By Neill Lochery
Examines the real heritage of the clash and asks what might encourage the sort of cartoon or no matter if any fact contributes to this. should still Israel shoulder the blame, or are the realities of the clash way more advanced? and the way can a geographically tiny kingdom be proposal to have this type of profound impression on international politics?
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And it is true to say that not all the Zionist leadership accepted the plan in good faith. Others rejected the partition as not giving enough land for a viable 31 WHY BLAME ISRAEL? Jewish state. The mainstream Zionist leadership, however, accepted the plan and the rest, as they say, is history. In recent years, some revisionist historians such as Avi Shlaim have claimed that there was in effect a plot – or collusion as he terms it – between the Zionist leadership and King Abdullah, the leader of TransJordan, to carve up the area earmarked to be the Palestinian state between their two countries.
The partition plan presented by the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) in 1947 was more than fair to the Palestinians. The division of the land would have left the Palestinians with East Jerusalem as their capital and a viable state in terms of continuity of land. Indeed, it was the Jewish state that would have been more vulnerable, being little more than twelve miles wide in places and with a very narrow corridor linking West Jerusalem with the rest of the state. Rational politics would seem to dictate that it would be the Jews who would object to such a state, one that fell far short of their minimum demands.
As we shall see later, this fact affected Israeli foreign policy-making and Israeli national identity. Second, the development of the notion that the Jews must always be prepared to protect themselves – they could not rely upon others to do this for them. The European Jewry had been dependent upon someone else for their protection – the United States, Great Britain and others – and had perished as a result of the failure of that other party to defend them. The notion of self-sufficiency in defence was a cornerstone of Israeli defence doctrine, and played a role in the decision at the start of the 1970s to develop a military industrial complex (MIC) in Israel that would arm the Israeli military.