Three Times That Israel Rejected Its Right to Exist

I used to argue that Israel’s right to exist was clear — United Nations Resolution 181 granted it in 1947. But on reading more about Zionism and Israel, something else became clear — Israel has rejected its right to exist ever since the UN granted it.

Three events scream this is true.

1. In 1948, Israel rejected its right to exist by rejecting its UN borders.

By the end of the war, Israel had conquered 78 percent of Palestine; three-quarters of a million Palestinians had been made refugees; over 500 towns and villages had been obliterated; and a new map was drawn up, in which every city, river and hillock received a new, Hebrew name, as all vestiges of the Palestinian culture were to be erased. For decades Israel denied the existence of this population, former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir once saying: “There is no such thing as a Palestinian.”[6]

2. In 1949, Israel rejected its right to exist by agreeing to repatriate the Palestinians who had fled in terror, then reneging on its vow.

“The [Lausanne] conference officially opened on 27 April 1949. On 12 May the [UN’s] Palestine…