Comments on: More AP media bias

By: Ben F

Ben F — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 07:13:40 +0000

I'd say that the State of Israel was both declared and created by the Jews of Palestine, and subsequently recognized by the US, the USSR, the UN, and most of its non-Arab members. General Assembly Resolution 181 did not call for the creation of an independent Jewish state; it called for the creation of an Economic Union of Palestine consisting of a Jewish state, an Arab state, and a corpus separatum for Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and their surroundings. The Arabs rejected the proposal, and the Security Council never signed on. Israel's declaration of independence stipulates the Jewish State's willingness to implement the General Assembly's Economic Union of Palestine proposal, but that commitment was pretty cheap because the proposal was already dead and buried. While I would not say that Israel was created by war, there's no denying that it was delimited by war: its de facto boundaries emerged from the ceasefire agreements, not from the maps incorporated in GA 181.

By: Rajan Rishyakaran

Rajan Rishyakaran — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:42:17 +0000

Both of you are wrong :-) The partition resolution is non-binding, becoming binding in Israel only as a prerequisite for Israel joining the UN.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 04:55:37 +0000

Arab and other propagandists alleging ‘massacres’ by Israel continually jump up and down over Shabra and Shatilla and Deir Yassin â€“ the latter, of course, dredged up from 1948. I haven’t gone right through the following account of Deir Yassin, but it appears well-researched:

http://www.zoa.org/pubs/DeirYassin.htm

On Shabra and Shatilla, Google’s third entry is from the Qatar ‘News’ Agency:

(Google dissociates itself from QNA and the report is unavailable.)

“….a book documenting events of Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1992 and the Shabra and Shatilla massacre committed then by Israeli invading troops….”
[My emphasis. Apart from the lie, they can't even get the date right.]

These people wouldn’t know the truth if it hit them in the face.