How Palestine Vanished from the Map...
By JAMAL Kanj, 29-11-2011
Every year on November 29, Palestinians commemorate the UN's infamous Resolution 181 dividing Palestine between European immigrants and native Palestinians.
In 1918, Jews represented less than 10 per cent of the population in Palestine. During the British mandate and 30 years following a promise to an English Jewish banker to establish a "Jewish homeland" in Palestine, the population of Jews increased to more than 30pc.
Following European atrocities against Jews in Europe, and without a single negotiated session with the native Palestinians, Western guilt-ridden governments let a vote on a UN Special Committee proposal on November 29, 1947 to partition Palestine between its indigenous natives and the new Jewish European immigrants.
Under the UN plan, European Jews were granted more than 56pc of historical Palestine, while the native Palestinians, who owned 93pc of the territory, were offered less than 44pc of their own land.
Naturally, the Palestinians rejected the plan as unjust and called for a fair resolution that recognized the rights of the indigenous land owners.
The partition vote was based on the committee's recommendation to divide the country into three parts: a Palestinian state with a population of 735,000, of whom 725,000 were Palestinians and 10,000 Jews; a new Jewish state comprising 499,000 Jews and 407,000 Palestinians, creating a new state with roughly less than 60pc Jewish majority.
The internationally governed third part of the proposal was for the holy city of Jerusalem, the population of which was to be equally divided between Jews and Palestinians.
While publicly professing to accept the UN vote, the Zionist leadership was unhappy with the plan. The Zionists, who were to be given what wasn't theirs in the first place, were vexed with the large proportion of Muslims and Christians in the new Jewish state.
Addressing the Central Committee of the Histadrut (the Eretz "Israel" Workers Party) days after the vote, Ben-Gurion expressed his apprehension stating: "The total population of the Jewish State at the time of its establishment will be about one million, including almost 40pc non-Jews. Such a (population) composition does not provide a stable basis for a Jewish State. This (demographic) fact must be viewed in all its clarity and acuteness. With such a (population) composition, there cannot even be absolute certainty that control will remain in the hands of the Jewish majority... There can be no stable and strong Jewish state so long as it has a Jewish majority of only 60pc."
To ensure "absolute certainty" a Jewish exclusivity, the Zionist "Transfer (expulsion) Committee" waged a war to cleanse their part of the non- Jewish population. This committee under Ben-Gurion consciously or unconsciously assigned jargons tantamount to ethnic cleansing to its military operations, from Hebrew names such as matateh (broom), tihur (cleansing), biur (a passover expression meaning "to cleanse the leaven") and niku (cleaning up).
Following "Israel's" unilateral declaration of independence in 1948, to satisfy its insatiable expansionist land grab strategy and secure an "absolute Jewish majority", the Zionists assailed, depopulated and occupied further 30pc of the land designated for the future Palestinian state under the UN plan.
The remaining 22pc of Palestine was ruled by Jordan (West Bank) and Egypt (Gaza) until 1967 when "Israel" waged another war to occupy the remaining parts of historical Palestine.
Sixty-our years later, Palestinians continue to long for a state. And 20 years after they started negotiation with "Israel", the international community still thinks more time is needed, while "Israel" is encroaching on the remaining 22pc with high walls and more illegal Jewish-only settlements.
