerusalem would be under international rule
Arab leadership again said no and on 30/11/47 the palestiniens issued a military attack on the Jewish community a day after the decision. This civil war became the War of Independence of Israel.
On 14/5/48, David Ben Gurion declared the State of Israel. A Day after, five Arab countries Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Jordan, invaded the young State and tried to destroy it. But the new Israeli army managed to stop the invasion at a great cost. Meanwhile the Kingdom of Jordan seized the West Bank including East Jerusalem, and Egypt, the Gaza Strip.
Thus the disaster that befell the Palestinians in 1948 is the result of Palestinian leadership insubordination, and acts of Arab states that thwarted the establishment of a Palestinian state. The war caused waves of refugees who fled or were expelled from areas of fighting. Arab countries did not allow the rehabilitation of their refugee brothers and their integration into the countries they fled to in order to perpetuate the hatred of Israel and so the problem would continue to be on the international agenda.
3. Ehud Barak's proposals at Camp David in 2000:
The Camp David summit was held in 2000 and was attended by the President of the U.S.A., Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat the head of the Palestinian authority. At the conference, Barak offered Arafat extreme proposals that included breaking Israeli taboos, and took big political risks in order to end the conflict. Among other things, Barak offered to allow the Palestinians to establish an independent state on 90% of the West Bank and Gaza Strip territory. He asked in return, for the annexation of approximately 10% of the territory where about 150,000 settlers were living in large concentrations. Barak also offered for the first time what no other Israeli prime minister would ever dare: to divide Jerusalem, and declare the Arab areas as the capital of Palestine and allow religious sovereignty on the Temple Mount.
The response to this proposal was met with violence again – and the second Intifada, in which over 1000 innocent Israeli civilians were killed in suicide bombing of the bombers. Palestinian society also paid a heavy price, as usual, for its leadership failures in human lives and economic damage.
“In September 2002, two years after the outbreak of the bloody Intifada, the Palestinian minister Nabil Amar wrote an unusual article in the newspaper "Al Hayat Al Jadida, entitled" An Open Letter to President Arafat. "Amar’s letter listed all the sins of the leadership and people, which led the Palestinian public to disaster," Have we not danced at the news of failure at the talks at Camp David? "Have we not vandalized the pictures of President Clinton who courageously laid on the table offers of a Palestinian state with small border adjustments?"
(From the book Boomerang by Raviv Drucker and Ofer Shalah).
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