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.
- 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…
